Nicholas Stern, lead author of the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change, says the US / China announcement will give momentum to a new global deal on climate due to be negotiated in
Paris late next year.
Still, those who closely follow international climate negotiations praised it, saying it could help break the impasse that threatened to stall progress toward a worldwide deal at talks in
Paris late next year.
When you put this news in the context of climate treaty negotiations, it bodes poorly for a climatically meaningful treaty emerging in
Paris late next year.
Not exact matches
In 2006 we saw
Paris, je taime, and now a few
years later, New York, I Love You (Jerusalem and Rio are said to be
next and who knows, maybe Houston will get one someday).
Look for the official debut of the 2016 Audi TT Roadster
next week at the 2014
Paris auto show before it goes on sale in Europe
later this
year and arrives in the U.S. by fall of
next year.
Rumors suggest the Mercedes - AMG GT convertible could debut at the 2016
Paris auto show
later this
year and hit the streets sometime
next year.
We also have to remind you that the
next generation of the German model is scheduled to debut
later this
year, most probably at the
Paris Auto Show.
The need of the hour is more cabin space and Skoda will be incorporating that attribute on the
next generation Fabia hatchback that is scheduled for a global debut
later this
year at the
Paris Motor Show.
The refreshed Corsa will receive its world debut in October this
year at the
Paris Motor Show, or
latest by March
next year at the Geneva Motor Show.
Word is that the
next - generation BMW 3 Series, codenamed G20, will make its debut
later this
year at the
Paris Motor Show in October.
The giant, almost 300,000 square foot Saadiyat Island Cultural District will house the first Louvre outside of
Paris later this
year, the Zayed National Museum
next year, and the world's biggest Guggenheim museum in 2017.
Goodell's reporting reinforces the case made recently by former United States senators Tim Wirth and Tom Daschle, who seek a softer approach to climate treaty negotiations despite continuing calls for a new binding agreement
late next year in
Paris.
The success of the
next climate agreement, which is due to be finalized during talks in
Paris one
year from now, may hinge on American negotiators winning in this
latest spat in a long - simmering quarrel with their European counterparts.
If we work hard on this problem right now, we are not going to have a better basket ready to go by
late next year when the big meeting in
Paris on climate change happens.
Achieving a binding agreement by
Paris next year in order to prevent runaway climate change
later this century is looking far less likely than when we arrived in Lima at the end of November.
The UN has asked countries to come forward with their intended commitments to the
Paris deal by March
next year at the
latest.