Sentences with phrase «report on climate change policy»

This week, China released its annual report on climate change policies.

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This is best illustrated with the Summary for Policy Makers of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007).

The analogy to the climate change legislation could be to make a statutory commitment to reduce child poverty (for example, to reach by 2020 a level of child poverty at least 90 % below the 1999 when the commitment to reduce and end child poverty was made) and then to set up an equivalent group to the Low Pay Commission or Monetary Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on Policy Committee to report before each pre-budget report and budget as to progress towards this, and to assess and advise on the range of policy options necessary to get on policy options necessary to get on track.

The Accu - Weather report was commissioned by a lobbying organisation called the Global Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&Climate Coalition, which was set up in 1989 «to coordinate business participation in the scientific and policy debate on the global climate change issue&climate change issue».

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations down to national and local communities,» said report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.

Scientists must sharpen their message and do more to engage the public as they seek to influence policy on issues such as climate change, representatives of AAAS and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre said in report issued 3 July at the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF2010) in Turin,...

Global spending to combat climate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on Tclimate change fell last year and remains far below the level needed to prevent its most dangerous effects, a report by the Climate Policy Initiative said on TClimate Policy Initiative said on Tuesday.

The report from the Commission on Health and Climate Change lays out the health impacts of a warming world and offers policy advice on how to address medical concerns and prevent them from getting worse.

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The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

• Lead Author, «Summary for Policy Makers, Emissions Scenarios 2000: Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change» (2001).

Susan Solomon, lead author of the fourth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change addressed this dimension by distinguishing between «policy - prescriptive statements» and «policy - relevant statements.»

I sent a host of climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate climate and energy specialists my post on the «America's Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate Climate Choices» reports from the National Academies and the first response comes from Mike Hulme, a professor of climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate climate studies at the University of East Anglia and author of «Why We Disagree About Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate Climate Change» and the recent «Hartwell Paper» on climate climate policy.

There are signs such changes are starting to occur, both in formal inquiries like the Muir Russell report and United Nations review of the climate panel's procedures, but also even on the blogosphere, where informed individuals with varied views on climate and energy policy are no longer simply throwing verbal bombs at each other in endless rounds of contradiction and instead shifting to constructive argument.

A few days ago I was interviewed about the challenges and opportunities in reporting on complicated, but consequential, science (climate change being a prime example) for the Journalist's Resource project of Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Any useful summary of knowledge on the causes and consequences of climate change and possible responses would have to include a hard look at the substantial (and sobering) body of work on what shapes human behavior: how people absorb or ignore scientific information — including the climate panel's own reports — and what roadblocks in human behavior await the menu of possible policy options for limiting climate - related risks.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

Remarks by Soon reported at InsideClimate News are so contrary to the Smithsonian's own published policy on climate change and so generally off the rail that the Smithsonian needs to investigate itself, I think.

According to the report, «more than 770 companies and interest groups hired an estimated 2,340 lobbyists to influence federal policy on climate change in the last year, as the issue gathered momentum and came to a vote on Capitol Hill.

In the policy arena, the eagerness to trim away caveats is even more pronounced, as was the case when climate treaty negotiators in Cancún erroneously oversimplified the core finding of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate treaty negotiators in Cancún erroneously oversimplified the core finding of the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

The summary has already contributed to current policy documents and like the NAS report on global climate change, will have significant effects on policy documents if not actual policy and dedisionmaking.

The meeting, organized by 10 universities and paid for by a variety of corporations, was, as one organizer explained, «a deliberate attempt to influence policy,» with a prime goal being to make the case that climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate climate findings had grown more dire since the 2007 reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Climate Change.

First published in 1999, it was included in the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) high - profile Summary for Policy Makers as part of its Third Assessment Report in 2001.

This summary report is a distillation of those technical documents and is intended to assist policy makers in understanding the projected impacts (and uncertainties) associated with climate variability and change on streamflow in selected BC watersheds.

