Sentences with phrase «think tank resources»

Major studies, including one from the non-partisan think tank Resources for the Future, show that a tax on carbon is better for overall US economic growth than the current mix of higher taxes on work and capital that a carbon tax could displace.

«A new paper from the think tank Resources for the Future finds that the NAFTA talks are a chance to solidify the North American energy and environmental relationship.

«I believe there is no evidence whatsoever that Americans have revived, or that Fukushima reignited the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s,» said former Indiana Congressman Philip Sharp, now the president of think tank Resources for the Future.

«It's a remarkable report,» says Philip Sharp, president of the think tank Resources for the Future in Washington, D.C. «It's a balanced, high - caliber group with public input.

Subsidy reform boosts revenue in India, Indonesia Phil Sharp, a former 10 - term congressman from Indiana and current president of the economic think tank Resources for the Future, said such critical examinations of energy subsidies and their broad societal effects are helpful in keeping the issue «out front» with policymakers.

, now the head of the nonpartisan think tank Resources for the Future, said today that he is not ready to rule out action in Congress on a global warming bill.

Juha Siikamäki, a fellow at the environmental economic think tank Resources for the Future and lead author of the study, says efforts to maintain mangroves could add an enormous potential for carbon offset projects.

Not exact matches

«We would agree that Alberta's historic focus on maximizing oilsands production... rather than optimizing production on the highest quality ore may be having unnecessary environmental impacts on things like greenhouse gas intensity and tailings production and lowering returns to Albertans as the owners of the resource,» said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think - tank.

«If China follows the typical pattern, the world will see hundreds of billions of dollars in Chinese overseas investment in the decade ahead, balanced between mature markets and natural resource hosts,» opined a recent report from the Rhodium Group, a private think - tank based in New York.

It will offer a platform and a think tank of ideas, strategies and, of an opportunity to make sense of a new challenging economy and how to make the very best allocation of your investment resources that satisfies plan sponsors, board members, and, in the end, the recipients of that intelligence.

Resources Futures, a research think tank, undertook a broad literature review in 2010 and identified 37 relevant studies, only 14 of which use methods likely to generate credible results.

Mahamudu Bawumia's claim that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) has since 2009 amassed and spent 12 times the nominal resources that the NPP had over its eight years of leadership is «cleverly exaggerated», policy think tank IMANI has said in its commentary on the opposition New Patriotic Party's vice presidential nominee's lecture he delivered on Thursday September 8 at the National Theatre.

Developing these kinds of online resources fits perfectly with the mission of most think tanks and issue advocacy groups.

To keep up, they'll need to devote some serious resources to building institutions dedicated to turning out good staff, much like they built a think tank infrastructure in the 1980s and 90s to generate ideas for the movement.

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.

Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.

National security organizations and think tanks have produced substantial research projecting that warming will exacerbate existing problems like infectious diseases and resource competition, which underlie many of today's conflicts.

Anne Thompson, NBC's chief environmental affairs correspondent, moderated the expert panel, which included (from left): Heidi Cullen, a correspondent for Climate Central, a nonprofit that reports on climate science; Bill Richardson, former governor of New Mexico and a board member of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank; Grady Gammage Jr., a practicing attorney and a senior scholar at the ASU Global Institute of Sustainability; and Pat Mulroy, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.

Ailun Yang, a senior associate with the World Resources Institute think tank, called the amassed data «impressive.»

«They've left the thing sufficiently loose that everyone's willing to join hands,» says journalist - in - residence John Anderson of Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., economics think tank.

One factor, according to Joel Darmstadtler of Resources for the Future, a think - tank based in Washington DC, is that the world economy has conspired against the convention.

Although the country ranks among the top 20 percent most efficient in the world in terms of emissions intensity by the intergovernmental organization International Energy Agency, its total greenhouse gas emissions jumped by 74 percent from 1990 to 2012, according to the estimates of D.C. - based think tank World Resources Institute.

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made availablResources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made availablresources being made available.»

In fact, Germany hopes to develop technology to store excess electricity from renewable resources as gas to be burned later, a scheme known as «power to gas,» according to economist and former German politician Rainer Baake, now director of an energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende.

