Sentences with phrase «change treaty talks»

At a multinational summit in Beijing on Nov. 11, the U.S. and China announced new plans to deepen their carbon cuts as part of UN climate change treaty talks.

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The problem is Cameron and other senior ministers have been talking up the importance of treaty change in order to prevent proposals like tightening migrants» access to benefits from being challenged in the courts.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on getting U.S. and China, the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before talks begin in Copenhagen.

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

The General Assembly speech will almost certainly focus more on Francis's call for addressing climate change as a moral duty, given the growing pressure from poor countries to have their needs front and center in climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

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.»

There's sufficient merit in engaging the north and south, rich and poor, precautionary and libertarian, environmental and industrial factions in discussions every year that the talks under the original climate treaty — the Framework Convention on Climate Change — remain worthwhile.

LONDON, 11 May, 2018 — The Bonn climate talks, a crucial round of UN negotiations on pumping up the muscle of the global treaty on tackling climate change, the Paris Agreement, has ended in Germany.

Climate change talks are poised at a critical stage before the Conference of Parties meets in Paris in 2015 to finalise a new treaty, and India's alliances with developing countries assume significance at this point.

Finance is the key, said Ban, to successful negotations on a global treaty to fight climate change, due to conclude at UN talks next month in Copenhagen....

The talks aim to reach a comprehensive climate change treaty that could be signed in Paris at the end of 2015.

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.

Today, as the 17th round of climate change talks open in Durban, South Africa, my fat cat country is banding together with other rich nations to ensure that no significant global treaty on climate -LSB-...]