Many lawyers specialize in a broader practice area — such as energy, environment, international law or litigation — and
then work on climate change matters as part of their portfolio.
The standard position of economists who
work on climate change policy is that if one thinks that greenhouse gas emissions pose a «negative externality» deserving of some type of government response, then a carbon tax or cap - and - trade scheme will «internalize the externality» and market forces will take care of the rest.
Paul Bledsoe, who
worked on climate change in the Clinton administration, said the president's concern that the Kyoto Protocol would ultimately founder in the Senate was well - founded.
When we went down the first time, we had some funding from Starbucks
for working on climate change, and I said to them, «Look, given the element of both sea level rise and contribution to the hurricane, we're going to use some of these funds to travel there with confidence.»
Robert R.M. Verchick, a Loyola University law professor
who worked on climate change adaptation policy at the Environmental Protection Agency under Obama, said federal leadership is essential.
Last month, Trump ignited concerns of a type of «witch hunt» at the Energy Department, as his transition team requested the agency to identify those who have
worked on climate change with the Obama administration.
The third issue is working to make sure the new jobs that are created
by working on climate change — like energy retrofits — are high quality jobs.
The Collaborative Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change (EDCC) is comprised of seventeen institutions around the world
working on climate change ethics, with secretariat at the Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State University.
His unrelenting harassment of climate scientists and academics
working on climate change over several years (he would call it doing due diligence) is worth documenting because it points to the kind of activities Roberts» might get up to now that he has been elected.
Prior to moving to Arizona, she worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Florida and University of Oklahoma
working on climate change related issues.
Clement is claiming that Secretary Zinke ordered the reassignment in retaliation against his highly visible
work on climate change impacts in the Arctic, and that Zinke did so in a deliberate effort to drive Clement out.
Campaigners are doing
great work on climate change: lobbying pension funds to divest from fossil fuels, raising fears about «stranded assets» like unwanted coal mines and power stations, persuading banks that fossil fuels are a risky investment.
Kitack Lim, Secretary - General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), said the adoption of the strategy «would allow future
IMO work on climate change to be rooted in a solid basis».
The committee's new executive director is Josh Cherwin, 32, who began working for Mr. Gore's 2000 presidential race while a junior at Georgetown and, more recently, helped with Mr. Gore's high -
profile work on climate change; Current TV, a cable channel; and the documentary film «An Inconvenient Truth.»
I was working on the history of oceanography, and came across the work of Roger Revelle, Dave Keeling and others who'd been
working on climate change since the 1950s.
The Kyoto Treaty to stem global warming is frozen in political limbo in the United States, where the current Congress is likely to reject the pact — but that won't stop international teams from stepping up
work on climate change science and policy.
«Imagine this: I'm working on climate change [for Trump], and I convince him and his team of pulling out of Paris,» Banks said last May.
The mediagenic wunderkind of French presidential politics has a message for U.S. scientists, engineers, and
entrepreneurs working on climate change and worrying about their future under President Donald Trump: Come to France.
In a video posted to his Facebook and Twitter accounts late last night (and hashtagged #ScienceMarch), Emmanuel Macron renewed his commitment to fighting global warming and extended a warm welcome: «We want
people working on climate change, energy, renewables, and new technologies.
The meeting itself is a great chance for grad
students working on climate change — broadly defined — to get together with their immediate peers, away from, ahem, pesky senior scientists.
That is: let's
not work on climate change, let's work on these very low - cost tiny fractions of GDP that we as moral being should be doing anyway, instead of doing hard work.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation also announced a $ 600 million donation over five years, from 2018 to 2023, to nonprofits that are
working on climate change solutions.
The report offered «five practical, evidence - based recommendations to donors, governments, civil society, and other
stakeholders working on climate change, land rights, and forestry», which we have reprinted verbatim below:
It draws on materials contained in a forthcoming Staff Discussion Note (Farid et al. 2015) and has benefited from the discussions at informal Board meetings on
IMF work on climate change held on September 30 and November 24, 2015.