Sentences with phrase «global climate negotiations»

However, they said it challenges the focus of global climate negotiations since they began in earnest in about 1990.

Under President Obama, the US played the lead role in global climate negotiations since 2014, drawing China into the fold, while pushing for the historic Paris Agreement in 2015, when 196 nations pledged to reduce their carbon footprint.

In a consortium led by the Finnish consultancy GAIA and with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NewClimate Institute carried out a study on behalf of the Nordic Working Group for Global Climate Negotiations (NOAK) to identify how Nordic finance institutions can best contribute to mobilising climate finance to developing countries in a way that supports the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh tears into India's stance at global climate negotiations, saying the government was being ostrich - like, inflexible and moralistic, and that it was a disastrous route, dangerous internationally

Since global climate negotiations began in the 1990s, United Nations delegates have accumulated an idiosyncratic cache of climate diplomacy gobbledygook.

The training — which marks the 26th of its kind — will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a country that will play a crucial role in upcoming global climate negotiations taking place in Paris in 2015.

Try finding them on Google News, and you'll end up learning more about what's happening «in DC» (the US Capitol) than about the «Intended Nationally - Determined Contributions» that have re-framed global climate negotiations that begin here today.

Morocco - Global climate negotiations concluded last week with renewed commitment to action on limiting global temperature rise and preparing for the impacts of climate change.

Global climate negotiations remain important, of course, and a global deal towards a good climate outcome has never been more desirable, but the changing costs of technologies, and domestic measures on air quality show the building and varied negative pressures on fossil fuel industries.

Obama administration officials also think the agreement could have an exponential effect if it spurs other world leaders to follow suit during global climate negotiations to take place before a summit in Paris next year.

In the lead up to global climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indigenous groups presented proposals for inclusive climate mitigation and adaptation.

Mr Zenawi told Africa ministers and European partners gathered in Addis Ababa to consolidate Africa's expectation and position for the next global climate negotiations.

Greenpeace uses 1997 as a benchmark year due to increased coordinated backlash against global climate negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol of 1998.

«Uncertainty over global climate negotiations is impeding investment into the low - carbon economy.

That framing, however, put the IPCC starkly at odds with the history of global climate negotiations, which have instead focused on near - term emissions reduction targets without agreeing to a long - term emissions goal.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

Its targets related to holding temperature increase to below 2 °C and 1.5 °C,» said Peer Stiansen, Chair of the Nordic Working Group for Global Climate Negotiations (NOAK).

As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris in just over a week, actions by state governments like New York State provide essential momentum toward a strong and effective agreement.»

With the global climate negotiations in Paris beginning Nov. 30, now is the time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make an enforceable commitment to end coal - burning in the Empire State by the end of the decade.

She called on all leaders attending the UN Climate Summit in New York to «use this historic opportunity to inject momentum into the global climate negotiations, and work to secure an ambitious global agreement in 2015».

These actions will also inject momentum into the global climate negotiations on the road to reaching a successful new climate agreement next year in Paris.

Arpil 22:» 见证谈判 ： 一个观察员对气候变化谈判的看法 (At the Negotiating Table: An Observer's View of the Global Climate Negotiations)» by Claire Stockwell Gordon Global Fellow and International Climate Change Negotiation Observer, Treaty Law Consultant and Adviser to Greenpeace International.

Claire provided a short description of the history of the global climate negotiations, following the current round of talk's progression from the beginnings in Montreal, through to the breakthrough in Bali last year.

We as youth do not accept the coal industry's attempts to influence the global climate negotiations, to attack the bases of climate science, and to brand «clean coal» as a viable mitigation solution.

by Elizabeth May Killam Lectures - 2005 A Planetary Citizen's Guide to the Global Climate Negotiations Sierra Club of Canada's Planetary Citizen's Guide to the Global Climate Negotiations provides an easy to understand review of the history, science and critical issues behind the Global Climate Negotiations.

«The Role of Science in the Global Climate Negotiations.»

«Our announcement can inject momentum into the global climate negotiations,» Secretary of State John Kerry wrote in an op - ed for the New York Times.

Since REDD + was introduced nearly 10 years ago at the global climate negotiations, approximately $ 10 billion has been allocated for this initiative.

The Paris Agreement may be a significant step forward in global climate negotiations.

-LSB-...] US continue to hold out in the global climate negotiations, reports Reuters.

And that's a good sign as we approach this December's global climate negotiations in Paris.

The movie's premier was scheduled in Paris, France, the exact time and setting of the United Nations» global climate negotiations.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

One of the fundamental questions in the global climate negotiations is: what level of «ambition», in terms of collective emission reductions, is needed to protect global climate?

The collapse of the Copenhagen talks marks not just the end of the United Nations as the primary venue for global climate negotiations but also the abandonment of binding emissions - reduction targets and timetables as the primary vehicle for achieving emissions reductions.

He talks about how reducing U.S. emissions won't make a dent in reducing global emissions, thanks to rising coal use in coutries like China and India, as if the U.S. first real national attempt to reduce emissions won't give us legitimacy in global climate negotiations.

Despite recent moves on climate change by the Obama administration, America continues to be a major hindrance: The U.S. Congress, which Francis will address on Thursday, has been a blockade to global climate negotiations for years, and our carbon emissions remain among the highest per person of any major country on the planet.

President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry showed up strong, worked the agreement hard, and for the first time in the long history of global climate negotiations, gave Americans a reason to be proud of their federal government.

In global climate negotiations, the need to help these vulnerable communities is highlighted in discussions of «loss and damage», which is UN language for the impacts of climate change that people have not been able to cope with or adapt to.

Experts agree that the time for incremental progress has passed, and stress that the coming decades — as well as the next 15 months leading up to the global climate negotiations in Paris — will prove critical.

The second African Climate Talks opened in Addis Ababa Thursday with participants discussing issues of climate governance and Africa's participation in global climate negotiations, weather and climate information services, among...

It's the latest international climate summit (of which the much more publicized COP15 at Copenhagen was an installment) that these hackers for some reason think will be influential at all in global climate negotiations (they almost certainly won't be).

CANCUN — Figuring out what to make of China is always a touchy subject in the context of a global climate negotiations.

The results of this meeting are crucial to determine the legitimacy of 2015 global climate negotiations in Paris.