«Evidence is accumulating weekly, monthly as to how dangerous this will be,» said Andrew Steer, head of the World Resources Institute think - tank in Washington.

But he must go further,» David Waskow, director of International Climate Initiatives at the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank, said in a statement responding to some of Tillerson's comments.

Sam Adams, U.S. director of the World Resources Institute, a Washington, D.C. — based environmental think tank, issued this statement:

The forests of Europe, North America and the former Soviet Union have expanded so much in the past four decades that they are counteracting the greenhouse effect, according to the Washington think - tank Resources for the Future.

The promises were analysed by the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environmental think tank in Washington DC (see map).

A recent study by the World Resources Institute think tank in Washington, D.C., found that capacity is expected to more than double to 519 GW with the construction of 455 proposed new plants.

Expenditure on education and training in Australia, from Victoria University think tank the Mitchell Institute, brings together data across all areas of education, serving as a prompt for governments to consider a more planned and consistent approach to distributing resources.

The IRP's reports have been used by and referred to by international organizations, national governments, think - tanks and research organizations, academia, industry and civil society, in their discussions and planning for new policies that take into consideration resource efficient and sustainable consumption and production.

Based in Half Moon Bay, Calif., ISKME is an independent think tank that conducts research and provides resources to school districts and educational organizations interested in using data and information to improve student achievement.

In other words, Gates is more than a brilliant but politically naive professor or insightful but under - resourced think tank.

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) is an interdisciplinary think tank whose central mission is to mobilize the resources of Harvard and the broader research community in support of the struggle for racial and ethnic justice.

A 2010 study by the Brookings Institution, a center - left Washington, D.C. - based think tank, looked at one of HCZ's two Harlem charter schools and expressed grave concerns about the resources required to expand the HCZ model.

The IFS, a prominent think tank, has set out its belief that increasing costs and pupil numbers mean resources per pupil could fall «significantly».

«What is new,» he tells NPR Ed, «is the tremendous amount of resources and energy in the last 10 or 15 years being put into what's referred to as «disrupting» the current system in favor of alternative certification, by philanthropy, think tanks, advocacy groups and the U.S. Department of Education.»

«We need a new approach to the ongoing failure of our city school systems... one that stops jamming scarce resources into dysfunctional systems that remain impervious to reform and improvement,» Smarick wrote in a recent blog post for a conservative think tank.

The World Resources Institute (WRI) is an environmental think tank that goes beyond research to find practical ways to protect the earth and improve people's lives.

In most major cities, even middle - class families are eligible for subsidy, explains Martha Friendly, founder and executive director of the Child Care Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), a Toronto - based think tank.

«It's easy to criticize parents for using unlicensed care, but there may not be alternatives,» explains Martha Friendly, founder and executive director of Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU), a Toronto - based think tank.

But it also links to the advantages held by the coalition of conservative think tanks, advocacy groups and industry associations, despite the fewer financial resources they employ overall and spend specific to climate change and energy - related activities.

Oil companies have about ten years to figure out a new business model, says Professor Paul Stevens, Distinguished Fellow, Energy, Environment and Resources at Chatham House — a think tank focused on international affairs.

The Energy Research Institute, the energy policy think tank arm of the powerful National Development and Resource Commission, recommended a range that was right in line with the announcement — 40 to 44 percent.

Now we need an all - out sprint to get over the finish line in Paris,» said Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute, a Washington - based environmental think tank.

With offices in the North America, Europe and Asia, the international think tank tracks countries» resource deficits and assesses the risks that they create for national economies — risks that are currently underestimated in many country - risk models and sovereign credit ratings.

In this online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award - winning ALEC Exposed investigation) tracks and unmasks the «wage crushers»: the corporations, trade associations, «think tanks,» and front groups lobbying hard against better wages, benefits, and job standards for workers, with help from ALEC and its spin - off group ACCE.

«There has to be $ 100 billion in financing that has to be mobilised in this period between now and 2022, and that is not going to come from government alone,» he told a conference call hosted by the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.

«It's clear that Congress is fairly split on this,» says Jennifer Morgan, global director of the Climate Change Program at the World Resources Institute, an international think tank, in a telephone interview Tuesday.