-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage
progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).
Not exact matches
China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global
climate change deal, but the key to
progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund
mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top
climate change official said
on Tuesday.
Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making
progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of
climate change.
It tracks
progress on health and
climate change across 40 indicators divided into five categories:
climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation planning and resilience for health;
mitigation actions and health co-benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement.
Successful
mitigation of
climate change is not about finding «a solution,» but developing appropriate institutional and policy options for technological innovation — options that allow experimentation and
progress on multiple fronts, tolerate risk, accept that there will be both successes and failures, and focus
on creating the initial conditions for
progress.
«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable
progress in putting a price
on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead
on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.