Sentences with phrase «u.n. climate change regime»

Montreal's perceived success meant that diplomats turned to it for guidance in the design of new environmental agreements — and its imprint, for better or worse, can be clearly found in the shape and structure of the climate change regime.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit gave birth to the U.N. climate change regime that five years later created the first - ever climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.

This article examines Saudi Arabia's involvement in the climate change regime, and argues that the delegation has long played the role of obstructionist.

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

Emphasizing that developed countries bear the overwhelming historic responsibility for causing anthropogenic climate change and must therefore take the lead in responding to the challenge across all four building blocks of an enhanced international climate change regime — namely mitigation, adaption, technology and finance — that builds - upon the U.N.F.C.C.C. and its Kyoto Protocol.

He underlined the need for an inclusive, fair, effective and equitable international climate change regime with a strong Kyoto Protocol.

On the policy and political front, there have been three big developments recently in the international climate change regime, each with profound implications for Australia.

The document is divided into five chapters, namely: 1) Uncovering mitigation potential showcasing initiatives to reduce greenhouse gases emissions; 2) Gearing up for the storm relating to adaptation and disaster risk reduction projects; 3) Nurturing youth leaders presenting activities in education, training and capacity - building; 4) Spreading the message highlighting awareness raising campaigns and materials; and 5) Shaping up the future climate change regime presenting examples of youth participation in climate change policy - making.

Although these three criteria, that is environmental sufficiency, equity, and just adaptation constitute the minimum ethical considerations that any climate regime must satisfy, they don't capture all ethical questions raised by any proposed climate change regime.

In addition, the Cancun agreements correct a few significant limitations of the Copenhagen Accords and in accomplishing this the Cancun decisions keep hope alive for a legally binding international climate change regime.

In light of the «very slow» progress in multilateral approaches to regulate climate change, it is «likely that the future climate change regime will be a patchwork of domestic systems - or assimilated systems such as that of the European Union — loosely coordinated at the international level», he told swissinfo.ch.

Because climate change raises civilization challenging ethical questions, any proposed climate change regime must be examined through an ethical lens.

GENE SPERLING, Natl. Economic Adviser, 1997 - 2001: Developing country leaders uniformly saw the effort to put a binding climate change regime on them as an effort by the United States, the most advanced, productive economy in the world, to now stunt their growth before they could even have a chance to catch up.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

Voluntary cooperation and the use of market mechanisms are an integral part of the new international climate change regime established through the Paris Agreement (PA) at the UNFCCC twenty - first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21).

As I have demonstrated, it is the most recent emissions which have pushed us into the dangerous climate change regime.

Several aspects of this can serve as a model for a climate change regime.

This working paper seeks to identify concrete pathways for building an international «climate change regime.»

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@why change in government is not the point, change in political climate and the regime policies is the reason.

But, he argued, the U.N. climate regime is just one of many places climate activists need to invest time and effort to bring about change.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

Keiluweit, assistant professor in UMass Amherst's School of Earth and Sustainability, says the team's next steps include quantifying the amount of anaerobic microsites in different soil ecosystems and assessing how carbon stabilization in them is affected by variables such as the soil hydrologic regime, which is expected to change dramatically due to climate change.

It participated in the formation of a group called the Cartagena Dialogue, an informal space for countries committed to a low - carbon economy to work on a legally binding regime in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

As Hartmut Hellmer explains, «When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat can not be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

about Historical Legacies: Examining past climate change and disturbance regimes in Montana to better understand the future

Climate change impacts on fire regimes and key ecosystem services in Rocky Mountain forests.

Direct effects of climate change on trees and forests, such as warmer, wetter conditions improving forest productivity or warmer, drier conditions increasing tree mortality, will be secondary to the impacts of altered forest disturbance regimes, such as changes in forest fire behavior and area burned.

Hsu, C.J., and F. Zwiers, 2001: Climate change in recurrent regimes and modes of atmospheric variability.

Ozone Flowers, a show by New York - based painter Michael Assiff, has two pressing events in mind: the onset in 2017 of the Mexican «Cap and Trade» carbon market to reduce greenhouse gasses, and, to the country's north, the ascent to power of a new climate change - denying political regime.

We live in a repressive society that aims to suppress the truth, an Animal Farm with mannerless goats bleating falsehoods about climate change accepters being out to destroy the economy and bring about a totalitarian regime.

The document — which administration officials have neither acknowledged or rejected as authentic — has elements guaranteed to inflame folks ranging from Rush Limbaugh (the mention of efforts to «produce a global regime to combat climate change») to environmental groups pushing for concrete commitments on restricting greenhouse gases (a phrase implying that increasing perception of United States engagement is the goal).

Or maybe: «if you think you detect a climate regime change in 2002, call us in 2032 and we'll check to see if you're right»

The regional dimension of Arctic winter climate changes in consequence of regime changes of the North Atlantic Oscillation have been analysed.

Now if this were the case, changes in the forcing due to reflective aerosols at roughly the beginning of World War II and shortly after the enforcement of the Clean Air Laws in the developed economies might very well explain a transition from one climate mode regime to another — that is, if the climate system is particularly sensitive to changes in forcings.

In all the wordage herein in all these blogs, from the extinction of species and the threat of extinction to the profound changes in Earth's climate regimes, there is a systemic failure to accept that the physical and chemical processes that govern such changes are calibrated on Deep Time and not Human Time, and that our sojourn on this Planet can not be considered more than a nanosecond in the overall schema.

... China insists in the position to make the framework [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] the political and legal basis for the global regime and we do not see the necessity or need to rewrite or interpret the convention.

«This research is of particular importance as it can help Pacific coastal communities prepare for the effects of changing storm regimes driven by climate oscillations like El Niño and La Niña.

A new global climate - change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate - change solutions.

Vegetation changes associated with a biome shift, which is facilitated by intensification of the fire regime, will modify surface energy budgets, and net ecosystem carbon balance, permafrost thawing and methane emissions, with net feedbacks to additional climate change.

In climate change experiments with our LES framework, the Cu regime shows a modest positive shortwave feedback under warming, while the Sc and Sc - over-Cu regimes both show strong but state - dependent positive shortwave feedbacks, with a possible break - up of Sc layers in very warm climates.

There is an increasingly strong case to build into any future regime the ability for an «emergency» response to deal with catastrophic climate change, including the abrupt changes in climate now attracting the attentio n of scientists.

Any effective climate regime must accommodate the uncertainty associated with human - induced climate change.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

SONGDO, 17 September 2015 — Meeting on the occasion of their Eighth Bilateral Summit, the heads of the Republic of Korea and the European Union stressed the need to tackle climate change and confirmed their resolve to play their part in concluding a successful universal climate agreement in Paris later this year.The three leaders affirmed their ambition to «make the Green Climate Fund fully operational and the main operating entity of the financial mechanism» under the UNFCCC for the Post-2020 climate climate change and confirmed their resolve to play their part in concluding a successful universal climate agreement in Paris later this year.The three leaders affirmed their ambition to «make the Green Climate Fund fully operational and the main operating entity of the financial mechanism» under the UNFCCC for the Post-2020 climate climate agreement in Paris later this year.The three leaders affirmed their ambition to «make the Green Climate Fund fully operational and the main operating entity of the financial mechanism» under the UNFCCC for the Post-2020 climate Climate Fund fully operational and the main operating entity of the financial mechanism» under the UNFCCC for the Post-2020 climate climate regime.

The problem in fighting climate change has never been a natural Democratic love for onerous regulatory regimes.