Sentences with phrase «first global pact»

The technological and political underpinnings are at last in place to actually consummate the first global pact to limit greenhouse - gas emissions.

James Kanter and I have a story in today's paper about a new tack by the Bush administration aimed at clarifying, for Europe particularly, that the United States is not opposed to any new climate treaty — just all of the formulations that have bubbled up since 1992, when the first global pact was accepted by nearly all countries (it was signed by the first President Bush).

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The accord - the first comprehensive global pact on climate change — commits participating nations to keep global temperature rises to «well below» two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.