Sentences with phrase «global climate change regime»

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

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Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

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.

The document — which administration officials have neither acknowledged or rejected as authentic — has elements guaranteed to inflame folks ranging from Rush Limbaugh (the mention of efforts to «produce a global regime to combat climate change») to environmental groups pushing for concrete commitments on restricting greenhouse gases (a phrase implying that increasing perception of United States engagement is the goal).

... China insists in the position to make the framework [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] the political and legal basis for the global regime and we do not see the necessity or need to rewrite or interpret the convention.

A new global climate - change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate - change solutions.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

Rather, it presumes that the climate regime that goes into effect in 2020 must focus pressure on those countries that are not doing their fair share, and it must promise to continue to do so in 2030 and beyond, even as the structure of the global economy changes.

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), formalized at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, was in effect a treaty to create treaties, an effort to create an international regime that would supposedly deal with the threat of Global Warming.

I believe we need to harmonise the global climate change system with the trading regime through changes in the GATT rules.

As the two largest current global emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is imperative that the United States and China work together to support effective domestic energy and climate change programs and an effective international climate regime.

In a November 21 report prepping readers for Doha, entitled, «Warming up: What to Expect From the Next Big Report on Climate Change,» The Economist puts great stock in the UN's thoroughly discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that our failure to secure a global climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.Climate Change,» The Economist puts great stock in the UN's thoroughly discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that our failure to secure a global climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that our failure to secure a global climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.»

But our current fossil fuel - based energy regime faces two serious challenges: depletion of the «low - hanging fruit» of global petroleum supplies, and the need to reduce carbon emissions to avert catastrophic climate change.

Such rainfall regimes cover nearly half of the global land, where either a gradual climate change across the ecosystem thresholds or a strong perturbation due to either extreme climate events, land use, or diseases could trigger abrupt ecosystem changes.

The president, like his globalist cadres at the UN, is working feverishly to use climate change to remake the political order of the globe — before the wheels come completely off the global - warming bandwagon — so that countries and their peoples kowtow to a new international socialist regime based out of the UN, a regime that literally tells individuals what they can and can not do.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change.

Williams, K.D., and G. Tselioudis, 2007: GCM intercomparison of global cloud regimes: Present - day evaluation and climate change response.

According to Christiana Figueres, the «executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,» the communist regime in Beijing, famous for forced abortions and mass murder, is «doing it right» when it comes to fighting alleged global warming.

Shukla, P.R., A. Rana, A. Garg, K. Kapshe, and R. Nair, 2006: Global climate change stabilisation regimes and Indian emission scales: Lessons from modeling of developed country transitions.