Sentences with phrase «global agreement on climate change»

Rather than projecting solidarity, the visit ended up laying bare the deep divide between developed and developing countries on climate policy — a gulf the Obama administration will have to bridge as it tries to forge a new global agreement on climate change later this year.
It thereby builds momentum towards both the agreement of strong and effective SDGs and a comprehensive, global agreement on climate change due in Paris in December next year.
We saw journalists claiming that this was the first ever global agreement on climate change — and this narrative spread like wildfire.
IUCN's members adopted more than 100 resolutions and set a course heavy on protecting ecosystems in a world guided by the first global agreement on climate change.
The event was held in Cancun, Mexico, and although there were no giant leaps made, the members left feeling more confident that they can work together in the future and eventually come to a binding global agreement on climate change.
China's strong showing in curbing emissions will make negotiations on a new global agreement on climate change easier.
It is now clear that China is signaling its increasing willingness to meet the standards of transparency, accountability, and verification that will be necessary to create an acceptable global agreement on climate change.
The top diplomat's comments came a day after the European Union said President Donald Trump's administration is shifting its approach to the landmark global agreement on climate change, an assertion quickly denied by the White House.
US President Barack Obama and France President Francois Hollande have issued a joint declaration committing to an ambitious global agreement on climate change.
With all the networking that happens at conferences, partnerships will create connections to achieve the officially stated goal: to expand and strengthen «cooperative efforts... in support of, the next global agreement on climate change
With a new global agreement on climate change gaveled into the history books in Paris tonight, many people including me believe we have just witnessed the end of the fossil fuel era.
Because the structure of this year's first - ever global agreement on climate change is also voluntary — with each country effectively trying to peer - pressure others into greater cuts — it matters that the Obama administration is emerging as an effective negotiating force.
The governments of more than 190 nations will gather in Paris to discuss a possible new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change.
«World leaders will be coming to New York in April to sign the global agreement on climate change,» wrote Executive Director Peter Iwanowicz.
On the international climate negotiations, the US and India said in a joint - statement that both countries were «committed to working towards a successful outcome in Paris in 2015 of the conference of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the creation of a new global agreement on climate change
WRI informed and helped drive support for a global agreement on climate change through research, partnerships, and communications.
It also paves the way for a global agreement on climate change due to be concluded at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris in December.
International climate negotiators agreed in the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement on climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
They are compromising to the same big powers that have destroyed any true ambition and equity that could have been written in a global agreement on climate change.
Former Prime Minister John Howard told the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group of UK climate change sceptics, a global agreement on climate change action is unlikely.
«In unsurprising news today, Donald J. Trump announced that the United States would be formally withdrawing from the Global Agreement on Climate Change finalized in Paris in December 2015.
Referring to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) from 30 November — 11 December 2015, Ismail El Gizouli, Acting Chair of the IPCC said, «The (IPCC AR5) Synthesis Report, distilling the work of hundreds of experts, is an invaluable tool and resource for policymakers as the world prepares to finalize a global agreement on climate change later this year.»
It is hoped that COP21 will produce a new global agreement on climate change, aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoiding the threat of dangerous climate change.
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