Sentences with phrase «copenhagen climate talks»

The letter contained minister's suggestions about how the government should negotiate at the Copenhagen climate talks.

Australia must commit to strong pollution targets, and no carbon offsets at the Copenhagen climate talks in two weeks.

After the diplomatic meltdown that occurred during the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks, all of the parties going into December's UN-sponsored climate negotiations in Paris — the wealthy countries, the poor countries, the island countries slipping into the sea, the activists — knew that some kind of deal was a must - have.

With last year's high gas prices fading in our memories, and with the Copenhagen climate talks grabbing the headlines, the peak oil meme seemed, until recently, to have been taking a bit of a breather.

It was just over a year ago the Copenhagen climate talks opened to fervent hopes that the world would finally come together and address the planet's most pressing environmental problems.

This number poses a significant concern as the Copenhagen climate talks are underway this week.

World leaders at the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Talks will be escorted to their destinations in an innovative new ride.

Keep in mind that the conventional wisdom as recently as June of 2009 had it that — with the Waxman - Markey bill having been passed triumphantly by the House of Representatives — Senate action would follow; the only question raised by many commentators was whether the final legislation could be sent to the President for his signature by the time of the Copenhagen climate talks in December.

Copenhagen - Rather than being one of the solutions, negotiations at the Copenhagen climate talks on forest management, called REDD and LULUCF, are threatening to create loopholes that will destroy the integrity of any overall agreement.

Considering the bleak financial outlook of the past year overall, and the lack of binding resolutions at the Copenhagen climate talks, this represents a coup for clean tech.

Its much simpler to convey to the public the message that the Copenhagen climate talks sputtered, than articulate the modest but important steps that the Copenhagen Accord yielded.

The timing of the release of this story was perfect, coming less than a month before the highly - anticipated Copenhagen climate talks.

Shucks, we shoulda known!Photo courtesy Andrew Ciscel via Flickr With the Copenhagen climate talks upon us we learn that hackers recently broke into thousands of emails and internal documents from a leading climate research center and dumped them onto an anonymous Russian server.

The Chinese announcement came barely hours after US President Barack Obama announced he would put a 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020 offer on the table at the forthcoming Copenhagen climate talks.

This all happened a few short weeks before the UNFCCC Copenhagen climate talks held December 7 to 18, 2009.

An article from Financial Times yesterday jumped the gun when it concluded that China «had abandoned its demand for funding from the developed world to combat climate change, the first apparent concession by one of the major players at the Copenhagen climate talks.»

At the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009, almost every nation in the world agreed to endorse 2 °C as an upper limit for allowable global warming.

President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen

It's worth posting a short excerpt from my post-mortem on the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks:

A similar sentiment built in 2009 ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks, with newly elected President Obama cast as the dynamic figure who could propel a breakthrough.

His reaction, using the dreaded «B» word, brought to mind this photo I shot in the press room at the Copenhagen climate talks:

I asked a half dozen I.P.C.C. scientists about this during a side session at the Copenhagen climate talks and, in particular, asked them to decipher for me the meaning of the nested qualifiers in that final statement.

Has media coverage of human - driven climate change gone away, or gone undercover, as was the case for this CBS radio reporter seeking a quiet zone at Copenhagen climate talks a year ago?

Appearing with President Hu Jintao, President Obama on Tuesday told reporters that the United States was determined to work with China and other countries to help produce a substantive agreement in Copenhagen climate talks next month:

As some longtime readers will recall, this paper reverberated for awhile, including in the run - up to the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009.

Someone hacked in, collected emails, sifted through and selected those that could be most damning, organized them, and timed the release for maximum impact, just before the Copenhagen climate talks.

Here is what amounts to China's official tick - tock of the final three days of the Copenhagen climate talks, in which China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao is cast as the hero and President Obama as something of an awkward presence.

Speaking of climate change, the White House announced today that President Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate talks and probably announce a U.S. commitment, contingent on congressional agreement, of a 17 % cut in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 by 2020.

The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks to culminate in an agreement could cost the world «at least $ 1 trillion», according to this year's flagship report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

He is referring to a commitment first made by China ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks to reduce its economy's overall carbon emissions per unit of GDP to 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

The world has certainly moved on since the let - down at the 2009 Copenhagen climate talks.

The committee to save the world: Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, Gordon Brown and other leaders at the Copenhagen climate talks

The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

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As the climate talks in Copenhagen continue, I've been thinking a lot about how to teach my kids the importance of caring for our earth.

Procrastinating politicians are in danger of turning next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen into little more than a talking shop, a body of leading scientists and engineers has warned.

Andy Atkins, director of Friends of the Earth said: «Plans to build this power plant have seriously undermined the UK's credibility on climate change ahead of crucial talks in Copenhagen.

Greg Clark, the shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will attend the Copenhagen talks but Mr Cameron will not be there.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday evening to attend the U.N. Climate Conference as planned, despite growing uncertainty that the talks will lead to an agreement, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

Vanquished Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton frequently recounted how she and President Obama crashed a meeting led by the Chinese at the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, to insist that China come back to the negotiating table.

AS CLIMATE negotiations grind on in Cancún, Mexico, this week, the atmosphere has not been improved by revelations from WikiLeaks of hardball tactics by the US during and after the abortive talks in Copenhagen a year ago.

«We can choose an orderly transition over the next 20 to 30 years... while smartly growing the clean side, or we can put off action as we did [at the 2009 U.N. climate talks] in Copenhagen and kick the can down the road.»

Now that the United Nations climate talks have wrapped up in Copenhagen, nations agreeing to the accord drafted there are now obliged to keep their promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

At climate talks in Copenhagen a year ago, delegates were galvanised by the scientific arguments for reaching an agreement to cut emissions.

Nine democrats have given President Barack Obama a list of demands they want met in Copenhagen at the climate talks: Key among them is a call for verifiable targets from all major economies.

Attribution is critical because the urgency of the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, has evaporated.

In the last two rounds of annual climate talks, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Cancún, Mexico, more than 80 countries — including major emitters not bound by the Kyoto protocol like Brazil, China, Indonesia and the US — pledged voluntary targets.

Davies wanted to find out who knew about these Climategate emails, which had been timed to coincide with climate change talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2009.

Many scientists were dismayed by the climate talks in Copenhagen.

The fate of the CDM will be decided in climate talks to be held in December in Copenhagen.

Indonesia's previous president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, pledged ahead of the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020, or by 41 percent with international financial backing.