Sentences with phrase «national climate policy»

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.

An ambitious national climate policy, anchored by a stiff price on carbon dioxide emissions, would serve both goals at once.

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

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

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

We are bringing together all levels of government to ensure national climate policies and implementation strategies are effective at the ground level.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

ACCCE was caught subcontracting groups that forged letters to Congress against 2009's failed national climate policy.

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.

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

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.