Sentences with phrase «meaningful national climate»

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

That will increase the need for meaningful national climate change strategies.

Not exact matches

On Monday, the national science academies of 22 Commonwealth countries, including from the UK, Canada, India and Australia, issued a «Consensus Statement on Climate Change,» declaring that the «Commonwealth has the potential, and the responsibility, to help drive meaningful global efforts and outcomes that protect ourselves, our children and our planet.»

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.

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

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

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.

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.

It is now increasingly clear that meaningful international action to limit climate change not only requires compelling scientific evidence and recognition of legitimate national interests, but also must focus on considerations of equity and ethics.

The Climate Equity Reference Framework is designed to support the meaningful analysis of national climate action pledges, relative to the global challenge and relative to other national pClimate Equity Reference Framework is designed to support the meaningful analysis of national climate action pledges, relative to the global challenge and relative to other national pclimate action pledges, relative to the global challenge and relative to other national pledges.

At The Climate Reality Project we believe COP21 is our best chance yet to secure a strong international agreement that includes meaningful emissions reductions commitments based on national circumstances, a system of periodic review for these commitments and a long - term goal of net zero carbon emissions.

Perhaps the next National Rural Health Conference, in Hobart in 2019, will incorporate a meaningful focus on climate change — not least because we will soon have our first Framework for a National Strategy on Climate, Health and Well - being, thanks to work led by the Climate and Health Alclimate change — not least because we will soon have our first Framework for a National Strategy on Climate, Health and Well - being, thanks to work led by the Climate and Health AlClimate, Health and Well - being, thanks to work led by the Climate and Health AlClimate and Health Alliance.