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Finance is the key, said Ban, to successful negotations on a global treaty to fight climate change, due to conclude at UN talks next month in Copenhagen....

A Philip Morris email from a file titled «Consultants» written by John Roberts (position unknown) and sent to Matthew Winokur and David W. Bushong, both of PM, about Roger Bate states, «I think Bate is a very valuable resource and have strongly recommended that he play some role at UN level.

Thanks to bottom - up pressure the European Union stepped back from supporting Trump and his big polluters» agenda, but fell short of backing calls for a conflict of interest policy at the UN climate talks.

World leaders announced new pledges to restore over 30 million hectares of degraded forest lands today at the UN Climate Summit in New York.

A high - level whistleblower has told this newspaper that America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) breached its own rules on scientific integrity when it published the sensational but flawed report, aimed at making the maximum possible impact on world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron at the UN climate conference in Paris in 2015.

Both these issues remain unclear, and have been the source for considerable disagreement between various parties at UN talks.

-- that the fundamental mitigation issue of advising UNFCCC to establish a global carbon budget could be ignored for the last 20 years, and that when it was finally addressed in the recent AR5 report it should be in so vague and convoluted a manner that delegates at the UN in turn dismissed it, while of the media that gave it any coverage at all many reported a budget far larger than that which the scientists actually proposed;

The BASIC group, made up of India, China, Brazil and South Africa, usually meet two to three times a year in an effort to coordinate their negotiating strategy at UN climate meetings.

UNEP News Center: World leaders announced new pledges to restore over 30 million hectares of degraded forest lands today at the UN Climate Summit in New York.

Due to climate variability and change, implementation of this Pact, launched at UN Headquarters in New York last month, will require consideration of more resilient hydraulic infrastructure and more efficient water management systems.

«The other thing I have noticed in the past few years is that BASIC are playing a more constructive role [at UN talks].

Robin says: October 25, 2013 at 1:08 pm «DirkH - if you have never looked at the UN's Alliance of Civilzations group»

So, no matter what they promise at UN climate conferences, developing countries won't do it, citing the UNFCCC in support of their decisions.

Communities in the U.S. are standing up to Trump at the UN Climate Talks, and showing what real climate leadership looks like.

The #USPeoplesDelegation is made up of several organizations and their individual delegations who held joint speak outs, a town hall with elected officials, and direct actions in Bonn at the UN Climate Talks (COP23).

21 November, 2017 — For a probably final look at the UN climate conference in Bonn, a Canadian writer explains what the COP 23 detail means.

DECEMBER 7 2015 - Calling climate change a defining issue of our time, United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon today told top government officials that the opportunity exists «to define our own destiny» at the UN climate change conference (COP21) in Paris.

if you have never looked at the UN's Alliance of Civilzations group and the nature of its goals and conferences you should take a look.

Despite Trump's disastrous climate decisions, at the UN Climate Talks, the U.S. People's Delegation spotlighted the solutions we need, showcased what climate leadership needs to look like and strongly resisted fossil fuel cronies» efforts.

He has a video of JFK talking about climate modification at the UN.

This is what passes for science at the UN.

[3] According to the Talanoa Dialogue roadmap adopted at the UN Climate Summit COP23 last year, all countries including EU member states need to bridge the gap between what they have committed to do and what is needed to keep temperature rise to safe levels, by scaling up their 2030 climate pledges following the next UN Climate Summit in 2018: http://www.caneurope.org/publications/press-releases/1509-cop23-delivers-a-plan-for-increasing-climate-ambition

(Kandeh Yumkella, co-head of a major United Nations program on sustainable energy, made similar arguments last week at a UN environmental conference in Rio de Janeiro, advocating the development of conventional and unconventional natural gas resources as a way to reduce deforestation and save millions of lives in the Third World.)

It was endorsed by our regional group at the UN, the WEOG, on 12 April 2013, opening the way for official designation during the Warsaw COP in November 2013.

Scidev.net: Agricultural research should be a strategic priority of the UN's efforts to lessen the impacts of climate change, according to a report launched at a UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar.

Standards at a scholarly journal are evidently higher than at this UN body.

The Compact of States and Regions, the first ever single, global account of GHG reduction targets made by state and regional governments was announced at the UN Climate Summit in New York.

The Paris climate agreement will be open for signing at the UN's New York headquarters for the next year, starting tomorrow.

«On this 10th Anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol agreement, we do not feel it is the time to celebrate,» Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), said today at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP13) in Bali.

Nevertheless, the EU Commission is piling on still more regulations, pressing for even more unsustainable «green energy,» and pushing for adoption of a more stringent global treaty at the UN's climate conference in Paris in 2015.

They call on him to support efforts tackling vested interests at the UN climate talks.

«Notes for the speech of the President of the Czech Republic at the UN Climate Change Conference» (PDF).

A lot of people here at the UN climate talks in Lima say this shows there is no slowdown in warming.

Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN's World Climate Conference — an annual gathering of the so - called «scientific consensus» on man - made climate change — Prof. Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering «one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.»

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As a result the large US environmental groups did not even participate in most discussions about Agenda 21 at the UN CSD, they believed that they had more important environmental issues to work on.

[Marrakech 15 November 2016] The European Commission received the «Fossil of the Day Award» from Climate Action Network at the UN Climate Summit in Marrakech today.

Will this analysis and the referenced evidence (+ results of the 2008 summer field season in Greenland) be presented to world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next year?

The Forum connects those delivering change, working to increase the scale of impact and to provide a forum to gather the views of practitioners and leaders ahead of the High - Level Political Forum to be held at the UN in July.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

This report was presented by Vice President Al Gore at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15).

CFACT jumped in a complimentary electric car at the UN climate conference to move between the official negotiating zone and the NGO zone.

These include the Bali Open Letter released toward the end of the December, 2007 at the UN Climate Change conference in Bali, and the Manhattan Declaration, released in March, 2008 at the Heartland Institute's first International Climate Change Conference.

At the UN climate talks in Bonn in November, representatives from the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean met with SEI to discuss why this is the case and proposed ways forward for making climate finance work better for SIDS.

IRIN: Discussions about much - needed support for agriculture — which is seen both as a victim and a cause of climate change — at the UN's climate change conference in Doha have been postponed until next year.

And so, every year, the world's leaders meet at UN climate conferences to discuss policies and emissions cuts that they hope will keep us below 2 °C.

Nov. 12, 2006: Rona Ambrose represents Canada at a UN conference in Nairobi to combat climate change.

The German government will need to sort out these details after its announcement at the UN Climate Summit.

Anirban Ghosh, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mahindra Group, shared his experience of taking bold climate action as part of the Talanoa Dialogue at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn this May.

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.