Sentences with phrase «u.n. climate treaty talks»

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks, he helped line up parallel multi-billion-dollar pledges by government leaders and some of the world's wealthiest investors to accelerate clean - energy science and innovation.

In doing my reporting for the story in The New York Times today on Saudi Arabia's latest maneuvers in climate treaty talks (they are reviving longstanding demands for compensation for lost oil revenue), I found an interesting paper on the oil kingdom's involvement in climate talks by Joanna Depledge, a research fellow at Cambridge University focusing on climate negotiations.

It is not about the details of the outcome of climate treaty talks that concluded yesterday in Lima, Peru.

But Grist's Ben Adler and Rebecca Leber have reported a fresh doozy, finding Trump's name among dozens on a full - page ad that ran on Dec. 6, 2009, in The New York Times, as climate treaty talks were beginning in Copenhagen, calling for President Obama and Congress «to strengthen and pass United States legislation, and lead the world by example.»

During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.

But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation.

President Obama's fruitless effort in Copenhagen to promote Chicago for the Olympics has provoked discussion over whether he will return for the global climate treaty talks there in December.

Below you'll find a variety perspectives on the climate treaty talks, sent by people who attended in various capacities.

Four climate scientists - James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel and Ken Caldeira (left to right)- explained their support for nuclear power at a side event at the Paris climate treaty talks.

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

It'll be interesting to see whether Rebelo accompanies Rousseff to the next big round of climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

The most interesting section in Roberts» piece examines Victor's list of three myths that have for too long propped up the global climate treaty talks: Read more...

(The stasis is on vivid display in Doha, Qatar, at the current round of climate treaty talks; track #cop18 on Twitter for the latest.)

Their leaders absolutely do, and that's why, even though they will be the dominant source of warming gases in coming decades, the climate treaty talks have remained stuck in «you first» mode.

In our conversation, he explained China's enduring «you first» stance in the climate treaty talks despite its position as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases.

One person I see doing this is Billy Parish, who in 2005 was protesting in the halls at the climate treaty talks in Montreal and now has co-founded Mosaic, a company offering investors a way to reap a steady return by providing up - front costs for solar - energy installations.

The opening session of the climate treaty talks in Bali.

I first encountered him at the climate treaty talks in Montreal in 2005 and included his views in a piece on climate rhetoric and reality in 2006.

The General Assembly speech will almost certainly focus more on Francis's call for addressing climate change as a moral duty, given the growing pressure from poor countries to have their needs front and center in climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

McNutt (who was just nominated * to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences) points to studies showing that nations» emissions - cutting pledges made ahead of Paris climate treaty talks this December are insufficient to keep the planet from heating up beyond the 2 - degree Celsius threshold the world's nations previously agreed to avoid.

The most interesting section in Roberts» piece examines Victor's list of three myths that have for too long propped up the global climate treaty talks:

Hansen told reporters during a press call on Monday that he and he colleagues decided to publish the paper in an open access, open peer review journal to ensure the results were available to international leaders ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks in December.

Even keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction, threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.

This week at the U.N. climate treaty talks, governments are poised to hash out the details needed to bring the Paris Agreement from concept to reality.

The new president's pledge to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and international climate treaty talks, catapulted global warming into the headlines like never before.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Not exact matches

All but one set of adjusted figures show that we will have already passed 1 °C before the next round of UN talks on a global climate treaty get under way in December (see graph).

The findings will raise the stakes in the run - up to the climate summit in Cancún, Mexico, in December, when nations hope to complete the talks on a new climate treaty.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied during climate - treaty talks in Copenhagen in December 2009.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agclimate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agClimate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

The document, dated March 11, essentially provides talking points for administration officials to use in the months leading to the next big climate - treaty conference in Cancun, Mexico, in December.

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

Climate Action Network's Fossil of the Day Award, a longstanding tradition at the talks, provides a way to track hypocritical stances among the nearly 200 treaty parties.

Climate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven wClimate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven wclimate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven warming.

Last month, he attended the climate - treaty talks in Bali as part of a small delegation representing 200 scientists who signed a declaration pressing negotiators to commit to preventing the global temperature from rising more than 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above where it is now (roughly 59 degrees).

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

John Broder has written an update on the climate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emiclimate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emiClimate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emiclimate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emissions.

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

In the early stages of climate - treaty talks in Bali, conference leaders scurried among delegations and came up with a document called «Non-Paper by the Co-Facilitators.»

Another round of climate - treaty talks just ended in Bonn, Germany, with another private round of climate discussions coming in South Korea next week (among «major economies» recruited by the Bush administration).

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

The talks are independent from the ongoing United Nations treaty negotiations on climate.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

The article focuses on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate treaty results from talks next year.

Parallel talks would continue on a new climate treaty, to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

-- A look at how Poland, the country hosting the next round of climate - treaty talks, is fighting European Union efforts to reform restrictions on greenhouse - gas emissions.

After two weeks of steadily intensifying talks, briefings, speeches and «nonpaper» drafts, the world's major countries early Saturday morning in Bali apparently agreed on a formal two - year schedule for trying to fix a faltering 1992 climate treaty.

First, we talked about revived interest in mass transportation, about the different roles and responsibilities of local communities and the federal government, and about what opportunities and hurdles face the next president, even as both candidates have pledged to cap carbon dioxide and pursue an effective climate treaty.