Sentences with phrase «global climate deal under»

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I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

The extreme heat and related climate disturbances mean that delegates to a global climate conference scheduled for Paris in early December will almost certainly be convening as weather - related disasters are unfolding around the world, putting them under greater political pressure to reach an ambitious deal to limit future emissions and slow the temperature increase.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

Under the Paris climate deal, nations have agreed to limit global warming to «well below» 2 °C from pre-industrial levels.

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

As Roberta Kwok wrote in Nature last month, Rudd's Labour party government had called for a 5 % emissions cut from 2000 levels by 2020 — to be raised to 15 % if an ambitious global climate deal is reached in Copenhagen — but the proposed legislation was under fire from both the right and left.

Then he ended with this «We currently seem to be operating under the «no regrets» climate policy first formulated under the first Bush administration, which basically states that if anything undesirable should happen because of global climate change, we will then deal with that problem after the fact.»

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.

If you can not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainlcannot deal with global warming, full stop.

If you can not deal with climate change under capitalism, you certainly can not deal with global warming, full stop.