Sentences with phrase «setting national climate change policies»

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

These rules collectively mean that nations may not base their climate change national strategies on national interest because they they have duties, obligations, and responsibilities to others that they must take into account when setting national climate change policy.

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The full Presidential Climate Action Plan (as opposed to summaries) contains a comprehensive set of ideas to reduce transportation emissions, covering not only improvements in vehicle efficiency and alternative fuels, but also changes in national policy to promote high - speed rail for intercity travel, mass transit and telecommuting, and smart growth in urban development.

A new website should be of great value to policy - makers to view and understand the relationship between their national emissions reduction strategies and the global climate change problem, issues that must be considered in setting national ghg targets as a matter of ethics.

The Environmental Defense Fund — a key national climate policy advocate — continues to argue that we won't drastically limit climate change until we set a carbon price or carbon cap.

There is large fixed cost of setting up a global organization to assess the literature on climate change to inform national and international policy.

If records were available on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change, they could be used both by the international community to pressure nations to improve performance on their climate change ethical obligations and also create a factual basis that could be used by citizens within the nation to ensure that the national climate change policies consider ethical obligations in setting their emissions targets.

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Every aspect of climate change is shaped by ethical dispute: from scientific practice to lobbying and activism and eventually, at national and international levels, the setting and implementation of climate policy.