Sentences with phrase «for global climate pact»

Climate change «will make lightning strike more» China and US strike deal on carbon cuts in push for global climate pact.

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...

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What it means: Unlike the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 climate pact that sought to force specific pollution reductions on certain countries, but failed to do virtually anything to slow global warming — the hoped - for Paris agreement would see nations taking voluntary steps to stem greenhouse gas pollution.

If the nomination of Rex Tillerson for secretary of state is approved by Congress, he would have more influence over America's role in global environmental agreements than any other member of Trump's administration — including its participation in the historic United Nations climate pact negotiated last year in Paris.

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).

California is redoubling its environmental efforts less than three months before world leaders gather in Paris for a United Nations summit to create a new global pact for fighting climate change.

Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,» the CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc. tweeted shortly after Trump officially withdrew the U.S. from the global climate pact.

«Environment ministers of the European Union — responsible for only 11 % of global carbon emissions — said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.

The former UN climate chief led 195 countries to agree an historic pact to tackle global warming in Paris last December, and hoped this success would convince governments to back her in the contest for the New York post.

BANGKOK — U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact.

Eilperin does note the obvious — that this new piece of «global warming research» is «aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year.»

AFP / ec: Environment ministers from around the world face mounting time pressure on Thursday (Dec 11) to shape a blueprint for a global pact on climate change with ground - breaking carbon curbs at its core.

A fundraising letter was penned on behalf of The Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow that seeks $ 425,000 (requested by S. Fred Singer) in order to work against the United Nations deal on global warming, which Singer calls the «radical, economy - wrecking and sovereignty - destroying UN climate pact.»

As negotiators headed to Copenhagen in December 2009 to forge a global climate pact, concerned U.S. business leaders and liberal luminaries took out a full - page ad in the New York Times calling for aggressive climate action.