Sentences with phrase «into global climate policy»

Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard University who has written extensively on carbon markets, noted that during the creation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the United States insisted, over European objections, on inserting market mechanisms into global climate policy.

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The goals were crafted to engage all member countries — which are expected to integrate the SDGs into their policies for the next decade and a half — in addressing the root causes of global poverty, gender inequality and climate change.

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.

The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty, climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public policy and responsible lobbying.

Former Vice President Al Gore has spent decades immersing himself in the science and policy of global warming, visiting the poles, writing two books largely framed around the issue, and traveling the world giving a climate presentation that began on 35 - millimeter carousels and evolved into a snazzy Keynote extravaganza and Oscar - winning documentary.

How do you handle the idea of diving into science at the heart of heated, and relentless, tussles over global and national energy and climate policy?

While he's best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and climate into economic and social policies.

Some insights into the public pressure on those that are skeptical of consensus climate change science or the UNFCCC policies are provided by a recent iaiTV interview of Benny Peiser, Director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF).

To find out, the researchers plugged better cost information and more aggressive cost - curve assumptions into REMIND, a «global inter-temporally optimizing energy — economy model that has been extensively used for analyses of climate policies.»

Such impacts are consolidated into integrated assessment models to calculate the social cost of carbon and perform global cost - benefit analyses for climate policy.

Through their statement on climate change, Buddhist leaders have crossed this boundary into an area in which, it seems to me, they lack knowledge both of the alleged problems of anthropogenic global warming and of the best policies that might be adopted to deal with an always uncertain future.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to postpone such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective in order to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost.

Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future global and regional climate change research and assessment.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), Lord Lawson's UK - based climate skeptic lobby group, has announced it is launching an inquiry into the integrity of global surface temperature reGlobal Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), Lord Lawson's UK - based climate skeptic lobby group, has announced it is launching an inquiry into the integrity of global surface temperature reglobal surface temperature records.

She said this five - year period could be valuable if offering the world time to secure a global agreement by 2022 — the current climate change negotiations about to resume in Doha call for an agreement by 2015, with policies to be put into place by 2020.

Almost every time I post something on climate change policy, the comment thread quickly devolves into a debate over the existence of antrhopogenic global warming at all.

«Perhaps the most important function of climate science on an issue of broad interest like global warming is to help educate the public and to provide useful input into the policy process.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost - effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible cost (UN 1992a: Art 3, emphasis added).

In his letter, Lieberman quoted Jeremy Symons, a former EPA climate policy adviser, who wrote in the «Washington Post» on July 13, «What began with the Bush administration exercising its discretion over policy choices on global warming has devolved into attempts to suppress scientific information.

However, China's willingness to translate its existing domestic energy conservation goals, often discussed in terms of amount of energy consumed, into a metric that is consistent with the language of international climate policy, i.e. carbon emissions, is the clearest signal yet that China is willing to take on responsibilities that are commensurate with its resources and global emissions impact.

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The analysis finds that expanding fossil fuel reserves does even more damage than putting the global climate in danger; exploration financing by the World Bank risks locking developing countries into loan commitments for resources that will likely become stranded assets if policies are implemented to meet agreed climate goals.

The treaty set limits on countries» emissions, taking into account their historical contribution to climate change and ability to implement policies, with the aim of cutting global emissions five per cent on 1990 levels by 2012.

Is climate sensitivity a metric input into the computer models that have been used to predict future global average temperatures as a justification for CAGW policy initiatives.

Judith raises concerns about the epistemology of models for open, complex systems, distinctly indefinite... and then... adopting an uncertain global climate policy that could possibly produce «losses that throw mankind into economic, social and environmental bankruptcy.»

UPDATED Sept. 5 I encourage anyone interested in climate change science and policy to explore the rich discussion below about geoengineering, in this case mainly focused on managing incoming solar radiation to counter CO2 - driven global warming — particularly in the context of the long (and building) commitment to warming already baked into the climate system.

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

The statement also encouraged the Pope «to be one with them in demanding governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a deliberate large - scale intervention; fairly and equitable share the global emissions budget; ensure the welfare and rights of people amid the climate crisis; and put an end to false solutions, the expansion of carbon markets and corporate domination in climate negotiations, and translating these commitments into concrete policies.»

California has a confusing welter of climate policies, but the place to start is with AB 32, the «Global Warming Solutions Act,» passed by the legislature in 2006 and signed into law by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Again, this is a climate scientist's counsel to policymakers in the US Congress to avoid rushing into policies regarding global climate change before thinking their consequences through thoroughly.