Sentences with phrase «at global climate talks»

After years of failure at global climate talks, a new direction emerged from COP21 in Paris: the need to develop new technologies to replace fossil fuels.

The European Union today became the first major power to show its cards and announce the level of climate action it proposes to pledge at global climate talks in Paris later this year.

But at the global climate talks in Marrakech, Morocco, climate leaders are espousing something more optimistic than the headlines suggest.

A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating policies across borders, already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible in the near future.

(For reference, the United States pledged a 17 percent cut at the global climate talks in Copenhagen.)

The 2 °C target was one of the few things that everyone at global climate talks could agree on.

Adding to concerns, a forestry official who helped negotiate the Norway deal and represented Indonesia at global climate talks in 2009 is a suspect in a multi-million dollar corruption case.

ACT 2015's proposals on mitigation, resilience, finance, transparency and accountability, and a mechanism to increase ambition over time strongly informed the final negotiating text at global climate talks in Paris in 2015.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

European countries no longer coordinate at the UN or WTO or at global climate talks.

Not exact matches

Canada's position at the global talks will be stronger with Alberta counted among the world's climate problem - solvers.

Although agriculture is not currently being specifically discussed at the climate talks the architecture required for a global climate agreement to be implemented is.

But «Weather to Climate: Our Changing World,» a new exhibit opening at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum on Saturday, April 2, is taking on the daunting task and making «the talk,» as it relates to global warming, easier on youngsters and their caregivers alike.

Individual and local advocacy can help fight global climate change, environmental activists said Saturday at an afternoon forum in Albany's Westminster Presbyterian Church — one of many events across the world in advance of the Paris climate talks that start tomorrow and run to Dec. 11.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

If at least 55 countries, collectively producing at least 55 percent of global climate pollution every year, file their instruments of ratification by Oct. 7, then the Paris agreement will take force for those countries before the next round of climate talks, scheduled for November.

Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.

We're talking about massive damages if we didn't do anything,» said Jochen Hinkel, a senior researcher at the Global Climate Forum and a co-author of the paper.

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

«Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

BARACK OBAMA is certainly talking the talk on climate change — promising to put the fight against global warming at the heart of his second term.

He makes the point, for example, that when you are looking [talking] about global warming, when you're looking at the climate [and] the atmosphere, you are talking about in effect a good that belongs to all of us.

The issue, politically sensitive for many nations, was a bone of contention for the United States and China at U.N. climate talks last year in Cancun, Mexico, although negotiators eventually agreed to develop a global monitoring system.

Global warming has become a 1 - degree Celsius reality, making progress at climate talks in Paris even more imperative

To avoid this, governments at climate talks in Paris this December need to set conditions that will achieve an early peak in global energy - related emissions, review their commitments every five years, and translate the 2C goal into a long - term emissions goal, the IEA said.

While Tillerson has advocated for the US to keep a seat at international climate talks, he has also disputed the scientific consensus that global warming is mostly caused by human activity.

Birds, whales and other migratory creatures are suffering from global warming that puts them in the wrong place at the wrong time, a U.N. official told 166 - nation climate talks on Monday.

In December in Copenhagen world leaders were supposed to reach a global deal on climate change at the United Nations climate talks.

As the respondent to a panel on climate and the press at this year's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston (I was on the panel), he urged the media, and scientists who talk to the press, to substitute «global climate disruption» for that all - too - comfortable pair of words.

At those talks, in Milan in 2003, Mr. Watson listed a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, which he said were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy — a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

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.

Yu Qingtai, China's lead negotiator in climate talks from 2007 through the tumultuous conference in Copenhagen last December, recently gave a blunt speech at the Bejing University School of International Studies on climate, diplomacy and the balance of national and global interests in limiting global warming.

But it could demonstrate leadership, both to the American middle class and the international community preparing for talks aimed at forging a global climate agreement at the end of the year in Paris.

Kicking off his Alaska tour, President Obama is scheduled to talk about climate change, oil and the Arctic later tonight at an ambitiously titled Anchorage event — the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

Usually when we talk about transportation emissions causing climate change here at TreeHugger, we focus on CO2 emissions or methane emissions — the usual suspects in the global warming discussion.

Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples

After I gave a talk at Pennsylvania State University not long ago, a professor there asked if I could share the slide I use to describe one source of confusion and disputes when people are yelling about «global warming» or «climate change.»

The United Nations office that manages negotiations aimed at generating a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen has released a basic 53 - page outline for 192 countries to supplement or whittle when the next round of talks begins in June in Bonn.

In the talk, Victor, trained in political science, warns against focusing too much on trying to defeat those denying the widespread view that greenhouse - driven climate change is a clear and present danger, first explaining that there are many kind of people engaged at that end of the global warming debate — including camps he calls «shills» (the professional policy delayers), «skeptics» (think Freeman Dyson) and «hobbyists.»

Many seasoned participants in nearly two decades of treaty negotiations aimed at blunting global warming had predicted this outcome, despite a pledge by negotiators at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to seal a deal in Denmark this December.

Two days after the talk, Mr. Gore was sharply criticized for using the data to make a point about global warming by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., a political scientist focused on disaster trends and climate policy at the University of Colorado.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

As if to prove that, and just in time for the holidays (or a break from dissecting the latest nonpapers at the Bali talks), now comes «101 Funny Things About Global Warming» (Bloomsbury USA, January 2008), the first book of climate cartoons (the first one I know of, anyway).

He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.

The initiative is aimed at pressing Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that global climate - treaty talks don't weaken protections on who can profit from new technologies that provide abundant energy without abundant pollution.

China is standing firm at the Paris climate talks on its demand that rich countries should bear a greater burden than developing ones in reducing emissions and helping countries cope with global warming.