Sentences with phrase «attending climate change talks»

Overnight a row broke out about the non-participation of the Lib Dems» energy secretary Chris Huhne, who is attending climate change talks in Cancun.

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Greg Clark, the shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will attend the Copenhagen talks but Mr Cameron will not be there.

Scientific American staffers Mark Fischetti and Robin Lloyd talk with podcast host Steve Mirsky about sessions they attended — including those about algae for energy, dissecting the astronomy in art, and attitudes about climate change — at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

«I assume they have a much bigger say than they would claim,» said a former negotiator who attended the U.N. climate change conference last year in Lima, Peru, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to talk freely without seeking higher approval.

Speaking of climate change, the White House announced today that President Obama will attend the Copenhagen climate talks and probably announce a U.S. commitment, contingent on congressional agreement, of a 17 % cut in greenhouse gas emissions relative to 2005 by 2020.

When the disbelievers attending and participating in these events are finally forced to function under the «real» dire weather related conditions where climate change is happening now and most prevalent, perhaps then we can hope for them to move toward «action» and farther away from their empty «talk».

It was still a peak life experience for me to attend this San Francisco conference to see Al Gore in person and learn how to give his climate change talk, even if I was not able to get my question answered.

Jotzo, who is attending the conference in Beijing, added: «Globally I think we are in a much better situation than we were leading into the [major UN climate change talks] Copenhagen summit in 2009.

The meeting - also attended by BP boss Lord Browne and Virgin chief Sir Richard Branson - follows climate change talks between Mr. Blair and US President George W.Bush at the G8 summit.

Barack Obama won't be attending the next round of international climate talks next month in Poland, nor is he in Los Angeles today for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's conference on climate change.

In recent weeks the President has said that he would attend the UN talks if it would help seal the deal on a global climate change treaty.

In a controversial talk just days before the start of a climate summit attended by world leaders in Copenhagen, Prof Plimer said Governments were treating the public like «fools» and using climate change to increase taxes....»

The topic of Mike's lecture was human - caused climate change, and at the end of the talk, one member of the audience — a local who had decided to attend the seminar — made a comment during the Q+A casting doubt on the greenhouse effect, suggesting that CO2, because it was heavier than other air molecules, would simply sink to the ground (a myth that is encountered surprisingly often).

To increase media representation from these countries, Internews» Earth Journalism Network, through its Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), provides journalists from developing countries with fellowships to attend the talks, and support while they're there.