This study reviews and explores the role of environmental framing in the socio-political acceptance of smart grid technologies by citizens, media, and key stakeholders, using the case study of British Columbia, Canada a low carbon electricity-based region where smart grid deployment has been mandated as part of climate change legislation.
Local health impact evidence can be a powerful tool in creating local public opinion and mandate to climate change mitigation.
Meanwhile, the administration finally agreed, under duress, to release a Congressionally mandated report on the effects of climate change on various regions of the United States.
The National Climate Assessment is a Congressionally mandated report on the impacts of climate change and was culled from the work of 300 authors in a dozen federal agencies.
In the run-up to Copenhagen we saw the mandates of organizations involved in all sorts of causes ranging from human rights to poverty make the issue of climate change their mandate.
Six years ago, the SEC tentatively dipped its toes in the rising waters of climate change, short of mandating specific disclosures of risk.
The study found that federal mandates for biofuel production could amplify the effect of climate change on corn price volatility by hampering the market's ability to adjust to changes in crop yields.
"The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil," read one of Exxon's Times ads, published shortly before the Kyoto protocol was signed.
The issue has inspired intense wrangling, with some nations accusing the islanders of both exaggerating the still murky consequences of climate change and trying to expand the mandate of the Security Council by asking it to take action.
Like many cities, Seattle is tackling its CSO problem on a variety of fronts to meet EPA water-quality mandates, and climate change has become one more compelling reason to do so, Fleming says.
