Sentences with phrase «global climate policy decisions»

A bedrock principle addressing global climate change issues is that science - not emotional or political reactions — must serve as the foundation for global climate policy decisions.»

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The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

It includes information submitted by a wide range of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental impacts as part of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and the UN global goals.

Mission The mission of PNNL's Aerosol Climate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeClimate Initiative is to advance the current scientific understanding and parameterization of aerosol processes and properties to improve comprehensive climate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeclimate modeling frameworks and to inform policy decisions related to global climate change and the environmental impacts of aeclimate change and the environmental impacts of aerosols.

The AAS joins the AGU in calling for continued peer - reviewed climate research to inform climate - related policy decisions, to provide a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global change, and to help communities adapt and become resilient to extreme climatic events.

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

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Steven E. Koonin, once the Obama administration's undersecretary of energy for science and chief scientist at BP, stirred up a swirl of turbulence in global warming discourse this week after The Wall Street Journal published «Climate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aClimate Science is Not Settled,» his essay calling for more frankness about areas of deep uncertainty in climate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate science, more research to narrow error ranges and more acknowledgement that society's decisions on energy and climate policy are based on values as much aclimate policy are based on values as much as data.

Anna Roggenbuck, Policy Officer at CEE Bankwatch Network, said: «With the decision to finance TANAP, the EIB has shown its disregard to Europe's commitments to climate change mitigation.This project has been approved without a proper climate impact assessment, and in contradiction to pledges under the Paris Agreement to keep global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius which entails limiting fossil fuels consumption.»

The only settled conclusion regarding climate science is that scientists now have neither the technology nor the database to forecast long term global climate accurately enough to effectively guide energy policy decisions.

It targets adaptation practitioners and decision - makers at all levels (from community to global) who are designing new adaptation initiatives and / or developing new climate change - related policies.

Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future global and regional climate change research and assessment.

Blue Moon Fund grant for «To support global climate change mitigation by continuing to develop an unconventional oils index to quantify and ultimately index the carbon potential of different oils, to inform policy decisions including differentiated carbon pricing, regulatory refo»

People willing to use threats, violence or criminal behaviour to push policy decisions to curb CO2 emissions and oppose sceptics to save the world from global warming disasters or global climate disruptions.

Christopher Essex published an article in Breitbart where he supports the Global Warming Policy Foundation's (GWPF) decision to criticize the Royal Society's position on climate change.

In a policy paper released ahead of the July summit, civil society groups said that President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was «short - sighted and irresponsible... a decision that not only ignores the reality of climate change... but also undermines the standing of the United States as a reliable partner in solving global problems.»

In order to monitor global climate change on a decade - to - decade basis in support of national and foreign policy decisions, it will be necessary to better quantify and to substantially reduce the measurement errors inherent in estimates of global - mean temperature, as well as to develop an improved understanding of the processes that contribute to short term variability of global - mean temperature.

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Moreover, the Rose Garden speech President Bush delivered that day removed any doubt that the new Bush - Cheney White House had already begun to spin the big lie about climate change, the lie we know so well we can recite it in our sleep: scientific uncertainties regarding global climate change are too great to make any policy decisions, especially those that might affect the US economy (read: the US fossil fuel - based energy economy).

This long - term perspective illustrates that policy decisions made in the next few years to decades will have profound impacts on global climate, ecosystems and human societies — not just for this century, but for the next ten millennia and beyond.

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate claims its aims are to «contribute to global debate about economic policy, and to inform the policies pursued by governments and the investment decisions of the business and finance sectors&rGlobal Commission on the Economy and Climate claims its aims are to «contribute to global debate about economic policy, and to inform the policies pursued by governments and the investment decisions of the business and finance sectors&rglobal debate about economic policy, and to inform the policies pursued by governments and the investment decisions of the business and finance sectors».

He also said, «The agreement and the decisions surrounding it needs to be a long term development plan providing the policies, pathways and finance for triggering a peaking of global emissions in 10 years» time followed by a deep, decarbonisation of the global economy by the second half of the century — a development plan that crucially also supports the growth as well as the climate ambitions of developing countries.»

When the connection between knowledge about climate change and policy decision is understood in the way I consider correct, we don't need to know much more on the global temperatures.

If Muller's study and PR tour helps turn public and policy decision to acknowledge the reality of global warming and the quality of climate research, it is a very good thing.

Bringing together some of the world's foremost economic experts to contribute to the global debate about climate change and economic policy, and to inform government, business and investment decisions.