Sentences with phrase «global climate regime»

The Climate Equity Reference Project is a long - term initiative to provide scholarship, tools, and analysis to advance equity as a practical means to achieve an ambitious global climate regime.

The Climate Equity Reference Project (CERP) is a long - term initiative designed to provide scholarship, tools, and analysis to advance global climate equity — as a value in itself and as a realist path towards an ambitious global climate regime.

In a November 21 report prepping readers for Doha, entitled, «Warming up: What to Expect From the Next Big Report on Climate Change,» The Economist puts great stock in the UN's thoroughly discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that our failure to secure a global climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.»

Were it not for the East Anglian emails, the big Copenhagen confab of 2009 might have gotten away with plans to impose a global climate regime across the western world.

The next, much - evolved version of GDRs was published with the snappy title of Greenhouse Development Rights: An approach to the global climate regime that takes climate protection seriously while also preserving the right to human development.

Delegates will also discuss issues related to implementation of commitments (under the SBI - Subsidiary Body for Implementation) as well as more technical details of the global climate regime (under SBSTA - Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice).

Does Copenhagen, then, mark not the beginning of a new global climate regime but the end of the vision of global, negotiated climate governance?

A team of masters students and I (call us «Team China» if you will), have carefully reviewed the negotiating texts (non-papers in policy - speak) and developed a series of policy scenarios and strategic recommendations for how China can act as a leader in this talks to achieve an outcome that is optimal for both themselves and the global climate regime.

Its key claim is that, unless the climate regime explicitly preserves such a right, developing country negotiators may quite justifiably conclude [iii] that they have more to lose than to gain from any truly earnest engagement with a global climate regime that, after all, significantly curtails access to the energy sources and technologies that historically enabled growth in the industrialized world.

that they have more to lose than to gain from any truly earnest engagement with a global climate regime that, after all, significantly curtails access to the energy sources and technologies that historically enabled growth in the industrialized world.

Not exact matches

In the 1990s, a wave of protest and a democratic global climate led to the fall of autocratic regimes and a series of elections across the African continent.

Over the past two decades, in fact, the PRC has played an increasingly pivotal role in shaping the climate change regime, on the one hand by influencing the global negotiating strategy and discourse, and, on the other, by building large coalitions in support of its views.

Understanding the response of the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to global warming requires quantitative data on ENSO under different climate regimes.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

development of two - way coupling between WRF and CCSM to represent the upscaled effects of climate hot spots such as the Maritime Continent, the subtropical eastern boundary regime, and the monsoon regions where global climate models fail to simulate the complex processes due to feedback and scale interactions.

The document — which administration officials have neither acknowledged or rejected as authentic — has elements guaranteed to inflame folks ranging from Rush Limbaugh (the mention of efforts to «produce a global regime to combat climate change») to environmental groups pushing for concrete commitments on restricting greenhouse gases (a phrase implying that increasing perception of United States engagement is the goal).

At the same time, in order to ensure an effective and ambitious global post-2012 climate regime, all major economies will need to commit to meaningful mitigation actions to be bound in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

... China insists in the position to make the framework [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] the political and legal basis for the global regime and we do not see the necessity or need to rewrite or interpret the convention.

A new global climate - change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate - change solutions.

And that, therefore, the key to climate protection is the establishment of a global burden - sharing regime in which it is not required to do so.

Admittedly, that was before a science qualification was required, but nonetheless I have been a weather and climate enthusiast for over 60 years and have observed the differing global weather patterns across three so called «climate regimes».

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

To counter this business - as - usual scenario, the Stern Review proposes a climate stabilization regime in which greenhouse gas emissions would peak by 2015 and then drop 1 percent per year after that, so as to stabilize at a 550 ppm CO2e (with a significant chance that the global average temperature increase would thereby be kept down to 3 °C).

As their «science» continues to be exposed and discredited by genuine scientists and astute researchers, we can expect their noisy chorus to get even noisier, in a desperate attempt to push through a new UN climate regime in Paris — before taxpayers completely pull the plug on their global - warming gravy train.

