Sentences with phrase «meaningful climate policy»

BUT: With climate and energy legislation stalled in the Senate, there appears to be slippage in the direction of an energy - only bill, without any clear path to getting the support needed to pass a bill that includes a meaningful climate policy mechanism (such as an emissions cap).

Perhaps the most important one comes where Mr. Romm — echoing others, including Paul Hawken here — says that meaningful climate policy, even with leadership and effective communication, still requires another element: «Bad things must be happening to regular people right now....»

They have helped to sap the energy that existed, pushing for meaningful climate policies.

Not exact matches

«The Governor's smart and meaningful economic and tax policy reforms, coupled with responsible fiscal discipline, is transforming the state's business climate and moving New York into the upper echelon nationally,» he said.

In the absence of meaningful federal action, two groups of states have gone beyond RPS and enacted direct climate policies.

«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.»

According to the over 500 teachers and leaders who responded to our survey, policy and process matter greatly when it comes to an effective and meaningful professional learning climate.

School curriculum, policy, and climate are more meaningful leadership areas for students.

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.

For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon - pricing — whether carbon taxes or cap - and - trade — as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.

In tracking the climate challenge (science and policy) since the 1980s I see scant evidence that our politics and public attitudes will make it possible to build a carbon price «pull» sufficient to shape energy investments and choices on a meaningful timescale....

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

The Collaboratorium, a creation of the Center for Collective Intelligence, is trying to establish a template for meaningful, concrete, forward - moving discourse on climate, energy, and policy.

That, coupled with the increased urgency which will (or might) arise if climate becomes more obviously destructive, should, in my view, eventually open the eyes of enough of the power brokers of the world so that meaningful policy actions will begin to be implemented.

«The ultimate solution to greenhouse gases is unlikely to be either top down or bottom up but a reinforcing coordination of both,» he said, describing efforts to improve the ailing climate treaty, enact state and federal policies and regulations on emissions of greenhouse gases and other activities as meaningful steps, even in the face of growing emissions from China and India.

Let's just hope domestic political squabbles — cough, complete and utter inability to enact meaningful national renewable energy and climate policies, even if not EPA's fault at all, cough — doesn't reduce that aspiration in practice to polluting corporation's lowest common denominator.

But any such critique has to propose not only the need for alternative policies, but a way to make them happen at a scale and pace that are meaningful to the climate question.

This is a quick addendum to the previous post exploring what it would take for a president to pursue meaningful climate and energy policy in a multitasked world.

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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.

With the public conversation hijacked, meaningful progress on climate policy is blunted and the vested interests seeking to maintain our current addition to fossil fuels prevail.

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.

«By signing the Climate Declaration, Owens Corning is committing to work with businesses and policymakers to enact meaningful energy and climate policies that will benefit our eClimate Declaration, Owens Corning is committing to work with businesses and policymakers to enact meaningful energy and climate policies that will benefit our eclimate policies that will benefit our economy.

The NDC Partnership builds in - country capacity and increases knowledge sharing so that climate policies have meaningful and enduring impacts, and drive increasing global ambition over time.

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.

This conviction has led her to dedicate her career to achieving meaningful commitments and a global policy framework for climate action, to engaging the private sector to accelerate the industrial transformation, and to inspire civil society to be part of the solution.

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.

California's leaders and those in the Northeast may take great pride in their state and regional climate policies, but if they accomplish their frequently - stated goal — helping to bring about the enactment of a meaningful national climate policy — they will better serve their states and the country by declaring victory and getting out of the way.

In the meantime, in the absence of meaningful Federal action, sub-national climate policies could well become the core of national action.

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

In general, any climate policy approach — if it was meaningful in its objectives and had any chance of being enacted — would have become the prime target of political skepticism and scorn.

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.

[*) 3rd generation climate deniers — «okay climate is warming, and yes that's caused by us, now let's try to still obstruct meaningful policy by denying the rest of the story»]

I also examine the role that could be played by sub-national policies in the absence of a meaningful Federal policy, with the conclusion that — like it or not — we may find that Sacramento comes to take the place of Washington as the center of national climate policy.

Here is where it gets interesting, because as much as the current political environment in Washington may seem increasingly unreceptive to an economy - wide cap - and - trade system or some other meaningful and sensible climate policy, there is one promising approach that could actually benefit from the national political climate.

Such bottom ‑ up linkage of state and regional cap ‑ and ‑ trade systems could be an important part or perhaps even the core of future of U.S. climate policy, at least until there is meaningful action at the Federal level.

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.

For these reasons, carbon - pricing is a necessary component of a truly meaningful national climate policy.

The new Congress is beginning to consider various alternative energy and climate policies in the wake of last year's collapse in the U.S. Senate of consideration of a meaningful, economy - wide CO2 cap - and - trade scheme.

After decades of delaying any meaningful national climate policy, America was poised to finally enact moderate limits on carbon dioxide emissions from our nation's energy sector — but this executive order threatens to stop that progress in its tracks.

I, myself, as an economist, I always emphasise the importance of a carbon price: the need that the world must pursue, the policy of a carbon tax to have a meaningful result for climate stabilisation.

«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.

Even without rigorous federal policy, U.S. cities can take meaningful steps to protect the climate.

Surfrider calls upon all elected officials in the U.S. to hold the Administration accountable for taking meaningful action on climate - both through federal policies and displaying international leadership.

«Today's vote provided two meaningful insights into prospects for climate legislation,» Kevin Book, an energy analyst at ClearView Energy Partners, a Washington energy - policy consulting firm, wrote in an e-letter.

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.»

Alex Trembath, a policy analyst with the Breakthrough Institute, calls the Keystone XL fight «a sideshow» that distracts from more meaningful climate solutions such as spurring new technologies to drive down the use of oil.

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