Sentences with phrase «policy pathway does»

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Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

Debates about a «pathway to citizenship» can be enriched if we ask how proposed policies do or do not promote national solidarity.

In the absence of being able to make that policy call at this time on dangerous interference, what we're doing as an interim measure is working bottom up to see how aggressive can we be in finding a pathway to low - carbon power generation from coal, because that accounts for more than 50 percent of emissions; how aggressive can we be in transitioning to a much greater diversity of fuel supply than petroleum, and vehicle technology, and that's 20 percent of emissions; and then what can we do much more rapidly to halt deforestation, which is 20 percent of emissions.

Challenges to mitigation for the purpose of defining SSPs do not include the stringency of the mitigation target itself or the choice of mitigation action, which are accounted for by two other aspects of the scenario matrix: the forcing level of the representative concentration pathway (RCP) and the shared policy assumption (SPA), respectively.

Some of these new projections explicitly consider climate policies that would result in emissions reductions, which the SRES set did not.9, 10 The newest set includes both lower and higher pathways than did the previous set.

Riahi et al does refer to BAU, but it and the accompany van Vuuren «The representative concentration pathways: an overview», make it clear that this is at the» 90th percentile» /» conservative» /» high emissions» end of the baseline (aka «no climate policy» or BAU) scenario.

Instead, pursuing parallel policy pathways that increase the cost of extracting and using carbon - intensive fuels alongside clean technology R&D efforts can help ensure that we decarbonize as swiftly as needed to curtail climate change — and that we do so in as economically - viable and sustainable a manner as possible.

Adolescence is characterized by major biological, psychological and social challenges and opportunities, where interaction between the individual and environment is intense, and developmental pathways are set in motion or become established.2 — 4 Furthermore, adolescent psychopathology can have important consequences for education, relationships and socioeconomic achievement in later life.5 — 7 These characteristics of adolescence do not only set high demands for cohort studies aiming to capture the most salient aspects of developmental pathways, they also ensure a great gain in empirical knowledge and an invaluable source of information for public health policy from such studies.