Sentences with phrase «for global climate deal»

Our work with former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to build support among world leaders for a global climate deal, Breaking the Climate Deadlock, showed how major emission reductions could be achieved.

Pachauri's resignation won't affect the drive for a global climate deal in Paris, said Alden Meyer, a long - time observer to the talks for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The Obama Administration's ramp - up of fossil fuel exports is at odds with its push for a global climate deal.

Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima, to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris.

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Ahead of meetings at the end of this year in Paris, countries will submit draft contributions for a global climate deal.

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Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

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Our new deal is a platform, and it resembles, finally, a change in global climate discourse and a possible beginning of the collective green mindset for the future we have been waiting for.

By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network Saturday evening December 12th 2015 became a historic night as the world saw its first global climate deal for a coordinated response against climate cGlobal Opportunity Network Saturday evening December 12th 2015 became a historic night as the world saw its first global climate deal for a coordinated response against climate cglobal climate deal for a coordinated response against climate change.

At Global Opportunity Network, we focus on opportunities and we perceive the deal as a climate action instruction manual that can guide us for many years.

The COP21 in Paris is coming up and we are all hoping for an early Christmas present in the shape of an ambitious global climate deal.

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We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

Tillerson received scant credit for telling the committee during his Jan. 11 hearing that the United States should keep a «seat at the table» when it comes to global climate deals.

The leaders of the world's two largest greenhouse - gas - emitting nations touted two previous joint emissions deals, gave nearly back - to - back speeches on the urgency of tackling the climate threat and together issued a statement of support for an ambitious global accord.

Almost 200 countries on Saturday kept alive hopes for a global deal in 2015 to fight climate change after overcoming disputes on greenhouse gas emissions cuts and aid for poor nations at a meeting widely criticised as lacking urgency.

Of the $ 1.65 million for biodiversity and climate change work, $ 750,000 is for a global change research program primarily dealing with long - term forest research, $ 250,000 for a species identification program called Barcode of Life, and $ 300,000 for an online database of species called the Encyclopedia of Life.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

Even as scientists and politicians from around the world debated in December how to deal with a practical problem of profound importance — global climate change — another international group of physicists was waiting with bated breath for a more esoteric development.

LONDON — Governments shouldn't wait for a proposed international climate deal to take hold in 2020 — they can take four steps right away to curb carbon emissions, argues a new report from a global energy think tank.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

If countries succeed in creating a hoped - for new international global warming accord next year in Paris, it could turn the decades - old system for dealing with climate change on its head.

Next year will see a crescendo in the process, with Lima and Bonn supposed to pave the way for the world to agree a «global deal» on climate change in Paris 2015.

Business analysts welcomed «Copenhagen Accord» — a climate deal involving all the major economies for the first time in making commitments to curb emissions, cementing a global shift to a low - carbon world.

Mitigation — reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal A transparency system and global stock - take — accounting for climate action Adaptation — strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts Loss and damage — strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts Support — including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures As well as setting a long - term direction, countries will peak their emissions as soon as possible and continue to submit national climate action plans that detail their future objectives to address climate change.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

In order to understand the potential importance of the effect, let's look at what it could do to our understanding of climate: 1) It will have zero effect on the global climate models, because a) the constraints on these models are derived from other sources b) the effect is known and there are methods for dealing the errors they introduce c) the effect they introduce is local, not global, so they can not be responsible for the signal / trend we see, but would at most introduce noise into that signal 2) It will not alter the conclusion that the climate is changing or even the degree to which it is changing because of c) above and because that conclusion is supported by multiple additional lines of evidence, all of which are consistent with the trends shown in the land stations.

In Cancún, perhaps because the pressure was off to «seal the deal,» nearly all of the world's nations rallied late Friday night around Mexico's foreign secretary, Patricia Espinosa, and the text she offered as a rough template for an eventual global climate agreement.

The second lecture deals with the impacts of climate change (with a focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the possibilities for holding global warming below 2 °C.

Written for a general audience, it deals with a number of current, and potential future, effects of global change — with an emphasis on climate change — on various health - related issues.

The former head of the London School of Ecnomics makes the case for de-emphasizing a global climate deal through the UN and instead focusing on bilateral and regional deals.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

As world leaders and their top advisers convened in Manhattan for Tuesday's United Nations summit on global warming, there were hints of accord on a few issues that could form the basis for a climate deal in December in Copenhagen — something less that a full - blown treaty but sufficient to avoid total breakdown of an international effort.

We used it heavily as part of a Global Climate Processes course at UW - Madison for later undergrad and grad students, so it has a good deal of flexibility in what you can test (though the model blows up for extreme forcings like snowball Earth, I used CO2 at about 140 ppm and couldn't get much lower than that).

Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

when for over 15 years those of us who follow atmospheric trends have been advocating no cost and negative cost policies to deal with the global climate change while the Embergers of the world have been playing grasshopper.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

* Assessments of current mechanisms for governing global environmental change show why existing international arrangements are not dealing quickly enough with current global challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss.

In 2006, I interviewed dozens of experts on energy, climate, and the economy for a story in our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and policy, the need to deal with a growing global oil crunch could well trump the need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate risks.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

This week, as leaders from business and governments are coming together to showcase action and commitments, and demonstrate demand for an ambitious global deal to be made at the December climate talks in Paris, we hope you'll jump in and join the action too by organizing a course or by joining our upcoming EcoChallenge!

The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at Kepler Cheuvreux, a Paris - based brokerage.

We take a more international perspective, looking at what it might mean for the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

King said he hoped the Apollo project would launch in November, just ahead of the crunch UN climate change summit in Paris which nations have set a deadline for a global deal.

«If we do get a global deal on climate that locks in a target for reducing emissions... then I think the fossil fuel companies do face a very bleak outlook,» said Mark Lewis, chief energy economist at