Sentences with phrase «global climate deal agreement»

«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.

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Over the course of our conversations, I came to see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate - change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a historic climate change agreement in Beijing last night, vowing that the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases will each undertake steep cuts in the coming decade and will work together toward a new global deal.

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.

A deal this fall to cap carbon emissions from global aviation at 2020 levels must be enforceable and set long - term goals in line with the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, a coalition of environmental groups said.

In Cancún, perhaps because the pressure was off to «seal the deal,» nearly all of the world's nations rallied late Friday night around Mexico's foreign secretary, Patricia Espinosa, and the text she offered as a rough template for an eventual global climate agreement.

The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the possibility of a climate deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect of creating a global carbon price.

Trump has promised to «cancel» the Paris agreement, the recently adopted global deal to curb global warming, and to curb climate regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including the Clean Power Plan to cut emissions from coal - fired power plants, during his first 100 days in office.

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.

Many have commented that this agreement will lead to a global deal in Paris in 2015 where countries are to agree to a post-2020 deal to tackle climate change.

After the Paris Agreement and a deal on emissions from international aviation, shipping is the last sector to contribute to global climate action.

That scenario assumes no action is taken on climate change, and global deals like the Paris agreement indicate that many countries are already moving to take action.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday explicitly called for the U.S. to remove itself from the Paris climate agreement, one of his strongest remarks yet expressing his opposition to the landmark deal to keep global warming below 2 °C.

(Reuters)-- A global deal to combat climate change in 2015 looks more likely after promises for action by China, the United States and the European Union, but any agreement will probably be too weak to halt rising temperatures.

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Now here's a thought: if our leaders were able to leave the politics and vested interests aside for just seven days, we could come out of this week's meetings in Bonn and Brussels with across - the - board support for an international deal on HFCs and a meaningful EU emissions target, inspiring other countries around the world to raise their game and opening the way for an ambitious global climate agreement in 2015.

With global climate action needed now more than ever, sealing an HFC deal under the Montreal Protocol is the biggest thing that can be done this year to build on the Paris agreement and protect our children's future.

The United Nations» top climate diplomat will step down July 1 following a raucous four - year term during which world leaders struggled to reach agreement on a new international global warming deal.

As the apex of seven years of persistence and diplomacy on a global climate deal, Todd played a pivotal role leading up to and in Paris of securing the agreement of nearly 200 nations to commit to holding global warming to below two degrees Celsius and to transparently submit their national contributions to this goal for review by the rest of the world.

Professor Reif wrote, «Yesterday, the White House took the position that the Paris climate agreement — a landmark effort to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions — was a bad deal for America.»

Labelled as the first - ever universal, legally binding global climate deal, the Paris Agreement was adopted by the 195 UNFCCC Member States at the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) on 12 December 2015, with a view to hold the Earth's average temperature rise to well below 2 °C, preferably to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial climate deal, the Paris Agreement was adopted by the 195 UNFCCC Member States at the Paris Climate Conference (COP 21) on 12 December 2015, with a view to hold the Earth's average temperature rise to well below 2 °C, preferably to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial Climate Conference (COP 21) on 12 December 2015, with a view to hold the Earth's average temperature rise to well below 2 °C, preferably to no more than 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.