Sentences with phrase «requires global climate policy»

Figure (right) shows the increase in energy demand to 2030 and 2050, which requires global climate policy to leapfrog to low carbon energy development pathways.

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I strongly support policies to address global climate change and believe that a comprehensive solution requires congressional action.

The Polaris Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate climate change.

Unfortunately whilst certain political commentators / manipulators and leaders sow confusion about the issue of climate change and anthropogenic emissions, and also state that taking formal action would be «bad for our economy», the firm policy required at global / regional level, the correct signal to society / industry and the global action needed will not happen.

Almost all the experts I've talked to in 20 years of exploring the entwined climate and energy challenges agree that satisfying global energy demand while limiting human influence on climate will require revolutionary advances in both policy and technology.

Why a Different Approach Is Required if Global Climate Change Is to Be Controlled Efficiently or Even at All, Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol.

Solving the complex problem of global climate change requires more than a single policy.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

It is not the only legitimate climate policy, the one true sign of seriousness on global warming, or a substitute for the difficult and painstaking political work that will be required to transition to a sustainable energy system.

Solving the climate crisis requires political leadership that recognizes the serious reality of global warming and fights for policies that move us toward a clean energy economy, not backward.

Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future global and regional climate change research and assessment.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Preventing climate change's worst impacts will require global action — both in the form of an international climate agreement and through national, regional, and state policies to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Although different theories of distributive justice would reach different conclusions about what «fairness» requires quantitatively, most of the positions taken by opponents of climate change policies fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny given the huge differences in emissions levels between high and low emitting nations and individuals and the enormity of global emissions reductions needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Along with many other economists, my view on global warming - associated climate change is that the world is most unlikely to be able to agree and coordinate globally, and then sustain for the centuries required, the growth - denying policies that would be needed if we were to limit human - induced global warming to any material effect beyond the [continue reading...]

In the search for planet levers to address climate change, we should look for ways to significantly cut emissions that don't require grand policy solutions, such as carbon taxes or global cap - and - trade schemes, or the approval of the U.S. Congress or the United Nations.

If nations fail to base their climate change policies on what equity, ethics, and justice require of them on mitigation of their greenhouse gas emissions and funding for adaptation, losses, and damages, then the global response to climate change will not likely be ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate impacts while deepening existing injustices in the world.

On December 11, Rep. Jay Inslee (D - WA), Rep. Wayne Gilchrest (R - MD), and 22 House co-signers sent a letter to William Brennan of NOAA, the Acting Director of the Climate Change Science Program, in which they say: «The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.Climate Change Science Program, in which they say: «The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.climate change.»

The failure of the CCSP to produce a National Assessment report within the time frame required by law has made it more difficult for Congress to develop a comprehensive policy response to the challenge of global climate change.

The figure represents the difference between the estimated $ 4.8 tn of investment needed to meet global fossil fuel demand between 2018 and 2025 under current climate policies and the $ 3.3 tn that would be required if the Paris agreement on reducing carbon emissions was fully implemented.

«BP Research and Technology Group Vice President David Eyton said: «The challenge of climate change requires policy development at all levels: global, national and local.

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

It's a major policy, yes, but stabilizing global temperatures and «fixing» climate change will require a lot of moving parts.

But for that we need to see that successful climate policy requires other global trade and financial policies.»

Interactions between climate change and global economic growth: relevant stresses are linked not only to impacts of climate change on such things as resource supply and waste management but also to impacts of climate change response policies, which could affect development paths by requiring higher cost fuel choices (high confidence).