Those votes – during the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline – for the first time in years saw Republicans abandoning denial to debate policies of climate change.
While the politics and policies of climate change may be complicated, the message to a CEO is simple: there should be no question about where your company stands on climate policy.
We believe that the difference in adoption rates between the two is mostly due to the use of central government-led policy support schemes aimed at vertical policy integration of climate change mitigation policies.
We present a list of surveillance indicators for practitioners and policy makers that include climate-sensitive health outcomes and environmental and vulnerability indicators, as well as mitigation, adaptation, and policy indicators of climate change.
This kind of clarity does not exist on heat-trapping, or greenhouse, gases, said David Doniger, policy director of climate change of the Natural Resource Defense Council.
Instead of focusing on the policy implications of climate science, economic-based reports are turning the attention to the vulnerability of infrastructure, food production and other risks.
She didn't blame anyone for this state of affairs, but said "given the growing policy relevance of climate data, increasingly higher standards must be applied".
In the key policy area of climate change, the chair of the UK's Committee on Climate Change John Gummer, another leading Tory, said leaving would give away influence over continental and international ambition.
International emissions trading is widely seen as an indispensable policy pillar of climate change mitigation [Stern, N., 2007. The Economics of Climate Change. The Stern Review. Cambridge University Press, New York].
