Sentences with phrase «getting global agreements»

United Nations negotiators struggle to get a global agreement for reducing the world's CO2 emissions, which would stabilise atmospheric CO2 level and keep the temperature rise below 2 °C.

«Now that we've got a global agreement, it's time for New Zealanders to make our government step up its game.

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Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

Morneau's comments came after he met with private sector economists in Toronto to get their input on everything from the North American Free Trade Agreement to global economic uncertainty ahead of the federal budget on Feb. 27.

They're working through to get agreement, and then they'll wind up with a global agreement, and everything moves at the end, hopefully.»

it's gotten China — feared as the next big contributor to global warming — to cut agreement directly with California to continue with the paris agreement:

It is hard to believe that one can expect to get effective political action on global warming without really convincing the public of the scientific agreement.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

Today, the company has signed a new distribution agreement with E Ink to get new e-paper technology on a global scale.

The fact that you CAN ignore everything else and get good agreement with the basic global surface temperature indicates that you CAN ignore everything else on a global scale.

Read these notes from a fascinating 1991 Harvard meeting on Negotiating a Global Climate Agreement to get the idea.

I hope that takes the form of an energy and climate «listening tour,» as I proposed early in 2011 — with the listening aimed at identifying the many points of agreement on energy efficiency and innovation that get lost in fights over global warming.

Whether or not we get an effective global agreement, we've come a long way since Kyoto.

If we were stronger economically and politically, that prestige and clout would give us a much better chance of getting to a global climate agreement.

Experts said the new data underscored the importance of getting China to sign on to any new global climate agreement.

NCE's Global Commissioners delivered this narrative — which was important in getting buy - in from national governments and companies for an ambitious agreement — to more than 45 global decision - makers, including Heads of Government and Finance MiniGlobal Commissioners delivered this narrative — which was important in getting buy - in from national governments and companies for an ambitious agreement — to more than 45 global decision - makers, including Heads of Government and Finance Miniglobal decision - makers, including Heads of Government and Finance Ministers.

The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the possibility of a climate deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect of creating a global carbon price.

«The Australian Greens are congratulating the US and China on their agreement to act on global warming and say it's not too late for Australia to get on board.»

«If there is a global agreement that requires larger cuts in emissions — and I think that would be good if there were, but it's got to be a global agreement — then obviously Australia would play its part and the government would consider what changes or extensions or whatever to Direct Action would need to be made to achieve that,» he said then.

e360: Do you feel that if the Obama administration gets behind a serious structure of targeted greenhouse gas reductions that it's conceivable in Copenhagen to have a global agreement with binding reductions in greenhouse gases?

CAN had to get the posters with the help of New York City - based global crowd broker Avaaz, which had organized hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to march in their home locations in favor of a strong climate agreement.

Yohe: What needs to happen is for a global agreement to be reached that includes the United States from the get - go as an active participant, with agreement on the next round of emissions targets so that they will be taken a lot more seriously than Kyoto was and be a lot more effective.

As the Ki - moon has made clear before, his summit can not merely be a stepping stone to a new agreement in 2015, but must deliver «concrete action» to ensure that global emissions peak before 2020, and get us back on a pathway to a safe climate future.

There is still no guarantee we will succeed in getting a new global agreement in 2009.»

We can't get anywhere near [a global agreement] as long as the fossil fuel industry exerts the power it does.»

I think that global warming appears to get «large agreement among scientists» because of this: There are more articles on global warming because there are more places to put articles on global warming.

The White House, however, failed to get a similar agreement from India, the world's third - largest emitter, which was a major blow to Obama's global warming goals.

No matter how well informed you are, no matter how many peer - reviewed studies you cite, or how many times you point out the overwhelming agreement based on the evidence that exists among climate scientists that global warming is real and is principally caused by human fossil fuel use, you will get no where.

There's tenuous hope that we're finally getting the message: Global emissions may have temporarily stopped rising in the last year or two, and December's climate agreement in Paris provides the framework to steer humanity off from its present course, albeit only slightly.

However, corporate climate action addressing Scope 1 - 3 emissions will only get us part of the way to delivering on the Paris Agreement pledge of limiting global warming to below 2 °C (let alone 1.5 °C).

The ultimate goal is for all these proposals to get stitched together into a global climate agreement at UN talks in Paris in December 2015.

Sadly, the balance of 97 % agreement by climate scientists re Anthropogenic Global Warming and Climate Change versus the only 55 % of agreement by the public relects the reality of getting a message across using modern media.

And if we do this, I know we can get a tough international agreement to deal with this global problem.

Which drives home once again: Don't even think about getting your hopes of for anything resembling a global climate agreement.

This is diplomat - speak for the effort to get a meaningful global agreement to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

Your guess is as good as mine what will happen given how fickle global commodity markets can be, but here are five stocks to watch this coming week to get a good idea of how the energy market is reacting to the Paris Agreement:

In the real world, where UN negotiations have not only failed to agree on an international regime of national emissions targets adding up to a safe global target, but have even agreed to delay such an agreement until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for global action.

Having said that, since the climate talks have postponed a global treaty until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for multilateral agreement.

The problem with getting some kind of global political agreement is that weather and climate are local.

Following HMD global signing a licensing deal to release Android devices that carry the Nokia brand — an agreement that's not very different from Blackberry's partnership with TCL — we finally got our first glimpse the company's upcoming smartphones during Nokia's Mobile World Congress press conference earlier today.