Sentences with phrase «policies on climate change»

The first recommendation is to expand the use of a «human - rights» approach to policies on climate change.

Dominique Ramard, Vice President of Brittany, and Pilar Unzalu, Minister for Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries of The Basque Region, both announced that their regions were joining The Climate Group to further develop their work and policies on climate change.

He began by mocking the degree to which carbon dioxide was treated like a toxic gas by proponents of radical policies on climate change.

Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide - ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.

The Church recently called on two major oil companies, BP and Shell, to be more transparent about their policies on climate change.

Nothing that I said in my telephone interview with Mr Matthew Warren implied or even remotely conveyed that I supported or opposed the Australian Government's policies on climate change.7

Given the tendency for politicians and government leaders to fail to fulfill promises, one may wonder whether governments around the world actually will enact and stand by their policies on climate change.

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

I have spent much of the past 2 years analyzing and re-constructing some of the basic studies used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to support their conclusions about global warming and, in turn, to promote policies on climate change.

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

Delegates to the U.S. event also heard, however, that once the production tax credit expires investment in wind energy is likely to drop significantly through a transitional period that will extend until U.S. policies on climate change are fully implemented.

A variation of this argument is that the United States should not adopt policies on climate change until other nations such as China take steps to reduce their emissions because if the United States acts and other nations don't reciprocate this will harm the US economy.

Mr Fraser said that «the Abbott government is working in the short term interests of business and not the long term interests of the community in its policies on climate change.»

It asserts that governments do need to have policies on climate change but empirical evidence denies the existence of AGW and so there is no need to constrain fossil fuel emissions.

«There have also been a lot of progressive EU policies on climate change and the environment,» she added, describing the EU recast energy performance of buildings directive, which is mandating the nearly zero energy standard for all new buildings from 2021, as «extremely forward looking».

These reports are then used by inter-governmental treaties, bodies, conferences, and national governments, as the basis for international and national policies on climate change.

We can note that the Admiral pushing the AGW bs is more than out classed by the former Chief of Naval Operations, a Vice Admiral and a Captain, pointing out the utter waste of resources AGW driven policies on climate change and green represent.

With the increasing needs of science - based policies on climate change adaptation, strengthening the communication at the science — policy interface becomes critical.

Federal policies on climate change and federal funding of climate research are both extensive.

Dr. Marburger, a physicist and former head of Brookhaven National Laboratory, was not confirmed by the Senate until Oct. 23, 2001, after key policies on climate change and stem cell research already had been announced by the White House.»

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.

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.

So it was this afternoon that he yawned his way through three questions from Michael Ignatieff on the government's policies on climate change and shrugged away three questions from Jack Layton on the extension of this country's military mission in Afghanistan.

So tory policy on climate change, is burn baby burn!

Nevertheless, the liberal democrats» environment spokesmen Chris Huhne countered that reduction must be central to any policy on climate change.

The targets place the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the heart of EU policy on climate change, with support for an EU - wide central cap on emissions.

This is certainly very alarming and what NORPRA expects of government is to rededicate itself to the implementation of a very comprehensive national policy on climate change to minimize the threats posed by climate change.

«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.»

Because the economic questions involved have received relatively little attention, I have been writing a nontechnical book for people who would like to see how market - based approaches could be used to formulate policy on climate change.

I doubt that NOAA has a policy on climate change, and I wouldn't co-author a paper whose publication required approval by a government official.

Are the statements in the pdf article (Accepted 27 August 2005) in agreement with NOAA's policy on climate change?

That's not right Rosser, Crichton said that the best policy is having no policy on climate change and this is my idea, too.

Not only is Canada withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, but the Climate Change office at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is busy silencing art which is critical of government policy on climate change.

Remarks by Soon reported at InsideClimate News are so contrary to the Smithsonian's own published policy on climate change and so generally off the rail that the Smithsonian needs to investigate itself, I think.

Eager anticipation of the next American president offering a dramatically different policy on climate change is being tempered by the chill winds of the financial crisis.

According to the report, «more than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to influence federal policy on climate change in the last year, as the issue gathered momentum and came to a vote on Capitol Hill.

If policy on climate change waits until things are certain, it will be far too late (after all, there are still lots of arguments about what has happened in the past 100, 1000 or more years — certainty is generally an illusive, unattainable goal on the really interesting problems and questions).

Two weeks ago the G8 nations met in Mexico to thrash out a common policy on climate change.

In the absence of clear, national policy on climate change — aside from the current administration's tendency to ignore it or call it a hoax — CCS advocates said carbon capture gives power to the private sector until the time is right.

The introduction of the AGW hypothesis into the political arena has been deeply harmful to political policy on climate change, and it threatens to be deeply damaging to the reputation of all science.

Abbott's alternative policy, a little bit «changed or extended or whatever» could help Turnbull find a way to return to the job and still have a reasonably credible policy on climate change.

USCAN and CAN - I operate full - time programs to influence global policy on climate change with alarmist views.

The Clinton administration was engaged attempting to upgrade US law and policy on climate change but they never saw Agenda 21 relevant to this effort.

Hansen used his bureaucratic position to misdirect public policy on climate change for 24 years.

Some economic tools frequently used to evaluate public policy on climate change such as cost - benefit analysis that don't acknowledge responsibility for allocating the burdens for reducing the threat of climate change on the basis of distributive justice are ethically problematic.

Congress, however, never authorized EPA to determine fuel economy standards for motor vehicles, much less dictate national policy on climate change.

Monckton gives us the denialist fantasy version of the American Geophysical Union's periodically restated policy on climate change.

I just knew there was a key missing in Gillards Policy on Climate Change!!!

In recent weeks it has launched, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), its first ever national policy on climate change.

In 2009, Brazil established its National Policy on Climate Change (NPCC) to underpin efforts to tackle its emissions and adapt to climate change.