Sentences with phrase «if international climate policies»

If international climate policies succeed, against all odds, in sealing an ambitious deal on the confinement of global warming to < 2 °C, then the focus of TE research should actually shift to the social transformations arena: a massive acceleration of innovation processes for the decarbonization of our contemporary industrial metabolism will be the only way to deliver.

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«This is important, as it shows that Mexico is serious about addressing climate change even if there is a change in leadership,» agreed Jake Schmidt, international climate change policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

«Global efforts to stay well below 2 degrees [Celsius of warming], and especially 1.5 degrees, will be severely compromised if international aviation and shipping emissions continue to increase,» Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at the World Wide Fund for Nature's global climate and energy initiative, said by email.

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

If you have a dark sense of humor and need a chuckle to deal with such news, particularly in light of the ongoing stasis over international and United States policy on climate and energy, have a look at Marc Roberts's latest cartoon posting, which is from his archives but all too relevant.

If you want to learn more about the Paris Agreement and the international legal and policy framework to address climate change, check out Module 2 of the Introductory e-course on Climate climate change, check out Module 2 of the Introductory e-course on Climate Climate Change.

Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director of Tufts University's Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, told Science that if emissions aren't being measured, countries will not know who is keeping their promises according to the Paris climate accords.

This can only happen if there have been «significant developments in scientific knowledge about climate change, or European or international law or policy».

LONDON, NEW YORK March 8 — Fossil fuel companies risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of expenditure by 2025 if they base their business on emissions policies already announced by governments instead of international climate goals, Carbon Tracker warns in a report released today, that models the IEA's 1.75 C scenario for the first time.

Ulriikka Aarnio, CAN Europe International Climate Policy Coordinator said: «The EU played a crucial role in ensuring the Paris Agreement came into place, but domestically the EU keeps acting as if Paris never happened.

This pamphlet, circulated to both U.S. and international policy - makers questions whether climate change is man - made and if so, the extent of contribution of fossil fuels to the problem.

If records were available on national compliance with ethical obligations for climate change, they could be used both by the international community to pressure nations to improve performance on their climate change ethical obligations and also create a factual basis that could be used by citizens within the nation to ensure that the national climate change policies consider ethical obligations in setting their emissions targets.

On the occasion of the Friends of the Earth International days of action for climate justice, activists from Center for the Environment / Friends of the Earth Bosnia & Herzegovina gathered in front of the Republika Srpska government building to show clearly what the country can expect over the next 30 years if the government continues to pursue a policy of investing in fossil fuels.

48 - 52) If there is any doubt that economic self - interest is not compatible with the idea of «equity» it also is an unacceptable basis for establishing national climate change policies because economic self - interest is also inconsistent with well established international legal principles including:

The paper argues that international criticism of Japanese Mamizu climate policy proposals as being too weak was unfounded, and if anything, the proposals may have been too ambitious.

If the United States «stays the course» with President Bush's non-interventionist climate policies over the next decade, then by the third decade of this century all of American life — politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries, the kind of cars we drive — will be forever transformed.

«But as long as the scientists continue to spread the message that we will be ok if we all make a few small changes, then climate change will never be on top of the policy agenda and we will fail to meet our international commitments to avoid a 2 °C rise.»

And, if so, should this more ambitious number become part of international climate policy?

«Given the partisan make - up of Congress, $ 3 billion is a reasonable figure,» said Karen Orenstein, Senior international policy analyst with Friends of the Earth U.S. «But if we step outside of Washington's warped politics, then $ 3 billion falls magnitudes below what is actually needed by developing countries to confront a climate crisis that is not of their making.»

Most importantly if the United States enacts a climate policy it could begin to act like a real leader in international negotiations and push other countries to do the same.

«It's not going to happen if we boast about how we're going to scrap international treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters,» Mr. Obama said.»

We can avoid climate change, and boost the world's economy — if we act now Reversing the damage is within our grasp, but it will hinge on a strong international climate agreement and policies that make polluters pay

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

It's not as if the British or American public were ever really asked about their views before international climate negotiations began, and thus there's no evidence that public opinion ever led to the failure of climate policies.