Sentences with phrase «national climate policies»

What are the ethical limits to using cost - benefit analyses as a prescriptive guide to national climate policies?

To fully realize the private sector's potential to deliver emissions reduc - tions at scale, corporate action will need to be reinforced by sound national climate policies.

To fully realize the private sector's potential to deliver emissions reductions at scale, corporate ac - tion needs to be reinforced by sound national climate policies.

In fact, the researchers found that behavioral shifts could be faster than waiting for national climate policies and widespread energy transformations.

Several countries including Bolivia, Fiji, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have asserted that domestic justice issues need to be considered to reduce domestic poverty in setting national climate policies although they have not offered an equity framework to operationalize this idea at the global scale.

WRI works with partners to track and analyze national climate policies in Canada.

The Paris Agreement created a framework for solving the climate problem, yet the post-Paris media has poorly covered the implications for nations of what sufficient ambition and fairness should be required of nations when they formulate national climate policies if very dangerous climate change is to be avoided.

The energy sector and other industry sectors often have significant emission reduction obligations under national climate policies.

Through the project, governments of 19 participating countries Algeria, Bangladesh, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Gambia, Honduras, Liberia, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Paraguay, Peru, St. Lucia, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Uruguay have strengthened their capacity to participate in the UNFCCC process and raised awareness of the linkages between international and national climate policies through National Inter-Ministerial Dialogues.

WRI works with partners to track and analyze national climate policies in Japan.

Governments have recognized the importance of involving women and men equally in UN Climate Change processes and in the development and implementation of national climate policies that are gender - responsive.

HERE is one Ceres investor statement by 190 real - money investors with more than US$ 13 trillion of assets: «On 14 January 2010 the world's largest investors released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to quickly adopt strong national climate policies that will establish a stable investment climate and thus spur low - carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change.»

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

«Such co-benefits can be a significant opportunity to develop ambitious national climate policies, as they would further increase with strengthening the INDCs,» she adds.

A national climate policy based on this kind of perpetual horse trading is hardly sustainable, or likely to be sufficiently stringent to be worth the effort and expense.

Baldick estimated that the United States would have to adopt a national climate policy imposing a price of $ 30 per ton of greenhouse gas emissions before wind power can stand on its own economically — a target that appears out of reach politically, at least for now.

Environmentalists who sided with the state cheered the ruling as a bright spot in a grim national climate policy landscape.

As badly flawed as it is, I hope this bill passes and we can begin immediately working on a newer stronger and more effective national climate policy.

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.

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.

An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.

The main difference this time is that the US now has something resembling a national climate policy in place.

As the political likelihood of passing comprehensive national climate policy has remained low, many states have taken up the mantle.

This report provides an analysis of the status of gender equality in national climate policy in light of the Paris Agreement.

Irrespective of the state of US national climate policy, North American governments at all levels should not lose sight of the longer - term opportunities and benefits of harmonizing policies to address climate change.

The Environmental Defense Fund — a key national climate policy advocate — continues to argue that we won't drastically limit climate change until we set a carbon price or carbon cap.

Having failed to pass a national climate policy out of Congress and after watching President Trump dismantle President Obama's Clean Power Plan, these activists are completely sidelining democracy and trying to push their agenda through the courts.

Establishment of the IPCC through the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) put national weather office bureaucrats in control of national climate policy and most of the research funding.

Most of us live in democracies, and we can therefore influence national climate policy by making our priorities known.

Conservative MP Helma Neppà © rus and Richard de Mos from the right - wing Freedom Party want the minister to explain to parliament how these figures were used to decide on national climate policy.

For the moment — because he had to — because his coup would otherwise not have worked — Turnbull has acceded to the conditions of the National Party that's in coalition with Tony Abbott's Liberal Party — the Nationals» conditions being that he would undertake to keep the Abbott / Nationals climate policy of direct action in lieu of Turnbull's preferred carbon tax / ETS --- in place.

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, it is at least conceivable that linkage of state - level cap - and - trade systems across the United States will become the de facto post-2012 national climate policy architecture.

But with political stalemate in Washington on carbon - pricing or national climate policy, attention is inevitably turning to regional, state, and even local policies intended to address climate change.

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.

I begin by describing the national climate policy context, and then turn to sub-national policies, such as California's AB 32 and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in the northeast.

In this way, Sacramento would take the place of Washington as the center of national climate policy deliberations and action.

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

Although the website is very helpful to both help visualize and understand facts relevant to determinations of what equitable principles should guide national climate policy formation, particularly in regard to ghg emissions reduction targets, lamentably the site could be interpreted to leave the mistaken impression that equity could mean anything.

In debating national climate policy, to what extent have you apprised citizens of your country that nations have ethical and justice responsibilities to other vulnerable people and nations?

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.

The danger of climate change has been understood for decades, but the US still has no coherent national climate policy.

When Republicans say that national climate policy would destroy the economy and US competitiveness, they owe us an explanation.

In January 2009, he said he found it «enormously frustrating» that Republicans had not been working toward a national climate policy.

[6] The Energy Information Agency of the US Department of Energy forecasts in their Annual Energy Outlook 2010 that 2020 fossil CO2 emissions in the US will be 3.2 % lower than they were in 2005, this under a reference case (i.e., a business - as - usual scenario) in which the United States does not enact national climate policy.

Having failed to move a national climate policy through the U.S. Senate before the meeting, Obama's negotiators arrived unprepared and unwilling to sign on for serious international action, let alone to lead.

Today McKibben dropped by KQED for a discussion on Forum with entrepreneur and fellow environmentalist Paul Hawken about the fight for a coherent national climate policy.

Opponents of ambitious national climate policy — such as energy - intensive industry — on the other hand, maintain that Germany must prioritise economic development, to show it is possible to preserve its status as an economic powerhouse while cutting emissions.

Not exact matches

Feeley went on to criticize many of Trump's signature national - security and foreign policies, including the travel ban, plans to build a wall along the US - Mexico border, decision to end legal protections for the children of people living in the US illegally, and withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.

Alice Hill, who directed resilience policy for the National Security Council in the Obama administration, said the wider debate over cutting climate - warming emissions may have distracted people from promptly pursuing ways to reduce risks and economic and societal costs from natural disasters.