Reversing the last government's decision to cancel or reduce some climate policies would help tackle the cost of living and cut bills, the UK's climate watchdog has said. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) said
President Biden – pictured here at COP26, Glasgow, in November 2021 – has introduced a range of climate change policies since taking office. Photo by Alan Harvey / UK Government via Flickr The White House has issued instructions to agencies on how to achieve the federa...
This chapter will introduce climate change mitigation policies and institutions in Indonesia. In September 2009, the president of Indonesia stated that Indonesia would reduce emissions by 26 % unilaterally and up to 41 % with international support by 2020 compared to business as usual emission level....
Policies promoted under the plan would place political personnel in positions to oversee science at major federal agencies and reduce such agencies’ limitations on polluting industries. The project additionally proposes chopping up several agencies. It called for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm...
They wrote that policies and technologies that could mitigate the effects of climate change have already been identified but "what is lacking is the courage to implement them at the required scale." The letter urged the government to "acknowledge the gravity of the threat posed by climate change...
That policy offers an open-ended stream of federal funding for bigger benefit caseloads than states might otherwise choose to maintain if they bore some of the benefit costs themselves.…In a similar fashion, Medicaid “expansion” policies—which cover nearly all adults with incomes up to 138 ...
In this context, inter-institutional coordination and communication is considered a key element to be improved to ensure a proper fit and alignment of climate change policies and strategies at various governmental levels and to reduce the current level of institutional fragmentation13. The attention ...
Fig. 1. Proportion of respondents reporting their Local Authority has enough information to decide whether to change its plans or policies in relation to climate change: 2003 (n = 169) vs. 2013 (n = 116). This confidence is underpinned by much more frequent engagement with official scientific...
How- ever, given policies to reduce biomass and fossil fuel con- sumption (which constitutes most energy and material consumption) by improving the efficiency of use and moving towards a renewable energy transition, the TEC and DMC values may approach the LVS scenario. In 2017, the biomass ...
"Our results lead us to support policies targeting specific socioeconomic groups at individual and community level, which is not only crucial to mitigate the observed inequalities in LCT adoption, but also relevant in promoting energy efficiency and resilience to high energy prices as we transition ...