Sentences with phrase «climate deal»

The report says working toward a new global climate deal remains important.

Further, the new climate deal tasks countries to ensure the integrity of all ecosystems, including oceans, and to protect biodiversity when taking action on climate change.

To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

In total, more than 100 major companies have loudly, explicitly and powerfully asked world leaders to reach a meaningful climate deal.

Poor nations warn climate deal will fail without money deal.

We take a more international perspective, looking at what it might mean for the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

Besides, the new climate deal is expected to provide for financial assistance and technology transfer to enable developing countries to switch over to cleaner products.

- To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

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A strong international climate deal in Paris — and the domestic policies that will cascade from that deal — can level the playing field, making it significantly easier for more companies to make low - carbon investments and realize benefits.

«Harbert: Realistic Approach that Includes Business Needed for Climate Deal,» Institute for 21st Century Energy, November 18, 2009.

Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples

It will be used by governments to inform their policy making domestically and internationally, as the world ramps up its efforts to sign off a UN climate deal in Paris next year.

It's now widely believed that the U.S. never wanted a legally binding climate deal in Copenhagen at all — even though the Democrats controlled the Congress at the time and may have been able to successfully ratify the treaty — opting instead for a mostly empty pledge of billions of dollars in aid to developing nations.

«Climate Action Under Ozone Treaty on Hold for Copenhagen Deal» (Environment News Service) «UN Chief Confident of Climate Deal in Copenhagen» (Press Trust of India) «POTUS Mulling Trip to Climate Talks» (Politico)

Today at least 160 countries — and the EU — gather in New York to sign a landmark climate deal with an ambitious target to limit global warming to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels.

Kerry could be a critical advocate for climate action within Obama's Cabinet, but ultimately it's the president who will make the big calls on climate deals, Keystone, and so much else.

China said on Thursday it will stick to the Paris climate deal as the world awaited an announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump on whether to keep the United States in the global pact to fight climate change.

Under the landmark climate deal struck in Paris in 2015, most of the world's nations agreed to cut carbon emissions to limit warming by 2100 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

South Asian countries — including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - call for a legally binding global climate deal by 2015 ahead of the UN climate talks in Peru

He said he would rip up last year's landmark global climate deal struck in Paris that was signed by President Barack Obama.

Hot on the heels of a historic climate deal in Paris the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Climate Disclosure Standards Board, two non-profits who seek to promote transparency in relation to climate risk, will in Davos on Friday launch proposals for risk reporting by fossil fuel companies.

Clearly, those who greeted last year's US - China climate deal with the claim that China wouldn't act immediately were quite out of touch with reality — Chinese wind power additions accounted for more than 45 % of the 2014 global total.

They call for a separate, stand - alone climate change goal, and for climate elements to be included in other relevant goals: «A robust framework of this nature will help to support the scale of ambition needed to achieve the UNFCCC's aims and help to ensure the delivery of a strong climate deal at COP21 in Paris in 2015».

There is certainly a lot of work on the part of developing country negotiators, to fight to strike a just climate deal before it is too late, because everybody knows that climate change is not going to wait on the UNFCCC to reach an agreement.

Gao is doubtful that emissions trading will be a significant part of an international climate deal under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), at least in the short term.

The extent to which countries build trust and goodwill during the Cancún meetings will determine the success of a future climate deal.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

Specific goals like these don't appear in the draft text of a global climate deal set to be agreed by governments meeting in Paris at the end of the year.

It took eight years for the previous U.N. climate deal, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that obliged only rich nations to cut emissions, to gain enough backing to take effect.

Governments around the world are now in negotiations to extend Kyoto until a more comprehensive climate deal that includes both rich and poor countries can be reached.

Commentary: International Maritime Organization agrees to first long - term plan to curb emissions Historic shipping industry climate deal is in line with Paris Agreement and the IEA's Beyond 2 °C Scenario 13 April 2018

the impact of the UN climate deal recently signed in Paris.

2) The Paris climate deal went into effect.

NEWS: US president confident Paris will see climate deal, thinks pace of carbon cutting will accelerate once structure is in place

In both instances, a new administration swept into the White House and rejected a hard - won, tough - negotiated international climate deal after the country had initially signed onto it.

Earth Day is signing day for the monumental COP21 climate deal.

Wikileaks reveal that U.S. diplomacy under President Obama has been geared towards bribing and bullying countries to support climate deals.

Environmental groups said the deal was an ineffectual compromise, but the EU said it was a step towards achieving a global climate deal next year in Paris.

Besides, how long have the least developed countries tried to establish bilateral accords with the developed countries instead of pushing firmly for a good climate deal?

On the last day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Beijing, in the Great Hall of the People, United States President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping toasted to the momentous climate deal they had just struck.

The United States and China had clashed on issues from cybersecurity to trade in the final years of the Obama administration, although they had struck a landmark climate deal during Barack Obama's 2014 visit to Beijing that served as a prelude to the Paris climate accord.

Following Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris agreement, the mayors of Pittsburgh and Paris have struck their own climate deal.

NEW YORK — Presidents and prime ministers, environmental advocates and entrepreneurs have descended on the Big Apple to help the landmark Paris climate deal take force and discuss new ways of reducing greenhouse gases.

Cuomo, meanwhile, heads the U.S. Climate Alliance — a group of states that have declared themselves still aligned with the 2015 climate deal even as Trump has announced that the United States will leave it.