Sentences with phrase «climate change regime»

Voluntary cooperation and the use of market mechanisms are an integral part of the new international climate change regime established through the Paris Agreement (PA) at the UNFCCC twenty - first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21).

Nations: Global climate change regime evolved out of the Earth Summit of 1992, which gave birth to three conventions including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The 1992 Rio Earth Summit gave birth to the U.N. climate change regime that five years later created the first - ever climate change treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.

Zhang, ZhongXiang (2009): Encouraging developing country involvement in a post-2012 climate change regime: carrots, sticks or both?

Richard Lindzen, an outspoken climate contrarian and retired Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, sent a letter last month to President Donald Trump urging him to pull the United States out of the United Nations» climate change regime because global climate action is «not scientifically justified.»

Adis Dzebo works at SEI Stockholm as a Research Fellow with a research focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation, centered around the governance of global climate funds and the UN climate change regime.

This guidance document seeks to provide a starting point for newcomers to help them take in the «big picture» of the United Nations climate change regime, which is at the forefront of international action to combat climate change.

The involvement of Indigenous peoples in international negotiations for a Post Kyoto climate change regime is essential.

But under the rules of the U.N. climate change regime, it is not yet obligated to curb carbon.

In light of the «very slow» progress in multilateral approaches to regulate climate change, it is «likely that the future climate change regime will be a patchwork of domestic systems - or assimilated systems such as that of the European Union — loosely coordinated at the international level», he told swissinfo.ch.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

Montreal's perceived success meant that diplomats turned to it for guidance in the design of new environmental agreements — and its imprint, for better or worse, can be clearly found in the shape and structure of the climate change regime.

Also, should China manage to shape the climate change regime to its favour, it could even gain an advantage vis - à - vis India, which already share with the PRC the highest number of projects under the KP's Clean Development Mechanism.

As such, the set up of the climate change regime constitutes for the EU both an opportunity and a threat, in as much as it may either accelerate Europe's decline as a foreign policy centre or, on the contrary, trigger a new start for its diplomatic ambitions.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

2) The EU's role in the creation of the climate change regimes is an important competitive advantage, and must be used as the foundation on which to built its global action in the 21st century.

After having analysed the above mentioned aspects and focused on the role of China in the shaping of the climate change regime, this Occasional Paper gives some suggestions on how the EU may cope with this changing environment, and calls on the EU to draw a «European Grand Strategy» able to put into perspective its challenges and strengths for this first half of the twenty - first century.

This article examines Saudi Arabia's involvement in the climate change regime, and argues that the delegation has long played the role of obstructionist.

These elements are all fundamental to protecting the right to food under the climate change regime.

On the policy and political front, there have been three big developments recently in the international climate change regime, each with profound implications for Australia.

This problem is generally referred to as the problem of «equity» in the climate change regime.

Gupta, J., 1998: Encouraging developing country participation in the climate change regime.

Several aspects of this can serve as a model for a climate change regime.

This working paper seeks to identify concrete pathways for building an international «climate change regime.»