Sentences with phrase «national climate legislation»

National climate legislation should include aggressive emission reduction targets that can be achieved at manageable costs to the economy.

The next attempt to develop ambitious, national climate legislation — if such an opportunity arises again — is sure to be shaped by the movement's increasingly powerful commitment to climate justice.

Cato argues that US emissions won't matter because China's emissions will be too large, China won't commit to emissions reductions unless the USA leads the way, and the USA can't lead the way with groups like Cato successfully undermining national climate legislation.

Both voluntary activities and a variety of policies and measures that lower emissions are currently in place at federal, state, and local levels in the U.S., even though there is no comprehensive national climate legislation.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

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She'd worked on climate change legislation and a national strategy for suicide prevention; she'd been a strong advocate for women's and LGBT rights.

Atlantic Bridge was itself a partner of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a US lobbying group funded by the Charles G Koch Foundation (predominant funders of the US Tea Party), the National Rifle Association and the Tobacco Institute, to name but a few, and which campaigns against climate change legislation and regulation of tobacco.

In considering legislation Parliament should undertake close scrutiny in a climate of effective deliberation, seeking to identify and maximise a national consensus where feasible.

Climate legislation that could enact a carbon cap - and - trade system, or a national renewable portfolio standard that would require a percentage of U.S. energy to come from renewable sources, is stuck in Congress.

Correction: The National Commission on Energy Policy is calling for passage of climate legislation during the 111th Congress.

The bulk of global carbon capture funding, though, came several years ago, when national climate change legislation was in play in both the United States and Canada.

My attention was piqued on February 8 when 86 leading evangelical Christians — the last cohort I expected to get on the environmental bandwagon — issued the Evangelical Climate Initiative calling for «national legislation requiring sufficient economy - wide reductions» in carbon emissions.

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Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nation.

National and global discussions of climate science and related policy choices have intensified markedly in the last several months, which is not surprising given pledges by President Obama and congressional leaders to pursue climate legislation and the December deadline world leaders set for a new climate treaty.

To avoid this we need clear energy and climate legislation (which could be combined, or could be separate) and a national strategy.

Speaking at Energy Storage and Connected Systems, an event hosted last week in London by the national Renewable Energy Association (REA), shadow minister for energy and climate change Alan Whitehead claimed current energy legislation was now «obsolete» in the face of the changes underway in the sector.

The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions is part of the National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative, a collection of groups that works to develop and advance carbon capture legislation and its application in oil recovery.

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While Congress members like Fred Upton (Republican, Michigan) yowl about the EPA's efforts to regulate carbon emissions as «an unconstitutional power grab» and attach the term «job - killing» to every piece of environmental legislation with a political pulse, national security officials have been offering dire warnings about the perils of climate disruption and its offshoots like food shortage, water depletion and massive migration.

The battle has exposed deep rifts within the Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and other business lobbies, with companies leaving their trade organizations almost daily in disputes over climate change legislation.

In a Nov. 28 filing to the Utah Public Service Commission, PacifiCorp noted that just two weeks earlier the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners adopted a resolution acknowledging that climate change legislation is likely to occur, and likely to target carbon dioxide emissions.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

Peabody, which operates three coal mines in the Powder River Basin, has argued against climate change legislation at the national and international level, pushing instead for coal gasification and carbon sequestration technologies, under the name clean coal.

The House Science Committee held Congress» first hearings on climate science in 1976, and it resulted in passage of bipartisan legislation to establish a National Climate Program climate science in 1976, and it resulted in passage of bipartisan legislation to establish a National Climate Program Climate Program Office.

However, with a stronger market signal now unlikely for many years because of the delay in comprehensive national climate and energy legislation, the United States might well fall behind China in this new era of global competition over green technologies and services.

With the failure of federal climate change legislation, considerable national attention is focused on Proposition 23, which marks the first time a global warming law has been put before voters.

IEA Reviews US National Energy Policy, Stresses US Leadership Role and Encourages Legislation on Climate Change 30 April 2002

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Calling for «a comprehensive, proactive national planning and preparedness strategy for limiting and adapting to the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of climate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisclimate change,» Climate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisClimate Science Watch transmitted on September 4 a set of detailed recommendations to three Senate committee chairmen who have been developing climate and clean energy legisclimate and clean energy legislation.

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The different policies being introduced specifically to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions vary from international treaties, e.g., the Kyoto Protocol (2005), to national laws, e.g., the UK's Climate Change Act, 2008, and even regional legislation e.g., California (USA)'s Global Warming Solutions Act, 2006.

A forum discussion exploring National Climate Emergency legislation will directly follow the film screening.

The tale really begins in 2009, when ambitious climate legislation failed at both the national and state level.

NMBI legislation targets all new climate - damaging projects, and would include bans on new approvals and extensions to current permits for logging native forests, such as in the East Gippsland Kuark forest and Victoria's Central Highlands (the area of the proposed Great Forest National Park).

[21][13] Energy Citizens ran a national ad campaign in 2012 that attempted to create the appearance of mass grassroots support for fracking, which Edelman helped coordinate, [22] and lobbied hard to prevent Congress from passing legislation to address climate change in 2012.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce worked with the 60 Plus Association and United for Jobs as a coalition to oppose climate legislation put forward by Senator John McCain (R - Arizona), as reported by Connor Gibson at Polluterwatch.

Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 — Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislation so that the many climate commitments of the private sector can be speedily implemented.

Later the same month, the standing committee of the National People's Congress, essentially the inner circle of China's main legislative body, adopted a resolution on climate change action that explicitly calls for the strengthening of domestic climate legislation while giving assurance that it will be a constructive player in the international climate process.

The Companies support national climate change legislation that would provide a consistent, economy - wide approach to addressing this issue and are currently taking action to protect the environment and address climate change while meeting the growing needs of their service territory.

Even if the environment doesn't fall on your top 10 list of priorities, discussions about climate legislation at national and international levels will affect your lifestyle in the long run.

«If we do not accept that climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on climate change is an enormously important dimension of the energy challenge that we face, and larger environmental challenges that we face, we will not put into the legislation that we need, the key ingredient that we need,» Obama science and technology adviser John Holdren said in his remarks to the National Climate Adaptation Summit on Climate Adaptation Summit on May 27.

A forum discussion exploring National Climate Emergency legislation will directly follow the film screening of «The Age of Consequences» on Wednesday 27 July 2016 at 6:30 pm at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.

Sen. Mark Udall's (D) National Monument and Wilderness Bill scaled back the acreage proposed for protection to just over 20,000 acres, but the new legislation also failed in the prevailing Congressional climate of partisanship.

And then some environmental leaders told me they don't believe Congress could pass national climate change legislation, given the conservative opposition, so they would rather grow their grassroots movements locally.

But I'm left concluding that it would be a whole lot less complicated, and likely far more effective, if we just had a sane Republican party that could cooperate with the administration and Democrats in Congress to pass a new, modern piece of legislation that would establish a national plan for climate change action.

It's time for Democrats and Republicans to unite behind bipartisan, national energy and climate legislation that increases our security, limits emissions, and protects our environment while preserving and creating American jobs.

Climate change was first officially referred to in legislation or regulations by the Chinese government in China's National Climate Change Programme of 2007, and repeated in China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change 2008.

[4] According to Department of Climate Change timeframes, exposure draft legislation for the national emissions trading scheme, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, will be released in February 2009 with a view to introducing a bill into Parliament in May 2009.

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