Sentences with phrase «on current climate policies»

The film makes the basic point that we [he's speaking of the European Union] are now committed to spending $ 250 billion per year on current climate policies that will do virtually nothing in a century's time (reduce temperatures by 0.1 oF).

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The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

Indy Politics talks with former White House Press Secretary Pete Seat and John Ketzenberger of the Indiana Fiscal Policy Institute the current political climate on...

The results could have consequences not only for future climate models, but may also impact current policies on land use intended to promote fungi.

The analysis finds that a single policy tool — fossil fuel subsidy removal — could deliver emissions reductions equivalent to one - quarter of all current country commitments under the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change.

Assessing educational reforms for their impact on democracy is particularly relevant in the current educational policy climate that favors practices potentially antithetical to civic education.

* Average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom» * Media «understands» (recognizes) uncertainties in climate science * Media coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current «conventional wisdom» * Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policy * Those promoting the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extent science appears to be out of touch with reality.

llewelly, «snark on» I take it you are referring to the current high level of trust and mutual respect between those in the US engaged in climate science and those in the US who are making policy / snark

The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.

In the absence of clear, national policy on climate change — aside from the current administration's tendency to ignore it or call it a hoax — CCS advocates said carbon capture gives power to the private sector until the time is right.

«Instead of the current approach, ACC urges California to support policies that capitalize on how SPF helps in the fight against climate change.

But he once said he didn't want to lead a party that wasn't as committed to climate action as he was, and he also described the Coalition's current climate policy as a «a recipe for fiscal recklessness on a grand scale» and «a very expensive charge on the budget in the years ahead».

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.

With the public conversation hijacked, meaningful progress on climate policy is blunted and the vested interests seeking to maintain our current addition to fossil fuels prevail.

This analytical report aims to provide an analysis of the current level of integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the policy and institutional environment.

The ramping up of business action on climate change should give the government confidence it can achieve more emissions reductions and set policies that aim considerably higher than the current targets.

On November 14th as part of the current Warsaw climate conference, the UN issued a new report titled, «Guide for Rsponsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cclimate conference, the UN issued a new report titled, «Guide for Rsponsible Corporate Engagement in Climate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cClimate Policy,» urging active business participation in the UN climate cclimate crusade.

Nothing could be more appropriate today than to quote the world leading researcher J.R. Christy, who in an article in Nature (vol 463, p. 732) summarizes his views on climate science's current level: «The truth, and this is frustrating for policy makers, is that scientists» ignorance of the climate system is enormous ``.

Organisations who deny or reject current science on human - caused climate change, such as the Global Warming Policy Foundation in the UK and the Heartland Institute in the US, have published critical reports, and the Republican Party organised congressional testimony against the consensus research on Capitol Hill.

The IPCC / AR4 failed to discuss this requirement, and thus, misled the impacts and policy communities on what is the current state of multi-decadal climate prediction modeling.

«Comment on «Impact of Current Climate Proposals» by Bjorn Lomborg» (PDF), Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 244.

(1) complete an adaptation plan for that department or agency, respectively, implementing the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aClimate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those aclimate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those actions;

just means that these investigators have been mislead on the actual skill of the NARCCAP results if they are being used in lieu of reanalyses for current climate, and for impact and policy studies of future climate.

In making informed decisions to keep risks at an acceptable level, it's important that policy makers take heed of the scientific evidence presented in the recent assessment report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — released in September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future risks.

These studies compare a particular climate policy scenario with a reference scenario corresponding to the model projection of business as usual (BAU)-- that is, a world in which the economy continues on its current course with carbon emissions unchecked.

Current work focuses on climate change policies, energy efficiency, market reform, energy technology collaboration and outreach to the rest of the world, especially major consumers and producers of energy such as China, India, Russia and the OPEC countries.

Despite what you hear about the current political climate, ocean policy is moving forward on Capitol Hill — with bipartisan support.

Jasmin Cantzler, Climate Policy Analyst Leads the Climate Action Tracker, analyses the impact of current policies, pledges, targets and NDCs on national emissions.

