Sentences with phrase «the global climate action»

«When countries adopted the historic Paris Agreement to limit global temperature rise, they also recognized that achieving that goal would take broad - based global climate action in all sectors, public and private,» she said.

Global Climate Action Summit September 12 - 14, 2018 - San Francisco, California, United States Nigel Sizer, Chief Program Officer, will represent the Rainforest Alliance.

In the years since Copenhagen, those inside and outside the political drama of what goes on at the UNFCCC process have come to recognise the multilevel, multilayered nature of global climate action, where an intergovernmental treaty is just one, and perhaps not even the most central, element.

Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have provided new evidence of...

While there is no single silver bullet solution that will address the majority of global greenhouse gas emissions, eliminating fossil fuel subsidies is an obvious way to harvest low - hanging fruit, and, despite the odd framing, this study's findings seem to confirm that eliminating fossil fuel subsidies has the potential to make a major contribution to global climate action.

This past weekend, a group of indigenous female leaders from the Ecuadorean Amazon came to New York City to participate in the People's Climate March, which was the biggest global climate action in history, and to speak at events during the UN general assembly.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

WASHINGTON (APRIL 26, 2016)-- The most significant gathering of sub-national and non-governmental leaders on global climate action this year will take place in Washington, D.C. on May 5 - 6.

The summit will take place alongside the UN General Assembly and will bring together international leaders from business, government and civil society to showcase the unstoppable momentum of global climate action.

The summit annually takes place alongside the UN General Assembly and brings together international leaders from business, government and civil society to showcase the unstoppable momentum of global climate action.

Leading the orchestration of Global Climate Action, the two climate champions released the Marrakech Partnership which outlines a framework for taking Global Climate Action forward.

Implementing countries» national climate plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, known as NDCs) and advancing Global Climate Action go hand in hand.

Global Climate Action is still evolving and will require hard work to achieve its full potential.

On the second anniversary of the international Paris Agreement on climate change, WRI President and CEO Andrew Steer reflects on global climate action in the Trump era.

UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 — Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses and investors are taking climate ambition to the next level.

Using the Global Climate Action Summit as a motivating moment, the Peoples Climate Movement will execute a comprehensive organizing and mobilization plan.

The Challenge Areas of the Global Climate Action Summit are established around internationally relevant impact sectors (e.g., land use, jobs, sustainable communities, etc.).

A Talanoa Dialogue is scheduled to take place during the California Global Climate Action Summit.

These contributions will be posted online on the We Are Still In website, and showcased during the week of the Global Climate Action Summit in California and at the next iteration of major UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24 in December).

One Planet Summit goes a little bit beyond a PR exercise to inject modest momentum into global climate action

The World Water Council was granted UNFCCC observer status in 2016 and has been actively participating with the Convention in various ways, including as a co-convenor of the Global Climate Action Day for Water during CoP22.

Passive House Plus spoke to Prof Ürge - Vorsatz the day after Donald Trump had been elected US president, but despite the result, she was still relatively optimistic about the prospects for global climate action.

These two framings provide a lot of overlap, which will be reflected in the summary of contributions and how they are showcased during the week of at the Global Climate Action Summit.

The next few years of global climate action are crucial.

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

Each organization's contribution will be posted online on the We Are Still In website, and showcased during the Global Climate Action Summit in California.

How does this relate to America's Pledge, the Talanoa Dialogue, and the Challenge Areas of the Global Climate Action Summit?

This was a crucial meeting in the progress of the Paris Agreement and global climate action.

The need for global climate action is widely recognized.

This is the period world leaders are focusing on for global climate action to make a genuine showing and commitments for it are to be set next year.

ANNAPOLIS — As world leaders meet in Paris to marshal global climate action, top Maryland lawmakers came together in Annapolis today to unveil their plan to create the largest dedicated clean energy jobs and business development program in state history.

Using the Global Climate Action Summit as a motivating...

We took these demands to the Macron Finance Summit last December, and we are now taking them to thousands of cities and towns all over the world, and we will take them to the Global Climate Action Summit in September 2018.

Governor Brown and business leaders will discuss climate leadership in the face of federal government inaction, including engagement in We Are Still In and the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit.

The September 2018 Global Climate Action Summit hosted by California Governor Jerry Brown provides an important, high - profile opportunity to accelerate climate action.

US Higher Education Institutions: Forces for Global Climate Action Wednesday, November 15th 10:00 - 11:00 Fiji Dome Three presidents from U.S. Higher Education will discuss the complementary strengths institutions bring to help accelerate climate action.

«Over the course of 2018, I will be working to expand the adoption of science - based targets not only across the Mahindra Group, but amongst my business colleagues so that by the Global Climate Action Summit in September, 500 companies step up and commit to set science - based targets,» he said.

Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, is challenging all businesses around the world to set a science - based emissions reduction target ahead of this September's Global Climate Action Summit in California.

After the Paris Agreement and a deal on emissions from international aviation, shipping is the last sector to contribute to global climate action.

The Global Climate Action Summit, which will be held September 12 - 14 in San Francisco, will showcase climate action around the world from businesses, cities, states and regions, along with bold new commitments.

Alex Hanafi, a climate negotiator with the Environmental Defense Fund in Washington DC, says pulling out of the Paris Agreement will likely damage the US far more than the global climate action movement.

Setting the Scene Paris Agreement: Unlocking the potential of forests to achieve a 1.5 degree and climate resilient world November 12, 10:35 - 11:20 — Bonn Zone, meeting room 5 As part of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action — Forests Day session, Bronson Griscom, Forest Carbon Science director for The Nature Conservancy will present, «Nature based solutions for achieving the Paris Agreement and bridging the mitigation gap: An Analysis on Nature Climate Solutions».

Critically, the IPCC will launch its special report on the impacts of 1.5 °C of warming in the second half of the year, around the time that many non-state actors will gather in San Francisco for Governor Brown's hugely anticipated Global Climate Action Summit.

That's why from 8 - 9 September 2018, a massive people's mobilisation for a Fossil Free world ahead of the Global Climate Action Summit will ensure our demands are front and centre, and ringing in our elected officials» ears as they meet in California the weekend after.

We'll be continuing to do that at The Climate Group through driving our corporate campaigns, pushing the Under2 Coalition members in implementing their plans, leading a working group for the Global Climate Action Summit, and bringing it all together again at Climate Week NYC 2018.

Ahead of the next round of global climate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for the biggest event the world has seen to encourage local action on climate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 September.

In a time of great uncertainty over the future of global climate action, the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN), will bring 14 journalists from around the world to report directly from the upcoming climate talks.

UN Climate Change, Global Climate Action contact for the California summit: Matthew Phillips, [email protected]

The announcement by the Mahindra Group responds to one of the five «Summit Challenges» being presented to sub-national governments, business and civil society worldwide in advance of the Global Climate Action Summit.

Institute For Policy Integrity: Global Climate Action Has Already Saved U.S. $ 200 Billion, Could Provide $ 2 Trillion Benefit To U.S.. By 2030.