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A new report from the “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” project, a strategic partnership between my office and The Climate Group, shows how major reductions even by 2020 are achievable if we focus action on certain key technologies, deploy policies that have been proven to work, and invest now in developing those future technologies that will take time to mature.
Implementing just seven proven policies – renewable energy standards (e.g., feed-in tariffs or renewable portfolio standards); industry efficiency measures; building codes; vehicle efficiency standards; fuel carbon content standards; appliance standards, and policies for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) – can deliver these reductions.
With such resistance to change, it is no wonder that so many political leaders try to lull their subjects to sleep, hoping that when everyone wakes up, it will all have proven a dream.
As new technologies are proven, the targets would become more stringent.
But deep down we find the same fundamentals -- the same call for humility before that which is around us and above us, for decency and solidarity; the same reference to the memory of the universe where all our actions are proven for their true worth.
This approach is not only proven, but it also provides both the incentives and wherewithal needed for lending to resume.
Denmark is presented as a model for the rest of the world to follow, evidence that green job creation has been proven easy, and that wind power has been shown to be a cheap alternative.
Moreover, Iraq's possession of oil is a mixed blessing, because few oil-based economies have proven hospitable to liberal democracy.
Over the last two years, the eurozone's other peripheral countries have proven their capacity for adjustment, by reducing their fiscal deficits, expanding exports, and moving to current-account surpluses, thereby negating the need for financing.
The field of molecular genetics, which began in 1944, when DNA was proven to be the mechanism by which inherited characteristics are passed on, brought microbes to the center of many biological investigations.
In 1991, we concluded that the Russian national character was not an obstacle to creating a market economy in Russia – and were proven right.
No social-integration model has proven to be free of flaws.
But others in Putin’s inner circle would prefer to lock up Navalny for the fourth time this year – no surprise, given his proven capacity to disrupt the Kremlin’s authority.
Ireland has proven that even in a severe crisis, resolute consolidation and reform can quickly stabilize the economy and prepare the ground for a return to growth.
Russia is the world’s largest oil and gas exporter, sitting on more than 25% of total proven gas reserves.
But it also acted because taking such risks has proven successful in the past, and here, Kim probably believed the risks were low.
Because its preferred approach of regime change has proven slower than expected, and because time plays into Kim’s hands, the Bush administration faces three other options in attempting to deal with North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
Conditional cash transfers, on the other hand, have proven highly effective; they reach the poor while promoting education and health.
While I hoped that they might be proven right, the recent stream of weak economic data, including May’s timid net job creation of only 69,000, confirmed my doubts.
But getting this message across to the public has proven to be difficult.
First, as a key player in bringing China into the World Trade Organization, Zoellick is a proven internationalist in an American administration where internationalists have sometimes seemed like an endangered species.
Although 25 countries officially stated their support for proven methods such as needle exchange and overdose prevention, the summit’s outcome was a watered-down political declaration that fails to acknowledge crucial lessons that have been learned over the last decade.
Those who strive for the futile goal of a “drug-free world” refuse to recognize the proven benefits of harm reduction.
In practice, however, implementing two different systems would be complicated, given the deep interaction between the US and the EU, and has proven difficult in the case of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
And that leadership – whether civilian, military, and also the now politically active judiciary – has proven congenitally ineffective, leaving the country with a broken economy and a paralyzed political system.
Since Marine Le Pen took the helm, she has proven herself able to combine the National Front’s trademark anti-immigration stance, the hard core of its ideology, with praise for the state and the Republic.
And now, California is significantly expanding its earned income tax credit, CalEITC, building on the proven record of the federal earned income tax credit (EITC).
Whereas supply-side tax cuts have failed spectacularly, bipartisan support for the EITC reflects its proven record of success in achieving its goals: encouraging work, raising poor and near-poor families’ incomes, reducing poverty, stimulating growth, and improving maternal and infant health.
The decades since have proven him right.
As countries pursue universal health coverage, they will need proven ways to bring higher quality, more affordable care to the underserved.
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