Sentences with phrase «climate deal is reached»

As Roberta Kwok wrote in Nature last month, Rudd's Labour party government had called for a 5 % emissions cut from 2000 levels by 2020 — to be raised to 15 % if an ambitious global climate deal is reached in Copenhagen — but the proposed legislation was under fire from both the right and left.

Last week might have been the last time CO2 was below 400 parts per million in our lifetimes, underscoring that the impacts of climate change are here to stay for decades to come even if a strong climate deal is reached in Paris.

Not exact matches

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.

The project is the brainchild of Yves Simone, a local television presenter and tour guide, who was inspired to take action following the COP21 climate talks in Paris in November and December last year, where a historic deal was reached on reducing global emissions.

Next year, at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, representatives of all the world's countries will be hoping to reach a new deal to cut greenhouse gases and prevent the planet overheating dangerously.

Although the chance for a sweeping climate deal is low at Cancún, there's a greater chance countries might reach a deal on how to pay for REDD.

The idea of climate inertia is that when you increase the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere it takes the climate system a good deal of time for all its components to fully adjust and reach a new equilibrium temperature.

In December in Copenhagen world leaders were supposed to reach a global deal on climate change at the United Nations climate talks.

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

China is working constructively with the US, Latin America, Europe, and other parties to reach a deal that will provide a clear timetable for transitioning to climate - friendly alternatives and strengthen finance for developing countries» transitions,» said Alvin Lin, China Climate and Energy Policy Director, NRDCclimate - friendly alternatives and strengthen finance for developing countries» transitions,» said Alvin Lin, China Climate and Energy Policy Director, NRDCClimate and Energy Policy Director, NRDC China.

The Earth is likely to get relief in 2017 from record scorching temperatures that bolstered governments» resolve last year in reaching a deal to combat climate change, scientists said on Wednesday.

GDANSK, Poland - President Nicolas Sarkozy of France failed yesterday to end deadlock with Eastern European countries on a European Union climate package but predicted that a deal would be reached later this week.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

In a deal that could be reached this fall, climate negotiators are amending the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that led governments to phase out ozone - destroying...

Editorial Europe's carbon market reform for the next decade is a done deal, but while the EU's pollution price has increased in recent weeks, prices are well below what's needed to reach the Paris climate goals.

Six years later, countries are poised to gather once again in an effort to reach a deal to halt climate change.

Former California governor and Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger told delegates at the COP21 climate conference on 7 December to ignore the naysayers who say a global deal is out of reach.

Hopes are high that a global climate deal can be reached in Paris this year.

We as the public can not allow our governments to ignore these innovative means of finance if we are ever to reach the sums necessary to deal with the impacts of climate change and to ensure poorer countries are able to develop cleanly.

Lima climate change summit: «weak» UN deal could let countries dodge green pledges Agreement reached to save Lima talks from collapse but critics say watered - down deal is too weak

In the wake of Donald Trump's unexpected election to the presidency, climate experts are scrambling to recalculate whether the world has any chance of reaching the goals of the Paris climate accord if the president - elect makes good on his threat to withdraw from the deal.

Catholic groups are urging global leaders to reach a deal on climate change this year.

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.

Real progress needs to be made in the negotiations in Poznań in order to reach an ambitious international climate change deal in Copenhagen next year.

We might reach a stage where policy - makers decide that any climate / warming dangers are so remote and uncertain, particularly as to their net cost and benefits, that they will concentrate on clear and present dangers and issues, and advocate growth - promoting policies as giving us most capacity to deal with whatever the future brings.

Maybe I'm way off on this, but as a «member of the public», prior to you dealing with the «buckets» issue so thoroughly here at CA on those early posts, I had never seen or believed I could be reading such a seemingly esoteric discussion regarding climate data, that is in fact so far reaching as to the accuracy of the data that will ever be available regarding pre-1950s SST and, therefore, global temperatures.

House leaders have reportedly reached a tentative deal on a climate and energy bill — and in the absence of details, speculation is rampant about how the bill has been weakened or otherwise changed.

Despite a deal being reached, many environmental groups are dissatisfied with the outcome, saying that developed countries need to raise their level of commitment to battling climate change.