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By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

Other sustainability and development programs that have been initiated or reformed over the last six years under Governor Cuomo include: · Cleaner, Greener Regional Sustainability Plans · Regional Economic Development Councils · Land Bank Act to convert vacant properties · Legislation to combat zombie properties · Complete Streets design initiative · Upstate Revitalization Initiative · Hudson Valley Farmland Preservation and Southern Tier Agricultural Industry Enhancement Programs · Clean Energy Communities · Brownfield Redevelopment Reform · Historic Preservation Tax Credit · Climate Smart Communities Grants · Community Risk and Resiliency Act Elaine Kamarck, Founding Director of the Center for Effective Public Management at the Brookings Institution and Author of Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again said, «Whenever I get a chance to come home I'm always impressed at the rapid progress being made here in the Finger Lakes.

«As part of the shift to 50 percent renewables and emissions reductions, New York must use all of its existing carbon free power sources, including our upstate nuclear fleet, to continue our progress on climate change,» Kauffman wrote.

Another 4 percent could come from parts of the Climate Action Plan that are already in progress — including finalized fuel standards for new cars.

CORE says it will expand measures of a school's success to include factors reflecting social and emotional learning — rates of suspension, absenteeism and as yet undefined gauges of non-cognitive skills — as well as school climate and culture, as measured by student and parent surveys, rates of identifying special education students and the progress of English learners.

The categories included program characteristics (explicitly articulated objectives and role expectations, provision for continuous student progress, flexibility in matching materials and instruction to student needs, and stability of programs over several years), leadership behaviors (establishing reading improvement as a school priority, being knowledgeable about reading instruction, actively facilitating instructional decisions, establishing and maintaining monitoring of student progress, and evaluating teachers), and psychological conditions (high expectations for students, calm and businesslike school climate, staff commitment to the reading program, staff cooperation, parental involvement, and attribution of reading failure to program defects).

California is evolving to a new system of testing and accountability that will weigh eight priorities, including school climate and parent engagement, to judge school progress.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

Those characteristics that seem to show up in all the findings include high expectations for students, a safe and orderly school climate, frequent assessment of student progress, parental involvement, collaboration among faculty and staff members, and focused and sustained professional development.

Each student should have leadership experiences in formal and informal settings, including such responsibilities as determining how to achieve learning goals, assess personal progress and collaborate with other to measure and create change in the school climate.

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Based on the above conclusions, they consider that the future integrity of the property is highly at risk, taking into account the possible prospect of offshore oil exploitation, the uncertainty about the impact of invasive species, the already existing threats for which progress on the corrective measures is unclear and the globally increasing effects of climate change to coral reef systems, including the Belize Barrier Reef system.

Postscript, 8 p.m. Joe Romm at Climate Progress summarized an interview with Roberts in a post that provides some amusing extra details, including this one:

For the evening, the President of Iceland, Guðni Jóhannesson, invited some Icelandic government members (including Prime Minister Sigurður Jóhannsson and Foreign Minister Lilja Alfreðsdóttir) and a handful of scientists to his mansion for a dinner in honor of Ban Ki - moon, where we further discussed the dramatic climate changes in the Arctic and the progress of climate policy.

Raymond Pierrehumbert, a longtime climate scientist now at Oxford, stopped by The New York Times earlier this month for a long fruitful chat on climate change science and solutions and the hurdles — mostly internal and social (including political)-- that impede progress.

Over all, in considering policy options related to African progress, it's vital to keep in mind that the climate history of peri-Saharan regions includes millenniums - long patterns of mega-drought far more extreme than anything experienced in modern times.

UNEP's latest Global Environment Outlook goes on to say that we're making little to no progress on 24 goals, with 8 getting worse, including some of the most serious such as climate change and coral reef destruction.

The point of all this is that there's even more evidence now — as Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean Climate Progress puts it, «pretty much every major poll in the past six months makes clear that the public supports climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean climate and energy legislation because it achieves multiple benefits, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions» — that people want to get away from fossil fuels and move towards clean energy.

I see a lot of synchronicity between this partisan approach and the nonpartisan efforts of others seeking climate progress, including the religion - framed discourse of the Texas Tech climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe and the arguments of Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Richard Alley at Penn State — both of whom are climate scientists who are registered Republicans.

There's no real progress in our evaluation of climate sensitivity, rather the demonstration that real progress will be very difficut to reach (worse even, the range should enlarge as we include more and more parameters for evaluation of f, so more and more uncertainty because each new parameter will have its own distribution of probability).

President Obama's Hangout took place and includes references to climate change (noted via Climate Proclimate change (noted via Climate ProClimate Progress):

On his Climate Progress blog, Joe Romm on Tuesday chided Dr. Betts for falling into the mindset of «anti-science disinformers» by focusing on Arctic ice extent, which has recovered somewhat, rather than focusing on the volume of ice, including its thickness.

