Sentences with phrase «implement climate change policies»

The letter further explains how carbon dioxide is a «non-polluting gas that is essential to plant photosynthesis» and why the IPCC's reports are «inadequate as justification» for implementing climate change policy.

5.3 That in developing and implementing climate change policy, the Australian Government ensure that Indigenous communities are not further disadvantaged.

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Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

Two gubernatorial hopefuls marched with more than 1,000 climate change protesters to call on the Cuomo administration to implement more environmentally friendly policies, starting with a new microgrid project that heats and cools the Empire State Plaza.

Adesina said the presidential address would highlight, among other key issues, Nigeria's commitment to implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions and policy actions aimed at tackling climate change through environmental sustainable efforts.

Even if the United States implements all current and proposed policies, it would miss its 2025 target by as much as 1.5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year — roughly 20 % of the nation's total emissions, according to the analysis published today in Nature Climate Change.

Implementing key policies and investments in those three systems — from phasing out fossil fuels to stopping deforestation to ramping up energy efficiency — could deliver at least half of the emissions cuts needed by 2030 to lower the risk of dangerous climate change, said Jeremy Oppenheim, the report's program director.

b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels

They offer detailed insights into lay people's views on climate change and energy, and unique input on how to implement global policies to deal with these issues.

In light of the increasingly hostile climate toward immigrants and the insecurity caused by the changing policy landscape, Californians Together is implementing a multi-pronged approach toward creating a safe learning environment for students of all backgrounds.

However, it is not hard to see that some of those who have attempted to perpetrate this tale about man - made global warming are more interested in climate change as a way of increasing the power of government over all of our lives instead of implementing a sensible energy policy.

However, it is not hard to see that some of those who have attempted to perpetrate the concept of man - made global warming are more interested in climate change as a way of increasing the power of government over all of our lives instead of implementing a sensible energy policy.

That said, once a serious US policy on carbon / climate change is implemented, the US will have a stronger negotiating position since the developing economies will have nothing left to say.

Another report by the German Institute of Economic Research concluded that «If climate policy measures are not introduced, global climate change damages amounting to up to 20 trillion US dollars can be expected in the year 2100... The costs of an active climate protection policy implemented today would reach globally around 430 billion US dollars in 2050 and around 3 trillion US dollars in 2100.»

They were also asked about three specific climate - change mitigation policies that have been proposed or implemented in many cities: regulating coastal properties, so their bottom floor is «elevated among the highest estimated flood level»; limiting outdoor water usage, such as lawn sprinklers; and setting aside at least 25 percent of residential lots for land that allows water to filter into the ground.

This policy document aism to address and raise awareness of the social dimension of ecosystem - based adaptation (EbA) to climate change, laying particular emphasis on: i) the social impacts of EbA on global national and regional level and local communities and ii) social considerations in designing and implementing EbA.

Building on UN-Habitat's extensive experience in sustainable urban development, the Cities and Climate Change Initiative helps counterparts to develop and implement pro-poor and innovative climate change policies and straClimate Change Initiative helps counterparts to develop and implement pro-poor and innovative climate change policies and stratChange Initiative helps counterparts to develop and implement pro-poor and innovative climate change policies and straclimate change policies and stratchange policies and strategies.

John believes that implementing a policy as close as possible to the Carbon Fee & Dividend proposed by Citizens» Climate Lobby gives humanity its best chance to keep climate change manaClimate Lobby gives humanity its best chance to keep climate change manaclimate change manageable.

Blue Moon Fund grant for «To support climate change in China by implementing low - emission, market - based transportation policies by introducing California's zev credits mechanism to China»

Delegates to the U.S. event also heard, however, that once the production tax credit expires investment in wind energy is likely to drop significantly through a transitional period that will extend until U.S. policies on climate change are fully implemented.

While the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change findings make clear that future climate policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing of the precise policy measures that will implement those reductions remain uClimate Change findings make clear that future climate policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing of the precise policy measures that will implement those reductions remain uclimate policy will be needed to significantly reduce emissions, the timing of the precise policy measures that will implement those reductions remain unclear.

