Sentences with phrase «most effective climate policies»

Alberta is an active partner of The Climate Group's Energy Transition Platform, which connects 11 highly industrialized, carbon - intensive states and regions to share their experiences and successes — so they can learn from each other and create the most effective climate policies.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailOne of B.C.'s most effective climate policies is so affordable that most British Columbians don't even realize it exists.

I - 732 represents the most effective climate policy and the most progressive tax shift in decades in Washington and is designed to move the state toward two goals — cleaner energy and fairer taxes — with the following policy objectives:

As you'll see in the comments posted there, it's a hot topic, but it's hard to find an economist who won't tell you that a carbon tax is the most effective climate policy.

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From defending endangered species to mitigating climate change impacts, one of the most effective ways to protect the nature of Massachusetts is through sound environmental policy.

Garnering support for climate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, Februclimate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, FebruClimate Policy» in Boston, February 19.

The possibilities that political leaders will soon agree to effective climate policies seem to be close to zero, they are, as James Lovelock noted in «The Revenge of Gaia», only seeking just as Chamberlain 1938 to gain time, and they are not very interested in the realm, because most or all of them subscribe to the by far leading religion of our times: the neoclassical so - called economic «science», which is based on a lot of completely unrealistic assumptions, see fx.

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....»

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

Ultimately, the passing of the bill package is a landmark moment for California and will clinch Brown's legacy as one of the most effective leaders on climate policy in the US.

At Climate Solutions, Gregg oversees a staff of almost two dozen policy experts, campaigners, innovators, and researchers across three Northwest offices, providing strategic direction for one of the most effective regional climate and clean economy organizations in the Climate Solutions, Gregg oversees a staff of almost two dozen policy experts, campaigners, innovators, and researchers across three Northwest offices, providing strategic direction for one of the most effective regional climate and clean economy organizations in the climate and clean economy organizations in the nation.

In addition to working for the Niskanen Center, Bookbinder also served as a senior policy advisor at the prestigious Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate Climate Leadership Council (CLC), an international policy organization that brings together corporations, thought leaders, and environmentalists to promote a carbon tax and dividends plan as the most effective solution to combat climate climate change.

(Indeed, we need look no farther to understand why carbon pricing is the most effective of climate policies.)

Consider the challenge of putting a price on carbon — arguably our most effective policy tool in averting global climate disaster.

The most effective policies in the face of tropical cyclones have been and will continue to be adaptive in nature, and thus should play a prominent role in any comprehensive approach to climate policy.

SB 5735 uses the language of clean energy investment to weaken the most effective climate and clean energy policy working in Washington.

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

Rather than engage the climate policy proposals I and others have put forward — like substituting prizes for subsidies, reducing regulatory barriers for alternative energies, increasing industry's carbon efficiency, and promoting efficiency gains in developing nations where such investments are most cost effective — they attack a straw man of «conservative orthodoxy that global warming can be overcome by private companies operating in free markets with little or no help from the government.»

The overarching justification for most climate change policies today derives from a political interpretation of Principle 15 (now called the Precautionary Principle) of the United Nations Rio Declaration of 1992, which states: «Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.»

Let's assume that a carbon tax, equal to the social cost of carbon, is the ideal climate policy — the most efficient and cost - effective way to reduce carbon emissions.

Most countries lack effective policies to manage climate risks, despite growing concerns with climate change.

Mr Lomborg tells Chris Smith climate change policy and labelling world hunger as a result of climate change is the most costly and least effective way to help.