This article is an overview of the U.S stance on climate change throughout 2011 based on a paper published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: «Climate change 2011: A status report on US policy&climate change throughout 2011 based on a paper published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: «Climate change 2011: A status report on US policy&Climate change 2011: A status report on US policy».

Cameron's announcement follows statements by the Conservative Party's Quality of Life Challenge policy group, whose website announced last weekend that they had «publised [sic] an important update to the Quality of Life Group's recent report on acceptable climate change and CO2 emmission [sic] targets `.

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

On June 6, Dr. Pielke Jr. reported: «The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently adopted a major new policy for overseeing conflicts of interest among its leaders and authors..On June 6, Dr. Pielke Jr. reported: «The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently adopted a major new policy for overseeing conflicts of interest among its leaders and authors..on Climate Change recently adopted a major new policy for overseeing conflicts of interest among its leaders and authors....

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

The report, Building on the best: Keeping Canada's climate promise, used analysis by Navius Research to examine the best climate change policies and solutions being used in Canada and how they can be applied at the federal level.

On 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhereOn 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhereon Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhere).

This policy document provides an update to the 2007 UNFCCC report on investment and financial flows to address climate change.

The Global Warming Policy Foundation published a pamphlet critical of the Stern Review (PDF)-- an influential report on the economics of climate change published in October 2006.

To assist policymakers as they set climate and development goals and design policies in international and domestic forums, the World Energy Council, in partnership with global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, has published the 2015 «World Energy Trilemma report: Priority actions on climate change and how to balance the trilemma».

This report from the International Food Policy Research Institute analyses in great detail the effects of climate change on agriculture, with an emphasis on developing countries.

A recent multi-model study coordinated by the Energy Modeling Forum at Stanford University (EMF 27) brought together many energy - economic models to assess technology and policy pathways associated with various climate stabilization targets (e.g., 450, 550 ppm CO2 equivalent or CO2e), partially in support of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change climate stabilization targets (e.g., 450, 550 ppm CO2 equivalent or CO2e), partially in support of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Climate Change (IPCC).

The IPCC reports have been questioned and attacked on many fronts, and this has been a source of great difficulty in making national and international policy regarding climate change.

These reports are then used by inter-governmental treaties, bodies, conferences, and national governments, as the basis for international and national policies on climate change.

«This report shows that 2 degrees is still technically possible and ought to remain the primary policy target» for climate negotiations that intend to produce a global agreement in 2015, said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Ecoclimate negotiations that intend to produce a global agreement in 2015, said Bob Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of EcoClimate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics.

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During the second Climate Leaders Summit in Poznan, the signatories of the Montreal Declaration reported on their progress and agreed a new «action statement» presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, in which they committed to setting targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency to accelerate low carbon policies prior to the climate change meeting in CopeClimate Leaders Summit in Poznan, the signatories of the Montreal Declaration reported on their progress and agreed a new «action statement» presented to UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, in which they committed to setting targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency to accelerate low carbon policies prior to the climate change meeting in Copeclimate change meeting in Copenhagen.

«Because the 21 individual reports are planned to address scientific uncertainties associated with climate change and other technical subjects and are to be issued over a period of three or more years, it may be difficult for the Congress and others to use this information effectively as the basis for making decisions on climate policy,» according to the GAO.

This analytical report aims to provide an analysis of the current level of integration of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in the Pacific region, with an emphasis on the policy and institutional environment.

This analytical report focuses on the links between gender and climate change adaptation and highlights strategies the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) used to mainstream gender into climate change adaptation policy and increase women's engagement in decision - making.

The EnergyVision 2030 Progress Report for Maine gauges the state's progress toward necessary clean energy targets and summarizes policies that together will allow the state to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on the path to meet a 75 % to 80 % reduction from 2003 levels, consistent with the Act to Provide Leadership in Addressing the Threat of Climate Change.

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