Sentences with phrase «attending climate talks»

Scientists attending climate talks in Poznan, Poland, are trying to sell the idea of biochar, a type of charcoal produced when biomass like agricultural and forest residue is «baked» in the absense of oxygen.

Some people ask why the WCA attends climate talks.

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IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

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.

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

«I gave a well - attended talk on how money in politics is the single biggest obstacle to legislation dealing with the climate crisis,» Craig Dunkerley, a member of the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, wrote in a recent post on the party's blog.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday evening to attend the U.N. Climate Conference as planned, despite growing uncertainty that the talks will lead to an agreement, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

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.

During an eerily foreshadowing talk I attended the week before Sandy came crashing ashore, New York City's climate resilience advisor, Leah Cohen, assured the small attending audience that PlaNYC 2030, a tentative map for the city's sustainable growth, outlined no such plans to «buy back» developed areas in the city — even those dangerously close to the water's edge.

«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.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry — who was often the lone member of Congress to attend U.N. climate talks — will assume the chairmanship from Leona Aglukkaq, the Canadian environmental minister whose tenure at the council's helm has prioritized economic expansion (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

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.

Last month, he attended the climate - treaty talks in Bali as part of a small delegation representing 200 scientists who signed a declaration pressing negotiators to commit to preventing the global temperature from rising more than 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above where it is now (roughly 59 degrees).

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

Below you'll find a variety perspectives on the climate treaty talks, sent by people who attended in various capacities.

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».

«Is Copenhagen the watershed or just another missed opportunity — there's no way to tell yet,» said Michael Oppenheimer, a Princeton University climate scientist who attended the talks.

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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.

His talk consisted of the usual top climate denier talking points, according to several people who attended.

«I attended Ian Dunlop's talk at the Engineers Australia's Sustainable Engergy Society and it was a wake up call that every Australian has to be proactive in addressing the climate emergency that we are now in and that threatens to destroy life on the planet for billions of people if we continue «business as usual».

The truth is, if Heartland's deceptive and dishonest talk about climate science was aimed at the few aging contrarians that attended the latest meeting, it wouldn't be that big of a deal.

When I'm attending talks within my own narrow speciality, I'm able to confidently sort the gold from the dross, but when it comes to climate science, I'm a semi-informed dilettante, albeit better informed now than I was before the meeting.

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 findings come on the heels of the United Nations climate summit in New York City, which was attended by President Barack Obama and other world leaders and was meant to set the stage for subsequent talks in Lima and Paris.

He attended the climate conference in Beijing and gave us a splendid talk last year.

Prior to attending the conference, Fellows will participate in a daylong orientation session that will augment their understanding of climate science and the current state of the talks, as well as a chance to hear from EJN experts on how to maximize coverage opportunities.

It is precisely in these inequalities that I decided to focus on, as a human ecology student and climate activist, in the last four major U.N. climate talks I had the opportunity to attend.

Among those attending side events at the Paris climate talks, there was general confidence that the negotiations would result in a signed climate agreement.

Over the last two weeks, the World Coal Association has been in Bonn attending the COP - 23 climate talks.

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.

More heresay: The keynote of a math & science forum I recently attended stated that he had just been to a National Academy of Sciences conference where a «prominent climate modeler» gave a talk (he didn't identify the modeler by name).

Key NGO experts attending UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, including Tim Gore and Ruth Davis, will also host a media briefing, webcast live, on Wednesday, December 5 at 15.30 on the Qatar pledge and the current state of the negotiations.

Officials attended the U.N. climate talks, and worked on projects to prevent glacial - lake flooding and protect forests.

Many climate activists had high hopes that President Bush's successor would attend the conference as a way to jumpstart the sluggish talks.

Civil society groups attending UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, will host a media briefing, webcast live, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3 at 10.30 am, which will answer these questions and more.

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.

Do you regularly attend climate science lectures by world - class climatologists and talk to them?

Attend COP15... As Climate Progress points out, Obama has already said he'd personally attend the COP15 climate talks if he's invited — and considering the presentation of the Peace Prize is on December 10th in Oslo (right at the start of the talks for those without their calendars handy) this really can be seen as a de facto invitAttend COP15... As Climate Progress points out, Obama has already said he'd personally attend the COP15 climate talks if he's invited — and considering the presentation of the Peace Prize is on December 10th in Oslo (right at the start of the talks for those without their calendars handy) this really can be seen as a de facto inviClimate Progress points out, Obama has already said he'd personally attend the COP15 climate talks if he's invited — and considering the presentation of the Peace Prize is on December 10th in Oslo (right at the start of the talks for those without their calendars handy) this really can be seen as a de facto invitattend the COP15 climate talks if he's invited — and considering the presentation of the Peace Prize is on December 10th in Oslo (right at the start of the talks for those without their calendars handy) this really can be seen as a de facto inviclimate talks if he's invited — and considering the presentation of the Peace Prize is on December 10th in Oslo (right at the start of the talks for those without their calendars handy) this really can be seen as a de facto invitation.

Just a quick update on the news that the Maldives budget problems were forcing the president not to be able to attend the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen this December.

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.

Obama's absence at the conference will make it three UN environment and climate conferences in a row that he has failed to attend, the last being the COP15 climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.

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....»

There's also the America's Pledge initiative, led by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown, which works in tandem with We Are Still In and attended the UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany in November to represent the many people and institutions in the US who continue to work to combat global warming.

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.

Delegates attend the last day of the UN climate talks in Doha, on December 7, 2012.