Sentences with phrase «setting national climate policies»

Several countries including Bolivia, Fiji, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have asserted that domestic justice issues need to be considered to reduce domestic poverty in setting national climate policies although they have not offered an equity framework to operationalize this idea at the global scale.

Not exact matches

The EU's climate policies set binding targets for the region's 27 member states, but Ivanova says the different countries need «a finer spatial dimension of consumption - related and environmental information that moves beyond national averages.»

BEIJING — As the United States reverses its climate policies, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter is in the midst of setting up a national carbon - trading system.

National and global discussions of climate science and related policy choices have intensified markedly in the last several months, which is not surprising given pledges by President Obama and congressional leaders to pursue climate legislation and the December deadline world leaders set for a new climate treaty.

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.

National governments need to promise greater emissions cuts and enact policies to keep global warming to the more ambitious target of 1.5 C or at most 2C, which they set as the goal of the Paris climate agreement.

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.

BEIJING — As the United States reverses its climate policies, the world's top greenhouse gas emitter is in the midst of setting up a national carbon - trading system.

Speakers will offer their perspectives and experiences in national and global settings relating to their climate policy recommendations and actions.

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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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.

They thus pair national policy setting — in which countries determine their contributions in the context of their national priorities, circumstances and capabilities — with a global framework that drives collective action towards a zero - carbon, climate - resilient future.

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.

The administration has been meeting for weeks with California representatives and car manufacturers to broker a deal in which the state could ascertain the ability to regulate auto emissions, when Carol Browner (assistant to the climate on energy and climate) began advocating a national set of rules: «The hope across the administration is that we can have a unified national policy when it comes to cleaner vehicles,» Browner said, according to the Washington Post.

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.