Sentences with phrase «world in climate policy»

Although BC is leading the world in climate policy, its trading partners are doing very little.

Not exact matches

WASHINGTON, April 25 - A day after flaunting his friendship with Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron forcefully challenged many of the U.S. president's policies on Wednesday, urging the United States to engage more with the world, step up the fight against climate change and stay in the Iran nuclear pact for now.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

CB: This project is progressing in a climate where the U.S.'s and the world's energy needs and policies are under scrutiny.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

In the Los Angeles Times Tracy Wilkinson saw Trump's withdrawal from the climate deal as «the most concrete sign yet» that his America first foreign policy «has begun to disrupt the global order and ultimately could cede Washington's dominant role on the world stage to China.»

Employees work in approximately eight branches of the OCE, including Sustainable Development, Agricultural Labor Affairs, World Agricultural Outlook Board, Climate Change Program Office, and the Offices of the Chief Meteorologist, Environmental Markets, Energy Policy and New Uses, and Risk Assessment and Cost - Benefit Analysis.

«The utter lack of a credible climate policy plan on the part of the Harper government has gone a long way towards undermining Canada's standing in the world, even as a clear majority of Canadian citizens seek action and leadership on climate change.»

This mix of public policies (incentives, infrastructure and investment) must be ambitious, to drive clean innovation — which is the key to generating climate solutions and securing Canadian competitiveness and jobs in a low - carbon world.

A world - class regulatory environment — The business leaders who took part in our survey on the investment climate identified the regulatory burden as the single most important policy factor affecting their investment decisions.

Climate change is an important issue to the long - term health of our community and the world, however policies in our relatively small jurisdiction which are not aligned with the realities in other Canadian provinces and the United States put us at a competitive disadvantage.

«Everybody needs the kinds of cheaper panels, not only in China, but also the world,» said Li Junfeng, a senior Chinese economic adviser and the architect of many of China's renewable energy policies, at The New York Times's Climate Tech conference on Thursday in San Francisco.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

The outlook for oil prices in my view, remains problematic especially with the advent of pro-energy policies in the US by President Trump's administration and less restraints on oil production and pipelines as a result of climate concerns; the reserves accretion is probably artificial and worse still, at the expense of trade and manufacturing output; the IMF and World Bank have been wrong many times before -LRB-!)

Such an approach can effectively address the policy challenges facing the country and in some cases the world, including those raised by concerns such as climate change, health care issues, trade, terrorism and agriculture, said Pearl.

«This is like the pyramids of Giza for climate policy,» said Nathaniel Keohane, vice president of international climate at the Environmental Defense Fund, referring to the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the World in Egypt.

Over the long term, he worries that climate skeptics in the policy world, after dismissing climate change as a risk in recent years, could later change positions and say it was real, embracing climate engineering «as this magic solution that could solve the problem.»

Karin Kemper, director of climate policy and finance at the World Bank said that's something the institution is working to change, saying at the report's release, «a number of things in the report are actually already happening as we speak.»

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultural policies.

Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.

Climate change is here and the world is unprepared, scientists and policy makers declared multiple times in 2014.

Scientific research can inform policies aimed at addressing the needs of communities displaced by climate change, something that is already happening in the United States and around the world, according to experts at a 25 - 26 July meeting of the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition.

Orr, who is also the dean of the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, said U.S. cities and states lead the world in important aspects of climate resilience and mitigation precisely because the Trump administration has rolled back federal ambition.

At the same time, if it's viewed as a failure, I think it could hamper climate policy in many parts of the world.»

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.

A new model developed at Princeton University predicts that, if the poor continue to be affected in this way — and current climate policies remain the same — the world's future poor will be even worse off than impoverished people today.

The Society credits Merkel for boosting German research funding and for «the leadership she has provided on the European and world stages in promoting science - based policy making over issues such as climate change.»

Observers note that if the vote triggers a prolonged recession, that could have an impact on U.K. energy and climate policy as well as its aid budget, which per capita is one of the largest in the world.

If the world is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Poworld is focused on adaptation, Third World countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign PoWorld countries will suffer the catastrophes caused by climate change while «rich countries will muddle through with dikes, crops redesigned to survive drought, more air conditioning and the like,» Peter Passell wrote in the news magazine Foreign Policy.

As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.

At the policy level, Singh said, countries need to ensure polluters account not just for immediate health concerns, but also for health problems that are exacerbated by climate change, both within their borders and in other parts of the world.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

The Project The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the role of human - induced climate change in the risk of extreme weather events in developing countries and identify how such scientific evidence could help to bridge the science - communications - policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more resilient in a warming world.

The top graph depicts CTL in a no policy scenario; the bottom graph, for CTL in a world climate policy scenario.

In its 2012 World Energy Outlook, the IEA is very clear about the impact of climate policy on U.S. oil demand.

To dramatically reduce violence and work towards a more peaceful world where individuals have better self — esteem and better conflict resolutions skills, instruction in peaceful living must be intentional and school climate, policies, and practices need to shift to be more caring and responsive to learner

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Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - wide, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

The four - day networking and learning industry event engages delegates from around the world in discussions on a range of industry topics, such as marketing and promotions, niche markets, industry trends, sustainable tourism, climate change, airline access, public - private partnership, and tourism policy choices for Africa.

A committee convened by the InterAcademy Council, the association of the world's leading national science academies, delivered a long to - do list to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday, including steps ranging from limiting the term and policy recommendations of its leadership to fostering more transparency in its machinations and being more careful to describe the science determining the strength, or weakness, of particular conclusions.

First in Europe because Europe was doing more on climate policy than any other region in the world.

Instead, you'll see something in between the world sought by «climate hawks,» the term proposed by David Roberts of Grist as the label for aggressive campaigners pursuing policies that live up to the picture delineated by science, and the contrasting world of free marketeers and industrialists who speak breezily of climate uncertainty as a reason to relax and let spreading wealth give people the leisure to start to care for the environment and the money and technology to do something to clean it up.

-- It's clear that vulnerability to impacts from climate extremes, natural or otherwise, is largely a function of poverty, so fostering economic advancement (and access to any form of relatively clean energy, fossil fuels included) in the world's poorest places is smart climate policy.

That, coupled with the increased urgency which will (or might) arise if climate becomes more obviously destructive, should, in my view, eventually open the eyes of enough of the power brokers of the world so that meaningful policy actions will begin to be implemented.

I recently asked whether the world is poised to enter an Obama - style «trance» on climate policy given the focus on economic turmoil and plunge in oil prices, which have in the past seemed synchronized with concerns about transforming energy policy.

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.

Of course, there are quite a few experts in climate science and policy who warn that debating whether the research pointing to a disruptive human climate influence is, or is not, settled is a complete distraction from the reality that the basics are not in dispute (more CO2 = warming world = rising seas and lots of changing climate patterns).