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Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

On Tuesday, a coalition — including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Treasury and Goldman Sachs alum Henry Paulson — released a study on the economic costs of climate change.

Last week's New Climate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sClimate Economy report was a good example of giving a sober assessment of the challenges (rapid urbanisation, growing populations, resource constraints, climate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people'sclimate change), accompanied by a positive story that cutting greenhouse emissions can be low cost and improve people's lives.

The United States set a new record last year for the total cost of weather and climate change - related disasters that exceeded $ 1 billion, driven largely by wildfires and hurricanes.

ALBANY — After a two - hour debate that touched on climate change and several anti-Semitic incidents at the City University of New York, Republicans in the state Senate endorsed a one - house budget resolution that shifts costs to New York City, increases aid for public schools and cuts taxes for middle - income New Yorkers.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

«Of course, working closely with Governor Cuomo to help create jobs, change the business climate in New York state, and so it's important for me to work to continue to reduce property taxes, help reduce the regulatory burden, and also to help reduce energy costs,» Ritchie said.

It is time to make the smart investments in clean energy that will create millions of manufacturing and construction jobs, lower energy costs, and put New York State in the leadership of the energy transition the world must make to avoid catastrophic climate change.

European forest managers can have their cake and eat it, because according to a new study maximizing timber production in a forest does not necessarily have to come at a cost of reduced species diversity or the capacity to regulate climate change by the same forest.

Funded by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, this study examined how blackbuck reacted to the costs and benefits of living in this habitat.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

The University of Surrey has developed a new and cost - effective catalyst to recycle two of the main causes behind climate change — carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4).

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

However, DiPerna cites new momentum among mainstream investors to take climate change issues into account, with new and strong interest by investors in reckoning with the fact that both the risks and costs of extreme weather events will continue to rise, with significant implications for economic stability.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

Carol M. Browner, the new White House coordinator for climate and energy, is a seasoned environmental regulator and campaigner who has focused on cap - and - trade legislation, which would steadily raise the cost of unfettered fossil - fuel use, and rule - making as driving the necessary change (as they did with the 20th - century basket of air pollutants).

:: Tallying Up the Infrastructure Costs of Climate Change:: New York City Infrastructure Fails Again

Typically, when the development agenda gets assessed in light of climate change, you tend to see estimates of loss of GDP, and even the Stern report, which tried very hard to break new ground in this area, ultimately came down to a cost - benefit calculus.

Finally, there's the engineer's myth, which holds that climate change will be easy to tackle because inventors will develop new technologies to lower the cost of reducing pollution.

«We develop new technologies and reduce the costs of renewables, new nuclear, environmental protection in natural gas production, carbon capture and sequestration, really across the board,» Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said in a May teleconference, describing his agency's actions on climate change.

Many concerns, including the rising cost of energy, climate change concerns, and demands for increased comfort, have led to the desire for increased insulation levels in many new and existing buildings.

Many concerns, including the rising cost of energy, climate change concerns, and demands for increased comfort, have lead to the desire for increased insulation levels in many new and existing buildings.

A fourth uncertainty is the net effect of climate change on energy demand, and the cost of meeting that new demand profile.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday that the United States set a new record in 2017 for the cost of weather and climate change - related disasters.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

The new report summarizes scholarly research published as recently as January 2014 on the impacts, costs, and benefits of climate change.

A new study appearing in Nature Climate Change (of which I am a coauthor) explores how institutional considerations of risk affect the cost of large - scale investments in the power sector that increase or reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

A new study by the Non-Governmental International Panel on Climate Change shows that the benefits of a warming earth will outweigh any costs incurred.

A new report from the American Security Project examines the costs of doing nothing about climate change, broken down into regional impacts across the US.

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

She said that adopting a new climate change target without providing cost - effective options could contribute to the struggles of manufacturers.

«(n) the promotion of sustainable settlement and transportation strategies in urban and rural areas including the promotion of measures to --(i) reduce energy demand in response to the likelihood of increases in energy and other costs due to long - term decline in non-renewable resources, (ii) reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and (iii) address the necessity of adaptation to climate change; in particular, having regard to location, layout and design of new development.»

Developed countries have agreed to bear the adaptation costs of developing countries to human induced climate change and that these funds should represent «new and additional resources» a and the Cancun Agreement and subsequent discussions suggests that for adaptation these funds could amount to tens of billions USD per year.

«This is a great example of how delays to mitigation can make the costs of climate change add up,» professor Dave Frame, director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, told Gclimate change add up,» professor Dave Frame, director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, told Gichange add up,» professor Dave Frame, director of the New Zealand Climate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, told GClimate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, told GiChange Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, told Gizmodo.

Science Daily: A new book, «Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change,» predicts a grim future for billions of people in this century.

Energy and Environment: Repudiate the Paris Climate Agreement Defund the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Overturn or at Least Defund the EPA's Clean Power Plan Repeal the EPA's Purloined Power to Legislate Climate Policy Repeal the EPA's Carbon Dioxide Standards for New Fossil - Fuel Power Plants Oppose Carbon Taxes Prohibit Use of Social Cost of Carbon as a Justification for Regulating Emissions Freeze and Sunset the Renewable Fuel Standard Require all Agencies to Meet Rigorous Scientific Standards Address Unaccountable Environmental Research Programs

In January 2006, at the opening of his new Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, (4CMR), Dr Terry Barker said «It may seem astonishing, but the global climate models, providing governments with estimates of the costs of climate stabilisation are nearly all reliant on one year's data.Climate Change Mitigation Research, (4CMR), Dr Terry Barker said «It may seem astonishing, but the global climate models, providing governments with estimates of the costs of climate stabilisation are nearly all reliant on one year's data.climate models, providing governments with estimates of the costs of climate stabilisation are nearly all reliant on one year's data.climate stabilisation are nearly all reliant on one year's data.»

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A new paper makes the case that marine protected areas (MPAs) are a cost - effective way to mitigate the worst oceanic consequences of climate change.

Worldwide, the Graun reported in 2012, Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of nearly 400,000 people a year and costing the world more than $ 1.2 trillion, wiping 1.6 % annually from global GDP, according to a new study.

In your new book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, you argue that «urbanism is the foundation for a low carbon future,» and the most cost effective solution to climate change, even more so than renewable Climate Change, you argue that «urbanism is the foundation for a low carbon future,» and the most cost effective solution to climate change, even more so than renewable eChange, you argue that «urbanism is the foundation for a low carbon future,» and the most cost effective solution to climate change, even more so than renewable climate change, even more so than renewable echange, even more so than renewable energy.

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... is a major new international initiative to analyse and communicate the economic benefits and costs of acting on climate change.

If we really were able to determine what climate problems exist in the future, we would be able to respond efficiently, taking into account both the costs and the benefits of changing the way we live either to adapt to our new circumstances, or mitigating to avoid them.

The notoriously anti-science House Science Committee has hit a new low, voting on Thursday to approve a spending bill amendment that «would prohibit defense spending on climate change research and the social cost of carbon analysis.»

«Any one of the several new or likely regulatory initiatives for CO2 emissions from power plants — including state carbon controls, E.P.A.'s regulations under the Clean Air Act, or the enactment of federal global warming legislation — would add a significant cost to carbon - intensive coal generation,» the letters said... Selective disclosure of favorable information or omission of unfavorable information concerning climate change is misleading.

Economist Nicholas Stern released his new book just a couple of weeks ago, in which he updates his assessment of the costs of tackling climate change from his 2006 review for the UK government.