Sentences with phrase «convention on climate change»

In December in Milan at the ninth Conference of the Parties to the U. N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, Pachauri sent out a press release attacking the motives and affiliations of Ian Castles, former chief statistician of the Australian government, and David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD.

«Developing countries should benefit from the adaptation fund,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«Angela Merkel, the German prime minister, wrote the Framework Convention on Climate Change when she was an East German,» Michaels pointed out, but «Germany has resumed building coal - fired power plants because they can't get enough electricity out of solar energy and windmills.

«Although Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the country is committed to joining international efforts and [continue reading...]

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Trump could have the United States immediately submit a written notice to the Secretary General of the United Nations that it is leaving the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, which includes nearly all the world's nations among its membership and coordinates international deals on climate.

In the light of the entry into force of the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2016, the CSI initiated an in - depth review of the 2009 technology papers and delivered in June 2017 a compilation of 52 individual papers on well - known existing technologies (for which the latest development and implementation status is reviewed) and seven additional summary papers describing state - of - the - art and anticipated technological developments that can further enhance mitigation of CO2 emissions in cement production.

Tropical deforestation is a major cause of climate change; and, unfortunately, Latin America is no stranger to this issue — more forests have been destroyed in this region than in any other since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was adopted in 1992.

According to the fourth assessment report of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, «Africa is likely to be the continent most vulnerable to climate change.

To Sarah Lachenman: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has made nations responsible to reduce emissions from their country.

The Paris Climate Accord is a precatory agreement, wishful thinking that mainly reaffirms, 23 years later, the 1992 Rio Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Climate Change Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol was held in Lima (Peru) this year.

Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Not long ago Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, was interviewed by Elizabeth Kolbert of Yale Environment 360, and it appeared in the Nov 21 edition of

The official statement on drivers of deforestation agreed to by parties to the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2013 does not specifically address illegal conversion for commercial agriculture.

It also paves the way for a global agreement on climate change due to be concluded at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December.

The answer as indicated by the influx in proposals to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the increased attention to innovative REDD financing models such as the initiative described in Acre, Brazil gives a resounding «no».

In 1992, the world's leaders began to heed their warnings at the Rio Summit when Canada and 186 other countries signed the United Nations - Framework Convention on Climate Change.

3 November 2017 Washington, D.C. This year's climate talks may not be as glamorous or high - profile as the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that adopted the historic Paris Agreement two years ago, but the agenda for COP23 that starts Monday in Bonn is packed with key issues that -LSB-...]

As an essential component to control climate change, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has asked participating governments to enact changes that will allow the agreed upon works from last year's summit in Cancun, Mexico, to be implemented by 2012.

SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar energy projects, is proud to announce its landmark partnership agreement with COP21, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which delegations representing over 150 countries will attend in Paris for 12 days with the objective of reaching a universal agreement on how to slow the rise of global temperatures.

This analytical document aims to inform discussions at the 2009 Copenhagen conference of parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«According to some estimates, there are already almost as many environmentally displaced people on the planet as traditional refugees,» said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC): An agreement opened for signature at the «Earth Summit» in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 4, 1992, which has the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent significant anthropogenically forced climate change.

My Republica: Nepal is chairing the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the year 2013 and 2014.

Yvo de Boer, the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, called the agreement «a first critical step to unlocking the logjam in the climate - change negotiations.»

This technical document has been developed to assist Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention (non-Annex I Parties) in preparing the mitigation section of their national communications to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Any future negotiations on climate change will take place under the auspices of the United Nations and in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

World leaders are currently meeting in Warsaw, Poland to continue the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process and negotiate towards a global agreement to reduce emissions.

The ceremony will be held at the Climate Tech2000 Pavilion adjacent to the conference facilities for the COP 6 conference UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in The Hague, Netherlands (Catsheuvel 30, Den Haag).

This policy document consists of a COP15 position paper presenting the role that the climate, weather and water communities can and do play in achieving the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The NAI Newsletter is designed to focus on national, regional and international efforts to support Non-Annex I Parties in the implementation of the UN Convention on Climate Change.

In this case, the existing treaty is the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the U.S. ratified way back in 1994.

Extracted from Anglican World Magazine, November 2013 The Hope We Share: A Vision For Copenhagen a Statement from the Anglican Communion Environmental Network in preparation for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference Of Parties (COP) meetings to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark in December 2009.

They are also difficult because the multilateral climate body — the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — includes over 190 countries; these countries are grouped into various blocs with criss - crossing agendas and priorities; long - standing north - south resentments continue to rile the debate; and negotiations are governed by a consensus rule of procedure (bloody consensus!

3 November 2017 Washington, D.C. This year's climate talks may not be as glamorous or high - profile as the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that adopted the historic Paris Agreement two years ago, but the agenda for COP23 that starts Monday in Bonn is packed with key issues that need to be resolved to fully implement the Agreement.

It's not often leaders from 195 countries meet in the same room together, but that is exactly what will happen in Paris this December at the twenty - first Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Article 4.1 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) states that Parties shall make available to the Conference of the Parties (COP) national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories using comparable methodologies.

The 1992 U.N. treaty [Framework Convention on Climate Change] called for «stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.»

Here are just a few... British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Energy Saving Trust (EST) Environmental Change Institute (ECI) European Space Agency (ESA) The Geological Society (GS) Grantham Institute for Climate Change (GICC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Met Office (MO) National Academy of Sciences (NAS) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Oceanography Centre (NOC) The Royal Society (RS) Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (TCCCR) UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

The annual United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference came to an end recently with some small signs of progress.

«The first week has been very productive,» Ms. Figueres said, adding that «new text» had been added to the Kyoto Protocol, to the Convention on Climate Change, and to the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.

Canada's pledge was submitted formally to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has asked all countries to outline their promises as soon as possible.

Russian scientists said they still considered the Kyoto protocol was scientifically ungrounded, and would be an ineffective way to try to achieve the aim of the UN convention on climate change.

Mr. Chebet Maikut is the Commissioner at the Climate Change Department, Ministry of Water and Environment and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) National Focal Point for Uganda.

IRIN News: Several issues around the UN mechanism that aims to curtail greenhouse gases by preventing forest loss were resolved in Warsaw at the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the meeting is being described by many as the «Forest COP».

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change begins tomorrow in Bonn, Germany, Friends of the Earth U.S. is urging the world to treat the Trump Administration as the climate and human rights pariah that it is.

On 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhere).

The programme, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), aims to assist countries that are party to the Convention, particularly developing countries, to improve their understanding and assessment of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and to make informed decisions thereon.

To take part in deforestation compensatory schemes and send data to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, nations need an accurate way to measure stored carbon.