The OMB plan was not really a climate plan, it was a revenue-raising plan.
Fabian Nunez, the leader of California's Assembly, says California's climate plan is the most important legislation he's ever sponsored.
One price the Greens demanded was a multiparty parliamentary committee to devise a fresh climate plan (the opposition coalition boycotted the committee).
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Many economists say California's climate plan will benefit the economy because it will force companies to make cars, appliances and even buildings that use less fuel.
"While we welcome the areas where progress to meet targets has been made, we share the concerns that the UK CCC latest report flags up of 'considerable uncertainty' in the Scottish government's draft climate plan and the need to increase the rate of policy implementation if we are to deliver our climate targets, " Mr Ballantine said.
The Climate Adaptation Plan acknowledges the inherent trade-offs the proposals present.
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In the absence of a national climate and energy plan, how should agencies assess the planet-warming potential of individual projects?
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"I played a pretty good role in trying to get Gov. Romney to finally sign the Massachusetts climate change action plan, " she told CNN's Jim Acosta last March during the Republican primary.
"Londoners don't have to reduce their quality of life to tackle climate change, but we do need to change the way we live, " said London Mayor Ken Livingstone, announcing the London Climate Change Action Plan.
Its national action plan on climate change frequently mentions a regional approach.
We welcome the President's commitment to a major program for promotion of renewable energy, and I drew his attention to India's own ambitious national action plan on climate change, which has eight national missions covering both mitigation and adaptation.
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Best of all, this approach offers even defenders of coal a realistic long-term plan for tackling climate change.
General Electric's plan for addressing climate change is only the latest indication that companies see profits in going green.
The differences in this chamber may be too deep right now to pass a comprehensive plan to fight climate change.
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He said there was an integrated plan to tackle climate change and the programme will be reviewed later in the year.
Most of its remarkable increase in agricultural output in recent years has come from increasing yields, not from expansion of cultivation and pastures, and its national plan to combat climate change establishes the goal of reducing deforestation in the cerrado by 40% over the next decade (and by 80% in the Amazon).
There are reasons why Parliament has evolved this way but the urgent need to take action on climate change requires a change of plan.
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So how do Americans plan ahead for an economic climate of weak government support, international labor competition, and technological substitution?
The nations gathered in Kyoto are split into several factions, each pushing a different plan to deal with impending climate change, and each -- despite a spate of preconference workshops held during the past few months in an effort to narrow the differences -- sticking to its guns.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal.
Scientists and economists have said this plan risks leading to catastrophic and irreversible climate change.
Last year, the Corlan Hafren consortium submitted a business plan to the Department of Energy and Climate Change outlining a new proposal.
The plan must recognise, too, that climate change is nothing new: the climate has fluctuated through history, and mankind has adapted to those changes and must continue doing so.
While that pressure is building rapidly, some climate activists oppose even holding discussions about a possible Plan B, arguing, as the Norfolk protesters did in September, that it would be perceived as indirect permission to abandon serious efforts to cut emissions.
He said he was hopeful that an action plan and funding would be agreed at a climate summit in Africa next month.
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Ms Hyslop highlighted four priority areas in the action plan for Scotland in the EU: energy and climate change, research and creativity, the marine environment and justice.
On June 2, 2011, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a draft "National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate, " for public review and comment.
The intent is to develop reportable and verifiable measures in the plan that could facilitate China's participation in an international climate agreement.
What specifically do you plan to do in a second term to tackle the issue of climate change?
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