Sentences with phrase «global climate deal»

The report says working toward a new global climate deal remains important.

To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

We take a more international perspective, looking at what it might mean for the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

- To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

And just last week, 196 countries approved a binding global climate deal in Paris.

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South Asian countries — including India, Pakistan and Bangladesh - call for a legally binding global climate deal by 2015 ahead of the UN climate talks in Peru

At eight events, hundreds of people from across the world have had a chance to experience how it feels like to negotiate an ambitious global climate deal using Climate Interactive's rigorous tools, C - ROADS and World Climate.

World leaders have set a deadline to agree a new global climate deal by the end of next year, at a big conference in Paris.

He said he would rip up last year's landmark global climate deal struck in Paris that was signed by President Barack Obama.

Approaching the summit, it appeared that pretty much all the countries wanted a new global climate deal under the UNFCCC umbrella.

Countries are working towards meetings in Paris in November that could see the first global climate deal since the Kyoto Protocol.

The Summit is a prelude to the December UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, at which the successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol will be negotiated, and is intended to galvanize political support for a far - reaching global climate deal.

Climate legislation has taken a back seat to health care reform in the US Senate, raising concerns that the US will be unable to lead the way to a major global climate deal in Copenhagen.

«Net - zero» language has now appeared as an optional paragraph in early drafting text for the anticipated global climate deal currently under negotiation.

COP21, the landmark global climate deal discussed in Paris last year, set two critical temperature goals in an attempts to curb the catastrophic consequences of climate change: Cap the average global temperature increase at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels; and try to limit warming to about 1.5 degrees Celsius to stave off global warming's devastating effects.

«Forward thinking companies are setting a precedent for governments to agree a new global climate deal agreement in Paris later this year,» says Samantha Smith, leader of WWF's Global Climate and Energy Initiative.

For the long awaited global climate deal in Paris to be successful, it needs to aim for a sustainable level of global warming.

President Obama used his speech at the United Nations» climate summit Tuesday to push for a strong global climate deal in 2015 that requires action from nations including China, which is now the world's largest source of carbon pollution.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd argued recently that the larger G20 needed to drive the planned global climate deal.

Tasneem Essop, former provincial minister of environment for Western Cape, South Africa, who is now working on WWF's Global Climate Deal Network Initiative, said, «We're hoping that in the rush to the end, ministers do not trade ambition for expediency, and remain true to the science.»

Special meetings focusing on the draft of an overall global climate deal have been added to the usual June agenda of scientific and technical issues.

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The COP21 in Paris is coming up and we are all hoping for an early Christmas present in the shape of an ambitious global climate deal.

The United States along with China, Brazil, India and more than 190 other nations agreed to deliver the new goals by early next year as part of an effort to ink a new global climate deal in Paris in 2015.

That would represent a big blow to negotiators» chances of getting a new global climate deal in Paris.

By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network The COP21 in Paris is coming up and we are all hoping for an early Christmas present in the shape of an ambitious global climate deal.

Next week you and other world leaders will meet in Paris for the COP21 to try and reach an ambitious global climate deal that keeps global warming well below 2 degrees.

Tillerson received scant credit for telling the committee during his Jan. 11 hearing that the United States should keep a «seat at the table» when it comes to global climate deals.

By Ben Garside and Valerie Volcovici LONDON / WASHINGTON (Reuters)- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - moon this month hopes to reinvigorate the years - long effort to forge a global climate deal, even as concerns grow over whether the final pact will be rigorous enough to address threats to the environment.

The analysis, appearing roughly 2 months ahead of a United Nations meeting in Paris intended to finalize a new global climate deal, focuses on the emissions levels that nations have already pledged to reach by 2025 to 2030.

The report should galvanise the UN negotiators who are drafting a global climate deal to be signed next year.

But, she added, if the Obama administration wants to steer India toward a global climate deal, boosting clean energy business will be key.

WITH less than 60 days to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a new global climate deal, how do the chips already on the table stack up?

The former head of the London School of Ecnomics makes the case for de-emphasizing a global climate deal through the UN and instead focusing on bilateral and regional deals.

Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

New York's former mayor, Mike Bloomberg, said he plans to spend his post-political career helping the United Nations with the «very difficult» and «frustrating» work of herding leaders towards a global climate deal.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

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It's hard for anyone to digest of all the intricacies of international negotiations, let alone the understand the extraordinary complexity of negotiating a global climate deal.

But, the question now is whether this «right to grow» pitch will find a prominent place in the climate change discourse when rich and poor nations sit together to work out a global climate deal?

Citing the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the ASEAN for a Fair, Ambitious and Binding Global Climate Deal (A-FAB) coalition said typhoons and other extreme weather events would become more intense and frequent unless governments took immediate steps to move toward a low - carbon economy.

In December this year, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will descend on Copenhagen to wrangle over the details of a new global climate deal — a potential successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

Negotiations are expected to conclude by Saturday, and the draft agreement will continue to evolve until it's offered up as an international treaty in December 2015, when world leaders are expected to gather in Paris in an attempt at a global climate deal.

We take a more international perspective, looking at how it affects the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

Specific goals like these don't appear in the draft text of a global climate deal set to be agreed by governments meeting in Paris at the end of the year.