Sentences with phrase «climate change commitment given»

Analysts have noted that the EU is not on track to meet its 2030 climate change commitment given its current policies, and its commitments fall short of the necessary decarbonization pathway for it to meet its 2050 targets.

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It means giving up on B.C. workers, turning back our climate change commitments, and letting industry call the shots when it comes to setting their tax rate, cutting it in half.

Given the political climate and opportunities for change — the availability of stimulus funds (including Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's commitment of $ 350 million in stimulus funding to support assessment work), the movement toward common standards, and the upcoming reauthorization of No Child Left Behind — we can bypass the debate between the two flawed options of either maintaining the status quo or returning to performance - based assessment systems of the 1990s.

This funding was given as part of Canada's commitment to UNFCCC [the 1992 climate treaty underlying all recent negotiations toward a new pact] for climate change education and was approved by the «Planning, Advocacy & Innovation» unit at Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs (See UNFCCC Article 6).

A larger group of opponents in Congress worried about the proper role of government and the costs of combating climate change, particularly given the lack of commitments for action by the large emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, Korea, South Africa, and Mexico.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

The ideas seems to rest on the conclusion that if the United States acts to reduce emissions others will follow and therefore as a matter of «prudence» the US should make commitments given climate change's potential catastrophic impacts.

Given that emissions from burning coal are the single biggest human source of climate changing greenhouse gases, the communique says that, the push for Coal is a betrayal of the commitment and obligation of governments under the United Nations to address climate change and shift to sustainable pathways.»

Given a strong commitment to action on the issue and a strong political outlook, advocates like blogger Joe Romm tend to notice and highlight each instance of dismissive media commentary or falsely balanced coverage of climate change while tending to overlook (or go without mentioning) the many other instances of coverage where consensus views on climate change are strongly asserted.

Climate scientists first proposed the 2 °C target in the mid-1990s as a way of giving substance to the commitment nations had made to address climate change at the 1992 Earth Summit at Rio de JClimate scientists first proposed the 2 °C target in the mid-1990s as a way of giving substance to the commitment nations had made to address climate change at the 1992 Earth Summit at Rio de Jclimate change at the 1992 Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro.

The third minimum ethical criteria for judging any second commitment period under the UNFCCC is that it must provide adequate funding to support adaptation programs in developing countries given that some developing countries have done nothing to cause climate change and must take steps to avoid harsh impacts.

Especially at this time, given that much of the rest of the world is pulling back against commitments to reduce emissions and combat climate change.»

Butler mentioned he had given up eating farmed meat ten years ago as a commitment to addressing climate change, but which also brought health benefits.