Sentences with phrase «urgency of a global deal»

It will air at DZRH award - winning Radyo Balintataw on Sunday, the 19th followed by a panel discussion on the Rocky Road to Paris, the Urgency of a Global Deal, next Sunday, the 26th, hosted by Philippine Center of the ITI President, Cecile Guidote - Alvarez, Director of Earthsavers UNESCO Artist for Peace.

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The point was to create noise around the urgency to get a global deal that might give us half a chance of staying below 2 degrees of warming.

We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse - gas - emitting nations touted two previous joint emissions deals, gave nearly back - to - back speeches on the urgency of tackling the climate threat and together issued a statement of support for an ambitious global accord.

Unfortunately, I think that this article suggests what we are in for in the 21st century, and suggests further that «polemics» about the urgency of dealing with global warming may be appropriate at this point:

The US has a major role to play in achieving a global climate deal in Copenhagen, and has much to gain by coming to the table with a strong message of urgency and commitment to the task at hand.

Thirty - six percent (36 %) of voters agree with the urgency Kerry expressed in his speech in Indonesia and say the world is headed toward an irreversible catastrophe if we fail to deal with global warming in the near future.

That means the Paris process has entered a potentially perilous moment when the urgency of the climate crisis is mounting by the day, public expectations are (quite rightly) high, the commitment to action extends far beyond national governments — yet negotiators have to focus on nuts - and - bolts issues that are numbingly technical for the large majority of us, but will still determine the success or failure of a crucially important global deal.