Sentences with phrase «international climate and energy policy»

Climate model simulations are being used as the basis for international climate and energy policy, so it is important to assess the adequacy of climate models for this purpose.

As Steffen Kallbekken, Research Director at the Centre for International Climate and Energy Policy, put it at a conference briefing: by the time the current pledges enter into force in 2020, we will probably have exhausted the entire carbon budget for the 1.5 °C degrees target.

Not exact matches

3) The EU should make an effort to reconcile climate change, energy and trade policies, both at domestic level (e.g. though inter-service consultations) and at international level.

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

Huge international decisions in the areas of energy policy, climate change and sustainable development need to be reached.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

They were provided with unbiased information about climate change and energy and about the international discussions on policy measures to handle these issues.

Clearly, my first months will center on what a Trump administration might do at the national and international scale to climate and energy policies and relevant funding.

Lessons from Japan: An international group of analysts focusing on climate policy says we can look to Japan for lessons in how policies can accelerate a move away from carbon - heavy fuels and toward more efficient use of energy.

If you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States policy on climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.

He previously served as the Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC He is also the former President of the Association for Environmental Studies & Sciences, and former Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law interest group of the American Society of International Law, and Chair of the International Wildlife Law Interest group of the Society.

We would argue that global climatic disruption will make these relationships even more crucial as the ever - escalating climate change impacts permeate issues of economic security, national and international security, national energy policy, environmental and natural resource management and protection, and so on.

Energy groups risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of investment by assuming that current emissions - cutting policies will not be tightened up in the light of the latest science and international climate change goals, according to the think tank Carbon Tracker.

Until recently, he served as director of the Energy Policy & Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University, and now serves as co-director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, a scholarly initiative of the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC.

Assuming that current and announced climate policies are implemented, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that, despite the extensive, worldwide government support for renewables and increasing energy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundEnergy Agency (IEA) forecasts that, despite the extensive, worldwide government support for renewables and increasing energy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundenergy efficiency, fossil fuels are expected to meet approximately 75 % of primary energy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of aroundenergy demand in 2040, down marginally from the historic share of around 80 %.

During WRI's Annual Stories to Watch event, Andrew Steer highlighted how these trends may affect U.S. and international climate policy, business and investment, global energy markets and more this year.

The United States made a splash today with Energy Secretary Steven Chu «s (pictured right) announcement of an international plan to deploy clean technology globally (with a strong emphasis on developing countries)- the Climate Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) will include three clean technology programs focusing on solar and LED lighting, efficient appliances and equipment, and policy and technical support for countries planning for renewable eEnergy Secretary Steven Chu «s (pictured right) announcement of an international plan to deploy clean technology globally (with a strong emphasis on developing countries)- the Climate Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) will include three clean technology programs focusing on solar and LED lighting, efficient appliances and equipment, and policy and technical support for countries planning for renewable energyenergy.

Posted in Adaptation, Advocacy, Biodiversity, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Governance, Government Policies, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Opinion, Population, Resilience, Vulnerability Comments Off on The Psychological Pulse Of A Nation

Posted in Advocacy, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Energy, Events, Governance, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, India, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, Opinion, Technologies, UNFCC - CoP18, UNFCCC, Urbanization, Vulnerability Comments Off on Indian Minister's Advisor Calls For Year - Long UN Climate Talks

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Figure 1 shows recent emissions (the 1990 — 2009 gray area), our representative 350 emissions pathway (the 2010 — 2050 red area) and, for comparison, a business - as - usual pathway (the dotted black line) that's consistent with the International Energy Agency's standard «reference case» (no new climate policy) projections.

Posted in Advocacy, China, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Governance, Government Policies, Hydropower, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Renewable Energy, Resilience, River, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on China's Relentless Hydro - hegemony Causes Anxiety Across Asia

Posted in Adaptation, Advocacy, Agriculture, Biodiversity, CLIMATE SCIENCE, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Events, Governance, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, Opinion, Population, Resilience, Vulnerability, Weather Comments Off on Build Capacity At Panchayat Level To Fight Climate Change In India: PreeCLIMATE SCIENCE, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Events, Governance, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, Opinion, Population, Resilience, Vulnerability, Weather Comments Off on Build Capacity At Panchayat Level To Fight Climate Change In India: PreeClimate Change, Energy, Environment, Events, Governance, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Lessons, Opinion, Population, Resilience, Vulnerability, Weather Comments Off on Build Capacity At Panchayat Level To Fight Climate Change In India: PreeClimate Change In India: Preeti Soni

