Sentences with phrase «climate change conference now»

Tom Harris — Canada Free Press — December 7, 2012 On December 5, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change, Todd Stern told the United Nations Climate Change Conference now underway in Qatar, that «The Durban Platform represents an agreement for the 2020s and beyond — one that will be applicable to all and therefore have the potential -LSB-...]

Mr. Gates told Mr. Hollande that energy innovation needed to be a top agenda item at the climate change conference now taking place in this airport suburb outside Paris.

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His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped write a four - page brief about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

«According to the article, Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute spoke at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change and said Arctic temperatures were warmer during the 1930s, and that most of Antarctica is actually cooling now.

Flash forward 17 years to Lima, where Kerry, now with considerably more authority as Secretary of State, gave a riveting speech that was one of the highlights of COP20 — the 20th conference of parties to the U.N. Convention on Climate Change.

Now that President Obama and other heads of state have left Paris after a round of announcements and events, thousands of diplomats and functionaries — pestered by lobbyists, campaigners and journalists — are getting on with the grunt work of the 21st Conference of the Parties, which is aiming to improve on the ineffectual 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change and replace a problematic subsequent agreement, the Kyoto Protocol.

He said that the large majority of governments at the Second Meeting of the conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996), «while recognizing uncertainties, believe that we know enough to take some actions now,» and that this position was supported by more than 2000 independent scientists in a letter to President Clinton several weeks ago.

Now that was one of the intriguing statements I recall geologist Ian Plimer making at his Monaro climate change conference organised last year by the local group Monaro farming systems.

Guardian: Oliver Tickell: Don't let the carbon market dieThe Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends Some people have good reason to be shocked that banks have pulled out of the carbon market, not least recent economics graduates whose dissertations on carbon finance now qualify them only for unemployment.

Two - weeks before the climate change conference in Paris, UNICEF released a report titled «Unless We Act Now» detailing how millions of children worldwide are at risk from climate change.

New Paper on Land - use Change «Land - use Change in Australia and the Kyoto Protocol «by Dr Clive Hamilton, Exective Director, The Australia Institute and Visiting Fellow, Graduate Program in Public Policy, Australian National University.Abstract: In the dying hours of the Kyoto Climate Change Conference, the world's negotiators agreed to include in the Protocol what is now known as the «Australia Clause».

As we are now only 3 weeks away from crucial climate change negotiations in Bangkok (which will set the stage for this years 18th Conference of the Parties, in Doha), US Special Envoy on climate change — Todd Stern — has dropped a bit of a bomb during a speech at Dartmouth.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

Pawa attended the now infamous 2012 conference in La Jolla, California, where attendees strategized how to hold companies accountable for «climate change damages.»

With international climate change negotiators working towards concluding an agreement at the United Nations» Climate Change Conference later this year, the time is now for Canada's federal and provincial governments to commit to more wind energy in climate change negotiators working towards concluding an agreement at the United Nations» Climate Change Conference later this year, the time is now for Canada's federal and provincial governments to commit to more wind energy in Cchange negotiators working towards concluding an agreement at the United Nations» Climate Change Conference later this year, the time is now for Canada's federal and provincial governments to commit to more wind energy in Climate Change Conference later this year, the time is now for Canada's federal and provincial governments to commit to more wind energy in CChange Conference later this year, the time is now for Canada's federal and provincial governments to commit to more wind energy in Canada.

Pachauri wrote on November 23, 2009: «The question is whether the additional time that the world would now have to arrive at an agreement at the next Conference of the Parties in Mexico will give us time and space to look at the larger problem of unsustainable development, of which climate change is at best a symptom.

Since the U.S. and China have signed on, it is now possible that some real progress can be made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris next December.

At a press conference in the Vatican Wednesday, Sánchez expressed his sanguine view that «the world now has within reach the scientific knowledge, technological tools and financial means to reverse anthropogenic climate change, while ending extreme poverty at the same time through solutions that include renewable and low carbon emission energy sources.»

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gases on the table at the UN's climate change conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: the time to take climate action is now!

Himalayan Times: The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, is now warming up, and preparations are taking place.

Sometime round about now the negotiators at the Paris COP21 climate conference will be thrashing out the final details agreement which will make no measurable difference to «climate change» but will definitely cost all of us a great deal of money.

By now, the EU was taking a keen interest in Dr Pachauri, part - sponsoring (alongside the UK's DFID) a conference in Delhi on «Adaptation to climate variability and change», organised by TERI.

A maximum of 1.5 C, now an aspirational and unlikely target, was eminently achievable when the first UN climate change conference took place in Berlin in 1995.

Less than one month from now the nations of the world will meet in Paris for the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21).

In total, more than 370 companies have now joined the SBTi, at a rate of more than two companies per week since its launch in mid-2015 in the run - up to the Paris Climate Change Conference.

Recognizing strategies that actually work is especially important now, coming off of the climate change talks last December in Lima, Peru, and looking ahead to the next Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris, at the end of 2015, negotiations characterized by the Guardian as the «world's last best chance to reach an agreement on cutting carbon emissions.»

He added that the large majority of governments at the Ministerial segment of the Second Meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (held in Geneva in June 1996), «while recognizing uncertainties, believe that we know enough to take some actions now,» and that this position was supported by 2000 independent scientists in a letter to President Clinton several weeks ago.

Ask anyone on the street: «What is the big international conference on climate change, going on right now in Paris, about?»

«The 2008 International Conference on Climate Change: Can you hear us now?

First spotted in London's Trafalgar Square, en route to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, now they are resting their weary branches in Oxford, UK for a year.

«The threats of climate change are constantly increasing, and its impact has already started; therefore, it is crucial for us to start acting now,» WWF - Turkey CEO Akın Öngor said at a press conference announcing the initiative.

«There's no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that,» President Obama said at a press conference in response a question by New York Times reporter, Mark Landler.

A maximum of 1.5 °, now an aspirational and unlikely target, was eminently achievable when the first UN climate change conference took place in Berlin in 1995.