Sentences with phrase «progress on climate issues»

The obstacle to progress on climate issues remains leadership.

During his time in office, Obama has made modest progress on climate issues.

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What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

«For years, Senate Republicans have been one of the main obstacles to progress on some of the issues working families care most about, like fair elections, the DREAM Act, reforming our broken criminal justice system, and fighting climate change,» the email states.

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

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.

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For example, who has worked to stop sensible progress restraining carbon emissions and oil demand, muzzled an open scientific debate on on these issues, kept secret the participants in high level meetings to develop energy policy, vetoed one measure after another that would have advanced his country ever so little in a direction towards climate restraint.

And insiders credit Cartagena meetings with having helped patch up the relatively successful outcome seen at Cancun, which cleared up the mess of Copenhagen and made progress on important issues like technology transfer and the $ 100 - billion - a-year Green Climate Fund.

The commentators on NewsHour were Glenn Hurowitz, who works on environmental issues at the Center for International Policy, Daniel Weiss, the director of climate strategy at the Center for American Progress, and Ken Green, who analyzes environmental policy for the American Enterprise Institute.

My guess is that the heavy - handed push to gain a narrow victory on the Waxman - Markey climate and energy bill last year could prove to be a bigger setback for long - term progress on these issues than the failure to move any climate initiatives in the Senate this year.

Joe Romm, the former Energy Department official who now blogs on climate and works for the Center for American Progress, a nonpartisan / liberal / progressive (depending on who's choosing the adjective) research group in Washington, has again taken issue with something I've written, partly because I left out a link to supporting sources for my statement that the world could face a tripled demand for energy by midcentury.

Given that coal use by China (and the sources of that coal) has to be at the center of any serious discussion of climate progress, it's worth reviewing some rich new contributions to the discussion I initiated on the ethical, economic and climatic issues that arise when coal flows from rich countries to fast - growing giants like China.

Obama also hired Podesta, founder of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, to advise him on energy and climate policy, among other issues.

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Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

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.

This is important, market - driven progress on climate, which API and its member companies consider an important issue for constructive engagement — engagement that also is seen in approximately $ 90 billion in oil and natural gas industry investments in zero - and low - emissions technologies since 2000, nearly as much as the federal government and more than twice that of the next largest industry sector.

Q Along with leading climate scientist, Katharine Hayhoe, for this conversation about how we can make real progress on this issue.

BANGKOK — U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact.

Again, it looks like Larry Summers (and his team) are working to hinder progress forward on climate issues.

«While progress was made on a number of negotiating issues during this first week of the climate talks here, much of the conversation since has focused on the implications of a Trump presidency,» said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

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My friend was sharing his frustrations and concerns regarding the views of many Western organisations and media outlets with regards to the upcoming preCOP in Caracas, a big climate gathering organised by the Venezuelan government to bring social movements, NGOs, and government from all over the world to come together free from corporate lobbyists to make progress on the issue internationally.

She's launched notable initiatives to fight climate pollutants other than CO2 and spread clean cookstoves to developing countries, but on the bigger issues, progress has been halting at best.

This explains why Nobel Prize Winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says «I trust Joe Romm,» Thomas Friedman calls ClimateProgress.org «the indispensable blog,» Al Gore relies on him for technical analysis, and the Center for American Progress makes him the organization's chief spokesperson on climate and energy issues.

Despite the many unresolved issues touched on in this chapter and discussed in more detail in chapters 5 — 9, the progress that has been achieved over the past few years provides a basis for drawing some tentative conclusions concerning the nature of the observed differences between surface and upper air temperature trends, and their implications for the detection and attribution of global climate change.break

This is how we make progress on issues of climate change and other social justice or political issues.

But on the core issue affecting the fate of the planet — the need to rapidly reduce emissions to have any hope of keeping climate change to manageable levels — progress was nowhere to be found.

Their dwindling but still powerful movement seeks to stall progress on climate action by persuading the public that the science on the issue remains unsettled.

They address the most pressing issues of our time — urbanization, energy, and climate change — followed by a dialog on the Road to Zero, the progress made to date, and the road ahead to a carbon neutral and sustainable future.

The Senate climate change committee's leadership on climate and energy issues has been critical for Massachusetts's progress, and this bill is an important next step.

Join Surfrider and dozens of organizations as we march to raise awareness about climate change and urge the Trump Administration to not undo progress our country has made on this important issue.

31 December 2009 The Copenhagen Accord has drawn fire because it's not a legally - binding climate agreement on targets and funding mechanisms, but progress has been made on many sticky issues beyond the accord.

Explore the science behind climate change, what's causing it and the special interests that have been fighting progress on this critical issue.

In light of the recent release of the OECD report, «Climate Finance in 2013 - 14 and the USD 100 billion goal,» and the finance ministerial that took place in Lima, Peru on Oct. 9 on the sidelines of the World Bank / International Monetary Fund annual meetings, 112 groups from around the world sent a letter to those developed country governments that last month issued the Joint Statement on Tracking Progress Towards the $ 100 billion Goal.

Holmstead's client list on climate issues includes Southern Company, Duke Energy, Progress Energy and the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council on climate matters.

PS Climate Progress also has a post today on the same issue.

«If France really wants to remain the guardian of the Paris Agreement,» added Lucille Dufour, policy adviser for Reseau Action Climate in France, «it must bring forth all of its political weight to drive forward progress on key issues like adaptation and loss - and - damage.»

The Rio Fossil Awards will be presented daily throughout the negotiations highlighting the country or countries who do the least to support progress (or the most to block it) on issues relevant to climate change, such as energy, forests, and the green economy.

He thanks participants for their «stick to it - ness,» their «global spirit of partnership,» and noted that their projects are making positive differences all around the world — and that this attitude will be crucial for making progress on issues like climate in the future.

Based on a book of the same name by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, the film by Robert Kenner purports to show how «Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such important issues as global climate change.»

We're not sure if specific energy issues will come up, but even if energy isn't mentioned by name, the need for secure, reliable, affordable energy pervades a host of issues likely to dominate the debate — much as they've been central to discussions around the country involving races up and down the ballot — issues such as economic revival and strength, jobs, U.S. security in the world and others, including progress on climate.

BEIJING — Five days of talks aimed at bringing China and the United States closer together on the issue of climate change did not yield substantial progress, according to a Congressional delegation that met with environmental officials and the country's top leaders this week.