Sentences with phrase «future international climate agreements»

How the current dispute is resolved will set an important precedent, with implications for future international climate agreements, some of which could have substantive implications for global trade and competitiveness.

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Several of these are expected to «go dark» in the next two years, robbing scientists of critical data needed for monitoring climate change and verifying international agreements, just as a critical mass of global players is agreeing that such agreements are essential to the future health of the world's people and economies.

Hydrogen is «a highly flexible energy vector and energy carrier capable of serving as a weapon against climate change in a future, integrated multi-sector energy system,» said Mary - Rose de Valladares, manager of the International Energy Administration Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, which is developing a comprehensive road map on the production and utilization of hydrogen due for release early next year.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

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.

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

With the future of an international climate agreement still in flux, governments worldwide are turning to markets for voluntary carbon offsetting to engage private sector climate actors — and to inform or provide the tools that could shape tomorrow's regulated carbon markets.

Coming out of Copenhagen, many participants in the international climate negotiations (as well as informed observers), noted that the UNFCCC has real limitations as the sole venue for future climate negotiations: too many countries — 192, excessively stringent requirements for agreement — unanimity, and a distinct tendency to polarize debates between developed and developing countries.

After the final text of the Paris Agreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land - focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climatAgreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land - focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climatagreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climate policy.

Agriculture and other rural activities must be integrated in future international policy agreements on climate change.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

[Translate] Bill Scher AMERICANS FOR A SAFE FUTURE We're close to an international climate agreement that most agree will be both a...

We released an Executive Summary of our research paper («Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Policies Through a Future International Agreement») in New York City on September 22nd at an event co-sponsored by IETA and the Harvard Project, on the sidelines of UN Climate Summit, «Carbon Pricing and the 2015 Agreement» (the agenda of the event is available here).

If successful, the new international climate agreement forged in Paris will send strong signals to financial markets — and therefore to businesses and investors — about the direction of energy for the foreseeable future.

The literature on climate change contains a large number of proposals on possible future international agreements.

(See our paper on this from the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements: «Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies Through a Future International Agreement» By Daniel Bodansky, Seth Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf and Robert N. Stavins, November 2014.)