Sentences with phrase «advancing global climate action»
Implementing countries» national climate plans (Nationally Determined Contributions, known as NDCs) and advancing Global Climate Action go hand in hand.
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SkyPower was also voted by Canadians as the winner of a United Nations Global Compact Network Canada (UN GCNC) 2016 Canadian Global Compact SDG Award for its work to advance SDGs on climate action and clean energy.
So how do we advance action and drive up ambition toward achieving our global climate and sustainable development goals?
UNEP News Center: The high - level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), among other crucial areas of action.
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.
Dr. Uğur Ural, Data Scientist Scientist with expertise in advanced data analysis and modelling, calculates the global emissions and temperatures for the Climate Action Tracker, supports the Climate Policy Team for programming and analysis tasks.
You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).
Climate Action facilitates partnerships between business, government, investors and NGOs to accelerate international sustainable development and advance the global green economy.
The September Global Climate Action Summit in California, local leaders will show what they have done to advance commitments made in the Bonn - Fiji Commitment and One Planet Charter.