Sentences with phrase «on energy and climate change»

From all tragedy springs opportunity, however, and one positive outcome flowing from BP's unfortunate accident is a renewed focus on energy and climate change, at least among some of the saner segments of the American populace.

But we're not quite there yet, and in the spirit of helping out the handful of TreeHugger readers who haven't yet made up their minds and to stimulate post-election policy discussion, I'd just like to again point out and summarize some of the differences between Barack Obama and John McCain on energy and climate change policy:

As 2017 draws to a close, Mike Peirce, Corporate Partnerships Director at The Climate Group reflects on growing corporate action on energy and climate change — and looks ahead to 2018.

ChinaFAQs is a project facilitated by the World Resources Institute that provides insight into critical questions about Chinese policy and action on energy and climate change.

«4th International Conference on Energy and Climate Change,» Berlin Manhattan Institute.

Adrian's research focuses on energy and climate change policy, with emphasis on the role of urban areas in climate change mitigation and on the economics of fossil fuel production and consumption.

January 28: 10:45 am - 12:15 pm, Janet Larsen, Symposium on «Carbon Pricing, Coalition Building, and International Action towards COP 21,» held at the National Council for Science and Environment 2015 Conference on Energy and Climate Change, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA, http://www.energyandclimatechange.org/

White House National Economic Adviser Gary Cohn hosted a breakfast near the U.N. Monday on energy and climate change, during which he reiterated the administration's stance that the U.S. will leave the Paris climate accord unless more favorable terms are negotiated.

Ewert was a speaker at EIKE's 4th International Conference on Energy and Climate Change.

The report calls for greater youth consultation on energy and climate change policy and for young people to get involved.

Jason Bordoff, director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia, advised President Obama on energy and climate change.

Anthony Lewis (Ireland / United Kingdom)---LCB- no profile found -RCB- Oswaldo Lucon (Brazil)-- Technical Advisor on Energy and Climate Change at the São Paulo State Environmental Secretariat, PhD in «Energy» and a MSc in «Clean Technology».

on energy and climate change.

He has shown little desire to compromise on energy and climate change.

No Net Increase of Emissions Due to Closure: The Governor's leadership on energy and climate change will ensure that Indian Point's closure will not have an adverse impact on carbon emissions at the regional level.

The dotted lines are from the «bridge scenario» in the WEO Special Report on Energy and Climate Change, which is supposed to represent some policy ambition.)

Socio (s): UNDESA, UN Secretary - General's Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, United Nations Secretary - General's Climate Change Support Team, United Nations Foundation, ESKOM, IIASA, Statoil, Suntech Power, The Energy Resources Institute, Vattenfall AB, McKinsey & Company

A Tim Yeo is the chairman of the Commons Select Committee on Energy and Climate Change, which advises the Government on energy policy.

Igor Bashmakov, Director, Center for Energy Efficiency, Russia for establishing institutions throughout the Russian Federation specialising in energy efficiency, and in enhancing public education on energy and climate change.

She is an expert on energy and climate change with over 35 years of experience and accomplishment in... Continue reading →

We correctly reacted to counterterrorism with enhanced R&D after 2001, yet on energy and climate change we're effectively just muddling through.

The plan, called the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative, is an outgrowth of an international energy partnership created under the administration's Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change, which brought together the handful of countries that are responsible for more than 85 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in a series of meetings this year.

In 2012, Inside Climate News focused on Combs in this article: «Against the Odds, Young Conservatives Buck the GOP on Energy and Climate Change.»

The White House just announced plans for a series of meetings on energy and climate change among «key» developed and developing countries.

-- Obama has also failed to challenge fossilized foes of meaningful action on energy and climate change, from Senator James Inhofe to the many conservative columnists — along with some liberals — who've distorted the American discourse on climate into an either - or debate over beliefs little different than that on abortion or gun rights.

You can download the report here: A National Survey of Republicans and Republican - Leaning Independents on Energy and Climate Change.

Prior to joining AAAS, Chloe worked at the White House under President Obama, focusing on energy and climate change issues as an intern within the Domestic Policy Council.

The American public is eager for dramatic change in U.S. energy policy, but Democratic efforts to sell their agenda on energy and climate change aren't reaching voters, a prominent Democratic Party polling firm is warning.

The SNP has unsurprisingly chosen to chair Scottish Affairs (previously Labour), and has also taken on Energy and Climate Change (previously Conservative)-- reflecting Scotland's interests in oil, gas and renewable energy.

His job as chair of the Commons» energy and climate change committee makes him one of the most influential policy influencers in the country on energy and climate change.

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

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On Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate changOn Oct. 28, post-budget, it's not hard to imagine her waking up and looking at her to - do list: (1) Fulfill life and campaign pledges to rein in growth in energy industry and take dramatic action on climate changon climate change.

Political scientist Keith Brownsey of Mount Royal University argues the Liberals paid close attention to the many fumbles made by Harper's Tories on the energy file: failing to build solid relationships with First Nations, allowing environmental groups to seize the public - relations initiative, not asserting federal authority and handing provinces like B.C. and Quebec control of the political agenda, keeping Canada outside of the international consensus on climate change, and ignoring legitimate criticisms of the federal review process.

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

That's not soon enough if the world wants to mitigate the worst effects of climate change while providing cheap, clean energy to the poor — a point not lost on a handful of American billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Peter Thiel.

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

Over time, the pipeline took on symbolic value of epic proportions, elevated by environmentalist and energy advocates alike into a proxy battle for climate change.

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Asked about President Trump's views on climate change, Gates said, «I hope his administration will decide that funding R&D to invent the next generation of energy (clean, cheap, reliable) is a good deal for the US and for the world.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have tended to agree on major issues when it comes to energy, such as calling for more clean energy and supporting aggressive plans to fight climate change.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

But new side - by - side comparisons from EDGI provide a kind of virtual trip back in time to the web before Trump took office, shedding light on the subtle ways that the administration is making it harder to track down information about climate change and alternative energy sources online.

Instead of a world dominated by renewable sources of power like wind and solar — as people concerned about the dangers of climate change would hope — PE execs see gas, oil and even coal as a substantial component of electricity and fuel sources in 2039, according to recent interviews conducted by CNBC.com on the future of energy as part of CNBC's 25th anniversary.

«There are three key components that can help address climate change and have a positive impact on the world: sustainable energy generation, batteries and electric cars,» Tesla said in on its website.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

BOSTON — President Donald Trump has courted coal miners and cast doubt on whether fossils fuel contribute to climate change, but that hasn't translated into hostility for renewable energy — particularly offshore wind.

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquOn a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquon the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&energy security and the environment.»

If the company can control and contain this energy, it would have a positive impact on the problem of carbon emissions and climate change in the decades to come.

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.