Sentences with phrase «climate treaty talks about»

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It is not about the details of the outcome of climate treaty talks that concluded yesterday in Lima, Peru.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

First, we talked about revived interest in mass transportation, about the different roles and responsibilities of local communities and the federal government, and about what opportunities and hurdles face the next president, even as both candidates have pledged to cap carbon dioxide and pursue an effective climate treaty.

A final point is also crucial — about how the coal shift, while largely driven by domestic smog and productivity concerns, could put China in a strong position going into the next rounds of talks aimed at crafting a new climate treaty:

He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.

Mr. Moosa's comments came ahead of climate - treaty talks in December in Poznań, Poland, that are aimed at pushing forward negotiations on a new global agreement on cutting emissions — and where concerns about allowing emerging economic superpowers like China and India to pollute as much as Western countries is almost certain to be a key stumbling block.

You talk about prior climate treaties, but those are not germane to the issue of CO2.

Tillerson said the company does not want the matter to become a «distraction» as talks on a global climate treaty are about to conclude.