Sentences with phrase «earth summit»

The One Earth summit was planned on the two - year anniversary of the historic agreement, which was looking uncertain after the President of the United States, one of the major financial and influential member nations, decided to withdraw.

Trying to get the Rio earth summit started which would lead to the Kyoto protocol which would lead to the UN Paris climate agreement.

Lady Thatcher's actions led, in large part, to the Rio Earth summit of 1992 and to the UNFCCC process that continues today.

The group's letter was backed by a letter of support (http://bit.ly/JRLBOT) from the CEOS of more than 25 leading civil society organizations from around the world, which calls for these commitments to take the form of a pledge at the upcoming Rio +20 earth summit.

At the United Nations Rio +20 Earth summit last year, 192 countries agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals.

It all comes down to the same thing — since the first earth summit in 1992 emissions have doubled.

She has addressed the UN on several occasions and spoke on behalf of women at special sessions of the General Assembly for the five - year review of the earth summit.

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Countries first agreed on the principle of international climate finance at the Rio Earth summit in 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was initially established.

She, for instance, met the Bhutanese Prime Minister, who announced 100 % Organic Bhutan at an IFOAM — Organics International event at the Rio +20 earth summit.

An earth summit will take place next June in Rio de Janeiro.

Not exact matches

Workers progressed across the 29 - mile Rift through volcanic rock and over steam vents on the valley floor, and then descended from a summit of over 8,000 feet to Lake Victoria in the valley below — a feat requiring 11,845 running feet of viaducts, some up to 881 feet long and more than 110 feet above the earth.

God does speak to us before we reach this summit of the Christian life on earth, even if typically in a somewhat less transparent fashion.

A veritable Ego at the summit of the world is needed for the consummation, without confounding them, of all the elemental egos of Earth... I have talked of the «Christian view», but this idea is gaining ground in other circles.

Not in this year, when all of the effort of all of us concerned with the future of life on earth, should be directed in one direction: at securing a reasonable outcome to the Copenhagen summit in December.

The twin scopes on the summit of Mauna Kea (pictured) are the most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The 10,000 th near - Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000 - foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui.

The broad - shouldered summit of Mauna Kea holds many meanings for many people: For astronomers, it's a high - altitude playground of stars, among the best places on Earth to explore the firmament with minimal atmospheric distortion.

Wishart gave a presentation at the summit on ways to recruit and retain women and minorities in the earth and environmental sciences.

«These are big mountains with a large hole in their summit, and on Earth that generally means one thing — a volcano,»

«It's fitting that the two climbers who first summited Earth's highest mountain, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, now have their names on this new Everest.»

Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii are providing clues to past climate changes on Earth.

These observations, from Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, confirm that numerous Kepler discoveries are indeed planets and yield mass measurements of these enigmatic worlds that vary between Earth and Neptune in size.

The required data can only be obtained with the largest telescopes on Earth such as the Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii equipped with the powerful High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) spectrograph to disperse the stellar light into its constituent colors and absorption features.

We approached the summit as it looked like the sun was giving birth to the earth.

Following a major snowstorm, eight people died attempting to summit Earth's highest mountain.

Perhaps few points on Earth are as coveted as its rarely - seen, wind - swept summit — at least with the sole purpose being to simply leave the footprints behind to say indeed, you were there; you had made it.

The witless wonders criss - cross the country using whatever mode of transportation they can find, ultimately arriving at the one place on Earth where they least belong: a summit of the world's most brilliant minds.

We come to know some of those clients, including Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin), an outspoken Texan who arrives at the airport in a Dole - Kemp T - shirt; Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), a postman with two other jobs who is trying again to summit Everest after coming close; and Yasuko Namba (Naoko Mori), a Japanese woman down to the final one of the Earth's seven summits.

At a 1996 education summit of governors and business leaders, Republican Paul O'Neill, then CEO of Alcoa and later treasury secretary under President George W. Bush, said, «Why on earth can't we insist on universal standards at least for nine - year - olds?

Her powerful message and down - to - earth style has made her a highly sought - after keynote speaker for education conferences, corporate events and innovation summits.

The first foothills of the Pyrenees rose from the earth and the road was surrounded by round, wooded knolls that were nothing like the high, ridged summits she could see in the distance.

It is a dark time for the Earth most of the Master have been killed by a new threat with Alexander taken out years early due to betrayal at a peace summit.

The clouds came and went, reducing visibility to a few yards at times, but when it cleared up, we were able to catch glimpses of the summit — the furthest point from the center of the earth — and it didn't look so far from us.

The black basalt earth near the summit of of nearby Volcan de Pacaya offers day hikers a moon - like landscape upon arrival.

The volcanic range known as the West Maui Mountains rises to a 5,788 - foot summit that is among the wettest spots on earth.

The II WORLD SUMMIT OF THE ARTS FOR PEACE AND LIFE: A pact of tenderness for Mother Earth, from Ecuador, grants the artist Gema Álava an Honorary Recognition for her trajectory.

To prime the pump, I mentioned a couple of instances that I reported on Dot Earth, including a report estimating 300,000 deaths a year from global warming and contentious statements made about the predicted die - back of the Amazon rain forest at a climate - science summit in Copenhagen early last year.

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Some of the summit themes: creating climate wealth, renewable energy technology, food security, ocean systems, renewable energy finance, the lungs of the earth (forests), politics of climate change, and youth and climate.

Internews» Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and its Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) is bringing a cohort of international journalists to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, COP20, in Lima in December, 2014, linking the high - level global summit to the real impacts of climate change felt by millions around the world.

[1] Friends of the Earth will judge the Paris summit outcome by «The People's Test on Climate 2015».

Ike Teuling, climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Netherlands, said: «It is ridiculous that the Netherlands, as President of the European Union, allows a European summit to be taken hostage by Shell.

Activists and experts from Friends of the Earth International and its member groups will organise a number of events during the summit and will follow the talks closely.

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Gupta covered the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, UN climate summits in Bali, Poznan, Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, and Paris and the biodiversity summit in Nagoya.

Friends of the Earth France, along with a number of allies, ended a three - day blockade yesterday of an international summit on offshore oil and gas drilling, in Pau, France, with a mass «die - in».

The United Nations climate talks have made little progress on the most critical aspects of a deal to respond to the climate crisis, said Friends of the Earth Europe today at the mid-point of the summit in Paris.

After politicians tabled a weak draft at the climate talks in Paris today, hundreds of protestors, including Friends of the Earth International activists, staged a loud protest inside the climate summit to expose the fact that politicians are failing to provide a fair and just climate deal in Paris.