Rather, it presumes that the climate regime that goes into effect in 2020 must focus pressure on those countries that are not doing their fair share, and it must promise to continue to do so in 2030 and beyond, even as the structure of the global economy changes.

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), formalized at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, was in effect a treaty to create treaties, an effort to create an international regime that would supposedly deal with the threat of Global Warming.

That is especially important now, with the United Nations convening its member governments and dictators in New York to map out new taxes and a global «climate» regime to impose on humanity under the guise of fighting warming.

They are tuned to produce a credible simulation of current global climate statistics, but this does not guarantee reliability in future climate regimes.

Since then, events have told a rather different story, with the U.S. waging a multi-front campaign — organizing a global network of bilateral agreements designed to render the U.N. climate process «irrelevant», sending out its flacks to argue that fossil technologies like «clean coal» and carbon capture are the best ways forward, insisting that the under - funded climate secretariat separate its Kyoto Protocol accounts from those related to the Framework Convention, ruthlessly undermining all attempts to talk about, or even talk about talking about, the future of the regime.

• The EPA could only justify their climate regulations if — for the very first time, in any regulatory regime — they included assumed global impacts.

I believe we need to harmonise the global climate change system with the trading regime through changes in the GATT rules.

2015 is the date on everyone's minds now, as we look ahead to the conclusion of a global deal on a new climate regime post-2020.

As the two largest current global emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs), it is imperative that the United States and China work together to support effective domestic energy and climate change programs and an effective international climate regime.

Rather than advancing the interests of polluters through a weaker climate policy regime this agreement must recognize the historical responsibility of the Global North, provide justice for the Global South and catalyze the rapid transition away from dirty energy.

«According to most sources the range of variation between between distinct climatic regimes is on the order of around 5 °C, and at present time the global climate is at the high end of this range.

But our current fossil fuel - based energy regime faces two serious challenges: depletion of the «low - hanging fruit» of global petroleum supplies, and the need to reduce carbon emissions to avert catastrophic climate change.

The CERP views climate as a global commons problem that can only be solved within a high - cooperation international regime.

Such rainfall regimes cover nearly half of the global land, where either a gradual climate change across the ecosystem thresholds or a strong perturbation due to either extreme climate events, land use, or diseases could trigger abrupt ecosystem changes.

Similarly, human - caused global warming is capable of pushing the climate past a tipping point where we enter a new climate regime, one far more disruptive than what we are used to.

The president, like his globalist cadres at the UN, is working feverishly to use climate change to remake the political order of the globe — before the wheels come completely off the global - warming bandwagon — so that countries and their peoples kowtow to a new international socialist regime based out of the UN, a regime that literally tells individuals what they can and can not do.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change.

Multi-decadal regime shift — chaotic — unpredictable — involving abrupt shifts in ocean and atmospheric circulation — show the dynamical mechanism at the core of climate on a global scale.

It looks as though global warming has been doing much more than just alter climate regimes and physical environments: it's actually been shifting seasons forward as well.

Williams, K.D., and G. Tselioudis, 2007: GCM intercomparison of global cloud regimes: Present - day evaluation and climate change response.

We argued that with Kyoto's ratification carbon would actually be priced, that new principles for the protection of the global commons would be established, and that the structures necessary to eventually strengthen the climate regime would be put into place.

Despite governments squandering hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars per year on «climate» schemes, much of the public sees through the charade — so much so that the UN and its power - hungry «member states» understand that their radical dream of a global «climate» regime controlling every facet of human existence is on the verge of slipping out of reach.

According to Christiana Figueres, the «executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change,» the communist regime in Beijing, famous for forced abortions and mass murder, is «doing it right» when it comes to fighting alleged global warming.

As The New American has been reporting since last year, the UN and its member governments and dictatorships are frantically hoping to secure a planetary «climate» regime next year at a global - warming summit in Paris.