"It would be a shame to deny people an important public health goal while we await consensus on carbon dioxide emissions," she said.
This idea, first proposed six years ago and formally endorsed by the International Energy Agency in 2011, has been gaining traction because of the ever-stronger scientific consensus that carbon emissions from human activity is the principal driver of destructive climate change.
But there is a consensus that carbon nanotubes will be an important part of the field, whatever it is when it finally arrives, and one of the world's leading researchers on such tubes is Fan Shoushan of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
A senior federal official reportedly told CBC Trudeau needs consensus on carbon pricing at the meeting in order to move forward on the issue, but on Monday, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall made his opposition known, loud and clear.
Of the GOP presidential hopefuls, only two —South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and former New York Governor George Pataki — are on the record endorsing the scientific consensus that carbon emissions are warming the planet.
Minority Leader John Boehner described the overwhelming scientific consensus that carbon dioxide is contributing to climate change as "comical" during an appearance on Sunday, noting that cow flatulence contributes CO2 to the environment all the time.
The development of a low-carbon economy has worldwide consensus and has been accepted by many countries as an important part of their future development strategy.
In one of the stories, which ran in March 2011, Katz told Post reporter Darryl Fears: "There's no strong consensus on whether carbon dioxide causes global warming or climate change".
There's broad consensus that a carbon price will spur the creation of new jobs in clean energy industries and supporting sectors, be a catalyst for investment, keep more money at home, and save companies and consumers billions of dollars in reduced energy bills through encouragement of efficiency.
There is now an overwhelming consensus that growth in carbon emissions could mean climatic disaster for our planet.
