Sentences with phrase «required under the climate change»

The Government's carbon values are designed to be consistent with action required under the Climate Change Act (Box 3).

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With negotiations under way for the UK to leave the European Union, he argued for a cross-party approach and stressed that a partnership with Europe, needed to deal with the challenges posed by the refugee crisis and climate change, would require that Britain's «parting is carried out well».

The administration hasn't yet considered the climate change impacts of the proposal as required under federal law, Schneiderman wrote in comments submitted Friday.

Under the next White House Administration, Holdren said, science - based challenges that will require sustained, robust investment include efforts to ensure safe and sustainable food, water, and energy for everyone, reduce greenhouse gases, minimize harm from climate change already underway, combat diseases such as Zika, defeat cancer, improve quality - of - life for those who are aging, prevent devastating asteroid impacts, and send humans into space «not just to visit, but to stay.»

Engaging with all facets and users of water will alleviate pressures and the risks from dependencies, even more so under the impacts of climate change, but it requires initial investment.

-- The Secretary shall require each cooperating State and cooperating State agency to implement effective control measures and to effectively oversee the operation and administration of the climate change adjustment assistance program under this part, including by means of monitoring the operation of control measures to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the data being collected and reported.

Under the Climate Change Convention, which holds its first formal meeting in Berlin in March, they are all required to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000.

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

Sturrock et al. (2011) also state that the implications of climate change for white pine blister rust are uncertain, but suggest decreased impacts under a warmer, drier climate, and no change under warmer, wetter conditions because infections require both moist and cool environments.

Although continuing research will deepen this under - standing and require the report to be updated at frequent intervals, basic conclusions concerning the reality of the enhanced greenhouse effect and its potential to alter global climate are unlikely to change significantly

I realize I was trespassing with anecdote in a discussion about science and climate, which requires more than a decade to begin to show trends, but it seems to me that as recent incidents display to some extent climate change under way, it is unwise to ignore the future, which might just accelerate rather than boinging back to neutral.

Avoiding dangerous climate change would require a lot more effort, and achieving a «safe» concentration of greenhouse gases (likely to be under 350 ppm CO2) would require some carbon already resident in the atmosphere to be returned to earth.

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

Even the boldest establishment economic attempts to address climate change fall far short of what is required to protect the earth — since the «bottom line» that constrains all such plans under capitalism is the necessity of continued, rapid growth in production and profits.

It was an outgrowth of the all - important 2007 decision of the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v EPA, which upheld EPA's authority under the Act to address climate change and required action to reduce CO2 emissions unless the agency could conclude that they did not endanger public health and welfare.

(Sec. 479) Requires each state to prepare a natural resources adaptation plan detailing the state's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas in order to be eligible for funds under this subpart.

Subtitle F: Deficit Neutral Budgetary Treatment -(Sec. 496) Requires: (1) the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Worker Training Fund, the Climate Change Health Protection and Promotion Fund, and the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Fund to be treated as separate accounts in the Treasury; and (2) amounts appropriated to such Funds to be only available for the purposes set forth under this Act.

-- The Panel shall serve as a forum for interagency consultation on and the coordination of the development and implementation of a national Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476.

(8) a process for guiding the development of detailed agency - and department - specific adaptation plans required under section 478 to address the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the natural resources in the jurisdiction of each agency.

-- In order to be eligible for funds under section 480, not later than 1 year after the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdClimate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdiChange Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdclimate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdichange and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdiction.

«Notwithstanding any provision of title III or V, no stationary source shall be required to apply for, or operate pursuant to, a permit under title V, solely because the source emits any greenhouse gases that are regulated solely because of their effect on global climate change.».

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A new study led by Durham University and BirdLife International, shows that many bird species are likely to suffer under future climate change, and will require enhanced protection of important sites, better management of the wider countryside, [continue reading...]

In summary, a strong case can be made that the US emissions reduction commitment for 2025 of 26 % to 28 % clearly fails to pass minimum ethical scrutiny when one considers: (a) the 2007 IPCC report on which the US likely relied upon to establish a 80 % reduction target by 2050 also called for 25 % to 40 % reduction by developed countries by 2020, and (b) although reasonable people may disagree with what «equity» means under the UNFCCC, the US commitments can't be reconciled with any reasonable interpretation of what «equity» requires, (c) the United States has expressly acknowledged that its commitments are based upon what can be achieved under existing US law not on what is required of it as a mater of justice, (d) it is clear that more ambitious US commitments have been blocked by arguments that alleged unacceptable costs to the US economy, arguments which have ignored US responsibilities to those most vulnerable to climate change, and (e) it is virtually certain that the US commitments can not be construed to be a fair allocation of the remaining carbon budget that is available for the entire world to limit warming to 2 °C.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

The plaintiffs, once again as they are in some of these other climate change cases are seeking some pretty sweeping, both declarations of their rights under the Constitution and how those rights are being infringed by both what the state of Alaska is doing and not doing, but they're also asking for a science - based plan of attack or a plan of how to deal with climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on what the science requires and that's something on the order of eight percent per year reduction in emissions plus an accounting of the emissions that the state is responsible for, and how fast they're being reduced.

The U.S. has failed to submit by 1 January a major report required under U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«Given the scrutiny that climate change science is currently under, attributing biological changes to global warming should surely require the highest standards of proof.»

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

Annex II Parties are required to provide financial resources to enable developing countries to undertake emissions reduction activities under the convention and to help them adapt to effects of climate change.

For example, adaptation of Sitka spruce to climate change projected for 2080 under the A2 scenario (using the Canadian and Hadley GCMs) would require advancement of annual bud set date within each local population by over 50 days (Aitken et al., 2008).

Some have predicted that a 6 ppm increase in atmospheric methane concentrations could induce abrupt climate change — Semiletov says that would require the release of only 1 - 2 % of the methane stored under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf.

The Milan meeting, which ends tomorrow, is intended to gauge countries» progress under the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to hash out details of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the original pact requiring cuts in gas emissions by industrialized countries.

The United States has failed to meet a key deadline (January 1, 2018) for submitting a major report, required under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

It's incredible to think that the carbon budgets established under the Climate Change Act have not prompted the installation of a single solar panel or wind turbine and haven't required a single coal - fired power station to close.

Under the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act 2007, the government was required to release a plan for climate change by Tuesday, August 21, 2007, according to a report from the CBC.

Such farms require a Renewable Energy Approval («REA»), from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change under the Environmental Protection Act («EPA»).