Sentences with phrase «climate laggard»

It omitted a target date for peaking emissions, which meant there was no clear way of getting to the 2C goal, and it did not propose any penalties for climate laggards.

Indeed, at this conference, when Canada did receive a fossil award, an entirely new category of fossil had to be created to capture the outrageousness; indicating that the country is still refusing to bow out gracefully into the irrelevance that comes with being an historic climate laggard.»

«History will credit President Obama for turning the U.S. from climate laggard to climate leader, by acting at home and forging the international consensus for global action that is now coming to fruition,» said David Doniger, climate and clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Susann Scherbarth, climate justice and energy campaigner, Friends of the Earth Europe said: «The EU should not just criticise climate laggards, but act as an example and commit to ambitious action, now.

At the APEC cocktail parties, the irony of the world's worst climate laggard claiming that the rest of the world was holding back its ambitious agenda would have drawn wry smiles and the odd guffaw.

Nonetheless, that is unlikely to be enough to turn around Japan's growing reputation as a climate laggard, cemented by its decision to renege on its Copenhagen pledge.

Even as we witness the disasters and despair of a warming climate, it's important to remember that for every climate laggard, there is also a leader.

Australia among the climate laggards as G20 action falls far short of goals.

Canada entered 2015 internationally condemned as a climate laggard, and enters 2016 with a new government that received praise for its role in the Paris Climate negotiations.