Sentences with phrase «position on climate change policy»

«The federal government has taken a leadership position on climate change policy while also enabling greater access to international markets for our natural resources, which ensures that Canadians receive full value for those resources.»

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Derwin is investing up to $ 2 million in an effort to persuade Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, to speak out against Donald Trump's climate change policy and resign from his positions in groups advising Trump on business and manufacturing jobs.

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

What is your position on cap - and - trade, carbon taxes, and other policies proposed to address global climate change — and what steps can we take to improve our ability to tackle challenges like climate change that cross national boundaries?

The party that Liberals might partner with on some energy issues — the NDP — supports a cap - and - trade system and has policy positions on climate change that are generally more to the political left.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajeChange Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

Before he was appointed to the White House position, Holdren was a professor at Harvard in both the Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, as well as director of the nonprofit Woods Hole Research Center, which focuses on climate change science and policy.

That said, once a serious US policy on carbon / climate change is implemented, the US will have a stronger negotiating position since the developing economies will have nothing left to say.

We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.

This policy document consists of a COP15 position paper presenting the role that the climate, weather and water communities can and do play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate, weather and water communities can and do play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).

[72] Since climate change has been recognized as a global problem with grave environmental, social, economic, distributional, and political implications, [73] activists and the body politic have now firmly put climate science in the position of having to support policies to protect the threatened planet and the human, animal, and plant life on it.

«We have discontinued contributions to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has a monopoly on the provision of climate policy advice at the international level and a strong market position in national policy Climate Change has a monopoly on the provision of climate policy advice at the international level and a strong market position in national policy climate policy advice at the international level and a strong market position in national policy advice.

That sounds pretty progressive, and is certainly greener than the position of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, who has explicitly denied the «broad scientific and policy consensus» on climate change.

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

Bill Shorten is reportedly reconsidering the Labor Party's position on the question of a carbon tax, the latest chapter in Labor's long history with climate change policy.

«So, imagine you are a climate scientist and climate change ideologue, and want to «take down» the single organization (or individual) that is doing the most damage to the movement (i.e. with the end result of thwarting CO2 emissions / stabilization policy)» And why would you ever imagine that this activity was as or more important than working on evidence supporting your position?

Based on the evidence as it currently exists, it just is not a valid scientific position to assert with certainty that human emissions have caused recent changes to the climate, and therefore the policy implications that stem from that.

This policy document consists of a COP 16 position paper presenting the role that the weather, climate and hydrological communities can play in effectively addressing the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate and hydrological communities can play in effectively addressing the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).

Such economic clout makes California ideally positioned to take the lead on energy policy and environmental issues like climate change, even as the United States as a whole has failed to make much progress on either front.

In my view it was problematic from day one that CEQ officials, whose essential job was to advance the President's policy and political position on global climate change, were at the table participating directly in the governance of the Climate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change reclimate change, were at the table participating directly in the governance of the Climate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change reschange, were at the table participating directly in the governance of the Climate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change reClimate Change Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change resChange Science Program and shaping its communication of climate change reclimate change reschange research.

In addition to highlighting the challenges faced there, the training in Miami will focus on the area's unique position to combat climate change through renewable energy solutions, policy changes and resilience strategies.

In 2007, Exxon pledged in its corporate responsibility report that it would no longer contribute «to several public policy research groups whose position on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible manner.»

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.»

Christopher Essex published an article in Breitbart where he supports the Global Warming Policy Foundation's (GWPF) decision to criticize the Royal Society's position on climate change.

There is a meaningful issue issue, IMO, where there is crossover / confusion / conflation between discussion of the science of climate change and positions on the policy implications of the science.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.

I didn't mean that all scientific issues have been settled — far from it — but rather that we face a situation of seeking a negotiated climate policy in a situation in which one of the major parties, to quote National Journal, appears to be «coalescing around a uniquely dismissive position on climate change.»

It seems to me that they have changed their position on climate change — they no longer oppose doing something about it and support policies like having an emisions trading scheme.

Many positions of governments on climate change fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny yet ethics and justice issues are largely being ignored in discussions of climate change policies at least in the United States.

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.

Although there is a growing literature on the ethical dimensions of climate change, most of this literature is focused on theoretical ethical questions rather than on the injustice of positions actually being taken about climate policies.

It a central issue in climate change policy formation because each government policy on reducing the threat of climate change is implicitly a position on that government's fair share of safe global emissions.

Although Mitt Romney's position on climate change appears to have changed over time (at one time supported policies to reduce the threat of climate change), he recently has opposed legislation designed to reduce greenhouse gases citing two reasons.

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

International climate change negotiations; China's negotiation position on commitments; Carbon intensity; Emissions cap; Defined policies and measures; Kyoto Protocol

ACS, in fact, has an official position on climate change, which is easy to find under the «Policy» section of www.acs.org.

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

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Clarify its position: Companies like Microsoft have issued public statements to clarify that their membership in climate - change denying industry groups like Alec «is not an endorsement» of their views on climate or energy policies.

«AGU has a responsibility to help policy makers and the public understand the impacts our science can have on public health and safety, economic stability and growth, and national security,» said Gerald North, chair of AGU's Climate Change Position Statement Review Panel.

«Each administration has a policy position on climate change,» Mr. Piltz wrote.

This policy document consists of a COP 14 position paper presenting the role that the hydrologic, meteorological and climate communities can play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate communities can play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).

These different measures are sometimes used by different countries to assert various policy / ethical positions on climate change (Banuri et al., 1996, p. 94).

Among other positions, Prof. Dr. Nakicenovic is Member of the United Nations Secretary General High - Level Technical Group on Sustainable for Energy for All Initiative; Member of the Advisory Council of the German Government on Global Change (WBGU); Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Scientific Planning and Review; Co-Chair, Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP); Member of the Board, Climate Change Centre Austria (CCCA); Member of the Working Group of the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (AG - APCC); Member of the Panel on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments; Member of the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Steering Committee; Member of the International Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Programme on Technology, and Member of the Earth League.

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.»

Obama also named his appointment of Lisa Jackson as the chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy Sutley as head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Carol Browner as head of a newly - created White House position to coordinate energy, environment and climate change policies across federal agencies.

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