Sentences with phrase «own climate and energy policies»

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.

To become prime minister, he promised sunny ways: a conciliatory approach to climate and energy policy.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did not agree to the new climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S. climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump means we need to be very cautious about adopting climate policies in Canada.

The economic modelling research on top provincial climate and energy policies is available here.

He pointed to the United Kingdom, where long - term investments in power generation have stalled because climate and energy policy keeps changing «week to week.»

More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.

Its programs are a perennial target for opponents of the administration's climate and energy policies.

Some U.S. officials are still attending COP23, but Michael Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University Law School, worries that without U.S. leadership, the Paris accord rules could end up vague.

«Given his background,» Cohan adds, «Jason would have been a leading voice on health care and adherence to evidence in debates over climate and energy policy.»

A new CALSTART brief indicates that California's climate and energy policies are not only helping to protect the environment and improve air quality, but are also helping to accelerate growth of the clean transportation technology industry (CTTI) in the state.

Now, dividing my time as always, I have to head to Clearwater's Great Hudson River Revival festival, where I'll be speaking about climate and energy policy at 12:30 and then performing with my Breakneck Ridge Revue ensemble on the Mystic Whaler at 2:30.

As we have long known, it was / is simply the sowing of doubt that has paralyzed the public discussion of climate and energy policy.

It stems from failed policy in all areas, and from delegating climate and energy policy to the likes of Dick Cheney and Lee Raymond.

Clearly, my first months will center on what a Trump administration might do at the national and international scale to climate and energy policies and relevant funding.

Above all, however, the I.P.C.C. will need to make progress in evaluating climate and energy policies.

Joe demonstrates a remarkable intellectual breadth and depth that goes well beyond his obvious expertise in the area of climate and energy policy.

There are signs such changes are starting to occur, both in formal inquiries like the Muir Russell report and United Nations review of the climate panel's procedures, but also even on the blogosphere, where informed individuals with varied views on climate and energy policy are no longer simply throwing verbal bombs at each other in endless rounds of contradiction and instead shifting to constructive argument.

Rather, the real choice is between regulatory chaos and legislation that fixes the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act so that pro-Kyoto litigation groups can not use those statutes for a purpose that Congress never intended — to dictate climate and energy policy for the nation.

Like many, I'm sure, I've been much more familiar with the climate and energy policy preferences of Jeffrey Sachs, the institute's director.

Such moments of consensus are rarely visible given how the heated fight over climate and energy policy is mainly shaped, particularly in Washington, as a political tug of war.

Nisbet concludes by referring readers to an earlier post in which he laid out a proposal for «a post-partisan plan for communicating climate change» (clearly echoing the recent call for a post-partisan approach to climate and energy policy).

Many experts on climate and energy policy say China will never move meaningfully to curb its carbon dioxide emissions until it sees such steps in the United States.

The document doesn't take readers much beyond what is already well established: that without sustained and focused climate and energy policies by governments around the world, the potential of renewable energy technologies to compete with fossil fuels remains deeply limited.

The first and most obvious point of consideration in ascertaining the utility of the statement comes from the recognition that it refers to «experts on climate and energy policy» making predictions regarding the actions of China.

As debates over national and global climate and energy policy continue to drag out, there's been an intensifying exploration of climate miscommunication among those seeking concrete actions that will make a noticeable difference in the atmosphere someday.

In the wake of Australia's move to add a price to carbon dioxide emissions — which is particularly notable considering the country is one of the world's big exporters of coal (and related CO2 emissions)-- I sent a query to some Australian analysts of climate and energy policy to see if this holds lessons for the United States.

Various researchers studying the interface of climate and energy policy have said that such technology is well worth pursuing, particularly given that oil and other liquid fossil fuels are almost surely going to be burned — particularly in vehicles or other dispersed sources — for many years to come, according to many assessments.

Since then, as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, he's dived in deep on climate and energy policy, and I've found him consistently able to cut through the confounding layers of the «super wicked» world of climate diplomacy (or the lack of it).

The scientific community is weighing in increasingly on thorny issues related to climate and energy policy.

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.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

Mr. Gore gave his updated prescription for climate and energy policy in an op - ed article in The Times on Sunday.

Mark Lynas, the author of «Six Degrees» and an adviser to the president of Maldives on climate policy, wrote in following my post yesterday touching on China's stance in the entwined arenas of climate and energy policy:

Dr. Holdren has been widely praised by the scientific community for decades of work on issues ranging from nuclear proliferation to climate and energy policy.

This is a quick addendum to the previous post exploring what it would take for a president to pursue meaningful climate and energy policy in a multitasked world.

Fortunately, many other countries like China, India, and Canada seem to be moving in the right direction with their climate and energy policies.

This is often the underlying reason behind disagreements over EU climate and energy policy, such as those around the EU 2030 targets agreed last October.

«According to the report, conservative think - tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations raised some US$ 907 million during 2009, and spent a total of $ 787 million on their activities, with $ 259 million of that devoted specifically to climate and energy policy issues.

WASHINGTON (June 25, 2013)-- President Obama's speech today, in which he laid out a suite of climate and energy policies, demonstrates the growing demand for heeding the risks scientists have identified from a changing climate, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

China is working constructively with the US, Latin America, Europe, and other parties to reach a deal that will provide a clear timetable for transitioning to climate - friendly alternatives and strengthen finance for developing countries» transitions,» said Alvin Lin, China Climate and Energy Policy Director, NRDC China.

However, there is no need for us to understand it as a problem to see the backwards thinking that has produced the climate and energy policies that now put expensive «negawatts» further up the political agenda than cheaper megawatts.

With the Republicans in majority for both Houses of the 114th Congress, what are the implications for U.S. climate and energy policy?

They say the administration is making «an insufficient response» to climate change and is turning its back on reality: «In its rush to dismantle rational climate and energy policy, the administration has ignored scientific fact and well - founded economic analyses.

[The nomination of Scott Pruitt] signals clearly that Donald Trump will radically change direction on both climate and energy policy, which will have huge ramifications both for the US and also internationally.

He has more than 20 years of experience in strategizing and implementing climate and energy policies in both the U.S. and China, with an extensive international network of central and local governments, think tanks, NGOs, research institutes, state - owned enterprises, and multinational companies.

OTOH he clearly understands the issues and his agenda (at least on climate and energy policy) is vastly superior to others.

I expect that climate and energy policy will be a winner in the Trump administration relative to the Obama administration.

By Sonja van Renssen Decisions on a new European climate and energy policy for 2030 are relegated to autumn as heads of state are caught up in the Ukraine crisis.

In the context of EU climate and energy policy, governance refers to the procedural and institutional arrangements put in place at EU and national levels to achieve resilient energy policy and ambitious climate policy.

These principles were adopted by American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), BCL, Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP), Corporate Climate Alliance (CCA), and Partnership for Responsible Growth (PRG) as a values - based way to understand key issues of carbon pricing, as well as a starting point for comparing specific policy proposals: