Climate Policy

A study by Climate Policy Initiative shows energy use in the building sector grew 28 percent from 2005 to 2008 due to rapid urbanization, with carbon emissions rising 25 percent. Energy consumption in the transport sector also grew 25 percent over the ...
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This post contributed by Terence Houston, ESA's science policy analyst. Many proponents of efforts to address climate change [...] Feb 16, 05 pm. ESA Policy News: February 10. Here are some highlights from the latest ESA Policy News by ...
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Integrated assessment models (IAMs) used by researchers today – where climate change data is integrated with economic data – are dangerously flawed because they are based on naïve assumptions, according to Kevin Anderson from the ...
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The Golden State offers great promise for the country when it comes to forward- thinking climate policy. Even Big Oil didn't have the juice to stop ...
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Poll: Mountain West confused on climate policy. A survey of voters in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and New Mexico shows that a substantial portion ...
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In a major revamp of his climate policy Tony Abbott has moved on from his four-word slogan - ''great big new tax'' - to rhyming couplets, ''Julia Gillard has never seen a tax she didn't like, and Labor has never had a tax it wouldn't hike''. ...
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Environment Ministers from BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China - will meet here on Saturday to assess the post Cancun climate change policy and actions at the global and national level and discuss coordination going forward. ...
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Models guiding climate policy are 'dangerously optimistic' – environmentresearchweb: Computer models predicting future climate change are underestimating emissions and overestimating technology, warns climate scientist Kevin Anderson, ...
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Establishing the philosophy for Australian climate policy used to be relatively easy. By consigning the moral dimension of climate action (averting dangerous climate change) to the international sphere, conveniently assuming that it ...
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EPA's end-run around democracy — the agency's hijacking of climate policy via the backdoor of Clean Air Act regulations — is meeting stiff resistance on Capitol Hill. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has already held a hearing on ...
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