Sentences with phrase «global agreements aimed»
But the Commission couldn't chart a course until it knew for sure how its actions would be recognized under global agreements aimed at differentiating a cluster of trees from a forest.
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The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.
The Paris Agreement is an international climate pact among about 190 countries, which aims to keep global warming below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.
The Paris climate agreement aims to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
«The Paris Climate Agreement aims to put the world on track to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to 1.5 oC.
Meanwhile, the episode prompted the U.S. government to rapidly restart a long, moribund process aimed at tightening oversight of so - called «dual use» research — and WHO to complain that the deal could imperil a carefully negotiated global agreement to share flu viruses and research results.
Among its goals, the coalition of countries, including the U.S., wants an agreement that the world must aim as soon as possible to hold global warming to 1.5 - degree Celsius and work toward a long - term low - carbon future
Many agreements aim to protect the global environment.
The world is in the midst of an unprecedented wave of negotiations aimed at saving global agreements to keep nuclear weapons in check.
THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.
The Paris Agreement, which came into force in November 2016, aims to keep the global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
It remains the fastest growing component of the widening gap between the Ecological Footprint and the planet's biocapacity,» Wackernagel said adding that a global agreement that aims to phase out fossil fuels could have a significant impact in helping curb the consistent growth and even shrink Ecological Footprint, humanity's demand on planet Earth.
«The agreement in Paris which aims to keep global warming to below 2C and even below 1.5 C is extremely welcome.
The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The universal agreement's main aim is to keep a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
But it could demonstrate leadership, both to the American middle class and the international community preparing for talks aimed at forging a global climate agreement at the end of the year in Paris.
Longtime readers will recall how I've cited the Talking Heads lyric «same as it ever was» quite often over the years in assessing negotiations aimed at forging a new global agreement on slowing global warming and limiting its impacts.
The United Nations office that manages negotiations aimed at generating a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen has released a basic 53 - page outline for 192 countries to supplement or whittle when the next round of talks begins in June in Bonn.
(4) Often I hear that the aims of the Paris Climate Agreement are absurd, because humans can not stabilize the global temperature — after all, our climate changes even without human intervention.
The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.
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.
Mr. Moosa's comments came ahead of climate - treaty talks in December in Poznań, Poland, that are aimed at pushing forward negotiations on a new global agreement on cutting emissions — and where concerns about allowing emerging economic superpowers like China and India to pollute as much as Western countries is almost certain to be a key stumbling block.
Countries in 2015 adopted the Paris Climate Change Agreement aimed at keeping the global average temperature rise well bellow 2oC and as close as possible to 1.5 oC through concerted climate action in all sectors.
A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as «Climategate,» continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.
The Paris Agreement's central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean surface warming to less than 2 °C relative to pre-industrial levels1, 2,3.
The Paris agreement, at minimum, aims to keep the rise in average global temperatures «well below» 2 degrees C compared to pre-industrial levels.
Utterly wrong: nobody — but nobody — has demonstrated scientifically that global average temperature (GAT) no more than 2 ° C above the pre-industrial average (the limit aimed for by the Paris agreement) is optimal, or that GAT higher than that will even be net harmful,
The chosen scenario assumes Trump's actions could result in the United States only achieving half of its pledged reduction through 2030 under the Paris Agreement on climate change, the worldwide but voluntary pact aiming to avoid dangerous global warming that entered into force on Nov. 4.
The Paris Agreement central aim is to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
An aim to keep global mean temperature «well below» 2 °C of that which existed before the industrial era, and to «pursue efforts» to keep it even below 1.5 °C — a more ambitious target than has ever been mentioned in the wording of a climate agreement before.
The Paris Agreement achieved at COP21 aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change namely by «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change.»
Today, the second week of negotiations begins, with the aim of reaching a new universal climate agreement to limit global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius.
The Paris Agreement aims to hold the increase in global average temperature over the industrial era to well below 2 °C and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.
When international delegates meet in Paris next year to negotiate a new global climate agreement, they'll be aiming to keep global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels.
The Paris Agreement's central aim is to keep global temperature rise this century well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep within 1.5 °C of warming.
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — an ambitious but necessary target.
The Agreement aims to keep global average temperature rise «well below» the 2 °C previously agreed, and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.
The result sent shockwaves through the global climate talks now happening in Morocco, known as COP 22, that aim to turn the Paris agreement's promises into action.
Australia's climate change ambassador Justin Lee left Australia yesterday for the Warsaw meeting, which is aiming to progress talks for a global agreement that includes China, India and the US by 2015.
The Paris Agreement was a major step forward for international cooperation on tackling climate change; not only did Parties agree to the ambitious mitigation goal of limiting average global temperature increase to well below 2 °C, but they also agreed to a wide array of processes and tools aimed at achieving this goal.
Both briefings are part of the Big Shift Campaign, a global effort composed of dozens of civil society organizations encouraging government - backed multilateral development banks to reinforce the aims of the Paris Agreement and commit to a shift from fossil fuel finance to clean energy finance.
The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep a global average temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
This could contribute towards a goal of holding the increase in global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius — an aim recognized in the United Nations Climate Convention's Cancun Agreements.
The Paris Agreement, reached at COP21 in December 2015, aims to keep global temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The Paris Climate Agreement, which went into force in 2016, aims to keep the global temperature increase to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, with an aspirational goal of holding warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels by 2100.
The agreement also says it «aims to strengthen the global response to climate change... in a manner that does not threaten food production.»
In February 2016, global temperatures spiked to well over 1.5 °C above pre-industrial times, just weeks after the Paris Climate Agreement set an aim of not exceeding that benchmark.
The Global Compact France and Compta Durable aim to involve Francophone companies in this initiative, so that they can truly contribute to the success of the Paris Agreement and of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).