Sentences with phrase «global climate change agreement»

Indeed, as India's contribution to a new global climate change agreement in Paris in December makes clear, «coal will continue to dominate power generation in [the] future.»

By 2020, these efforts should amount to about $ 29bn a year, nearly a third of the $ 100bn a year in climate finance promised by rich countries to the poor as part of global climate change agreements.

But China is building up its reserves of wheat, and is now widely seen as working more energetically than many developing countries for an ambitious global climate change agreement.

The success of ongoing negotiations to establish a new global climate change agreement depends heavily on the agreement's acceptance by the world's major economies, including the United States.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.

This is the surest sign yet that an administration that has pulled out of global climate change agreements and is rolling back environmental protections at the behest of the fossil fuel industry, nonetheless does not want to miss out on the economic potential of a renewable energy industry that has revived many ailing port cities in northern Europe.

Also on Capitol Hill during this «mother of all climate weeks»: the House Science and Technology Committee will also hold a hearing on Wednesday about measuring greenhouse gas emissions, while the Senate will hear from State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern on new global climate change agreements.

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.

The nation's access to Kyoto carbon markets after 2015 will depend on progress in negotiating the global Climate Change Agreement and discussions around linking regional carbon markets, Groser said in a statement yesterday.

The UK government recently also set out their vision for «Paris 2015: Securing Our Prosperity Through a Global Climate Change Agreement»; explaining why there is need for a global climate deal, why it will be good for the UK and what it needs to look like when it is finalised this year.

«Now, here in Paris, governments have the opportunity to secure a global climate change agreement that can pave the way towards a safer, healthier, more prosperous and sustainable future,» he said.

Figueres stressed that the completion of the Fund's institutional design and its initial resource mobilization can also provide new impetus towards a successful conclusion of a global climate change agreement in Paris in 2015.

OECD (1998), Ensuring Compliance with a Global Climate Change Agreement, ENV / EPOC (98) 5, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris.

«Are the Negotiations for a Global Climate Change Agreement Stalled?

Climate Change Deal Moral Imperative: Ban Ki - moon Ban Ki - moon sat center, seemingly unfazed and driving home the point that there is both a political and moral imperative to sign a global climate change agreement this December in Copenhagen.

The Executive Session on Negotiating a Global Climate Change Agreement was made possible by a grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

On March 14 and 15, 1991, Harvard's Global Environmental Policy Project held a two day executive session on «Negotiating a Global Climate Change Agreement.»

This report may be cited as: Rapporteur's Report of the Executive Session: «Negotiating a Global Climate Change Agreement.»

Negotiating a Global Climate Change Agreement: Rapporteur's Report of Executive Session on March 14 - 15, 1991

World headlines blare the news that negotiators in Paris have reached a global climate change agreement.