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I'll look forward to hearing more about what CarbonWA does in the future, and I'll keep holding out hope that my home state can lead the way
on good climate policy.
Not exact matches
However, First Solar is incredibly
well positioned for the long term, no matter what direction Trump chooses to take
on its
climate and energy
policy.
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.
Earlier in the fall, we commissioned economic modelling to look at the benefits of building
on the
best elements of today's provincial
climate policies.
We do have companies that will capitalize
well on the
policies or the private - sector response to
climate change.
This is
best illustrated with the Summary for
Policy Makers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC 2007).
Report Building
on the
Best: How adopting top provincial
climate policies across Canada could drive clean growth (October 2016)
Professor Amamoo - Otchere said while reviewing some
policies on climate change, it emerged that the much touted
Better Ghana Agenda espoused by the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was actually adopted from works done by the NDPC.
Councilmember Lander said the district needed someone like Sikora who would «fight for progressive values in government, try to win a more equal city, address the challenges of
climate change, make sure the rights of workers are respected, address the issues of health care
on the
policy level, and fight in the neighborhoods to improve our schools and make them
better.»
So a realistic look at the international
policy dynamics that currently exist, as
well as an informed discussion
on where those
policies could grow to be, is a great way to continue the conversation
on actionable solutions to
climate change,» said Subhashree Mishra, 2014 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy (DOE).
The Senators should make certain that the nominee pledges to use the
best available evidence
on climate change in making
policy — not unsubstantiated and fringe beliefs.
«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is
better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of
climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus
on conveying scientific facts and the risks of
climate change.»
Offering his only
climate change
policy prescription of the evening, he added, «That's why I'm going to push to change the way we manage our oil and coal resources, so that they
better reflect the costs they impose
on taxpayers and our planet.»
Ultimately, they say, informed decisions
on climate policy will need to rely
on the
best information available from controlled and cautious field experiments.
Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies would slash global carbon emission by 20 percent and raise government revenue by 2.9 trillion,
well over the funds needed for intelligent
policy and action
on climate adaptation.»
«The strong message here is that as we refine our estimates of carbon emissions we get closer to an accurate picture of what is going
on and we can improve our
climate projections and
better inform
policy on climate change.»
Observers note that if the vote triggers a prolonged recession, that could have an impact
on U.K. energy and
climate policy as
well as its aid budget, which per capita is one of the largest in the world.
The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides
policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as
well as a
good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge
on global
climate change.
It's an idea spawned
on Reddit, where several scientists — concerned about the new president's
policies on climate change and other issues, and hyped from the success of the Women's March
on Washington — were discussing the
best way to respond to what they feared would be an administration hostile to science.
Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as
well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses
on climate change science and
policy.
This suggests the
climate models need to be retooled to
better reflect conditions in the actual
climate, while
policies based
on previous
climate model output and predictions might need to be reconsidered.»
The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing
policy recommendations
on international trade and investment, economic
policy,
climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as
well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.
With further research focused
on these key questions, we may come to
better understand the implications of discipline
policy reforms — how they affect suspension use, and also how they change school
climate; interactions among students, peers, and teachers; and the academic performance of all students.
Our findings
on school attachment provide another important lesson for school leaders,
policy makers, and even survey designers — namely, that students are the
best evaluators of school
climate.
Another example: To decide whether a school is doing a
good job, we need to consider several different achievement measures (reading, mathematics, and so
on); as
well as information about resources (personnel, financial,
policy); processes (curriculum, instruction, school
climate); and other school outcomes (safety, graduation rate, student and parent satisfaction).
Whether or not the backers are directly linked to the oil industry, they reflect how the fight over energy
policy remains highly polarized,
well financed (
on both sides), and — so far — has resulted in few
policies that oil markets or the
climate system are likely to notice any time soon.
Climate science and consequent
policy responses are a target because here we have an archetypal situation where individuals can not be relied
on to make choices that will avoid harming the collective
good.
