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This post was written by Patsy Doerr, global head of Corporate Responsibility & Inclusion at Thomson Reuters During the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, there was a renewed urgency by nations to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide to reduce the impact of climate change.

Some Nobel Prize winners have described the Dec. 7 - 18 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen as «the most important conference in the history of mankind,» because its resolutions will have an impact far into the future.

Ahead of the opening of the Paris climate change conference in December 2015, Bill Gates of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, and other high - tech entrepreneurs announced the formation of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which will fund a worldwide public - private partnership among governments, research institutions, and investors to finance clean energy innovation and low - carbon development around the globe.

At the Cancun Climate Change Conference in 2010, almost 200 governments agreed «to commit to a maximum temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, and to consider lowering that maximum to 1.5 degrees in the near future» (United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change).

At the 2005 UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, Greenpeace's Steven Guilbeault stated: «Global warming can mean colder, it can mean drier, it can mean wetter, that's what we're dealing with.»

«Kyoto, for Canada, is in the past,» announced Environment Minister Peter Kent at a news conference in Ottawa soon after he got off the plane from a climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.

During the recent Climate Change Conference in Bonn the EU announced it was increasing its post-2020 climate budget by five percent to $ 320 billion.

Bali action plan A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, forming part of the Bali roadmap.

Bali roadmap A plan drawn up at the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, in December 2007, to pave the way for an agreement at Copenhagen in 2009 on further efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions after the expiry of the Kyoto Protocol.

Moussa urged those assembled to reach a coordinated position on the various issues ahead of the UN climate change conference in Bali this month.

While over 180 countries will be participating in December's UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, as well as countless intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations from all over the globe (including six from Israel), the Israeli government will not be among the participants.

The United States, Japan and Canada are putting the brakes on progress in the fight against global warming, according to observers at the UN climate change conference in Bali.

A media barrage coordinated by the «strategic communicators» at Grover Park Group preceded publication of this non-peer reviewed paper, sensible since it seemed designed to build public support for action at November's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

The data may be presented at the climate change conference in Cancun, perhaps in part to demonstrate the effectiveness of Brazil's anti-deforestation regulations as the nation nears its goal of reducing the practice 70 percent by 2015 put forth by the country's outgoing president, Lula da Silva.

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.

So the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was a bust, huh?

This article is part of a series produced in partnership by the Toronto Star and Tides Canada to address a range of pressing climate issues in Canada leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, December 2015.

The first ever Climate and Clean Air Awards were presented to seven winners at a ceremony at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany (COP23).

In the latest issue of the McKinsey Quarterly, economists Nicholas Stern and Michael Grubb, along with European Commissioner Janez Potočnik, share their views on whether governments will agree a global climate deal at the UN climate change conference in December in Copenhagen.

The Statement was released on the opening day of the United Nations climate change conference in Bonn.

The Summary Report of the World Climate Change Conference in 2003 concluded: «An overwhelming majority of the scientific community has accepted (the IPCC's) general conclusions that climate change is occurring, is primarily a result of human emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols, and that this represents a threat to people and ecosystems.»

Preceding the United Nation's Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, E&E Legal released a video calling on President Trump to «withstand pressures by global elites to impose the devastating «climate policies, and reverse his pledge to withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty.»

On one level, it was heartwarming, er, make that heartchanging to see delegates from 189 countries tarrying away at last week's UN Climate Change Conference in Montreal, despite the ongoing hostility of the Bush regime to the Kyoto plan.

In December last year, at the UN climate change conference in Paris, 195 nations agreed to limit global warming to 2 °C at the most and, if possible, 1.5 °C.

The Climate Bill is slowly making its way through Congress, but many are pushing for quicker action, in order to have a more concrete piece of legislation before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month.

What happens at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this month could very well alter the future of businesses and lifestyles around the globe.

The analytical report describes the Bali Action Plan, adopted by government delegations during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.

Boxer maintains it will still be possible to have climate change legislation passed by December, when President Obama plans on attending the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

The Clean Power Plan could also give American climate negotiators a valuable leverage tool ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.

Ahead of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, nine international business leaders from Aviva, The Dow Chemical Company, Dynamic Parcel Distribution (DPD), The Edge Picture Company, Fuji Xerox, Raptim Humanitarian Travel, La Macioche & Sky Television, came together to speak out about why they take action offsetting carbon emissions.

Earlier this week, the Heartland Institute convened its Ninth International Climate Change Conference in Las Vegas.

It seems that the governor will not be lonely for the company of Golden State Democrats, several of whom will be on the trip to the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany.

This report, published in advance of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, examines those vulnerabilities and identifies the adaptation measures that can be taken to benefit children.

A report compiled by the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and presented to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun last December quotes more than 1,000 scientists refuting the idea of anthropogenic (human — caused) global warming (AGW) and specifically contesting what they call Gore's scientifically unsound allegations.

The report explains that in order to stand by an agreed - upon promise made at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to prevent the earth's temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius, 80 percent of the world's carbon reserves must be left in the ground.

In a statement issued Wednesday, 14 corporations that include oil leader Royal Dutch Shell, coal miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, cement maker LafargeHolcim, and technology giants HP and Intel pushed for the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris, France, this December, where almost 200 nations will agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change.

With a legally binding agreement on emissions reduction set to be finalised at the 2015 COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, how crucial will effective environmental markets be?

Referring to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) from 30 November — 11 December 2015, Ismail El Gizouli, Acting Chair of the IPCC said, «The (IPCC AR5) Synthesis Report, distilling the work of hundreds of experts, is an invaluable tool and resource for policymakers as the world prepares to finalize a global agreement on climate change later this year.»

The stolen emails were published just two weeks ahead of a major U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen.

This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because emission targets to be negotiated at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen early next month have been based on projections that have a carbon free sink of already factored in.

Other propositions in mitigating the effects of climate change will be discussed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, France this year.

Frank Bainimarama, Fiji's Prime Minister and incoming president of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn in November (COP23), today held a speech at the eighth Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin.

On October 8, there will be a Climate Change Conference in Stockholm organized by the Climate Realists in Norway and Sweden.

Ahead of the November 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris, a global Carbon Pricing Panel has been convened by World Bank President Jim Yong Kim and the International Monetary Fund's Managing Director, Christine Lagarde to push for pricing of carbon emissions.

Source: Lecture by Dr. Cahalan at the NASA and National Park Service Earth to Sky V: Communicating Climate Change Conference in Shepardstown, West Virginia, September 26, 2011.

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!

The petition is targeted at the leaders of nearly 200 countries who have agreed to negotiate a global emissions deal at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris Nov. 30 - Dec.

Pope Francis convened the summit as part of his effort to influence world leaders as they head into a critical U.N. climate change conference in Paris this December.

Last year, the Howard Government commissioned new modelling after the Marrakech climate change conference in late 2001.