However, in his new book Smart Solutions to Climate Change, Lomborg argues that it would be too expensive to implement any major carbon reduction policy, and that «drastic carbon cuts would be the poorest way to respond to global warming.»

Historically, this uncertainty has eroded support for implementing climate - change policies, but that may soon change — and dramatically so.

-- Upon approval by the President, each department or agency that serves on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel shall implement its adaptation plan through existing and new plans, policies, programs, activities, and actions to the extent not inconsistent with existing authority.

According to Lomborg, implementing policies to combat climate change right now «end up doing a lot less good than we could do if we were a lot more rational about it.»

(1) complete an adaptation plan for that department or agency, respectively, implementing the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acChange Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acChange Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aclimate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those acchange and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those actions;

Only then will the public demand that our policymakers take action to address climate change, and only then will those policymakers implement serious climate change mitigation policies.

(A) document current policy options being implemented by Federal, State, and local governments to mitigate or adapt to the effects of global and regional climate change;

But that's not an argument for inaction on global warming; it's an argument for designing and implementing programs that help workers adversely affected by climate change policies.

If governments were determined to implement their climate policies, a lot of that carbon would have to be left in the ground, says Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organisation, and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, part of the London School of Ecoclimate policies, a lot of that carbon would have to be left in the ground, says Carbon Tracker, a non-profit organisation, and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, part of the London School of EcoClimate Change, part of the London School of Economics.

Alberta's NDP government took a first step toward a new climate change strategy Friday, but made it clear that new emissions targets and the policies to implement them will have to wait until the end of a consultation process.

Likewise the leadership of fossil fuel exporting nations such as Russia that acknowledge climate change but are sluggish to implement effective policies are similarly primarily responsible for global warming.

We need to change the game or we risk implementing very aggressive climate policies to accomplish what the world sees as modest goals.

These and other issues are discussed in the Managing Director's Statement on the Role of the Fund in Addressing Climate Change, a recent Staff Discussion Note and IMF books Fiscal Policy to Mitigate Climate Change: A Guide for Policymakers and Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates.

We believe that science is nonpartisan and our interest is in getting a clear view of the pace of climate change in order to help policy makers to evaluate and implement an effective response.

The CTI report says there will be no need for new coal mines, oil demand will peak around 2020, and growth in gas will disappoint industry expectations if world leaders agree and then implement the policies needed to meet the UN commitment to keep climate change below 2 ˚C − the threshold agreed by most governments.

The report said that the government's Clean Growth Strategy does not do enough to meet legally - binding climate change targets, even if all its policies are implemented.

Consideration of the full range of behavioural responses to information will enable policymakers to more effectively communicate climate change risks to stakeholders and to design decision aids and climate change policies that are more likely to be accepted and implemented.

The unstated assumption of the SEIS on the implication of tar sands development is that the nations of the world will not implement policies needed to avoid potentially disastrous climate change.

We already have most, if not all, of the necessary technology and economic policy options, but we lack sufficient public and political will to implement them — as well as helpful climate change adaptation policies — fast enough.

Importantly, whether one thinks global warming poses little or no threat or that the planet is on a path toward catastrophe, the cumulative climate effect of these policies, if implemented, would be a change in the earth's temperature almost too small to measure.

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon pchange in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon pChange Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

@Katz The survey drew responses from 88 insurance companies and found that while there's a broad consensus that climate change will result in more severe weather and more insurance losses, only 11 of the companies surveyed have implemented climate - change policies.

Alden Meyer, Director of Strategy and Policy, Union of Concerned Scientists: «All countries must come to Katowice prepared to adopt a robust, comprehensive rulebook to fully implement the Paris Agreement, and send clear signals they intend to increase the ambition of their national actions, as is required to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

PF: If the United States were to implement policies such as a cap - and - trade system, how would that significantly reduce our risks to climate change?

If climate change fanatics are allowed to implement their policies, global population will continue to increase and overpopulation may become a real problem — another example of how the global warming hysterics are actually harming the long term environment of the earth by preventing overpopulated countries from developing and naturally lowering their birth levels.

All this is being disturbingly tied in to the climate change debate by hijackers of the environmental movement who have spuriously associated fears over global warming with over-population, suggesting that the solution is to implement depopulation policies and punishments for those who flout them.