Sentences with phrase «effective climate change agreements»

Some 44 % agreed that the current economic crisis will significantly delay or compromise the «achievement of effective climate change agreements».

Major fossil fuel companies have today released a Joint Collaborative Declaration under the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) recognising the need to limit global average temperature rise to 2 ⁰ C. Launched in Paris this morning, they are calling for an «effective climate change agreement at COP21».

Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon himself is calling on people around the world to add their voices to the petition demanding a fair and effective climate change agreement: Climate Deal Smart Investment for the Future Calling efforts to combat climate change some of the «smartest possible investments we can make in our future,» the Secretary - General raised the call to action,

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The British government has long argued that international agreements are the only way to take effective action to tackle climate change, but without the participation of the world's economic powerhouses, Kyoto has failed to have the desired effect.

Mr Benn said: «This plan shows exactly what we are aiming for globally - a comprehensive and effective agreement to tackle climate change, with the carbon market at its heart.

But the reality is, scientists are in general agreement, and at this point effective action on climate change does not depend on either strengthening or more precisely measuring that agreement.

The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.

But the reality is, scientists are in general agreement, and at this point effective action on climate change does not depend on either strengthening or more precisely measuring that agreement.

The President also believes that the most effective approach to maintaining a level playing field is to negotiate a new international climate change agreement that ensures that all the major polluters take significant actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Because the structure of this year's first - ever global agreement on climate change is also voluntary — with each country effectively trying to peer - pressure others into greater cuts — it matters that the Obama administration is emerging as an effective negotiating force.

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It thereby builds momentum towards both the agreement of strong and effective SDGs and a comprehensive, global agreement on climate change due in Paris in December next year.

Although we all know the facts; most people do not think climate change is anything to worry about; believe that their governments will take care of things; or that international agreement on emissions reductions will be effective.

The Project for Advancing Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium supports the design and development of robust and effective transparency and accountability rules and processes for the Paris Agreement on climate Climate Transparency (PACT) consortium supports the design and development of robust and effective transparency and accountability rules and processes for the Paris Agreement on climate climate change.

The document suggests that, although global agreements to fund climate change have emerged over the last 20 years, challenges remain to making this finance fully effective and sustainable.

Unfortunately, the international community of governments and politicians has failed to reach an effective global agreement that requires every country to do what is necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.

Assigning values to these services and designing conservation agreements based on these (broadly known as PES), can be an effective way to help local communities adapt to climate change.

In November, delegates to the UN Climate Change Convention annual negotiations will gather in Paris to try to conclude an ambitious and effective agreement on preventing the global average temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions exceeding 2 ˚C above its pre-industrial level.

A global agreement under the Montreal Protocol to address HFCs is the fastest, largest, and most cost effective action the global community can take to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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As leaders gather in Paris this month for the United Nations summit designed to address climate change, ExxonMobil offers its support and encouragement to governments in their efforts to reach an effective and clear international agreement to manage climate change risks.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

But this structure also became highly divisive and unable to generate agreement and compliance, which is desperately needed for action on climate change to be effective.

That ideal world would then find effective international agreements to restrict greenhouse gas emissions and avoid harmful climate change.

With a legally binding agreement on emissions reduction set to be finalised at the 2015 COP21 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, how crucial will effective environmental markets be?

Even Exxon Mobile, the largest oil and gas producer in the world, is urging the Trump Administration to remain a participant, calling the agreement an «effective framework for addressing the risks of climate change» and the «first major international accord» to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We've had two decades to reach some effective agreement on climate change and we're really not far from where we started save for the increasing GHG emissions over this time.

Concentrations of heat trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached a record global average in March, underscoring the crucial importance of reaching an effective universal climate change agreement in Paris at the end of the year.

The checkered history of international agreements in areas as diverse finance, whaling, international trade, and nuclear non-proliferation (36) indicates the extent of the obstacles on the road to reaching effective international agreements on climate change.

Our International Climate Action Initiative uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and implement the Paris Agreement on climate Climate Action Initiative uses analysis, innovation and partnerships to achieve effective national policies and implement the Paris Agreement on climate climate change.

The agreement is clearly only the first step in achieving an effective and legally binding climate change treaty for the post-2012 period.