It is vital that we look beyond a carbon price, beyond our borders, and beyond the next decade if we are to create
responsible climate change policy.
Whoever wins,
a responsible climate change policy will not be forthcoming, but of course, there are other issues of importance for Americans, leading them to vote for one or the other candidate.
Not exact matches
It's put
climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions traje
change leaders in a variety of key positions, made
climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions traje
change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global
Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions traje
Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint
climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and
climate legislation that will put us on a
responsible emissions trajectory.
The Advisory Board plays an important part in establishing our long term thematic research agenda into global sustainability issues, such as poverty,
climate change, ecosystem services, biodiversity, pandemics, demographics, migration, public
policy and
responsible lobbying.
We said at the time that we had discontinued contributions to several public
policy research groups whose position on
climate change could divert attention from the important discussion about how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally
responsible manner.
It is clear that what he thinks and says matters, as the Department of Energy and
Climate Change is an important department of the British Government, responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview
Climate Change is an important department of the British Government, responsible for all aspects of UK energy policy, and is tasked with tackling global climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview a
Change is an important department of the British Government,
responsible for all aspects of UK energy
policy, and is tasked with tackling global
climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview
climate change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview a
change on behalf of the UK (hence the mission to Australia as exemplified by Jill Duggan's interview above).
«We have discontinued contributions to several public
policy research groups whose position on
climate change diverted attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally
responsible manner.»
In the latest attempt to greenwash the tar sands, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver has been roaming the United States trying to convince American politicians and thought leaders that Alberta's dirty crude is a clean,
responsible, sustainable — even «green» — source of energy, and that Canada's environmental record and
climate change policy are as good as it gets.
This
policy document stresses that many developing countries, and particularly children in these countries, are already suffering the most from
climate changes despite being the least
responsible for the emissions that cause them.
China is about to get tougher on energy - intensive industries, according to Xie Zhenhua, a top official
responsible for the country's
climate -
change policies.
In 2007, Exxon pledged in its corporate responsibility report that it would no longer contribute «to several public
policy research groups whose position on
climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure the energy required for economic growth in an environmentally
responsible manner.»
Many opponents of
climate change policies argue that countries like the United States should not have to reduce their ghg emissions until China reduces its emissions by comparable amounts because China is now the largest emitter of all nations in terms of total tons, yet such an argument usually ignores the historical responsibility of countries like the United States which the following illustration reveals is more than twice as
responsible for current elevated atmospheric ghg concentrations than China is.
These principles can provide a
responsible policy framework for structuring society's response to
climate change risk.
Likewise the leadership of fossil fuel exporting nations such as Russia that acknowledge
climate change but are sluggish to implement effective
policies are similarly primarily
responsible for global warming.
Some of the gaps in Chapter 3 on ethical issues raised by
climate change policy - making include: (1) ethics of decision - making in the face of scientific uncertainty, (2) whether action or non-action of other nations affects a nation's responsibility for
climate change, (3) how to spend limited funds on
climate change adaptation, (4) when politicians may rely on their own uninformed opinion about
climate change science, and (5) who is
responsible to for
climate refugees and what are their responsibilities.
Proponents of
climate change policies should seek to assure that civil society understands what corporations, institutions, and foundations have been
responsible for
climate change disinformation and which politicians have advanced the interests of these groups at the national level and seek to better understand, perhaps working with sociologists, entities and politicians most
responsible for resistance to
climate change policies at the state and regional level.
It is not enough for proponents of
climate change policies to simply make counter scientific and economic «factual» arguments to the scientific and economic claims of the
climate change policy opponents, advocates for
climate policies need to help citizens understand what interests are
responsible for the disinformation that is the basis for the false arguments made by opponents of
climate change policies, why the tactics used the opponents of
climate change policies are morally reprehensible, and why the arguments of those opposing
climate change policies will continue to create huge injustices and immense suffering in the world.
Planet3.0 would like to maintain cordial relations with REP, and strongly believes that a
responsible conservative voice for realistic
policies regarding
climate change is needed in the US.
Some of the major human activities
responsible for the destruction of wetlands in India include hydrologic alteration, agricultural activities, pollution, legal -
policy failures, direct deforestation in wetlands, inundation by dammed reservoirs, degradation of water quality, global
climate change effects, ground - water depletion and introduced species — extinction of native biota.
However, without the scientific community providing expertise and authority in
policy prescriptions, anti-science campaigns, driven by conflicts of values (as in evolution) to conflicts of investment and wealth (as in
climate change) subvert real scientific knowledge, prevent the implementation of
responsible policy, and put the future of our country in jeopardy.
In the report «Conflict Palm Oil: How US Snack Food Brands are Contributing to
Climate Change and Human rights Violations,» Rainforest Action Network is calling on global food manufacturers to adopt
responsible palm oil
policies and commit to using only traceable palm oil that is free of deforestation and human rights violations.
He is Chief Economist at the Global CCS Institute and is
responsible for advice on economic and
policy issues relating to accelerating the development of CCS as a mitigation response to
climate change.
Believe American businesses are uniquely qualified and
responsible for playing a major
policy role in solving
climate change beyond the boundaries of their company operations.
In this case, your unsupported generalization that «the electorate could not care less» about
climate change was rebutted with actual opinion polls showing that significant majorities of «the electorate» do, in fact, care a good deal, and consider the issue a priority for the President and the Congress, and support
policies to regulate GHG emissions and to hold fossil fuel corporations
responsible for the full costs of their products.
Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation's priorities, want more action by elected officials, corporations, and citizens themselves, and support a variety of
climate change and energy
policies, including holding fossil fuel companies
responsible for all the «hidden costs» of their products.
As legislative director, she was
responsible for directing a team of analysts and outreach and
policy experts to convey resonant information about
climate change to reporters,
policy makers, and the public.
5.4 That government departments which have specific responsibilities for Indigenous affairs (for example, FaHCSIA and Attorney - General's Department), work closely with departments
responsible for
climate change policy to ensure that the social, cultural, environmental and economic impacts of
climate change on Indigenous peoples are identified and addressed.