Sentences with phrase «led climate policy»

Galiana and Green propose a technology - led climate policy, centred on increased research and development, testing and demonstration (RDT&D) of scalable, reliable, and cost effective low carbon emitting energy technologies funded by a low but gradually rising carbon tax.

The biggest obstacle to a Republican - led climate policy are Congressional Republicans.

He can lead climate policy development by using existing authority and can ensure that the U.S. has a strong position going into the next round of international climate negotiations.

But the transition to a regional market can be, he added, «the next evolution in California's world - leading climate policies and can provide a platform for other states to join and pursue their own climate policies.»

-LSB-...] Revkin's piece refers to the affirming work of two other leading climate policy analysts, Andrew Leach at the University of Alberta and Michael Levi at the Council of Foreign Relations.

Not exact matches

Pruitt has led Trump's campaign to roll back President Barack Obama's policies to fight climate change and protect the environment.

A solid balance sheet has First Solar on track to continue to lead the market and generate significant sales when panel demand recovers in the very near future, no matter what the Trump administration's policy on climate and energy.

There's also $ 135.4 million (over four years, starting in 2018) to the two lead departments, Environment and Climate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climatClimate Change Canada and Natural Resources Canada, for «policy, communications and engagement» for the climateclimate plan.

The President's speech and its affirmation of the Alberta's government's climate change policies is likely the type of «social license «that Ms. Notley hopes will lead to more oil pipeline construction approvals in the future.

The Shared Mobility Principles for Livable Cities were developed in 2017 by Robin Chase, Zipcar co-Founder, and a consortium of leading city and transport organizations including: the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, Natural Resources Defense Council, Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT), Transportation for America (T4America), Rocky Mountain Institute, Shared - Use Mobility Center, and WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.

«Meat — The Big Omission from the Talks on Emissions» Humane Society, Brighter Green, Chatham House 9 Dec 15:00 — 16:30 Observer Room 04 COP21 Paris — Le Bourget Site Leading experts and government officials will discuss the climate impacts of meat and dairy consumption, public awareness, and potential policy and behaviour - change solutions.

Panel discussion will feature climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]

«California is a leading state in aggressive climate policies because back in 2006 they wrote all of their goals into law, while in New York we've done executive actions,» EANY executive director Peter Iwanowicz said.

Leading climate economist says radical policies needed as IPCC calculations show planet has used up over half emissions budget

Despite Tony Blair's prioritisation of climate change on the international agenda, individual domestic policies are not leading to carbon emission reductions.

The Nana Addo led government was again highly went applauded when government in the 2017 Budget Statement and Economic Policy stated that it had placed high premium on combating climate change through prioritization of climate change programmes and projects.

As the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris moves closer, New York can either lead by example or continue to cling to policies that keep us stuck in the past.

Robert Howarth, David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Cornell University, leading researcher on energy policy impact on climate change

«Our party has always been a broad church, and despite my principled differences with Jeremy over many issues of defence, foreign policy and national security, I agreed to serve on his front bench because of the mandate he was given, his assurances that honesty and difference were welcomed, and due to the many areas we agreed wholeheartedly on such as fighting the vicious Tory trade union bill - which I was proud to lead our work on - cuts to tax credits and tackling climate change.

«Northern domination of science globally relevant to climate change policy and practice and lack of research led by Southern researchers in Southern countries may hinder development and implementation of bottom - up global agreements and nationally appropriate actions in Southern countries,» they write.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Dow is also a lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment's Chapter on Adaptation Opportunities, Constraints and Limits, and the Summary for Policy Makers (2014).

«I think it can be an example of cooperation between leading countries with a lot of renewable energy potential,» said Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at WWF Brazil, adding, «Dilma could see this as a strategic opportunity for Brazil's economy.»

The case of having a long lead time before seeing benefits is not unique to climate change policy, however.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

A bipartisan energy policy group called today for action on climate legislation and laid out principles for such a measure, including views that collide with the leading House climate and energy measure.

