Sentences with phrase «thinktank centreforum»

Here we go again: prominent climate sceptics gathering together to meet under the welcoming awning of a right - wing, libertarian thinktank.

The study, by carbon trading thinktank Sandbag, found that a huge oversupply of carbon pollution permits means many are being banked to enable emissions after 2020, when efforts to tackle global warming should be intensifying.

Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe / PA Ministers have been urged to bring forward their 2040 ban on new diesel and petrol car sales by a decade, a move which an environmental thinktank said would almost halve oil imports and largely close the gap in the UK's climate targets.

An independent thinktank, the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI), says the industry faces «a perfect storm» of factors, including international action to limit global average temperatures to 2 ˚C above their pre-industrial level, and rapid advances in clean technologies.

Although these extremes are both unlikely they represent about a 5 C difference in global temperature just from the chosen fossil fuel policy, and it is no wonder that energy policy has got the world's attention now because we can make that much difference despite what you read in op - eds, blogs and certain thinktank reports.

Only slightly off - subject: the Guardian's environment editor John Vidal has just published dire predictions of future temperatures worse than Monbiot's worst wet dreams, issuing from an MIT Global Change (that's what they call themselves) thinktank, which is financed by ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Electricité de France, among others.

While working at the Breakthrough Institution, a U.S. - based thinktank, I studied the effect of renewables on climate change.

The stark report is by Stern and the thinktank Carbon Tracker.

Although Lawson and his Global Warming Policy Foundation have been discredited and attacked by numerous scientists and senior politicians, his thinktank continues to receive significant coverage, wrongfully distorting the public and policy debate over climate change.

In one of the largest literature reviews on the topic yet, the American thinktank the Breakthrough Institute has concluded that at an economy - wide level the rebound effect could have a serious impact.

The Climate and Health Council supports Nasa scientist James Hansen as he joins the campaign to uncover secret funders bankrolling climate sceptic Nigel Lawson and his lobbying think - tank (Climate experts back unveiling of Lawson thinktank donor, 23 January).

AIESEC, for example, isn't a «green» group, or a libertarian thinktank, though I doubt anyone in that association of students would thank me for offering to link them to the Climate Change debate.

Last year, according to a new report from the climate change thinktank E3G, the Chinese invested two and a half times as much as the EU in clean tech.

That's the conclusion of a new energy policy review from influential thinktank the International Energy Agency (IEA).

A recent report for thinktank Policy Exchange said heat pumps were costly and disruptive to install.

People like Andrew Bolt are still going on about the 1997 Oregon petition, in which a lot of people (about 1 per cent of whom had any more relevant qualifications than I do) agreed with a misleading statement sent out by a lunatic - fringe thinktank, and were then quoted as «scientists who reject global warming».

Congress can override the president if the House of Representatives and Senate both pass joint - resolutions — a kind of formal statement — as thinktank the Centre for American Progress and blog Climate Progress point out.

Mark Campanale of the thinktank Carbon Tracker Initiative said the actual financial losses from unchecked global warming could be higher than estimated by the financial model behind the new study.

«Climategate» inquiries were «highly defective», report for sceptic thinktank rules,» The Guardian, September 14, 2010.

They only need some thinktank to write a document that they can quote and bingo, no need to evaluate the science themselves, just the spoonfed, cleansed, version from the thinktank.

Scientists, too, would mostly see the thinktank reports as very thin on actual science.

World Resources Institute (WRI), the US - based thinktank, says the submission is «solid», but «the EU can go further».

The Carbon Tracker Initiative, a thinktank, suggests the oil price needs to be around $ 95 a barrel to make such risky investments worthwhile.

Dr Indur Goklany is affiliated with the Exxon Funded thinktank the International Policy Network (US).

Idso is president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a thinktank which has been funded by ExxonMobil.

I'm sure your readers are aware that The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a thoroughly discredited Exxon - funded thinktank listed with the rest of the $ 16 million dollars worth at / / www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.

Naturally the conservative papers will cater to their thinktank contributors like Pete du Pont et al..

She is the founder of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), a lab site in Brooklyn, a performance - making collective, and thinktank.

At least, that's what Alexandra Mandel from digital nomad thinktank BeUnsettled thinks of when she pictures working remotely:

The Education Datalab thinktank, which has done research into the progression of students from year 12 to 13, said the St Olave's case was part of a broader pattern of behaviour which «a minority» of sixth forms are engaging in.

In a novel approach to data input, education charity The Difference and thinktank Education Datalab have reached out to teachers and others to help find out how many private providers take excluded or off - rolled pupils.

But Jonathan Simons, head of the education at the right - leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, said drastic falls in Ofsted grades are usually caused by major events such as a change in pupil cohorts, heads leaving, an exodus of teachers or a financial crisis.

In what is being billed as a keynote speech to the CentreForum education thinktank, the Ofsted chief is expected to call for a more «inclusive» approach to education.

Sarah Jones, of the education thinktank LKMco, said that teachers and heads would object to the suggestion that they ought to be giving something back to the exam system.

IPPR thinktank has found that only 47 per cent of disadvantaged children in the North achieve a «good» level in the early years foundation stage, compared to 59 per cent in the capital.

According to an interim report by thinktank LKMCo, the fear of being labelled as a failure is making children feel physically sick before sitting a test.

In his address on Monday to the CentreForum education thinktank, Sir Michael Wilshaw is expected to call for a more «inclusive» approach to education.

The findings have been published in a report from education thinktank LKMco and education company Pearson.

Muslim populations around the world - and their size in 2030 - have been calculated by a respected US thinktank.

CrushTime was developed after a design thinktank session held with Google.

About Site - British Future is a new independent, non-partisan thinktank seeking to involve people in an open conversation, addressing identity, integration, migration and opportunity.

Glada Lahn, a senior research fellow at thinktank Chatham House, says the water issues often affect more than one country at a time, making international cooperation even more important:

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil - funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

«They can, for example, become more brittle, susceptible to cracking or less able to cope with temperature extremes,» said Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at London - based thinktank Chatham House.

Open Left, a new project at the thinktank Demos to provide a forum for rethinking political values and ideas, is launched today.

Several other organisations are running targeted seat campaigns, including pro-EU Open Britain and the centre - left thinktank Compass.

A thinktank headed by a former adviser to the education secretary, Michael Gove, has been awarded # 500,000 in public money by his department.

He apparently has the backing of Shadow Energy Secretary Lisa Nandy as well as other left - wing figures such as political commentator Owen Jones and the chair of thinktank Compass, Neal Lawson.

The thinktank estimates that universal credit cuts will leave 1m working households an average of # 2,800 a year worse off by 2022.

Sobków cited research in a report by the Open Europe thinktank, which has called for in - work benefits for migrants to be curbed for two to three years.