Sentences with phrase «national climate policy in»

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

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

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

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

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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.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

Opinion: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy

Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

The legal bottom line: As a matter of constitutional jurisdiction, the federal government does not need Alberta's buy - in to legally enact and implement its national climate change policy.

IFOAM — Organics International advocates for the inclusion of Organic Agriculture in national governments» policies on addressing not only climate change, but also hunger and poverty.

The Unite union's national policy committee overwhelmingly opted for Ed Miliband in a significant boost for the former climate change secretary's campaign.

The Institute of Energy and Climate Change Policy (IECP) has said it will be difficult for the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) to achieve its 2016 manifesto target in the energy sector in the next four years.

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

«I don't want to overstate national implications, but I do think it's recognition that continued investment in natural gas is risky,» said Stacy Tellinghuisen, a senior climate policy analyst at Western Resource Advocates.

A look at China's recent progress on climate and energy shows that China has indeed made strides in both — policies its officials here say are in the country's own national interest.

He lingered on the issue in a speech filled with snap references to national priorities, devoting more time to the interwoven policies of climate, energy and environmental hazards than to war, deficits and immigration.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R - Texas), another climate skeptic, is in line to take the helm of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee's Science and Space Subcommittee, which oversees both the National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory seeks solutions in areas of climate policy, renewable energy integration and electric vehicles

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

It could have political and societal consequences if there are regional shortages of climate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Founclimate scientists and research to support and provide contextually relevant advice for policy makers in developing countries,» says Professor Niels Strange from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research FounClimate, University of Copenhagen, which is supported by the Danish National Research Foundation.

BEIJING — As the United States reverses its climate policies, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter is in the midst of setting up a national carbon - trading system.

By contrast, Monday's study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said a «comprehensive climate policy» was needed in which all greenhouse emissions would be cut.

The next time Texas purchases science textbooks, this standard could be used to reject books that do not include a degree of climate change scepticism, says Steven Newton, programmes and policy director for the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), a non-profit organisation based in Oakland, California.

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

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«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

Back in May the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research hosted a National Climate Adaptation Summit that brought together roughly 150 people representing the US science, business and policy communities for a three - day conversation about coping with the impacts of global warming.

In this capacity, Thomas has worked with national governments to support the ongoing development of national climate change mitigation policy, with specific expertise on the national contexts of Georgia, Kenya, Uganda and Mongolia.

In 2014, Hayward, along with Edwards S. Briggs and Donald K. Forbes, published the report Climate Change, Energy Policy, and National Power.

In the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change educatioIn the same way that creationists urge schools to «teach the controversy,» climate change skeptics aim to sow doubt about scientific consensus, said Mark McCaffrey, the programs and policy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit that has long supported the teaching of evolution in schools and recently began to defend climate change educatioin schools and recently began to defend climate change education.

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.

In addition, for the first time, this installment of GLSEN's National School Climate Survey also includes insights on bisexual student experiences, school policies that specifically affect transgender students, and anti-bullying student education and asks students about discriminatory policies and practices around extracurricular activities and school events.

Prior to BAEO, Offiong served as an Analyst with Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low - income students by cultivating, advising, and placing a robust community of innovative, effective change agents in public education reform and improving the policy climate for their work.

This disparity, as well as national trends toward disproportionate numbers of suspensions for African American and Latino students, led LAUSD to reexamine school discipline policies in 2013 with the School Climate Bill of Rights.

Our 2013 National School Climate Survey discovered that more LGBT students reported having an anti-bullying policy at their school than all prior survey years, including a modest increase in comprehensive and enumerated policies.

Walnut Creek, CA About Blog Miller Starr Regalia has been at the forefront of recent developments in cutting edge fields such as air quality and climate change - related laws, and its attorneys are established experts in environmental impact review of projects under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

A committee convened by the InterAcademy Council, the association of the world's leading national science academies, delivered a long to - do list to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday, including steps ranging from limiting the term and policy recommendations of its leadership to fostering more transparency in its machinations and being more careful to describe the science determining the strength, or weakness, of particular conclusions.

This major emitters» process should include, inter alia, national, regional and international policies, targets and plans, in line with national circumstances, an ambitious work program within the UNFCCC, and the development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

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.

There's a third reason: They have long understood Climate Change as the threat it is and have had national policies in place for years.

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

Or, perhaps, NCAR believes that institutions other than itself would be better suited to enter into discussions on how science should be applied in formulation of national policies or should influence individual household decisions when either climate or weather is a factor.

«This would have the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act all addressing climate change in a way that is not the way that they were intended to...»

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.

I would suggest that anyone interested in India's policy take a look at Rabett Run which has a comment on and a link to the Indian National Action Plan on Climate Change.

«This would have the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act all addressing climate change in a way that is not the way that they were intended to,» she said.

June 16, 12:36 p.m. Updated Douglas Biesecker, a scientist at the Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the leader of an international effort to chart and forecast trends in sunspots, has offered a detailed new critique of three lines of analysis predicting a long and deep lull in sunspot activity, with substantial potential impacts on Earth's climate (and climate policy).

As debates over national and global climate and energy policy continue to drag out, there's been an intensifying exploration of climate miscommunication among those seeking concrete actions that will make a noticeable difference in the atmosphere someday.