Sentences with phrase «climate treaty talks»

The General Assembly speech will almost certainly focus more on Francis's call for addressing climate change as a moral duty, given the growing pressure from poor countries to have their needs front and center in climate treaty talks in Paris in December.
It'll be interesting to see whether Rebelo accompanies Rousseff to the next big round of climate treaty talks in Paris in December.
Hansen told reporters during a press call on Monday that he and he colleagues decided to publish the paper in an open access, open peer review journal to ensure the results were available to international leaders ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks in December.
Those are vague words, but it's a significant step for a number of reasons, and the news provides some clues about China's motivations heading towards December's U.N. climate treaty talks in Copenhagen.
President Obama's fruitless effort in Copenhagen to promote Chicago for the Olympics has provoked discussion over whether he will return for the global climate treaty talks there in December.
In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.
Even keeping global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction, threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.
As the U.N. climate treaty talks wear on, she argued, negotiators and policymakers must better take into account the needs of young women, adding, «In many national and international fora and in planning at more local levels children's voices are still absent.
This presented a marked contrast to a similar science meeting held in Copenhagen in the spring of 2009 ahead of the failed climate treaty talks in that city later that year.
But Grist's Ben Adler and Rebecca Leber have reported a fresh doozy, finding Trump's name among dozens on a full - page ad that ran on Dec. 6, 2009, in The New York Times, as climate treaty talks were beginning in Copenhagen, calling for President Obama and Congress «to strengthen and pass United States legislation, and lead the world by example.»
The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:
That was a core line in a remarkable speech delivered on behalf of youth in the final stretch of two weeks of contentious, largely indeterminate climate treaty talks in Durban, South Africa.
The document, released just ahead of the round of climate treaty talks about to begin in Durban, South Africa, is clearly aimed at reinforcing China's case that it is seriously engaged in addressing its contribution to the atmosphere's building blanket of greenhouse gases.
It is not about the details of the outcome of climate treaty talks that concluded yesterday in Lima, Peru.
The most interesting section in Roberts» piece examines Victor's list of three myths that have for too long propped up the global climate treaty talks: Read more...
In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.
The new president's pledge to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and international climate treaty talks, catapulted global warming into the headlines like never before.
McNutt (who was just nominated * to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences) points to studies showing that nations» emissions - cutting pledges made ahead of Paris climate treaty talks this December are insufficient to keep the planet from heating up beyond the 2 - degree Celsius threshold the world's nations previously agreed to avoid.
Ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks, he helped line up parallel multi-billion-dollar pledges by government leaders and some of the world's wealthiest investors to accelerate clean - energy science and innovation.
In doing my reporting for the story in The New York Times today on Saudi Arabia's latest maneuvers in climate treaty talks (they are reviving longstanding demands for compensation for lost oil revenue), I found an interesting paper on the oil kingdom's involvement in climate talks by Joanna Depledge, a research fellow at Cambridge University focusing on climate negotiations.
During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.
But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation.
The piece is particularly relevant this week given the continued standoffs and disconnect between stated goals and behavior at the climate treaty talks in Durban, South Africa.
Below you'll find a variety perspectives on the climate treaty talks, sent by people who attended in various capacities.
Four climate scientists - James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel and Ken Caldeira (left to right)- explained their support for nuclear power at a side event at the Paris climate treaty talks.
(The stasis is on vivid display in Doha, Qatar, at the current round of climate treaty talks; track #cop18 on Twitter for the latest.)
Their leaders absolutely do, and that's why, even though they will be the dominant source of warming gases in coming decades, the climate treaty talks have remained stuck in «you first» mode.
In our conversation, he explained China's enduring «you first» stance in the climate treaty talks despite its position as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases.
One person I see doing this is Billy Parish, who in 2005 was protesting in the halls at the climate treaty talks in Montreal and now has co-founded Mosaic, a company offering investors a way to reap a steady return by providing up - front costs for solar - energy installations.
The opening session of the climate treaty talks in Bali.
After all, the putative trajectories for avoiding dangerous climate change that were the centerpiece of discussions and pledges in the Paris climate treaty talks all rely on as - yet - untested massive atmospheric CO2 removal sometime late in this century.
I first encountered him at the climate treaty talks in Montreal in 2005 and included his views in a piece on climate rhetoric and reality in 2006.
The most interesting section in Roberts» piece examines Victor's list of three myths that have for too long propped up the global climate treaty talks:
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