Critics of current American policy say the nations of the world are expected to spend $ 13 trillion on armaments in the next decade, or 10 times what would be required to solve the climate crisis.

The results of the current climate models which are based on the greenhouse effect theory are therefore invalid, and are inappropriate for basing policy on.

Current work focuses on climate change policies, market reform, energy technology collaboration and outreach to the rest of the world, especially major consumers and producers of energy like China, India, Russia and the OPEC countries.

This report quantifies the impact of all current and proposed federal policies on future GHG emissions to assess whether the US is on track to meet its climate targets.

At the same time, it is still under pressure from centrists and wonks to make climate policy bipartisan, and that pressure will only grow more intense when the number of Republican lawmakers willing to negotiate on climate grows (from its current tiny handful).

On our current pace, factoring in current climate policies of every nation on Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilizatioOn our current pace, factoring in current climate policies of every nation on Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilizatioon Earth, the best independent analyses show that we are on course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilizatioon course for warming of about 3.4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, enough to extinguish entire ecosystems and destabilize human civilization.

Title XVI: Climate Change - Subtitle A: National Climate Change Technology Deployment -(Sec. 1601) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intClimate Change - Subtitle A: National Climate Change Technology Deployment -(Sec. 1601) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intClimate Change Technology Deployment -(Sec. 1601) Amends the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to direct the President to establish a Committee on Climate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intClimate Change Technology to: (1) integrate current federal climate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intclimate reports; and (2) coordinate federal climate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intclimate change technology activities and programs carried out in furtherance of a national strategy the Committee shall develop to promote technologies and practices that reduce greenhouse gas intensity.

I support those who say that current climate policy is excessive and economically damaging, but I also support a price on carbon:

However, the UK's Committee on Climate Change published a report saying that current policies would meet around half of this target at best.

President Hu Jintao (pictured right) of China announced that China will build on existing domestic climate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryclimate change policies as embodied in its National Climate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestryClimate Change Programme and current Five Year Plan to step up its efforts on energy efficiency, development of low - carbon energy such as renewables and nuclear, and increase of forestry cover.

So says a new report on urban policies for dealing with the risks of climate change, published this month in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Dear Friend, Despite what you hear about the current political climate, ocean policy is moving forward on Capitol Hill — with bipartisan support.

Tackling climate change could boost the world's 20 biggest economies by nearly 5 per cent in 2050, compared to a continuation of current policies, the Paris - based OECD said on Tuesday.

He said 15 years of political disagreement on climate change policy and regulated monopolies in the electricity distribution networks were contributors to the current electricity crisis.

«With current policies, our energy future is insecure and environmentally unsustainable», said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 12th annual Conference of the Parties in Nairobi.

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

This would help hold the Obama administration accountable for the current contradictions between its climate change rhetoric and its policy on promoting fossil fuel production.

Standing in the way of climate policy that will be essential to this progress are models that estimate climate policy costs based on over-simplistic assumptions about current economic conditions.

This report addresses the current status of coal in Turkey as an energy and greenhouse gas source, its impacts on health, the association between increasing the share of coal in electricity generation and climate and economic policies, and the discussions on «clean coal».

Climate Science and Policy Watch had for months been trying to obtain the current SGCR charter from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and on Wednesday October 18th, finally received a copy in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

Similar to the current «expert» climate / energy policies being pushed on the unsuspecting citizens of multiple countries, the expert health policies pushed on the masses for the last 50 + years have been based on a dogmatic, consensus belief in a questionable hypothesis.

«While climate skeptics gain traction in the media and with policy makers — drawing endless attention to trivial errors (such as an AR4 typo on Himalayan glaciers that was not present in other mentions of the same topic elsewhere in the report), or highlighting media - friendly soundbites from spokespeople and figureheads in as negative a light as possible — it seems to me that this emphasis diverts attention from actually using climate, meteorological and hydrological knowledge and research in the application of pressing current needs in the developing world.»