The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

Here's the (tentative) lowdown on what the bill will include, via Climate Progress and CQ:

Many people (including me) who are involved in science and technology perceive that climate science is influenced by political thinking, personal priorities / values, and desires for specific public policies, and that has caused (and continues to cause) delay in progress toward a more complete and accurate understanding of Earth's climate.

Dr. Soon's research has appeared many times in peer - reviewed journals, including: Climate Research; Progress in Physical Geography; Energy & Environment; Geophysical Research Letters; Ecological Complexity; International Journal of Forecasting; Science and Education, and others.

We fear that the scientific progress and momentum in tackling our biggest challenges, including staving off the worst impacts of climate change, will be severely hindered under this next U.S. administration.

Such policies are likely to help manage the risks of climate change while also enabling societies to pursue other high priority goals around the world — including clean air and water, access to reliable, affordable energy, and economic progress for all people.

As Think Progress Green reported on Tuesday, the Heartland Institute's projects included a secret plan to teach children that climate change is a hoax.

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

Canada has a critical role in supporting the Argentine G20 Presidency to deliver strong outcomes on climate, including progress on the phase - out of fossil fuel subsidies.

The October 2011 report Federal Actions for a Climate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateClimate Resilient Nation: Progress Report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateClimate Change Adaptation Task Force provides an update on actions in key areas of Federal adaptation, including: building resilience in local communities, safeguarding critical natural resources such as freshwater, and providing accessible climate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateclimate information and tools to help decision - makers manage climateclimate risks.

Environmental Progress coordinated an open letter signed by Rhodes and climate scientists including Jim Hansen, urging peace talks.

The importance of public demonstrations of frustration at both the lack of political progress on climate change and the barriers presented by vested interests is widely recognised — including by government itself.

Comparing the Candidates: for a roundup on other issues (including minor party candidates) see the general Wikpedia entry: Comparison of US presidential candidates, 2008, and for a matchup on climate change and energy see Grist Election» 08: Compare the Candidates and many postings at Climate Prclimate change and energy see Grist Election» 08: Compare the Candidates and many postings at Climate PrClimate Progress.

Australia's climate change ambassador Justin Lee left Australia yesterday for the Warsaw meeting, which is aiming to progress talks for a global agreement that includes China, India and the US by 2015.

This cooperation includes technical and policy exchanges on the development of fuel efficiency standards for trucks and buses, continued progress towards implementation of CCUS projects with the selection of a project site in China as the large - scale CCUS demonstration project announced last November, cooperation on reducing HFCs, including private sector commitments to promote climate - friendly alternatives to HFCs, and continued support for phasing down HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, and additional cooperation on direct mitigation efforts across multiple other sectors.

Recommendations: To facilitate a timely global synthesis of uniform reconstructions that includes areas where data coverage is relatively sparse, the PAGES 2k community recommends the reconstruction of climate means over large - scale (subcontinental and oceanic) areas, while parallel progress is made in developing the next generation of CFR methods.

Krosnick's work is cited most consistently by politically - left organizations, including the Center for American Progress, founded by John Podesta, a former counselor to President Barack Obama, and CAP's house publication, Climate Progress.

Northeast cities have employed a variety of mechanisms to respond to climate change, including land - use planning, provisions to protect infrastructure, regulations related to the design and construction of buildings, and emergency preparation, response, and recovery.106 While significant progress has been made, local governments still face limitations of legal authority, geographic jurisdiction, and resource constraints that could be addressed through effective engagement and support from higher levels of government.

However, a long list of technical and political hurdles slowed progress at times, including: the sheer volume of agenda items to consider, reflected in 270 pages of informal notes; the technical complexity of the endeavor, exacerbated by complex interlinkages between various elements of the Rulebook; political sensitivities about achieving a balanced package; the need to ensure that developing countries receive predictable and adequate financial and technical support; and issues around how countries can improve both their climate actions and information in their progress reports.

Frustrated by slow progress in global climate talks, United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon plans to invite around 40 world leaders including President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel to a closed - door meeting next month.

Alex Epstein writes a letter published on the Center for Industrial Progress» website titled, «Don't Divest, Educate — An Open Letter to American Universities,» in which he and several other notable climate change deniers, including Peter Ferrara, J. Scott Armstrong, Steve Goreham, S. Fred Singer, David Schnare, Richard Lindzen, and Matt Ridley, proclaim that they are «proud to stand in favor of fossil fuels.»

For example, Dr. Paul Opler (the first invertebrate specialist for the Endangered Species Act) was included in an email discussing how to deal with «Steele», sent by Slandering Sou and Miesler to Cook at SkepticalScience, Climate Progress, and Dr. Singer (who hoist Sou by her own petard).

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

The budget includes some priorities which are important to advocates of clean energy and climate progress, and directs money to education, public safety, and environmental protection.

Organized by Our Task — a non-profit group dedicated to helping young adults become leaders in creating a more sustainable world — the two - day event featured speakers and representatives from many other organizations as well, including: Climate Progress, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Sierra Club, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Center for a New American Dream, Population Institute, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Worldwatch Institute.