Sentences with phrase «positive policy climate»

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As individuals, by working in our communities, and by supporting climate policy, we can effect dramatic positive change at the community level.

«Above all, we wanted to know whether it is better to provide economic justifications, such as the positive effects of climate policy on technological innovation and the labour market, and personal aspects like protection of our health, rather than to focus on conveying scientific facts and the risks of climate change.»

The plan would create a Ministry of Ecological Environment: a «positive development» that would put a single entity in charge of policies related to climate change, water resource management, and pollution, says Dabo Guan, a climate change economist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.

«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

School leaders play a critical role in fostering schoolwide activities and policies that promote positive school environments, such as establishing a team to address the building climate; adult modeling of social and emotional competence; and developing clear norms, values, and expectations for students and staff members.

Of course, none of Rubio's argument is actually true, since the guidance did not establish any mandatory new policies, but rather provided resources for districts on how to implement more positive approaches to improving school climate.

In E4E - New York, a teacher - driven policy paper from 2015, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, presented recommendations to create positive, student - centered school climates.

Many of the youth in the room were leaders who were instrumental in LAUSD's passing the Student Climate Bill of Rights, which favors alternatives that promote positive behavior over punitive school discipline policies.

These policies are necessary in setting the groundwork for promoting a safe, positive climate for students.

My substantive areas of expertise include: school safety and approaches to violence reduction; improving school discipline policies and practices; culturally responsive leadership; and positive school culture and climate.

What does not work might be a surprise: harsh, zero - tolerance policies, added security equipment and patrolmen — in the absence of the other interventions like changing the school climate and getting kids to practice positive interventions — do little or nothing, and sometimes actually increase rates of bullying.

In addition, two Alliance reports from the Climate Change series offer specific federal, state, and local policy recommendations for fostering a positive school climate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teClimate Change series offer specific federal, state, and local policy recommendations for fostering a positive school climate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teclimate by ensuring greater access to rigorous coursework and high - quality teaching.

The materials included were intended to assist states, districts, and schools in developing policies and practices to meet existing federal civil rights laws and to promote positive school climates.

Federal Strategies - NESRI participates in the Federal Strategies Committee and DSC Days at the Capitol events to advocate for federal policy change to support positive approaches to school climate and discipline.

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Trauma - informed schools establish a positive climate through clearly - defined and effectively communicated discipline policies.

Despite positive progress in Chinese climate policy, the reality is that, to be consistent with two degrees, a peak and decline in Chinese emissions will have to occur sooner and faster.

Posted in Government Policies, India, UNFCCC Comments Off on India Positive for Paris 2015 Climate Change Negotiations

They provide ideas on how positive changes can be attained as well as an understanding on how cities can generate solutions that have large, short and long - term positive benefits in terms of climate change mitigation and how this approach can be effectively embedded into local policy settings to contribute to cities» ability to generate co-benefits at local level.

The Koonin committee revisiting the AGU climate statement is proof positive that it was all policy politics and no science.

instead, show the economic costs of climate polices and that the benefits of the policies would be near zero or even negative (SCC may be positive, not negative).

We look both at what would inhibit or even prevent linkage and should therefore be avoided in the 2015 agreement, and what — in a positive sense — should be included in the agreement to facilitate effective linkage of regional, national, and sub-national climate policies.

1 Positive 1.1 Carbon cycle feedbacks 1.1.1 Arctic methane release 1.1.1.1 Methane release from melting permafrost peat bogs 1.1.1.2 Methane release from hydrates 1.1.2 Abrupt increases in atmospheric methane 1.1.3 Decomposition 1.1.4 Peat decomposition 1.1.5 Rainforest drying 1.1.6 Forest fires 1.1.7 Desertification 1.1.8 CO2 in the oceans 1.1.9 Modelling results 1.1.9.1 Implications for climate policy 1.2 Cloud feedback 1.3 Gas release 1.4 Ice - albedo feedback 1.5 Water vapor feedback 2 Negative 2.1 Carbon cycle 2.1.1 Le Chatelier's principle 2.1.2 Chemical weathering 2.1.3 Net Primary Productivity 2.2 Lapse rate 2.3 Blackbody radiation

Implement a «climate study» regarding members» experiences, comfort / discomfort, and positive / negative attitudes / opinions / policies affecting or about members of politically diverse groups.

