Sentences with phrase «on effective climate policy»

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We, the undersigned, have therefore joined together to express our shared views on effective policies to address climate change.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Garnering support for climate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, Februclimate action is most effective when it takes into account personal values and religious convictions, speakers said at DoSER's AAAS Annual Meeting symposium on «The Paris Agreement & Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy» in Boston, FebruClimate Policy» in Boston, February 19.

Pete Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress who focuses on international climate policy, said that coming on the heels of the Clean Power Plan release and a proposal for oil and gas methane, Obama's Arctic visit «constitutes a very effective prelude to the international answer» on climate.

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

As badly flawed as it is, I hope this bill passes and we can begin immediately working on a newer stronger and more effective national climate policy.

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline, including but not limited to, guidelines on promoting a safe and supportive school climate while discouraging, among other things, harassment, bullying and discrimination against students by students and / or school employees; and including safe and supportive school climate concepts in the curriculum and classroom management; and

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

Week 1: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader Week 2: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader (Continued) Week 3: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team Week 4: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team (Continued) Week 5: Unjumbling the Schoolhouse Week 6: Assessing School Culture and Climate Week 7: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives Week 8: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives (Continued) Week 9: Leading Organizational Change to Improve School Culture and Climate Week 10: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 1) Week 11: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 2) Week 12: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 3)

The possibilities that political leaders will soon agree to effective climate policies seem to be close to zero, they are, as James Lovelock noted in «The Revenge of Gaia», only seeking just as Chamberlain 1938 to gain time, and they are not very interested in the realm, because most or all of them subscribe to the by far leading religion of our times: the neoclassical so - called economic «science», which is based on a lot of completely unrealistic assumptions, see fx.

These other factors include the economy, confusion over colder weather and other perceptual biases, general distrust of government, climate policies such as cap and trade that are not easily sold as effective or in line with public values, the absence of White House leadership on the issue, institutional barriers in Congress and at the international level, and the continued communication and policy missteps of some scientists and environmental advocates.

He is leading efforts to build a national Climate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solClimate Impacts Collaborative and working with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solclimate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

The Sierra Club, which took a «does not support» position on I - 732 in April, claims that the initiative «does not meet key tests for an effective and equitable climate policy.»

Ultimately, the passing of the bill package is a landmark moment for California and will clinch Brown's legacy as one of the most effective leaders on climate policy in the US.

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 EU has so far continued to align itself with historic polluters like the USA and Australia, blocking progress towards a conflict of interest policy which could protect the UN climate talks from the harmful influence of fossil fuel corporations and their lobbyists, who have been delaying and weakening progress on effective climate action.

new: scientific consensus on climate issues does not exist - Novaya Gazeta, December 16, 2009 - Instead of articulating and prosecution of false targets political leaders gathered in Copenhagen should concentrate on the other - to develop policies that promote more effective human adaptation to climate change, economic growth, the development of free trade, protection of property rights, strengthen democracy.

Future generations are counting on us and we will continue to mobile citizens, provide leadership, and advocate for effective, equitable, economically sound, evidence - based, and politically feasible policies to address climate change.

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Consider the challenge of putting a price on carbon — arguably our most effective policy tool in averting global climate disaster.

Lomborg was quoted in a piece titled, «Climate change real, deadly says David Attenborough,» in which Lomborg says that «the UN should focus on more cost - effective environmental policies,» and increase their global target for limiting warming from 2C to 3C: [15]

Provide guidance on efficient institutional structures and arrangements required for NMHSs to support climate services, including processes, policies and procedures that enable effective climate services, as well as the essential relationships between different organizations and sectors;

Galiana and Green propose a technology - led climate policy, centred on increased research and development, testing and demonstration (RDT&D) of scalable, reliable, and cost effective low carbon emitting energy technologies funded by a low but gradually rising carbon tax.

The Energy Foundation's Climate Program seeks to build support for effective policies that would put a price on carbon and help...

Uncertainties in climate from many sources suggest the need to refocus on effective and pragmatic, resilience and no - regrets policy options — e.g climate pragmatism and technical innovation — rather than endlessly quibbling about climate talking points.

We parted on good terms, agreeing what was needed was a sensible discussion of effective alternatives to the government's expensive and largely ineffective climate policies.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

As part of an important and increasingly global conversation on climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon climate change in the months leading to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year, I wanted to reiterate our views on the most effective way to create and implement a workable global carbon policy.

ExxonMobil believes that effective policies to address climate change will put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and will:

No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

-- A third point is to emphasize that this study focuses on the business - as - usual trajectory, or the one that would occur without effective climate policies..

It is too early to suggest that politicians might make real progress toward implementing genuinely effective policies on climate change.

We appeal to all nations to develop and implement, without delay, effective and fair policies to reduce the causes and impacts of climate change on communities and ecosystems, including mountain glaciers and their watersheds, aware that we all live in the same home.

On the one hand, he believes NGOs such as Carbon Tracker can be more effective at influencing and informing investors, and has long been a fan of his new company's insights on the policy, regulatory and technology changes driving the world's response to climate changOn the one hand, he believes NGOs such as Carbon Tracker can be more effective at influencing and informing investors, and has long been a fan of his new company's insights on the policy, regulatory and technology changes driving the world's response to climate changon the policy, regulatory and technology changes driving the world's response to climate change.

Adam Markham directs UCS's special initiative on climate impacts and works with a broad array of stakeholders to focus the attention of policy makers and others on local climate impacts and the need for effective resilience strategies and policy solutions.

On that basis, a climate policy is more likely to be effective the more limited its market aspects and the more restrictive its regulatory aspects.

Darwall draws on history and science in order to expose the exaggerations of climate change and what he calls the «Global Warming Policy Paradox»; the assessment of whether proposed solutions are even effective.

The Statement on Climate Change that was adopted by the majority on the Committee, unfortunately, does not provide an accurate summary of our understanding of climate change issues, and, thus, is not an effective policy framework to reduce risks from the climate Climate Change that was adopted by the majority on the Committee, unfortunately, does not provide an accurate summary of our understanding of climate change issues, and, thus, is not an effective policy framework to reduce risks from the climate climate change issues, and, thus, is not an effective policy framework to reduce risks from the climate climate system.

How about global warming, aka climate change, isn't yet well understood to the point that intelligent and effective policy can be based on it.

The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States» efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.

Environmentalists agree with the oil industry on one point: that an effective climate change policy must target energy consumers as well as producers.

From his 2008 book Sustainable Energy — without the hot air to his brilliantly effective TED talk on renewable energy to his five years of work at the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, David embodies multiple roles at once: engaging author, science communicator, researcher, and policy advisor.

Among major media figures in Canada, few people can claim as much credit as the National Post's Terrance Corcoran in the prolonged and woefully effective campaign to mislead the Canadian public on the science and policies regarding climate change.

Our International Climate Action Initiative uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and implement the Paris Agreement on climate Climate Action Initiative uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and implement the Paris Agreement on climate climate change.

Tying changes to policy can be effective but can be slow and dependent on the political climate.