Sentences with phrase «national energy policy needs»

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.

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Second, we need a national vision as to the role that energy should play in our economy, and an informed discussion about the policies that will be needed to ensure that Canada's diverse array of energy resources continues to be source of competitive advantage.

Different government departments moving in different directions is not a new development, but the prospect of collapse in a policy area of such vital importance to our national energy, economic and environmental needs bears the hallmarks of incoherent government and now risks becoming a national scandal.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

While current energy policy focuses on preventing greenhouse gas emissions, the results show that freshwater impacts also need to be considered when deciding future national and international energy policies.

I would have had no need, in my initial print story on the affair last December, to seek a comment from Patrick J. Michaels — a climatologist who speaks and writes on energy and climate policy for the Cato Institute, which fights most regulatory solutions to environmental problems — if Benjamin Santer of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, using his government e-mail account, had not vented to colleagues on October 9, 2009, in this way: Read more...

A new paper in Climate Policy, «Energy research within the UNFCCC: A proposal to guard against ongoing climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate treaty.

In an interview with Reuters, Jennifer Granholm, the departing governor of Michigan, said that action on the local and state level was useful, but that national energy policy was needed for truly substantial change.

Through supporting the Energy Transition Platform, Stiftung Mercator has helped to build a global network of government peers, facilitate the adoption of emerging innovative policy models by states and regions and demonstrate the need for up - scaled action at the national and international level.

To provide the federal policy certainty needed to accelerate the transition to clean energy, Third Way proposes the establishment of a national Clean Energy Standard (CES) that would require each state to use at least 25 % clean energy by 2025 and 50 % by 2050.23 This federal CES would be a floor, not a ceiling — it would not preempt states like California that have stronger mandates in energy, Third Way proposes the establishment of a national Clean Energy Standard (CES) that would require each state to use at least 25 % clean energy by 2025 and 50 % by 2050.23 This federal CES would be a floor, not a ceiling — it would not preempt states like California that have stronger mandates in Energy Standard (CES) that would require each state to use at least 25 % clean energy by 2025 and 50 % by 2050.23 This federal CES would be a floor, not a ceiling — it would not preempt states like California that have stronger mandates in energy by 2025 and 50 % by 2050.23 This federal CES would be a floor, not a ceiling — it would not preempt states like California that have stronger mandates in place.

You are correct that DoD does not talk about national / global energy policy (they do discuss their own internal energy needs and policy).

To a federal statistical agency like the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there's nothing more satisfying than providing needed information that can facilitate more informed analysis and policy decisions on a national and regional level.

Given our nation's need to control energy costs and improve energy security, many policymakers are calling for a comprehensive national energy policy that promotes and develops all of America's own energy resources — conventional and shale natural gas, oil, wind, nuclear, solar, etc. — to diversify energy supply.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

A number of policy barriers within each of the three North American nations need to be addressed, and national and NAFTA trading rules need to be reconciled in order for renewable energy to achieve its full potential.

In addition, they must reflect national energy resources, needs and policies.

To a wide segment of the American public, the dramatic increase in world oil prices may not have immediately registered, but skyrocketing gasoline prices brought home the nature of the crisis, prompting a recognized need for a national energy policy.

In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».

A fundamental message emerging from all facets of IEA analysis is the need for an integrated technology and policy approach to drive and accelerate clean energy transitions based on a country's national context.

On Thursday, a new bill was introduced in the House that could be the best chance to finally pass strong, national renewable energy policy — but early support is needed.

Clean - energy policy has stalled on a national level in Mexico partly on account of the many permits needed, a lack of accessible transmission lines and a dearth of incentives for the construction of renewable energy sources like solar PV.

While there's passion associated with this issue, emotion can get in the way of sound policy — which is what we need for America's energy and national security.

Development needs of the Estonian energy sector were assessed in order to prepare policy recommendations for enabling the shift from fossil fuel based electricity production to the use of 100 % renewable domestic energy sources and fuels on a national level.

Policies at the EU and national level for the EU - ETS and Renewable Energy need to be complemented by long term planning for a sustainable transition, in particular, for the regions most affected.