Sentences with phrase «meaningful climate change policy»

«The importance of experiential learning creates several challenges to a public consensus needed to implement meaningful climate change policy,» the researchers write.

In general, there are sound reasons to seek to compensate consumers for the energy price increases that will be brought about by a cap - and - trade system, or any meaningful climate change policy.

Not exact matches

«Programs or policies that help reduce the cost and difficulty of making long - term changes or that bring in whole communities to make long - term changes together can help support people to take big steps that have a meaningful impact on the climate.»

It's unfortunate that this loss or delay of valuable information that would support solid policy shift on mitigating climate change and reducing impacts including saving human lives, is not given more meaningful coverage in mainstream press.

However, as the Agreement's key policies are yet to be realized, member states have both an exceptional opportunity and a moral impetus to use these results to address climate change equity in a meaningful manner.

House Democrats pressing for action on climate policy are having to resort to various work - arounds, in a situation where it is difficult even to get a meaningful climate change hearing, and for now impossible to move significant legislation.

A particularly hot autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a meaningful deal at December's climate - change negotiations in Copenhagen.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

During this time, the climate change disinformation campaign also successfully prevented enactment of meaningful US domestic climate change laws and policies.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

There is a meaningful issue issue, IMO, where there is crossover / confusion / conflation between discussion of the science of climate change and positions on the policy implications of the science.

«Billions are being wasted on climate change policies which will have no meaningful impact on the climate and the science supporting alarmist climate theories is also crumbling.

These two articles perfectly encapsulate two of the problems that have plagued our approach to climate change over the last 8 years: Delay any meaningful action on reducing emissions and, instead of adopting sound, far - reaching policies, take shortsighted, politically convenient half - steps.

The study's author, Robert Brulle, refers to these organizations as the climate change counter-movement, and concludes that their outsized influence «has not only played a major role in confounding public understanding of climate science, but also successfully delayed meaningful government policy actions to address the issue.»