Sentences with phrase «copenhagen climate conference»

Global emissions of greenhouse gases must peak in three to five years and be reduced by three per cent annually thereafter, according to a report1 recently published by the European Union Presidency, which looks at scientific perspectives on climate one year after the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

The original release of quote - mined stolen e-mails coincided with the lead - up to Denmark's Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009, where world leaders met to discuss and agree on actions to address man - made climate change (so much for that).

If the movie had ended in Hollywood fashion, the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 would have marked the culmination of the global fight to slow a changing climate.

Over the past weekend, China convened a high level meeting with climate negotiators of Brazil, South Africa and India (together with China, dubbed the BASIC countries) to align around a document outlining a list non-negotiable positions as we head into Copenhagen climate conference next week.

This is not a radical view, having been endorsed by the likes of GE, HSBC and Rio Tinto and hundreds of other corporations at the Copenhagen climate conference.

The new draft proposals released yesterday at the Copenhagen Climate Conference will lead to large - scale destruction of ecosystems and unprecedented land grabs as spurious «offsets» will allow Northern countries to burn ever more fossil fuels say civil society groups who have been tracking negotiations.

Some months later we were to have the Copenhagen Climate Conference that was to solve all humanity's problems.

In an effort to generate public support within the faith community, 350.org partnered with the World Council of Churches to enlist houses of worship in numerous countries to ring their bells 350 times during the U.N. Copenhagen Climate Conference on the weekend of December 11 - 13, 2009.

Since the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, Brazil has reduced about one billion tons of carbon dioxide below its 1996 - 2006 baseline.

From their Copenhagen climate conference press release http://royalsociety.org/Preventing-dangerous-climate-change/

Surely one objective of the Copenhagen Diagnosis report was to buck up those at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference advocating «large and rapid» greenhouse gas reductions.

Looking exactly like the real thing, but dated December 19th, 2009, a million copies of the fake paper were distributed worldwide by thousands of volunteers in order to show what could be achieved at the Copenhagen climate conference that is scheduled for Dec. 7 - 18, 2009.

In a front - page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate conference that will be held this December.

The organization first came together in 2005 to share best urban practices in response to climate change, and in 2009 it staged a high - profile (and much more productive) alternative summit to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

As Archbishop Desmond Tutu argued at the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, a two - degree global mean temperature rise might result in Africa's temperature rising as much as 3.5 degrees — a potentially disastrous change.

After a spike in late 2009 propelled by the Copenhagen climate conference, mainstream media coverage of climate change dropped off steeply.

Copenhagen climate conference: Met Office predict 2010 will be warmest on record http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/copenhagen-climate-change-confe/6780685/Copenhagen-climate-conference-Met-Office-predict-2010-will-be-warmest-on-record.html

E-mails alleged to undermine climate change science were held back for weeks after being stolen so that their release would cause maximum damage to the Copenhagen climate conference, according to a source close to the investigation of the theft...

Chinese Electric Car Impacts Copenhagen Climate Conference Danish firms partnering with Geely to introduce electric cars in Denmark and Greenland.

After its completion, the December Copenhagen climate conference was widely seen to have failed in its aim of agreeing a global deal on climate change.

COP15 is the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Dec. 2009.

[vi] COP15 is the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Dec. 2009.

Indeed, the revelations may have played some role in the failure of last December's Copenhagen climate conference to agree on new carbon emissions limits.

Climategate thus contributed to the failure of the December 2009 Copenhagen climate conference to negotiate a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol.

And if world leaders had heeded scientific warnings 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, or even as recently as the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 — it's possible we would be well on our way to securing the decarbonized future that the world desperately needs.

There was substantial opposition to such taxes at the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

In 2009, when Australian Prime Minster, Kevin Rudd, was heading off to the Copenhagen Climate Conference with 120 public servants, minders and spin doctors in tow, I asked what they would be doing.

The nonsensical claim was only formally withdrawn in early 2010, after the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

The 2 °C target, which all countries signed up to at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009, follows from the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change looking at the impacts of climate change which surpasses this limit.

With the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begins.

It was also announced separately by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Premier Wen Jiabao (also the chair of the State Council, and pictured right, showing what President Hu meant by a «notable margin»... at least in my imagination) will attend the Copenhagen climate conference that begins in less than two weeks.

In an attempt to sabotage the 2009 Copenhagen climate conference, the anti-science crowd loudly proclaimed (yet again) that climate science and its scientists were a sham.

Climate Science Watch director Rick Piltz talked with KPFK - FM in Los Angeles about a letter to President Obama from nine Senate Democrats setting out conditions for supporting a US climate policy, and with Al Jazeera English TV in Washington, DC, about Obama's participation in the Copenhagen climate conference.

These include the investigation into leaked e-mails from University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) gaffe about rapid melting of Himalayan glaciers, and the failure to achieve a strong outcome at the Copenhagen climate conference last December.

On the first day of the Copenhagen climate conference, 56 newspapers publishing in 20 languages in 45 countries publish an unprecedented joint editorial calling for meaningful action to face the threat posed by climate change.

The U.S. is on course to nearly meet its pledge from the Copenhagen climate conference, according to a new analysis

However they unfold, the events at the Copenhagen climate conference between now and Friday will be unprecedented.

In a new development roughly 45 countries with tropical rainforests are proposing to cut their deforestation by a quarter in 5 years as part of a deal to be finalized next week at the Copenhagen climate conference.

Their diary reports that «The Copenhagen climate conference kicks off on 7th December, and the Brits are already limbering up.

Through the work of four playwrights, Matt Charman, Moira Buffini, Penelope Skinner and Jack Thorne, the play follows several intertwining stories: a couple in a therapy session discuss the impact that the strong environmental beliefs of one, and the indifference of the other, is having on their relationship, a young woman, against her parents» advice, drops out of university to become a climate change activist, two birdwatchers who, for 40 years, have noted the recession of the ice through tracking the numbers of guillemots, and Ed Miliband's special adviser (SpAd) in the lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference.

About the time of the Copenhagen Climate Conference in the fall of 2009, another nasty thing happened to the global - warming establishment.

Not exact matches

• The NSA spied on negotiators during the 2009 UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He worked as official representative of Ethiopia in the many official international climate change conferences from Copenhagen to Paris.

IFOAM actively lobbyied for Organic Agriculture at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) from December 7 - 18, 2009.

The tumultuous 2009 Copenhagen conference seemed at the time to spell the end of a UN-centred framework to organise international climate mitigation efforts in favour of smaller and narrower institutional settings.

Distant discussions on climate change may fail to inspire the individualThe Copenhagen conference...

They all pale into insignifi cance beside the Copenhagen climate change conference in December 2009.

He launched his manifesto today about the role of the UK at Copenhagen and what needed to be achieved at the conference to reach a new global climate agreement.

Gordon Brown tried to reaffirm the UK leadership in the fight against climate change, in a new report ahead of the decisive Copenhagen conference.

Gordon Brown gave a largely unsurprising speech to the UN general assembly last night, setting out his key foreign policy objectives ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh and the UN conference on climate change in Copenhagen.