Sentences with phrase «policy on climate»

The Prime Minister is «talking rubbish» on climate change, according to a headline at The Guardian Australia today, which pretty well encapsulates Australia's utter failures in public policy on climate change.

There is no formal policy on climate change economic development and native title groups as yet.

What does he really think of Hansen's view that the foundation of the Obama Adminstration's policy on climate, i.e. some target level of CO2 at stabilization above 450 ppm, is, «a recipe for global disaster»?

Reducing the world's emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases — the focus of virtually all public discussion and government policy on climate at the moment — remains vital, but as a practical matter that effort only affects how quickly the 400 ppm figure will increase.

The news that the key report driving global policy on climate change used a throwaway line in a popular science magazine to suggest some Himalayan glaciers could disappear in 25 years reads like a Monty Python skit.

But Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute said «scientists are in no position to intelligently guide public 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.

Obama has said that he's in favor of making the declaration, which would open the gateway to initiating policy on climate change.

The Daily Climate helps drive science into public policy on climate change.

One Nation's policy on climate change reflected Roberts» own views.

Fun for the eccentric amateur, but christ is this supposed to be the sort of stuff driving international policy on climate science?

A global policy on climate change would have to suit people from economies where GDP per capita range between orders of magnitude.

Statements given by the novelist Michael Crichton were taken into account when congress debated climate change in 2005 (why should a novelist have any influence on the US policy on climate change?).

Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand — population policy Horn of Africa — joint position statement from civil society organizations on population growth and climate change IAP — statement on population and consumption International Planned Parenthood Federation — policy on climate change and sexual and reproductive health Nature Conservation Council of NSW — population policies Save the Children — policy on population Sierra Club — Global Population and the Environment Program Sustainable Population Party of Australia — population policies Various — extracts of references to population in selected policies Wildlife Trusts — position on population, resource use & consumption World Wildlife Fund — policy on population

It could contribute to increased citizen involvement and advocacy for the creation of a comprehensive US policy on climate change.

In the meantime, during the debates about US domestic policy on climate change that have been taking place for almost thirty years, the US media has reported on climate issues almost exclusively by focusing on issues of scientific certainty about climate change impacts and economic cost to the US economy.

«It is not possible to criticise the new Coalition policy on climate change because it does not exist,» Mr Turnbull wrote in an opinion column in 2009.

All ghg emissions targets are implicitly a positions on the carbon budget issue and the equity and justice issue, yet policy makers rarely discuss their implicit positions on these issues and the US media is largely not covering the budget and justice issues implicit in any US policy on climate change.

No national policy on climate change is ethically acceptable unless it, in combination with fair levels of greenhouse gas emissions from other countries, leads to stabilizing greenhouse gas atmospheric concentrations at levels that prevent harm to those around the world who are most vulnerable to climate change.

In fact, this is the strongest statement of any US President in regard to acknowledging that US policy on climate change can not solely be based upon US interests alone.

provided examples of how Brazil plans to incorporate and assess adaptation to climate change as an element of its sectoral policy on climate change and agriculture.

The common declaration by France and Germany signals a hardening of Europe's policy on climate change, six months after the failure of UN climate talks in Copenhagen.

Gustavo Mozzer, Researcher for the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) provided examples of how Brazil plans to incorporate and assess adaptation to climate change as an element of its sectoral policy on climate change and agriculture.

None of these scenarios account for the impact of policy on climate change.

Lisa Nelson said on Diane Rehm: «To be clear: ALEC has no policy on climate change, and does not take positions without underlying model policy.»

If there's any chance at a rational policy on climate, two things must happen.

In Martha's world «Koch outspends almost everyone to influence government policy on climate change».

The decision was attributed to a weak economy and an uncertain U.S. policy on climate and carbon.

She is an environmental sociologist with more than 10 years of experience in research, teaching and public policy on climate change and sustainability.

«It would be ironic indeed if the skeptical Trump Administration were to simply issue this alarmist report as federal policy on climate change science.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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).

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 you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States policy on climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.

For most purposes re public policy on climate flips, it is the demonstrated instability and the role played by freshening the North Atlantic that needs emphasis, along with the melt water from Greenland adding to the effects of increased rainfall in the very places where downwelling seems to be most efficiently conducted, the Larador and Greenland Seas.

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.

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.

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.