In my opinion, this is «must read» for anyone
interested in climate policy, and realistic pathways to avoiding the worst effects of climate change.
Many are simply struggling internally to understand business risks and opportunities, ensure consistent messaging, and find the capacity to
engage in climate policy debates.
A fifth category is what I shall call «remedy» but is increasingly discussed
in climate policy as «loss and damage».
Is it possible to advocate for a particular
course in climate policy and not have that color how you do your scientific research, or how you communicate it?
We're emitting carbon dioxide so fast that the difference between a low and a high value of climate sensitivity is largely irrelevant
in climate policy terms.
While environmental exceptions may apply to global trade agreements, such provisions have not yet been
tested in a climate policy context.
One bet I will make is that Arctic sea ice will not play a significant
role in climate policy debates (as opposed to US summer heat, e.g.) in our lifetimes (no stroke factor here; my grandfather had a midlife stroke but lived to be 98).
Letter - signing campaigns are not necessarily an effective way to shift attitudes on scientific institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, given that any entrenched camp
in the climate policy fight can pull together heaps of signatures from people with PhDs.
Then, in October, 11 researchers at the Tyndall Centre published a
paper in Climate Policy exploring further alternatives to the 2 °C limit.
«The big
issues in climate policy are costs of mitigation and costs of controlling the precursors of climate change,» says Charles Kolstad, an economist at UC Santa Barbara's Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management.
Further to your coverage of the
shift in climate policy after the Australian elections (23 November, p 5), former Liberal...
Our findings, combined with the emerging evidence on the impacts of aragonite undersaturation on marine organisms imply that not only radiative forcing or temperature, but also atmospheric CO2 concentration should be included as a target
in climate policy analyses and in the development of mitigation scenarios with integrated assessment models.
I offer some fresh fare — a video interview I conducted with him in 2007 on climate science and policy (related to a much - discussed article of mine on the middle
ground in climate policy).
Tracy discusses negative emissions technologies, and direct air capture technologies in specific, including what role they might
play in climate policy, and how we should think about governing these efforts.
The «Guide for Responsible Corporate
Engagement in Climate Policy» sets out a program of action for companies wishing to demonstrate best practice in policy engagement.
WRI worked with the UN and several esteemed partners on a Caring for Climate report to create a common standard for engaging corporate
responsibly in climate policy debates.
A new decision on gender and climate change is on the table during COP22, which, if implemented, would compel parties to consider traditional knowledge
in climate policy planning and encourage grassroots women's participation in climate action.
It enables Alberta to be a leader, not
only in climate policy, but also in technology, innovation, collaborative solutions and energy development.»
Dr. Field's reaction echoes views expressed on the workings of the climate panel last year by David Victor, a specialist
in climate policy at the University of California, San Diego:
As far as
communication in climate policy is concerned, the study's results suggest that in future a comprehensive mix of information on climate change and various justifications for climate protection will be necessary.
New York, along with other states involved
in a climate policy network to counterattack the federal government's retreat on carbon regulation, will reconstitute the federal advisory committee for the Sustained National Climate Assessment.
Concerns about the permanency of forest carbon stocks, difficulties in quantifying stock changes, and the threat of environmental and socioeconomic impacts of large - scale reforestation programs have limited the uptake of forestry
activities in climate policies.
In this way, «The Hartwell Paper» takes sides in a previous fight
in the climate policy wars: the struggle between the we - have - energy - solutions - on - the - shelf crowd (Stephen Pacala and Rob Socolow being being the protagonists) and the radical - and - revolutionary - technology - is - necessary - so - cap - and - trade - sytems - are - useless - maybe - harmful crowd (Martin Hoffert of New York University, Roger Pielke Jr., and the Breakthrough Institute).
Assuming that the climate response to multiple regions of banded SRM geoengineering can be shown to be roughly the addition of the individual climate responses, we can use the results of this experiment to identify theoretical limits to the extent that SRM geoengineering could compensate for human - induced climate change, a potentially highly relevant check on the weight trust that politicians should place on cheap geoengineering
solutions in climate policy.