The justices' rulings this week have prompted lawmakers to call for a national climate change policy, which would obviously have a long-term investment impact on industries that produce global warming emissions.
When President Obama signed the Executive Order on Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance, on October 5, 2009, he called on the Task Force to provide a progress report within one year on agency actions in support of a national climate change adaptation strategy and recommendations for any further measures.
To the extent, for example, that the national response to climate change makes energy more expensive and less available, and distracts the military and national security agencies from their core mission of keeping America safe, it could very well be that the true threat to national security is not climate change, but our response to it.
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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Poll respondents also said that constant national debate at climate change conferences has produced no results on the policy front.
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Its national action plan on climate change frequently mentions a regional approach.
Mr. President, I recommend that you consider establishing an independent commission of military and national security experts to examine the implications of climate change and related policies to national security.
On paper, the commission's aim is straightforward: to respond to citizens' concerns about big, trans-national phenomena such as climate change, migration or globalisation, and convince them that action at the European level is the answer.
If you believe in the benefits of energy innovation, support national security or consider climate change to be a non-negligible threat to our planet, you need to stop listening to Al Gore and start reading Adam Smith.
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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).
Some voters sense the powerlessness of national leaders before problems like climate change and the financial crisis.
Govindasamy Bala is a physicist at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and specializes in climate change.
Fingar quoted from the 58-page report exploring the implications of climate change for national security through the year 2030.
Mr. TOM FINGAR (Director, National Intelligence Council): Climate change is an issue on which intelligence - covertly, clandestinely acquired information - is not very helpful.
Let's look more closely at how the policies of Obama and the Democrats on the economy, health care, climate change and national security have played with voters.
Education, although included in Article 6 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is often overlooked in climate change debates, strategies and national action plans.
More than 65, 000 people have signed petitions urging the government to keep climate change in the national curriculum for England.
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The findings, part of the Moorlands as Indicators of Climate Change Initiative across national parks in Britain, will be discussed with pupils in a video conference in June.
Tackling big challenges like terrorism and climate change require sustained national effort, and yet too often, our politics seems as broken, as divided as ever.
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Lawrence said that with environmental and national security advocates joining forces on climate change, there's a "shot at a coalition" to get a bill through the Senate.
Participants shared their knowledge and experience to highlight the contribution community-level observations and traditional knowledge can make in the design of tools to adapt to climate change at both national and global levels.
Media reports indicate that you may frame climate change as a national security issue to prod Congress into passing cap-and-trade legislation, like the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House last June.
Impacts of observed climate change have little national significance.
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"The sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas is a gift, " said Tim Wirth, president of the United Nations Foundation, who, as a U.S. senator, ran the hearings that turned climate change into a national issue.
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And while President Obama voiced goals of addressing climate change and improving national security at the same time, the discussions in China have been focused almost entirely on security issues, people inside and outside the government said.
The strength and effectiveness of the United Nations, multilateral banks, and major national governments are essential to addressing global climate change.
Similar to "The Greatest Generation" who confronted the challenge of World War II and inspired the major societal changes that followed, the new "Green Generation" includes ordinary people engaged in individual and collective activities to improve urgent national and global issues, such as climate change or the world's water crises.
The American military is preparing for climate change as a threat to national security.
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The National Association of Insurance Commissioners is now requiring climate change risks to be included when examiners audit the financial condition of insurance companies.
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Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
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