Sentences with phrase «first global agreement on climate change»

IUCN's members adopted more than 100 resolutions and set a course heavy on protecting ecosystems in a world guided by the first global agreement on climate change.

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The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

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.

First, physical risk: in order to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change, scientists have shown that we must limit global warming to 2C, a target now adopted unanimously by governments through the landmark Paris Agreement on climate.

The US and China's announcement comes hot on the heels of the EU's 2030 climate target which means that countries representing more than half the world's GDP have outlined their first offers which will form the foundation of a comprehensive, global agreement to limit climate change due in Paris in December 2015.

Building on the foundation of national climate plans from 187 countries, the Paris Agreement is a reflection of the remarkable momentum from cities, companies, civil society groups and others that complement the global will to act that has grown over the years since the first international conference on climate change in 1992.

We saw journalists claiming that this was the first ever global agreement on climate change — and this narrative spread like wildfire.

Although during the plenary President Hollande announced that this was the first global agreement on climate, he was ignoring the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change that was signed iclimate, he was ignoring the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change that was signed iClimate Change that was signed in 1992.

This was the first major non-State pledge following the entry - into - force of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which aims to limit the rise in global average temperatures to well below two degrees Celsius and as close as possible to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

This global warming, climate change, climate variability farce has been going on for over 30 yrs and is no closer now to any form of a global agreement than when it first started.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.