Posted in Adaptation, Capacity Development, CLIMATE SCIENCE, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Research, Resilience, Technologies, Urbanization, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Could We Acclimatise To The Hotter Summers TCLIMATE SCIENCE, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Research, Resilience, Technologies, Urbanization, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Could We Acclimatise To The Hotter Summers TClimate Change, Disasters and Climate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Research, Resilience, Technologies, Urbanization, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Could We Acclimatise To The Hotter Summers TClimate Change, Ecosystem Functions, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Governance, Government Policies, Green House Gas Emissions, Health and Climate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Research, Resilience, Technologies, Urbanization, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Could We Acclimatise To The Hotter Summers TClimate Change, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Land, Lessons, News, Research, Resilience, Technologies, Urbanization, Vulnerability, Water Comments Off on Could We Acclimatise To The Hotter Summers To Come?

Pete Ogden is a Senior Fellow and the Director of International Energy and Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress.

To assist policymakers as they set climate and development goals and design policies in international and domestic forums, the World Energy Council, in partnership with global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, has published the 2015 «World Energy Trilemma report: Priority actions on climate change and how to balance the trilemma».

He has more than 20 years of experience in strategizing and implementing climate and energy policies in both the U.S. and China, with an extensive international network of central and local governments, think tanks, NGOs, research institutes, state - owned enterprises, and multinational companies.

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Energy Policy 23 (4/5): 411 - 416, 1995 Also pp. 501 - 512 in Integrated Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N Nakicenovic, WD Nordhaus, R Richels, and FL Toth (eds), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1994.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation grant for «To support policy research and civil society coordination on climate finance and international energy and infrastructure finance.»

The Initiative serves as a nexus for international climate policy across WRI, drawing on the organization's expertise on a wide range of issues including greenhouse gas reporting, adaptation, finance, energy, forests, cities, and water.

Recommended policies and strategies include: (1) establishment of clear energy and climate change adaptation / mitigation policies in Africa; (2) implementation of renewable energy development - inducing policies; (3) creating conducive environments for private - public partnerships in clean energy development; (4) enhancement of broader regional and continental collaboration in energy and climate change policies; (5) accessing existing international funding sources for promoting less carbon - intensive energy technologies; and (6) implementation of energy portfolio diversification.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

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He joined RTCC.org in London to cover international climate change and energy policy.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

The ECF was established in early 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative to promote climate and energy policies that greatly reduce Europe's greenhouse gas emissions and to help Europe play an even stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change.

NOAH is organised in environmental policy programs concerning Transportation, Food Sovereignty, Environmental education, Forests and Biodiversity, Climate Justice and Energy, Economic Justice, Chemicals and International Solidarity.

Christopher is actively engaged in international climate change and energy policy discussions, and participated in the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg iclimate change and energy policy discussions, and participated in the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the Climate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg iClimate Change Conference in Kyoto Japan in 1997, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.

Developed by the participants of the Renewables Good Practice Working Group of RECS International, of which First Climate is a participant, the document outlines good practices for sourcing green energy and is thus targeted to support electricity end - users, market players, policy makers and stakeholders when procuring renewable electricity.

The TCPs underpin the efforts of the IEA to provide support across the full spectrum of international low - carbon energy partnerships and initiatives, ranging from high - level policy fora such as the Clean Energy Ministerial, to activities under the bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Cenergy partnerships and initiatives, ranging from high - level policy fora such as the Clean Energy Ministerial, to activities under the bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate CEnergy Ministerial, to activities under the bodies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Jagoda Munic, chairperson of Friends of the Earth International said: «Our task is to challenge corporate power and exert real democratic control over our energy policies so that we can lend real muscle to grassroots initiatives and accelerate the transition to a just, climate - safe, people - centred climate system.»

Thinking about the problem in terms of temperature increase for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (which we will probably exceed with current policies and energy trends), even studies that reinforce the skeptical narrative of low mean climate sensitivity leaves some chance of warming greatly exceeding international goals and historical boundaries (say a 5 percent chance of warming exceeding 4 °C).

From 2012 to 2014 he founded and directed the MS in Energy Policy and Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses in domestic and international climate change law and domestic energEnergy Policy and Climate Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses in domestic and international climate change law and domestic enerClimate Program at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught courses in domestic and international climate change law and domestic enerclimate change law and domestic energyenergy law.