A Liberal Democrat source in government also pointed out that deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, had emphasised climate change issues during recent visits by Barack Obama and China's premier, Wen Jiabao.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain have promised to pursue a cap-and-trade programme for limiting emissions, though neither candidate has recently emphasised climate change on the campaign trail.
Participants emphasised that climate change adaptation is viewed as an integral part of overall enterprise and ecosystem management not as a separate agenda.
Politicians are good at emphasising climate change as the greatest threat of the 21st century, but too often they fail to adapt to this new challenge 20th-century the tools of tax and regulation designed for high-carbon economies.
But research has found that images like these only serve to emphasise that climate change has no relevance to our everyday lives.
So, while Obama talked climate change in Copenhagen, he pushed for accelerated growth and consumption, emphasising such climate-deadly industries as private automobile production, new road construction, nuclear power generation, and continued coal extraction (including horrendous "mountain top removal") while extolling an entirely theoretical "clean coal".
Shorten noted "hoopla and showmanship" in the joint announcement by the PUP leader, Clive Palmer, and the climate crusader Al Gore on carbon policy last week, but emphasised "significant points of climate consensus" including the retention of the renewable energy target, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, and the Climate Change Authority.
A recent study by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism showed that most media coverage of climate change emphasised uncertainty while a quarter focused on the supposed "positive opportunities" global warming would bring.
Stakeholders emphasised the inseparability of climate and other drivers of change, the importance of relative impacts, experiences, and outcomes, and the opportunities available from strategies such as business planning and stewardship, which are not typically considered in adaptation research.
An ego-motivational climate emphasises competition and out-performing others, whereas a mastery-motivational climate stresses cooperative learning and self-referenced improvement [ 44].
Individuals thought about their safety; businesses about their balance sheets.The White House's sceptical stance lost credibility last year when it emerged that Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, had been editing scientific reports to emphasise uncertainties in climate science.
