Sentences with phrase «binding global climate deal»

Labelled as the first - ever universal, legally binding global climate deal, the Paris Agreement was adopted by the 195 UNFCCC Member States at the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) on 12 December 2015, with a view to hold the Earth's average temperature rise to well below 2 °C, preferably to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (A-FAB) coalition said typhoons and other extreme weather events would become more intense and frequent unless governments took immediate steps to move toward a low - carbon economy.

South Asian countries — including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - call for a legally binding global climate deal by 2015 ahead of the UN climate talks in Peru

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It's been more than four years since leaders tried and failed to craft a binding new global climate change treaty in Copenhagen, and as nations head toward a new deal in 2015, the aftershocks of that Danish summit continue to reverberate.

We collectively need to demand that there is no acceptable response to climate change other than strong emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are returned to 350ppm levels, global temperature rise is kept (at the maximum) 2 °C and, even better, 1.5 °C — to do that, as was emphasized on numerous occasions, we need a F.A.B. climate deal: Fair, Ambitious, and (perhaps most importantly) Binding.

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- To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

It says nothing about a legally - binding treaty in the future, an aspect considered essential if a global climate deal is to be effective.