Sentences with phrase «national energy policy»

The Monitor highlights the regional variations to better understand differing priorities, and its national deep - dives showcase specific areas of concern for national energy policy.
We work with governments to give them transparent information about the benefits and potential of wind power, enabling them to make informed decisions about national energy policies.
A new national energy policy is due by the end of the summer, and observers expect it could call for a phase - out of nuclear power.
This landmark legislation will help shape national energy policy.
The authors believe their research shows that national energy policy needs to look at more than just the «headline worries», when it comes to the public opinion.
Clean energy blueprint: A smarter national energy policy for today and the future.
The stark difference between production on federal land and state and private land is not just due to ineffective and inefficient national energy policy; it's also bad federal fiscal policy.
It focuses on creating complete and accurate energy balances through the use of consistent definitions and units, in order to inform national energy policy and enable consistent international reporting.
The only way we will achieve that important goal is through a true all - of - the - above, market - based and consumer - focused national energy policy.
In this sense, NASA climatologist James Hansen agrees with Dick Cheney who famously called individual conservation measures «a personal virtue» but not the stuff of national energy policy.
A report by the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute noted that European nations included offshore wind in national energy policies and established feed - in tariffs to provide incentives for deployment.
Terri was a co-author of the U.S. national energy policy plan in 1995.
«Whether choosing which cars we drive or thinking about national energy policy issues, understanding basic energy concepts can help everyone make more well - informed decisions.»
Broad national energy policies like a carbon price might be a challenge if Trudeau becomes prime minister.
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman in a keynote address at the conference said congressional dysfunction is impeding ability to forge a coherent national energy policy.
Energy statistics are the foundation for developing sound national energy policies as they reveal where interventions are required and what opportunities are available.
Though NAM would trust national energy policies to «the marketplace and its proven ability to meet the nation's energy needs,» according to its official policy statement, Keller advocated for a renewable portfolio standard in Michigan (requiring electricity providers to get 10 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2015) and supports a mandated phaseout of U.S. oil imports.
Gelbspan condemns corporate indifference to climate change as «a crime against humanity» and indicts the Bush administration for allowing the fossil - fuel lobby to dictate national energy policy.
Once the winning candidate gets to Washington, of course, his decisions will affect national energy policy, not just Colorado's.
Then we could be on a course toward a sensible national energy policy, with profits not going to the profiteers who have brought us to the brink of disaster, but to research and implementation of alternative, renewable fuels and energy efficiency.
In the video summary above, shot at the Abu Dhabi meeting where the report was completed, Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chairman of the climate panel's division studying options for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, says the energy future is entirely in the hands of policy makers: «Without dedicated national energy policies we will not see an increasing deployment of renewables.»
As such, I don't have any problem in modifying the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) or even eliminating it — as long as there is an «objective» dialogue and outcome consistency applied to other national energy policy issues.
IEA Reviews US National Energy Policy, Stresses US Leadership Role and Encourages Legislation on Climate Change 30 April 2002
It was around this time that we began to hear activist groups described as NGOs and see them used as consultees to government on all sorts of issues — culminating in Friend of The Earth activist & Eng Lit graduate Bryony Worthington being brought into government to take the lead in formulating national energy policy.
API's position at the time was «that an effective national energy policy must, at a minimum, allow for all of the above.»
Germany's transformative national energy policy, the feed - in tariff for renewable energy, began as a municipal ordinance.
Cap and trade, once a cornerstone national energy policy among Democrats and moderate Republicans, has become a target of conservatives, who call it cap and tax and say it's emblematic of the Obama administration's «big government» approach.
The senator call on industry leaders to get clear about what they need from government, and for Congress to get clear about consistent national energy policy.
Assess the sustainability of national energy policies: how do countries perform in their likely ability to balance the three dimension of the Energy Trilemma: energy security, social equity, environmental impact mitigation?
So today, my administration is releasing a Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future that outlines a comprehensive national energy policy, one that we've been pursuing since the day I took office.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which is responsible for national energy policy, published a long - term plan in 2015 which suggested that nuclear power should produce 20 to 22 percent of Japan's electricity by 2030.
IEA Study Highlights Challenges Facing Chinas Developing Gas Market; Calls for a Coherent National Energy Policy 9 December 2002
The debate over the Marcellus Shale will shape national energy policy — including how fully, and at what cost, we exploit this vast resource.
National energy policy as it relates to the climate threat is probably the number one problem facing the nation at the present time, even though our political discourse does not reflect this reality in the slightest.
Gore's behavior also bolsters one of his arguments for change in national energy policy: that certain ingrained aspects of the American lifestyle, such as our penchant for driving SUVs and distaste for riding city buses, lead to environmental irresponsibility — even Gore can not escape it.
He cited tax reform, a national energy policy and job stimulation as pressing needs.
The CIOB stated in its response that there should be a greater general awareness of the impacts that Building Regulations have on national energy policy.
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