Sentences with phrase «influence climate change policy»

Have any taken money from fossil fuel interests, directly or indirectly, to influence climate change policy?

You're, of course, free to not do so, but if you were genuinely interested in positively influence the climate change policy debate, you might at least consider it.

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And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

«We looked into the question of whether — and if so, to what extent — the public's attitude to climate policy and the risks of climate change can be influenced,» explains Thomas Bernauer, professor of political science at ETH Zurich.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the policies of the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.»

So yes, right now the agricultural lobby is exerting a very strong influence on a lot of things affecting biofuel policy, and actually other parts of policies that are related to climate changes, so it's awkward that way.

«The climate is changing at a pace and in a pattern that is not explainable by natural influences,» said John P. Holdren, assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

«Firms with increasingly good or bad performance spend more to influence the outcome of a contested environmental policy issue» like climate change, the authors said.

Scientists must sharpen their message and do more to engage the public as they seek to influence policy on issues such as climate change, representatives of AAAS and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre said in report issued 3 July at the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF2010) in Turin,...

But a study published online today in the journal Cognition by researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania found that the encyclical did not directly influence people's beliefs about the seriousness of climate change or its effect on the poor.

Extreme weather events or nonstationary climate change that is outside of an individual's experience of normality can shift IMMs and CBSs, ultimately influencing policy, climate governance, and GHG emissions.

At the Paris meeting, nearly 2,000 participants, from countries on all continents and at all levels of development, flowed through dozens of sessions examining an array of policies and actions at all scales that could limit our influence on the atmosphere and oceans and limit risks that changes in the climate will derail human progress.

If the Democrats own the climate issue more as Roberts says it will influence at least what the Republicans do and say in the way of policy, even if it doesn't change them deep down.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patterns).

Moreover, on issues such as climate change or evolution, scientists and their organizations are often distracted by over-estimating the size and influence of these groups and by thinking that the goal of communication is to convince these particular publics to accept expert interpretations or proposed policy actions.

How one sees the answer boils down to an important difference in perspective on how to best deal with climate change: Do we (a) try to influence the course of future human development using carbon pricing as the main policy tool?

I provided all the above - mentioned references and more in a longer essay on climate - change skepticism that I wrote in June in response to requests for an explanation of the apparent continuing influence of deniers in the U.S. policy process, and from which I abstracted the op - ed I submitted to The Globe.

According to the report, «more than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to influence federal policy on climate change in the last year, as the issue gathered momentum and came to a vote on Capitol Hill.

Dr. Koonin suggests that «the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, how will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

The meeting, organized by 10 universities and paid for by a variety of corporations, was, as one organizer explained, «a deliberate attempt to influence policy,» with a prime goal being to make the case that climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

To avert negative impact of climate change, accelerated adoption of climate - smart agriculture would be necessary which would require dynamic national policies and investment priorities that will positively influence local institutions and interventions to adapt climate change.

USCAN and CAN - I operate full - time programs to influence global policy on climate change with alarmist views.

A recent study suggests the volatility of U.S. corn prices is more sensitive to near - term climate change than to energy policy influences or to use of agricultural products for energy production, such as biofuel.22

It will be particularly interesting to see whether Republican presidential candidate John McCain's greener stance on the issue, including his support for policies to limit human - induced climate change, influences rank - and - file Republicans over the coming months.

Policies and other strategies intended to reduce carbon pollution and mitigate climate change can often have independent influences on human health.

Automakers are telling consumers that they care about climate change but are spreading climate denial behind the scenes to influence federal policy.

The report analyzes the main variables that influence tourism development, including climate change, and aims to demonstrate that concerted «greener» policies can steer the growth of the sector toward a more sustainable path.

Here is a more complete context: Rather, the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, «How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Just before the «1 % to 2 %» line is this: the crucial, unsettled scientific question for policy is, «How will the climate change over the next century under both natural and human influences?»

Don, I don't expect my opinion to influence the APS members already considering quitting over a single issue climate change policy statement one bit... but one never knows.

Given that existence beliefs are considered to be the «gatekeeper» in climate policy engagement, it is important to understand the factors that influence whether citizens believe that global climate change is real (Krosnick et al. 2006).

This does not mean that climate stabilization policies do not make sense or that policy makers should ignore influences of human - caused climate change on tropical cyclone behavior.

These millions were spent on a range of activities including PR, social media, advertising, and lobbying, in order to influence American and European policy makers and manipulate public discourse on climate change.

In Martha's world «Koch outspends almost everyone to influence government policy on climate change».

The paper, «Energy, Development and Climate Change: Striking a Balance», examines the energy scenario — availability, access, influence of markets and government policies — in rural India, especially in the areas where WOTR has been working.

Does it help with «first principles» that Koch outspends almost everyone to influence government on climate change policy?

Assuming that only socioeconomic factors — rather than rising emissions — influence losses may yield ill - founded policy recommendations that focus exclusively on adapting to climate change while dismissing energy policy as a legitimate part of the toolkit for responding.

For example, a recent nationally representative study [18] found that the degree of perceived scientific agreement influences key beliefs about global warming, which in turn, drive public support for climate change policies.

It suggests that CO2 has little influence on the planet's climate change, and it affects energy policy in a profound way.

Future vulnerability will be influenced by changes in demography, economics, and policies (development and climate driven) that are difficult to predict and dependent on international and national considerations.

Dr. Qamar - Uz - Zaman Chaudhry, former director general of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, calls climate change a threat greater than terrorism for its ability to have a widespread effect on a country, even influencing economic policies and other plans for the future.

Peddlers of this myth push the assumption that climate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaclimate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaclimate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personaClimate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personal gain.

The data and conclusions in the K15 paper qualify as ISI, because the implications of the conclusions have the potential to influence public policy concerning the politically charged climate change policy debates among various political factions.

Research On The NGOs» Influence In Coping With Climate Change (Meili Tang, Huijuan Shi, & Fengjiang Cheng, Institute of Climate Change and Public Policy - Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology) Section Three: Economic And Social Management In Climate Change 1.

Lord John Kreps and other scientists wrote to the editor of The Times, accusing the paper of favoring climate change deniers and being influenced by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

... Thus, climate science supports sound policy when it informs risk management, informing the selection of climate policy measures that influence key aspects of the causal chain of climate change.

Friends of the Earth believes that UN climate change negotiations must expand its influence over global economic and development policies to ensure that actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change under the UNFCCC are not undermined.

Clarification was also requested on a sentence stating that «the impacts of climate change on the critical infrastructure and territorial integrity of many states are expected to influence national security policies.»

But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate - related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education.