Sentences with phrase «climate change talks begin»

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The minute someone begins to talk about climate change, Earth Day or any other «green» initiative, what image pops in your head?

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THINGS took an interesting twist at the latest UN climate summit held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks when nations began talks over paying for the damage caused by climate change.

At those talks, in Milan in 2003, Mr. Watson listed a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, which he said were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy — a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

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.

Once this criterion for climate change has been met (and I contend that, at best, it has only barely done so), then we can begin to talk about the further uncertainties involved in attribution.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

Greenpeace unleashed a press release that began with two words: «Greenpeace demands...» It talked about «climate chaos,» tipping points, and stoking «the fires of climate change by burning fossil fuels.»

The warnings come at the beginning of United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011 that take place in Durban from today (28 November) until 9 December - and Oxfam says the talks must succeed.

As scientists, policymakers, diplomats and environmentalists begin to converge on Copenhagen for climate talks, the integrity of leading climate change researchers has come under attack; a release of some 1,000 hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia in Britain has created a stir, with some suggesting the e-mails demonstrate hoarding of and manipulation of data by climate researchers.

The IMO has been talking about climate change for twenty years but the strategy agreed this week marks the beginning of a focused debate about the policies and measures that will help it to modernise and regain the status of a clean and efficient mode of transport.

The world's governments have been talking about preventing climate change for more than two decades; they began negotiating the year that Anjali, then twenty - one years old, was born.

It's great that some mainstream media are beginning to look at and talk about what is really happening with climate change.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

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First up is the UN Climate Conference, a final preparatory meeting before the big annual climate talks in December, which begins today in Bonn, the sleepy German town home to the Secretariat of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Conference, a final preparatory meeting before the big annual climate talks in December, which begins today in Bonn, the sleepy German town home to the Secretariat of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (Uclimate talks in December, which begins today in Bonn, the sleepy German town home to the Secretariat of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UClimate Change (UNFCCC).

The recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals and the upcoming Paris climate talks show that that's beginning to change.

Offering an inspiring model for climate action begins with changing the way we talk about carbon.

The announcement comes less than two weeks before UN-led climate talks begin in Cancun, Mexico, and it signals a growing willingness among sub-national entities such as states and cities to move on climate change even as national governments and international negotiating bodies stall.

However, the Copenhagen talks are set to begin Dec. 7, and many believe U.S. leadership will be critical in forging an international climate change agreement.

Gone for now is the quest for a top - down global deal setting one concrete but unworkable emission - reduction target for all countries, and it is place is a flurry of «Intended Nationally Determined Contributions» (INDC), which are bottom - up proposals that countries around the world will begin submitting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after December's talks end.

«It looks like we are being offered 30 pieces of silver to betray our people and our future,» said Ian Fry of Tuvalu, one of a few tiny Pacific islands for whom climate change is a matter of survival.At 3 AM, a plenary session was beginning to meet, with plans for talks to continue through Saturday.

In fact, it seems like she either doesn't understand the primary purpose of the bill — which is of course to begin curbing carbon emissions to fight climate change — or she just wanted an excuse to talk up her natural gas pipeline.

(Marketwire — 12/09/09) As world leaders began talks on climate change at the United Nations Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its long - awaited finding declaring carbon dioxide (CO2) a dangerous pollutant that must be regulated.