Responding to comments 14, 25, and 56: I'm a
policy analyst in Seattle,
well - read
on the impacts of
climate change, but also other global resource constraints — like peak oil, peak phosphorus and the limits of industrial agriculture, waters supply (closely related to
climate), and human systems / governance.
Your blog usually has
well - written posts
on sustainability,
climate, science,
policy and economics.
The
best recent representation of Sachs's views is the paper he and others co-authored with James E. Hansen, the longtime NASA
climate scientist who now has a
climate policy position at Columbia, in which they build
on Hansen's longstanding call for a rising price
on carbon.
Or, perhaps, NCAR believes that institutions other than itself would be
better suited to enter into discussions
on how science should be applied in formulation of national
policies or should influence individual household decisions when either
climate or weather is a factor.
[I] f you care about the environment and seek action
on issues like greenhouse - driven
climate change or conserving the planet's biological riches, you'd do
well to focus hard right now
on the debt crisis and other legacies of politics and
policies built around sustaining a free lunch culture.
(The question extends
well beyond
climate policy; as I did the other day, I encourage you to listen to a great recent discussion of financial bubbles and busts
on Leonard Lopate's radio show.)
Concern about
policies based
on science is understandable and can be used to create
better policies, but in many cases the concern about
policies is prompting some to misrepresent the facts about
climate change science.
Mr. Roston, who also writes a weekly online «
Climate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate p
Climate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental
Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts
on how this divide exists within developing countries as
well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the
climate p
climate problem:
That's not right Rosser, Crichton said that the
best policy is having no
policy on climate change and this is my idea, too.
It follows that
policy decisions
on climate change are
best based
on the generally accepted scientific theory.
How one sees the answer boils down to an important difference in perspective
on how to
best deal with
climate change: Do we (a) try to influence the course of future human development using carbon pricing as the main
policy tool?
Paul Baer, a
climate policy analyst at the Georgia Institute of Technology and contributing author to the panel's next Working Group 3 report (
on policy options), posted a comment that's
well worth elevating into the main post:
Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change, has done the next
best thing, sending a letter clarifying the panel's media
policy to the 831 lead authors and review editors of its next set of assessments.
Additional findings from the EPA
on the effects of soot emissions are needed so we can craft the
best policy response to combat the
climate crisis,» said Sen. Kerry.
In 2006, I interviewed dozens of experts
on energy,
climate, and the economy for a story in our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and
policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could
well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term
climate risks.
But whatever happens with population
policy (or
climate and energy
policy or Middle East
policy), it's clear the world would do
well to end its protracted slumber party
on agricultural research and development, which bears far too much resemblance to the longstanding bipartisan inattention to the need for intensified energy inquiry.
Addendum, 8:40 p.m. This story by Bloomberg's Eric Roston is relevant, as
well: «ExxonMobil and Sierra Club Agreed
on Climate Policy — and Kept It Secret.
In the meantime, I encourage you to have a look at a fresh nonpartisan analysis and set of recommendations
on climate policy from the Council
on Foreign Relations, which calls for concrete steps by the United States as
well as intensified efforts to build bridges between established and emerging economic powers.
Nobody explained this
better than Stephen H. Schneider of Stanford University, who passed away this year after decades of work
on climate science, communication and
policy.
While he's
best known for his labor work, my interactions with Kheel mainly focused
on his concern for the environment, which were centered, locally, around moving people from personal vehicles to public transportation and, at the global scale, building consideration for Earth's ecosystems and
climate into economic and social
policies.
In quieter corners, including at environmental groups focused
on energy and
climate policy as
well as land preservation, the goal has never been a ban, but instead a push to create the set of rules,
policies, revenue flows and relationships that give the greatest social and economic benefits with the least risk of environmental regrets.
As prices continue to rise and pressure to act
on climate change becomes paramount, it is a
good time for
policy makers to ask if the trend towards air - conditioning indoor spaces is necessary, desirable or even possible.