«This cap - and - trade program needs to be one that would be compatible with the Western Climate Initiative platform,» DEQ climate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested pClimate Initiative platform,» DEQ climate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested pclimate change policy lead Colin McConnaha said in a meeting in Portland with interested parties.

«It is imperative that both the near - and long - term climate impacts of policies be transparent to a decisionmaker,» said lead author Ilissa B. Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund.

Orr, who is also the dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, said U.S. cities and states lead the world in important aspects of climate resilience and mitigation precisely because the Trump administration has rolled back federal ambition.

Barbara Buchner, head of the Climate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed anClimate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annPolicy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annpolicy papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed anclimate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annually.

The researchers, led by Gary King of Harvard University, asked groups of two to five of these news outlets to write stories on broad policy areas, including race, immigration, climate, and reproductive rights.

'' [Methane emissions from coal mines] are important on many levels,» said Jonathan Banks, senior climate policy adviser at CATF and lead author of the report.

«This is partly about reducing carbon emissions, but it's also an air quality issue that has become very, very urgent,» said Kate Gordon, vice chairwoman for climate and sustainable urbanization at the Paulson Institute, the China - focused environmental policy think tank led by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

A new scientific paper by a University of Maryland - led international team of distinguished scientists, including five members of the National Academies, argues that there are critical two - way feedbacks missing from current climate models that are used to inform environmental, climate, and economic policies.

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

And that campaign, involving all sorts of organizations that have lobbied against climate change legislation, has led some people to conclude that this is connected to a larger campaign by special interests to attack the science of climate change, to prevent policy action from being taken to deal with the problem.

By implementing the quartet of policies by 2015, nations could buy «precious time while international climate negotiations continue,» says economist Fatih Birol, the lead author of a report released here yesterday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

It says Congress should put a priority on policies that enable innovation and that could lead to clean sources of energy, but it does not specify what policies those are and does not address whether climate change is real.

For more by Holden, see «The Future of Climate Change Policy: The U.S.'s Last Chance to Lead.»

«It stands at the top of a pyramid where a lot of the bricks were laid previously, not only internationally, but by the previous administration that had a different policy view of climate change,» said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University professor who served as a lead co-author of the 2007 IPCC report.

Ceres, an investment network that studies sustainable finance and leads a group of more than 100 investors overseeing more than $ 10 trillion in assets under management, is a strong example of engaged shareholders pushing fossil energy companies to improve their climate policies, Smith said.

«In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and relearned that minimizing evidence - based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies,» said Rachel Bronson, the Bulletin's president and CEO in Chicago, Illinois.

Given the importance of manufacturing for China, we hope our findings will help lead to more stringent Chinese climate policy.»

«Sad to relate, perhaps, but nonetheless true, is the fact that the very people who have criticized the U.K.'s «excessive zeal» on climate policy are those who have led us out of the E.U.,» Gardiner said.

To determine the ideal mitigation policy, a research team led by Princeton University, the University of Vermont and the University of Texas at Austin employed a climate - economic model to examine two ethical approaches to valuing human population.

«Indigenous people are telling us rainfall and river levels have changed; the fires they're dealing with are different now; and the climate systems they used to depend on for growing crops have become unpredictable,» said Steve Schwartzman, lead author of the study and director of tropical forest policy at Environmental Defense Fund.

«Much of the strength of Climate Impacts Group comes from its varied membership, drawing from leading institutions around the region such as PNNL,» said Spencer Reeder, lead climate change policy strategist for the Department of EClimate Impacts Group comes from its varied membership, drawing from leading institutions around the region such as PNNL,» said Spencer Reeder, lead climate change policy strategist for the Department of Eclimate change policy strategist for the Department of Ecology.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

• Lead Author, «Summary for Policy Makers, Emissions Scenarios 2000: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change» (2001).