Sentences with phrase «un international panel»

Written by thousands of science, policy, and economics experts from around the world, the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports represent a synthesis of existing climate research knowledge, focusing on the evidence of a warming climate («virtually certain»), the global impacts, and the ways we might avert its most catastrophic effects.

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The panel members included: Makara Ouk, Director, Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute; Paul Nicholson, Vice President and Head of Rice Research and Risk, Olam International; Dechen Tsering, Director and Representative, Asia and the Pacific, UN Environment, and Wyn Ellis, SRP Coordinator.

This celebratory event is jointly organized by the Regional Authority of Tuscany and the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre with a wide partnership, including the Italian National Committee for UNICEF, UN organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations like the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action, the International Baby Food Action Network among others and an international International Baby Food Action Network among others and an international international expert panel.

International stories appeared in Latin America; Europe; Australia; and India, including a widely - publicized court case involving Indian climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, former head of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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In 2014 alone, reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Energy Agency, the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate argued for a doubling or trebling of nuclear energy — requiring as many as 1,000 new reactors or more in view of scheduled retirements — to stabilize carbon emissions e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group III — Mitigation of Climate Change, http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/, Presentation, slides 32 - 33; International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook 2014, p. 396; UN Sustainable Solutions Network, «Pathways to Deep Decarbonization» (July 2014), at page 33; Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, «Better Growth, Better Climate: The New Climate Economy Report» (September 2014), Figure 5 at page 26.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.»

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

In the year 2000, the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published 40 different future scenarios in which emissions from oil, natural gas and coal were specified.

He also created the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a publication of junk science that counters the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's work.

Dr. Madhav Khandekar, a former research scientist with Environment Canada, was an expert reviewer for the UN's IPCC 2007 Climate Change documents and contributed to the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international scientific body, 2,500 researchers strong, that weighs in on the planet's climate health every five years or so.

Heartland also funds the Non-governmental Intenational Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), which is expressly dedicated to attacking the UN's International Panel on Climate Change reports.

Global Witness, the International Transport Workers» Federation (ITF), and the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia are critical of the murky nature of the new agreement, whose draft terms of reference state that all information, including notes and final assessments, are the sole property of the government of Liberia and can not be shared without direct approval (ii).

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Afrimex has persistently failed to recognise the negative impact of its activities in the DRC, despite scrutiny by non-governmental organisations, a UN Panel of Experts, and the UK Parliament's International Development Committee.

March, 2008 Fred Singer was involved in creating the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a venture partly funded by the Heartland Institute (which currently contributes over $ 300,000 per year to funding the report) and which is designed to be a counterpoint to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), except which argues that climate change is due to natural causes.

Down the road from the UN conference, the Polish government (of all people) is hosting the «International Coal and Climate Summit» which heavily features CCS experts and discussion panels.

This is one of the few areas of agreement between the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).»

This was our question to a panel of international journalists, as we led the opening session of the second annual climate communications day at the UN climate change talks in Doha.

Summary: The authors examined the 1992 climate change projections from the UN's International Panel on Climate Change, the world's leading body of climate scientists.

Likewise, groups such as the World Economic Forum (WEF), the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the International Energy Association (IEA) have produced studies of the shortfall of current clean energy investment.

Yes, the «executive summary» of reports from the UN's International Panel on Climate Change continues to sound the alarm — but the summary is written by the politicians.

He is a former judge ad hoc at the International Court of Justice, member of the UN Redesign Panel for the Reform of the internal judicial system and former vice president of the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Emma Phillips, a Toronto lawyer who worked on an independent UN panel reviewing the international body's response to sexual exploitation, said that «as a country that does contribute troops and police, we have a responsibility to investigate and prosecute these cases in a meaningful way.»