Sentences with phrase «change envoy»

Over recent weeks, World Bank climate change envoy Rachel Kyte has made a number of comments claiming that coal isn't part of the solution to energy poverty.

It seemed like a great thing when Todd Stern was appointed to be US climate change envoy.

Also on Capitol Hill during this «mother of all climate weeks»: the House Science and Technology Committee will also hold a hearing on Wednesday about measuring greenhouse gas emissions, while the Senate will hear from State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern on new global climate change agreements.

Deputy climate change envoy for the U.S., Jonathan Pershing said during an NGO briefing this afternoon that the U.S. will stand by the request for all parties to MRV, despite China's concerns of «intrusiveness.»

«I am expecting a useful meeting but we don't have anything in the works of the kind that we were involved with in China,» Todd Stern, the State Department climate change envoy, said.

China's climate change envoy, Yu Qingtai, made headlines when he declared in a news conference earlier this month that «there is no one in the world who is more keen than us to see China reach its emissions peak as early as possible.»

«Now he's giving up even the pretence of leading the battle against climate change, by abolishing the post of his personal climate change envoy only 18 months after creating it — a decision that the government didn't even announce, in the hope that no one would notice.»

In a rebuff to coal, oil and gas companies, Rachel Kyte, the World Bank climate change envoy, said continued use of coal was exacting a heavy cost on some of the world's poorest...

Particularly in light of the sharp ping - pong between US climate change envoy Todd Stern and Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affa..., we wondered if this was yet another financing deal in which China was going to be the last kid -LSB-...]

Particularly in light of the sharp ping - pong between US climate change envoy Todd Stern and Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs He Yafei, we wondered if this was yet another financing deal in which China was going to be the last kid picked during a kickball game.

[UPDATE Nov 28: China's climate change envoy Yu Qintai also made clear the day after the carbon intensity goals were anounced that only reductions under its newly announced carbon intensity targets that have international financial support will be open to external MRV:

The plan is the brainchild of a group of eminent UK scientists, economists and businessmen including Sir David King, currently the UK's climate change envoy, Lord Nicholas Stern, Lord Adair Turner and ex-BP chief Lord John Browne.

Other officials expected to take part in the talks include Xie Zhenhua, head of China's Climate Change and Coordinating Committee, U.S. State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and White House science adviser John Holdren (ClimateWire, July 27).

Mr Morley has also been suspended from his role as Gordon Brown's climate change envoy.

Not exact matches

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

That has meant steadily breaking down what U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has called the «firewall» between developed and developing countries.

Kerry will speak at the conference and author a summary document capturing its «key outcomes,» according to Karen Florini, deputy special envoy for climate change at the U.S. State Department.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has said the United States» submission will be released by tomorrow.

At a U.N. meeting now under way in Bonn, envoys are discussing a climate change agreement that they hope to strike by 2015 and put into action in 2020.

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd D. Stern addresses the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw on Nov. 20, 2013.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

07, co-founder at Envoys and former vice minister at the Colombian Ministry of National Education, «The big changes that have transformed education happened with a small team.»

I have a very nice and very clean GMC envoy for sale, no problems or issues with it, just had a tune up wheel alignment oil change, and new spark plugs, this car includes leather seats, sunroof, tinted windows (legal tint).

of Ag, Forestry & Fisheries Kuntoro Mangkusubroto — Indonesia, Head of the President's Unit on REDD Jonathan Pershing — U.S., Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change Norbert Röttgen — Germany, Minister for Environment Eric Solheim — Norway, Minister of the Environment Kjetil Lund — Norway, Secretary of State, Ministry of Finance Andrew Steer — World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change Jason Clay — World Wildlife Fund - US, Senior VP Sean de Cleene — Yara International, VP Global Business Initiatives Larry Schweiger — National Wildlife Federation, President and CEO Peter Seligmann — Conservation International, CEO and Chairman Puvan Selvanathan — Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, VP The Hon. Hillary Rodham Clinton — U.S. Secretary of State, video message Wanjira Maathai — International Liaison, the Green Belt Movement Helen Clark — Administrator, UNDP, frmr.

Emily Seen, a special assistant in the office of the special envoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate chenvoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate chEnvoy office towards combating climate change.

American Eagle, the commuter partner of American Airlines, has announced it will change its name to Envoy (which, not coincidentally, is what US Airways calls is business class product).

Todd Stern, the new United States special envoy on climate change, clearly understands the «bathtub effect» that experts say makes the rising human contribution to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect such a thorny challenge.

«The Time For Denial & Delay Is Over»: US Special Envoy for Climate Change

As the UN secretary - general's special envoy for cities and climate change, I encourage President Obama and Prime Minister Harper to engage in talks that can lead to an agreement that will benefit both our nations» economies and environments.

In an interview on Friday Todd D. Stern, President Obama's special envoy on climate change, said that one goal this time is to foster cooperative action and investment on «transformational technologies.»

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

Todd Stern, the newly created special envoy on climate change for the United States, will be with Mrs. Clinton in China.

The head US envoy on climate change has said to the UN that «talks aimed at negotiating a binding treaty to curb global warming are based on unrealistic expectations and are not doable.»

COPENHAGEN — Jonathan Pershing, the State Department deputy special envoy on climate change, represented the United States as climate talks opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance.

The demonstration by members of the SustainUS youth delegation was aimed at a press conference about to be held by Todd Stern, the US envoy on climate change.

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