Sentences with phrase «framework convention»

This, he said helped to produce the United Nations framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto protocol to the UNFCCC during which he served on the Bureau of the UNFCC at various times.

Paris Climate Talks (AKA COP21) = UN framework convention on climate change.

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There's another meeting I think — there was a meeting in Bali with the U.N. framework convention on climate change in December 2007.

Mr. Robins noted that the 20 - year - old framework convention and the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that amended it enshrined a two - tiered system in which so - called developed and developing countries are treated differently.

The exchanges were triggered by a question from Labour peer Baroness Thornton, who had suggested the UK could be breaking its commitments under the World Health Organisation's framework convention on tobacco control.

The framework convention on climate change was finalized there.

One bright spot is Christiana Figueres, the new executive secretary of the framework convention.

New talks over reviving the first climate treaty, the 1992 framework convention, and the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 addendum that doesn't constrain the world's biggest gas emitters, the United States and China — remain focused on committing countries to limits on emissions, but not on advancing the technology needed to meet those limits, these critics say.

Besides, the framework convention has hardly any focus on building partnerships aimed at bold research and large - scale demonstration of new energy technologies.

If scientists understood in 1979 that global warming was going to happen, and if they knew by the early 1990s that it was starting to happen, and if our first president Bush signed the framework convention, why are we still here, in 2007, still arguing about whether global warming is even happening?

This is the 17th annual Conference of Parties, where parties come together to fulfill the framework convention.

In Bali a two track approach was designed, which would ensure a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol and another longer term solution for implementing the framework convention.

The United Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations conference on environment and development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

To be fair, the Poznan talks were never designed to answer all of our questions on REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation), but instead to serve as a halfway point between last year's COP 13 in Bali and next December's COP 15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, where the goal is to come up with a framework convention that would then be used to draw up a document to replace the Kyoto Protocol after it expires at the end of 2012.

His analysis, soon to be published in Environmental Science and Policy [uncorrected proofs available from Pielke], compares the average costs of air capture over the 21st century to other mitigation options (namely international greenhouse gas regulation under the UN framework convention) assuming that technologies available today are used to fully offset net human emissions of carbon dioxide.

Edmonds, J. and M. Wise, 1998: Building backstop technologies and policies to implement the framework convention on climate change.

That shift was ratified in Paris and does in fact mark a historic departure from the framework convention established in 1992 and ratified in the Kyoto Accords in 1997.

Some countries are suspicious that the text being developed here in Lima is an attempt to get round the concept of differentiation, which is embedded in the 1992 UN framework convention on climate change.

If scientists understood in 1979 that global warming was going to happen, and if they knew by the early 1990s that it was starting to happen, and if our first president Bush signed the framework convention [at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio], why are we still here, in 2007, still arguing about whether global warming is even happening?

The framework Convention is a legally binding treaty, but it simply states that we all see there is a problem, and does not tackle how to go about solving it.

Based on that long - standing precedent, a GGE on fully autonomous weapons would be open to all interested states regardless of whether they have joined the CCW's framework convention and its five protocols, as well as to NGO representatives.

The CCW meeting of experts on 13 - 16 May is open to all nations regardless of whether they've joined the framework convention and its protocols.

[1] This framework convention adopted in 1980 contains five separate protocols on various weapons and explosive remnants of war, including Protocol IV which preemptively banned blinding lasers before they were fielded or used and as such provides a relevant precedent for work to address fully autonomous weapons.

Adopted in 1980, this framework convention has five protocols relating to various weapons, including Protocol IV pre-emptively banning blinding lasers.

Adopted in 1980, the framework convention contains five protocols, including Protocol I prohibiting non-detectable fragments, Protocol III prohibiting the use of air - dropped incendiary weapons in populated areas, and Protocol IV, which preemptively banned blinding lasers.