Sentences with phrase «agreement on climate change»

After several years of faltering talks, the two - week Durban UN Climate Change Conference is seen to have delivered a breakthrough, with a decision to adopt a legal agreement on climate change no later than 2015.

An energy infrastructure which is fit for purpose is also essential for renew - able energy sources to thrive and for delivering on the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Together, they discuss and debate the implications of bidding the Paris Agreement on climate change adieu.

President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change ruffled feathers worldwide.

From the firing of FBI Director James Comey and related investigations to the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change to law school rankings, Legal Talk Network hosts have had a lot to talk about.

This week Canada's Environment and Climate Change Minister, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, released the following statement in response to the decision by the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change:

Hioureas will serve as panelist on «Climate Change Arbitration: The Key to «Climate Justice for All» After the Paris Agreement,» where the advantages and disadvantages of using international arbitration will be explored as a means to enforce the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

The move provoked alarm among the G77, the grouping of developing countries who regard the Kyoto protocol as the world's only binding agreement on climate change cuts.

Our International Climate Action Initiative uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and implement the Paris Agreement on climate change.

While women played a key role in securing the Paris Agreement on climate change, it's clear that gender equity still hasn't fully permeated UN climate negotiations.

1995 Alan D. Hecht and Dennis Tirpak, «Framework Agreement on Climate Change: A Scientific and Policy History.»

Just as the Paris Agreement on climate change enters into force today, the UN has declared the need to go above and beyond the commitments made, with the projected carbon emissions for the year 2030 leaving us little chance of keeping warming to safe levels.

Under the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, countries agreed to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F).

President Barack Obama bound the United States to an international agreement on climate change, but the administration's decision to circumvent Congress to implement the deal has lawyers questioning its constitutionality.

And while cities, states and businesses have committed to taking climate action in the United States, federal leadership is non-existent, with the Trump administration rolling back climate policies and announcing its intent to pull the country out of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.

Earlier this month, the United States and China — the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world — announced that they would officially ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change.

It is hoped that COP21 will produce a new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change.

Pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change would put the United States at odds with its most steadfast allies and trade partners.

With a new global agreement on climate change gaveled into the history books in Paris tonight, many people including me believe we have just witnessed the end of the fossil fuel era.

These announcements are part of an effort to build political will and momentum leading up to the U.N. climate conference later this year in Paris, which aims to produce an international agreement on climate change.

He coordinates the HAPPI project (www.happimip.org) aimed at looking at climate impacts following the Paris Agreement on climate change, which involves 8 international modeling teams, and over 50 impact modelers.

Recently, under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, there has been a call for research into impacts associated with a 1.5 C or 2C globally - averaged surface temperature anomaly.

Fortunately, this research shows we have a huge opportunity to reshape our food and land use systems, putting them at the heart of delivering both the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the Sustainable Development Goals.»

It's a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.

2011: A breakthrough U.N. climate meeting in Durban calls for a universal legal agreement on climate change no later than 2015.

With all the networking that happens at conferences, partnerships will create connections to achieve the officially stated goal: to expand and strengthen «cooperative efforts... in support of, the next global agreement on climate change.»

Perhaps more important, however, was the fact that these 13 influential businesses were giving their backing to the search for a far - reaching international agreement on climate change.

India is scheduled to deposit the ratification instruments of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change with the United Nations on Sunday, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, who believed in a minimum carbon footprint.

More recently, France played a pivotal role in securing the Paris Agreement on climate change, winning the support of 194 disparate countries.

It was a surprising decision of staggering proportions, with repercussions that go far beyond the U.S. electrical grid, threatening the credibility of the Paris Agreement on climate change reached by the world's nations in December.

The NDCs and their urban relevance Just like for the SDGs, urban areas play an essential role in fulfilling the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) 1, formulated by most countries in the region as a result of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

India is scheduled to deposit the ratification instruments of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change with the U.N. on Oct. 2, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth, who believed in a minimum carbon footprint.

The Paris Agreement on climate change is unprecedented in its scope, will define the global economy of the 21st century, and has immediate impact on businesses around the world.

In the report, we outline the current state of supplier performance on climate - change management — in particular, the need for significant improvement in reporting, management, and emissions reductions in the wake of the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015.

«There will be some people saying «we can't go ahead with an agreement on climate change, it's not the biggest priority».

The analysis shows that, while policy support would be needed beyond anything seen to date, such a push could result in greenhouse gas emission levels that are consistent with the mid-point of the target temperature range of the global Paris Agreement on climate change.

U.S. President Donald Trump has told «confidants,» including the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, that he plans to leave a landmark international agreement on climate change, Axios news outlet reported on Saturday, citing three sources with direct knowledge.

The Plan provides the roadmap towards a new international climate change agreement to be concluded by 2009, and that will ultimately lead to a post-2012 international agreement on climate change.

US President Barack Obama and France President Francois Hollande have issued a joint declaration committing to an ambitious global agreement on climate change.

This was the first major non-State pledge following the entry - into - force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit the rise in global average temperatures to well below two degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

Should President Donald Trump opt to withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the process might be far less straightforward than the administration anticipated.

An important achievement of the summit was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.

We've had two decades to reach some effective agreement on climate change and we're really not far from where we started save for the increasing GHG emissions over this time.

We saw journalists claiming that this was the first ever global agreement on climate change — and this narrative spread like wildfire.

On the agenda are negotiations towards a landmark agreement on climate change in 2015, as well as initiatives to increase reductions of greenhouse gas emissions between now and the entry into force of the new overarching agreement set for 2020.

The top diplomat's comments came a day after the European Union said President Donald Trump's administration is shifting its approach to the landmark global agreement on climate change, an assertion quickly denied by the White House.

Science - based targets are in alignment with a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, which is to limit the rise of global temperatures to well below 2 degrees C.

PARIS (AFP)-- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday to go «above and beyond» the Paris Agreement on climate change, after the US said it would quit the deal.

On September 3, 2016, China and the US took the lead and ratified the historic Paris Agreement on climate change, and President Xi Jinping vowed to «unwaveringly pursue sustainable development» for China.

COP21 was given a lot of attention because it is the first conference at which a legal binding agreement on climate change was hoped for.