Sentences with phrase «tested in a climate policy»

While environmental exceptions may apply to global trade agreements, such provisions have not yet been tested in a climate policy context.

Not exact matches

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Rosa's selection could bring about a climate change in state educational policy, as she has been critical of the more arduous tests introduced under Tisch.

In keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globallIn keeping with our rapidly growing innovation agenda, the Center must continue to explore new ways of using a variety of media and advanced technologies to catalyze creative thinking across disciplines and sectors, to support the design and testing of more effective interventions, and to disseminate our findings in a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globallin a way that transforms the policy and practice climate, both in the United States and globallin the United States and globally.

So that's — and the third one is just getting the research into the hands of the policy makers, because I believe that teachers and educators, when they see these connections that it's true that you can keep kids in school, pursue an alternative method of discipline and improve test scores, improve climate, improve graduation rates.

But unless these assumptions are stress - tested promptly, we risk setting climate policy in a direction that may end up ultimately infeasible and / or unsustainable.

Like Cohen, test subjects got it wrong in a way that made the unknowns of climate science seem like insurmountable barriers to strong climate policies.

Climate change featured prominently in the more philosophically - focused inauguration speech but the State of the Union is a platform to lay out specific policies, making it the first test of Obama's sincerity on climate Climate change featured prominently in the more philosophically - focused inauguration speech but the State of the Union is a platform to lay out specific policies, making it the first test of Obama's sincerity on climate climate action.

The Sierra Club, which took a «does not support» position on I - 732 in April, claims that the initiative «does not meet key tests for an effective and equitable climate policy.»

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and attempts are being made to replace it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and we have replaced it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.

If you are an adherent of sound scientific method, you must NECESSARILY be a skeptic in this as in all other areas of inquiry, and the «climate scientists» complicit in the push for the abrogation of scientific method are by definition NOT «doing science, gathering data, testing,» but rather presenting the seeming of scientific investigation while all the while using that masquerade to advance public policy measures predicated upon malicious nonsense.

TransCanada Corp.'s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has become a litmus test in the U.S. battle over energy policy, as the environmental movement looks for reassurance that President Barack Obama is committed to combatting climate change.

She had the space to do so, but instead hypothesized that science (and presumably climate science) bases its approach to statistical testing in the long shadow of its ancient historical ties to religion, which is something she may well be able to offer an opinion about, as an historian, but which has minimal relevance to policy makers or the interested public in interpreting scientific claims as found, say, in the IPCC reports.

To this end, a number of SRM governance proposals will be tested against a range of «Climate Response in 2030» scenarios constructed by a multi-disciplinary group of participants consisting of a core group of 10 - 12 researchers from multiple disciplines, practitioners from policy and NGO backgrounds, and a revolving set of figures external to the SRM research community.

Climate change has achieved such an elevated status in the policy debate that it has become a litmus test.

This project: 1) investigates, explains, and tracks public understanding of the causes, consequences, and solutions to climate change, support for climate policies, and the current barriers to action, and 2) designs and tests new strategies to engage the public in climate science and solutions.

In response to the needs of our users, Climate Interactive has updated the C - ROADS climate policy testing software with a suite of new features and analytic abiClimate Interactive has updated the C - ROADS climate policy testing software with a suite of new features and analytic abiclimate policy testing software with a suite of new features and analytic abilities.

In conclusion, the thesis advocates that GCMs be used and developed uncompromisingly for «Hypothesis testing, numerical experiments, to understand how the climate system works, including its sensitivity to altered forcing,» such a policy to continue until climate model building becomes better understood.