The climate wars will no doubt continue between extremes on both sides, but that should not delay a far - larger set of pragmatic Americans from embracing policies and measures that attract widespread agreement, are adjustable over time, incremental in their implementation, and provide positive feedbacks for further action.

Thus, in the presence of Federal climate policy, interactions with sub-national policies can be problematic, benign, or positive, depending upon the relative scope and stringency of the sub-national and national policies, as well as the particular policy instruments employed at both levels.

Three scenarios suggest the possibility of positive interactions of state and Federal climate policies.

Ulriikka Aarnio, International Climate Policy Coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe: «Throughout this round of UN climate talks the EU has been giving positive signals about the need to revise current climate targets bClimate Policy Coordinator at Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe: «Throughout this round of UN climate talks the EU has been giving positive signals about the need to revise current climate targets bClimate Action Network (CAN) Europe: «Throughout this round of UN climate talks the EU has been giving positive signals about the need to revise current climate targets bclimate talks the EU has been giving positive signals about the need to revise current climate targets bclimate targets by 2020.

In Washington, these diametrically opposed pressures have taken the form of revenue - neutral versus revenue - positive carbon prices — but the same tension has the potential to bedevil virtually any climate policy discussion.

There has been a particularly toxic positive feedback loop between climate science and policy and politics, whose direction has arguably been reversed as result of Climategate.

Besides the direct impact a President Trump would have on climate and energy policy (if he keeps his promises), he would also have a very strong, positive effect on public opinion.

Far from being a dampener on growth, integrating climate action into growth policies can have a positive economic impact.

In this article, I provide a diagnosis and prescription for the IPCC: paradigm paralysis, caused by motivated reasoning, oversimplification, and consensus seeking; worsened and made permanent by a vicious positive feedback effect at the climate science - policy interface.

The difference between Professor Nordhaus's optimal carbon tax policy and a fifty - year delay policy is insignificant economically or climatologically in view of major uncertainties in (1) future economic growth (including reductions in carbon emissions intensity); (2) the physical science (e.g., the climate sensitivity); (3) future positive and negative environmental impacts (e.g., the economic «damage function»); (4) the evaluation of long - term economic costs and benefits (e.g., the discount rate); and (5) the international political process (e.g., the impact of less than full participation).

But with his core policies in place and, we can hope, his continuing to be vocal about the need to address climate change, the U.S. just might be able to hobble through this, and still set some sort of positive example for the rest of the world.

The government's energy poverty eradication programme was 8 years old by 2008, and neither it nor any of its existing or new climate policies were having any positive effect on the levels of fuel poverty.

Clinton was for positive climate policy measures.

Dems in congress support positive climate policy measures.

WWF was positive about the new direction towards climate policy of the Obama administration, though that's the extent of the congeniality.

«Sustainable biofuel production systems could play a highly positive role in mitigating climate change, enhancing environmental quality, and strengthening the global economy, but it will take sound, science - based policy and additional research effort to make this so,» they conclude.

The policy should promote a positive school climate that is inclusive and accepting of all pupils, including pupils of any race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, family status or disability, and promotes the prevention of bullying.

Given the district's Whole Child resolution and new board policies on discipline and positive schoolwide climate, SEL is a critical part of restorative practices (RP) and positive behavior intervention and support (PBIS) approaches to school climate.

First, teacher evaluation policies that allowed students to evaluate their teachers were associated with more positive student reports of the classroom teaching climate.

School leaders play a critical role in fostering schoolwide activities and policies that promote positive school environments, such as establishing a team to address the building climate; adult modeling of social and emotional competence; and developing clear norms, values, and expectations for students and staff members.