In fact, the researchers found that behavioral shifts could be faster than waiting
for national climate policies and widespread energy transformations.
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.
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.
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.
The policy document seeks to provide guidance for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)'s dialogue with governments, civil society, and the private sector concerning regional and
national climate policy agendas.
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.
[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.
In the meantime, it is at least conceivable — and perhaps likely — that linkage of state ‑ level cap ‑ and ‑ trade systems will become the (interim) de
facto national climate policy architecture.
How about «However, one could make a compelling case that the best recipe for inaction is to pursue the approach that has
dominated national climate policy for the past 20 years — repeatedly urging the nation to increase funding for R&D while opposing any actual action to reduce emissions.»
Given the current political situation in Washington, it is unlikely that any
broader national climate policies will emerge from Congress in the near - term future — continued and growing public demand for climate action will be essential to enact effective global warming solutions in the years to come.
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.
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.
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.
Duke Energy has repeatedly stated concern over climate change, yet is participating in ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture task force, which includes notorious climate skeptics like the Heartland Institute and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (which we understand Duke Energy disassociated from in 2009 due to its role in
obstructing national climate policy).
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.
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.
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.
[2] 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 percent 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.
Trudeau maintained that the «vast majority» is in the Liberal middle on this one: content there is a jobs - friendly pipeline going ahead, as well as
a national climate policy with carbon tax and the enhanced marine spill safety program, which he visited in Victoria on Thursday.
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.
«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.