Sentences with phrase «as international climate talks»

As international climate talks resume in Bonn today, two months after climate scientists warned of climate - change - related risks from extreme events, leaders of the G7 are meeting in Brussels to discuss topics including the Ukraine, climate and energy.

As international climate talks begin today in Warsaw, Poland, Friends of the Earth Europe calls on European politicians to work towards an equitable, ambitious and people - centred solution to the climate crisis.

The memos come as international climate talks kick off in Cancun, Mexico.

Expect technology transfer, and in particular, the responsibility of developed countries to facilitate technology transfer to developing countries, to be a key agenda item on China's climate change policy as international climate talks reach a critical phase.

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As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of «science, values, ethics and politics» you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking about, but I really don't see that we should very much care.

The IMO process differs from the international climate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasclimate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasClimate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case last week.

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

He spoke those words as he accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in talks and tours centered on climate and energy on the China leg of her first international trip as part of the Obama administration.

Pfeffer talked to me from Washington, where he'll be spending the next year working on improving the interface between climate science and policy at the State Department or Agency for International Development as a Jefferson Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

Singh has been involved with international climate negotiations since the UN climate talks in Bali in 2007 and has served as part of the negotiating team of the government of Maldives at the climate talks from 2009 to 2012.

More resources: Ozone Secretariat CAN Briefing Paper: Achieving an ambitious outcome on HFC Phasedown under the Montreal Protocol in 2016 (Climate Action Network International) Momentum growing for HFC agreement as Vienna talks kick - off (Natural Resources Defense Council) Primer on HFCs (Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development) The importance of ambition in the 2016 HFC phase - down agreement (Environmental Investigation Agency)

Even as the IEA's new data was released nations were finishing up another round of international climate talks in Bonn, Germany.

As Adam Morton reported in The Age today, despite «yesterday's spin about progress in international climate talks», Rudd and Wong are certain that whatever deal is done in Copenhagen it won't be enough to force a 25 per cent emissions cut by Australia under the terms they have set.

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greeclimate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

Although the world's governments have not come together at the international level, as demonstrated in the most recent climate talks this fall, this is no excuse for inaction.

«This is why we made climate change awareness as one of the main objectives of our expedition,» said Pasang Lhamu, sharing her experience at a talk program hosted by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on Wednesday.

SciDev.Net: The interests of rich countries can seem to dominate climate change negotiations, but a study that models such talks as a «bargaining game» shows that side deals among poorer nations could boost chances of an international agreement.

Raucous policy debates such as cap - and - trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December.

During international climate talks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Brazil sits in the «BASIC» (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) negotiating bloc, as well as the «G77 + China»climate talks at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Brazil sits in the «BASIC» (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) negotiating bloc, as well as the «G77 + China»Climate Change (UNFCCC), Brazil sits in the «BASIC» (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) negotiating bloc, as well as the «G77 + China» bloc.

The difficulty of reaching an international agreement — even as politics in individual countries complicate matter — is a problem facing many players, and one that experts say won't necessarily hinder climate talks.

Obama's pledge is the latest in a series of executive - led efforts to bolster US climate policy ahead of this December's international talks in Paris — widely seen as a last - ditch opportunity to foster unified global action to curb heat - trapping emissions.

As explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectlAs explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectlas their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectly.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

As politicians copped - out of genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large acrinternational climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large acrInternational federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.

This could potentially pose more problems at the next international climate summit, as past talks have fallen apart over disagreements on how much wealth should be transferred from rich countries to poor ones.

As such, the U.S. should remain diplomatically engaged in international climate talks independent of the administration's position on climate change.

Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International, said that «The Polish government has done its best to turn these talks into a showcase for the coal industry», and that «backsliding by Japan, Australia and Canada» was a «slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody).

Withdrawing from international talks risks alienating U.S. industry as some countries may seek partnerships with countries that demonstrate an abiding interest in global economic development and have remained engaged in the climate discussion.

Scientists will hike pressure next week on the UN's troubled climate talks as they release a report pointing to the dizzying challenge of meeting the international body's target for global warming.

As someone who has been working in and around these international climate talks and other such global negotiations for many years now, I have witnessed first hand Canada's fall from grace.

I'm talking to Shell International's climate change team but this approach will do equally for the new foundation as it's only one step or so off Shell's equivalent of a board level.

As politicians cop - out on genuine climate action at the international climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large acrinternational climate talks in Paris, over 2,000 activists from the Friends of the Earth International federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large acrInternational federation, joined by thousands more from Paris sent a global message for climate justice and peace, writ large across the city.

As latest round of international climate talks kicks off in Bonn, UN seeks to highlight progress being made around the world to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

More importantly, the CPP is of immense symbolic value on the international stage, as the tangible expression of Obama's promises at the Paris climate talks.

The announcement comes less than two weeks before UN-led climate talks begin in Cancun, Mexico, and it signals a growing willingness among sub-national entities such as states and cities to move on climate change even as national governments and international negotiating bodies stall.

This was our question to a panel of international journalists, as we led the opening session of the second annual climate communications day at the UN climate change talks in Doha.

He focused his talk on the market for climate services and pointed out the importance of discussing which are the barriers (as well as the enablers) to the faster development of an international market for climate services.

Quebec Adopts Cap - and - Trade Program Canada as a whole may be getting rightly pilloried for its governmental enthusiasm for tar sands and obstructing the latest international climate talks, but here's a counter point: Montreal Gazette reports that Quebec has just adopted a cap - and - trade system.

Even worse, from the point of view of the climate talks — the success of which depends, in the last instance, on international cost sharing — is the emergence, in Europe as well as the US, of an Austerity Panic Party that pretends, amidst unprecedented inequality and unprecedented wealth, that the North is bankrupt.

The United Nations» Paris climate talks are less than six months away, and have been widely described as our best chance for an international agreement to curb the effects of global climate change.

This is all set against the weighty backdrop of continuing talks at the COP22 international climate summit in Marrakech and falls within a week of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president.