Sentences with phrase «climate announcements»

Given the intensity of the discourse on global warming, including relatively routine annual climate announcements, it's unlikely that most skeptics will be convinced that 2014 was the warmest year.

But Stern and Xie, who visited each other's homes in the lead - up to their joint climate announcement in November, appear to have a resilient relationship.

The progress began with the historic climate announcement by President Obama and President Xi, as the United States and China joined the European Union in committing to new limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Building on all of the momentum that began last year, China and the United States released their joint climate announcement on September 25th, which included both a shared vision for the outcome in Paris, as well as concrete domestic commitments to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.

For starters, the recent climate announcement by the U.S. and China to cut carbon emissions is widely believed to have opened up negotiating space and made it more difficult for other countries to drag their feet.

The U.S. recently struck a deal with China to cooperate on reducing heat - trapping HFC emissions, and the president is preparing to make a big climate announcement on Tuesday.

Paul was a key architect of the Obama Administration's international climate policies, including the historic U.S. - China presidential joint climate announcement of November 2014, the OECD agreement to strictly limit public financing for coal - fired power plants, and the doubling of clean energy research and development budgets by 20 major countries through the Mission Innovation initiative.

Still, I wish governments would look squarely at the real problem: the fundamental contradiction between continued fossil fuel exploitation and the climatic stability objectives that states including Canada asserted in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and in their own climate announcements.

In his climate announcement this afternoon, Trump's main target was the Obama administration's environmental agenda.

Environmental Law and Litigation Obama's climate announcement: worth reading For those, like myself, who had not yet had time to read President Obama's program for tackling climate change, I think it is well worth reading.