Sentences with phrase «contentious issue of climate»

The Group of Twenty's primary purpose is economic issues; spreading its mandate into the contentious issue of climate change risks watering it down (more than it already is).

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Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

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.

And our experience with climate shows that we can harness it even when it comes to dealing with the most complicated and contentious of issues.

Largely informed by the contentious political climate and the socioeconomic issues dividing Americans, the exhibition will explore themes including «formation of self and the individual's place in a turbulent society.»

And how and why this issue has become so contentious and stayed so contentious is a serious issue in the field of climate science.

One of the most contentious issues in the debate over how to tackle climate change is the role of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) in market - based mitigation strategies.

The Warsaw agenda includes numerous topics that raise profound ethical and justice issues which not only must be faced to achieve a global climate change solution but which are also increasingly at the center of the most contentious issues in the international climate negotiations.

During the climate negotiations in Warsaw that concluded late Saturday, some of the most prominent US media institutions finally acknowledged that ethics and justice issues were at the very center of the most contentious issues in dispute.

Many negotiators tell Ecosystem Marketplace that REDD itself is no longer a contentious issue, but that things get hairy when they try to digest the decision made in Bali to expand the land - use debate from REDD alone into broader issues of «conservation, sustainable management of forests, changes in forest cover and associated carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks to enhance action on mitigation of climate change and to the consideration of reference levels.»

These characteristics have fundamental implications for all socially contentious science issues; just one example is the likely failure of «climate change education» 37.

As negotiators come together in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the fate of international climate policy, the balance between poverty reduction and emissions reduction is sure to be one of the most contentious issues.

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.

I have had dozens of papers accepted with no revisions, including several in geology / climate that were not on contentious issues.

At COP17 in Durban, South Africa, Parties agreed to have an «exchange of views» on agriculture under the SBSTA; «mitigation adaptation synergies,» (read: Climate - smart Agriculture) were one of the main, and most contentious, issues on the table during those and previous talks.