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The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament.Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training and childcare services in England do so to a high standard for children and students.
The Committee on Climate Change was formally launched as a statutory committee in December 2008 with Lord Turner as its chair.. An Adaptation Sub-Committee was set up in 2009 to provide advice to Government about adaptation, meaning the steps the government and devolved administrations of the United Kingdom should be taking to prepare for climate change impacts.
Through its Committee on the Science of Climate Change in 2001, the United States National Research Council published Climate Change Science: An Analysis of Some Key Questions. This report explicitly endorses the IPCC view of attribution of recent climate change as representing the view of the scientific community: [ 5 ]
Sep. 12—Why it matters: The first report card on the Paris agreement shows some climate change progress has been made but efforts need to be ramped up. Minnesota this year endured record heat ...
The state's first climate report card, and its implications for Cape Cod, has also caught the attention of the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaborative. “The Cape and Islands region is probably the ...
Section 202(a)(1) of the Clean Air Act requires the Administrator of the EPA to establish standards "applicable to the emission of any air pollutant from…new motor vehicles or new motor vehicle engines, which in [her] judgment cause, or contribute to, air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare" (emphasis added). [3]
The UK is also a contributor to climate change, having emitted more greenhouse gas per person than the world average. Climate change is having economic impacts on the UK and presents risks to human health and ecosystems. [1] The government has committed to reducing emissions by 50% of 1990 levels by 2025 and to net zero by 2050.
On 26 November 2008, after cross-party pressure over several years, led by environmental groups, the Climate Change Act became law. The Act puts in place a framework to achieve a mandatory 80% cut in the UK's carbon emissions by 2050 (compared to 1990 levels), with an intermediate target of between 34% by 2020 which would have risen in the ...