Sentences with phrase «global climate progress»

I'm sure he'll find ways to do damage, but the core truth that we learned between Copenhagen and Paris is that people — citizens, communities, local governments, movements, clean energy innovators — set the terms and conditions for global climate progress.

Abigail Borah, a New Jersey resident, interrupted the start of lead U.S. negotiator Todd Stern's speech to call out members of Congress for impeding global climate progress, delivering a passionate call for an urgent path towards a fair and binding climate treaty.

It will not substantially hamper global climate progress if the USA really quits the Paris agreement, but it will hurt the American economy and society alike.

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What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

«We are in a global fight to combat climate change, and today's ruling ensures our progress will not be blocked or rolled back by fossil fuel interests and others seeking to maintain the status quo,» Cuomo said in a news release.

The Bulletin panel found that despite hopes of global agreements about nuclear weapons, nuclear power and climate change in 2010, little progress has been made.

Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.

Indeed, simply reading an article that affirmed the power of scientific progress to successfully address global issues such as climate change (vs. reading an article which questioned its efficacy in doing so) was enough to significantly increase the degree to which participants saw order in the world.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

Global warming has become a 1 - degree Celsius reality, making progress at climate talks in Paris even more imperative

The climate talks which kicked off in Doha, Qatar, this week, are unlikely to yield much progress towards a global deal to cut emissions.

And we need leaders to deal seriously and honestly with the crux of these talks — global inequality and historical responsibility — and to make progress on a fair, just, equitable and transformative global partnership to combat the ever escalating climate crisis.»

Through the Paris climate agreement and discussions with other countries, the United States is working with other major economies to encourage progress on fuel economy standards, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will improve global energy and climate security by reducing our reliance on oil.

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Update, June 19, 10:30 p.m. Joe Romm has written a long post on Climate Progress on the Orwellian aspects of a «good» Anthropocene — «Words Matter When Talking Global Warming: The «Good Anthropocene» Debate» — and Hamilton has a long essay in Scientific American warning that «The New Environmentalism Will Lead Us to Disaster.

A global climate strategy, for instance, will only work in the real world if it takes into account the glaring energy gap that hinders progress for the world's poorest billion or two.

Since the early 1990s we have made basically no progress in cutting global emissions — in part, as Kerry says, because the conversation about climate change policy strategy hasn't really changed.

As I've explained before, there is enormous potential for progress on climate - smart energy steps even in the face of persistent division over the extent of the threat from global warming.

Leader, this Global Revolution against climate change will require wise leadership, charisma, scientific progress, and global teamwork at an unprecedented Global Revolution against climate change will require wise leadership, charisma, scientific progress, and global teamwork at an unprecedented global teamwork at an unprecedented scale.

America must help forge a truly global solution to this global challenge by galvanizing international action to significantly reduce emissions, prepare for climate impacts, and drive progress through the international negotiations.

If we're going to achieve global progress in mitigating or reversing climate change, advocates on both sides will need to stop mixing fact with hyperbole:

Our decisive action at home empowers us to make more progress internationally on the shared global challenge of climate change.

He has now greatly expanded on his critique of their argument in «Why Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong,» an essay in the New York Review of Books (hat tip to Climate Progress).

If environmental groups and their backers want to see concrete progress on limiting the risk that humans will propel dangerous global warming, they may need more than just additional money and better organization, but also a hard look at core strategies and a philosophy that has long cast climate change as primarily a conventional pollution problem, not a technology problem.

Significant progress toward a long - term global goal will be made by increasing financing of the broad deployment of existing technologies and best practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build climate resilience.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

UNEP's latest Global Environment Outlook goes on to say that we're making little to no progress on 24 goals, with 8 getting worse, including some of the most serious such as climate change and coral reef destruction.

But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.

The seemingly endless global climate caravan, which will decamp and head to Qatar a year from now, provides a record of the slow progress resulting from that tangle of pushing and pulling driven by hidden agendas and legitimate gripes, grudging concessions and determined blockades.

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The «climate pragmatists,» such as Victor, Stern, and myself, argue that the point of Australian climate policy is not to solve the global climate problem, or to solve the problem of emissions from international trade, but rather to achieve politically feasible forward progress on domestic climate policy that can help set the foundation for future global policy (which as you and Victor have pointed out is the only way to deal with leakage, including coal exports).

U.S. Climate Alliance governors plan to attend COP23 this fall to report on their climate progress and detail further plans and additional solutions to pool resources and confront the global threat of climate Climate Alliance governors plan to attend COP23 this fall to report on their climate progress and detail further plans and additional solutions to pool resources and confront the global threat of climate climate progress and detail further plans and additional solutions to pool resources and confront the global threat of climate climate change.

«What California's resolve shows is that even if progress on climate change and clean energy is stymied at the level of global governance or the nation - state, the subnationals can still move ahead to build a critical mass from below,» he wrote.

The climate talks in Copenhagen in December loom as a target date for the Obama administration to have something — anything, really — to show for themselves in terms of progress on global warming.

The nation's access to Kyoto carbon markets after 2015 will depend on progress in negotiating the global Climate Change Agreement and discussions around linking regional carbon markets, Groser said in a statement yesterday.

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«Researchers at Duke University say global warming is not progressing as fast as it would under the most severe scenarios outlined by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.»

The science of climate change «attribution» — linking specific extreme weather events to the effects of global warming — is making substantial progress, so it is becoming increasingly possible for scientists to tie particular weather patterns to climate change.

«We have seen unprecedented, historic and miraculous improvements,» she said of global progress on climate change, «but it's very fragile.»

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

In Lima, leaders from such cities as New York, Rio de Janeiro, and Guangzhou launched the Global Protocol for Community - Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories, which will help cities measure their emissions, compare progress, and make good on climate commitments.

Whether you are working on the front lines of the climate issue, immersed in the science, trying to make policy or educate the public, or just an average person trying to make sense of the cognitive dissonance or grapple with frustration over this looming issue, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming moves beyond the psychological barriers that block progress and opens new doorways to social and personal transformation.

This policy document aims to detail the recent progress of the Global Environment Facility to mainstream gender in climate funds programming and implementation.

Easier to understand is a claim by Climate Interactive (and used by Joe Romm of Climate Progress) that the policy proposals would mean that global emission in 2100 would be 40 % lower than without them.

This was a crucial meeting in the progress of the Paris Agreement and global climate action.

But despite a few recent successes, clean - energy progress is falling short of the levels needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet global climate targets.

The Need: «Despite that amazing success and decades of environmental progress, we find ourselves facing an even more dire, almost existential, set of global environmental challenges, from loss of biodiversity to climate change to plastic pollution, that call for action at all levels of government,» said Denis Hayes.