Sentences with phrase «global climate talks»

The 2 °C target was one of the few things that everyone at global climate talks could agree on.

And the dismal track record of global climate talks inspires little confidence that nations can agree to make the huge changes required to stop treating the atmosphere like a carbon sewer.

Seven years and an economic crisis later, the commission hopes its 2030 plans will again shape the next global climate talks.

The soap opera of global climate talks has been playing for 20 years.

Europe sees the United States as a crucial ally in global climate talks in Copenhagen in December, after President Barack Obama signaled a new urgency in tackling climate change, in stark contrast to his predecessor George W. Bush.

It has drawn the same criticism as an issues paper the government published last month before public consultation on Australia's post-2020 emissions reduction targets, which will be set before global climate talks in Paris in December.

With less than a week to go before global climate talks begin in Cancún, mayors from many of the world's largest cities met in Mexico City over the weekend and declared, «What about us?»

The President has had a clear and consistent set of objectives on global climate talks since he came into office.

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

As global climate talks begin this week in Paris, much attention will be focused on the rainforests of the Amazon.

As Geden points out, relaxing the limit might make global climate talks even less productive than they already are.

The memo sent to the Energy Department on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters last week contains 74 questions including a request for a list of all department employees and contractors who attended the annual global climate talks hosted by the United Nations within the last five years.

The report shows how the voice of state and regional governments is growing ever more powerful through Coalition activities — in particular at the COP23 global climate talks, where Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, was appointed Global Ambassador for the Under2 Coalition.

Global climate talks received a symbolic boost today, as the G7 group of rich nations threw their weight behind a long - term goal of decarbonising the global economy over the course of this century.

The European Union will go to the upcoming global climate talks with an inadequate offer which fails to give enough backing to citizen - controlled, renewable - powered energy, after ministers agreed a weak position in Brussels today.

Similarly, Robert Stavins, a Harvard economist who studies global climate talks, put it this way: «What is most important is long - term action.

It's a lazy lie because it serves the status quo (an endless round of never - ending global climate talks in which everyone gets to feel that they are doing something about an important problem) and ducks the challenge of the far greater threat now facing us all.

In the lead up to UN global climate talks in Durban, South Africa later this month, an independent global commission of eminent scientists today released a set of concrete recommendations to policy [continue reading...]

ACT 2015's proposals on mitigation, resilience, finance, transparency and accountability, and a mechanism to increase ambition over time strongly informed the final negotiating text at global climate talks in Paris in 2015.

«Welcome to the House Science Committee's hearings on global climate talks, where the entire world gets one guy — albeit a very articulate, informed, polite guy — to testify on its behalf.»

Ahead of the next round of global climate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for the biggest event the world has seen to encourage local action on climate change, at the Global Climate Action Summit from 12 - 14 September.

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

With the fast approaching global climate talks in Copenhagen occupying climate watchers, a far overblown non-scandal hogging the limelight, and health care reform distracting American politicos, the status of the Senate clean energy reform bill may have fallen a bit out of focus as of late.

During the global climate talks in Paris in December 2015, Polman drummed home the point to business leaders and politicians that companies» survival depended on averting environmental catastrophe.

The federal government can provide funding, set (some) national standards, and negotiate for Canada at global climate talks, but provinces make crucial decisions about electricity and energy development.

Specifically, we recommended that Ottawa show up as a constructive participant in global climate talks and support provincial leadership on clean energy and carbon pricing; we also encouraged Ottawa to make better use...

European countries no longer coordinate at the UN or WTO or at global climate talks.

(Reuters)- Almost 200 nations began global climate talks on Monday with time running out to save the Kyoto Protocol aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions scientists blame for rising sea levels, intense storms, drought and crop failures.

If the plan works, it will prove a useful case for developing countries that know they need bulletproof data to draw respect, and cash, in global climate talks.

The green economy continues to show vitality, business leaders say, despite the near - total collapse of global climate talks, stalemate in Washington, D.C., and polls showing decreased urgency to tackle global warming

But Greenland appears steadfast in its industry - heavy plans, even with the global climate talks approaching in December.

This puts Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a bind: He knows he needs to increase India's power supply (one avenue for doing this is investing in dirty coal - fired plants), but he also knows that being the lone obstructionist at global climate talks will impede his ability to deliver on a range of his campaign promises, many of which require global finance.

Adding to concerns, a forestry official who helped negotiate the Norway deal and represented Indonesia at global climate talks in 2009 is a suspect in a multi-million dollar corruption case.

But a successful transition to a clean revolution in China hinges on business leadership, so we look forward to many more of the region's leading companies joining this important campaign — especially so in the critical year before the global climate talks in Paris.»

... his appointment this month as minister of science by President Dilma Rousseff is causing alarm among climate scientists and environmentalists here, a country that has been seeking to assert leadership in global climate talks.

Global climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, last month represented the latest sign that global power is shifting in ways that could give major developing countries a greater say in the global economic and environmental order.

In a blog post the following day, December 18, entitled «Fighting for a Happy Ending to Global Climate Talks,» Miguel Arias Canete, President Juncker's European commissioner for energy and climate action, called upon «the world's citizens to put sustained pressure on their leaders over the next twelve months.»

(For reference, the United States pledged a 17 percent cut at the global climate talks in Copenhagen.)

Asner's carbon measurement tools and their importance in managing carbon stored at local, regional and global scales were the subject of a recent news feature in Nature in the lead up to the global climate talks in Copenhagen in December (Tollefson 2009).

As another round of global climate talks has concluded, many observers wonder whether the 2016 election means the end of greenhouse gas regulation in the United States.

A less formal approach that focuses on coordinating policies across borders, already under way as the result of some modest progress at the global climate talks, as well as innovative efforts to coordinate technology promotion such as the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) process, may be the best that is possible in the near future.

Emerging economies like India have resisted pressure in global climate talks to commit to targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in a dispute with rich nations over whose industries should bear the brunt of the cuts.

In the year of global climate talks in Paris, much bigger increases in efficiency and renewables are possible and would allow much steeper emissions cuts than the EU's current «at least 40 % by 2030» target.

Figueres, whose father and brother both served as president of Costa Rica, said that contrary to public perceptions, global climate talks have actually been moving forward in a «slow but steady» manner, with a goal of securing a new accord in 2015.

Ahead of the next round of global climate talks in Poland in November, local governments and business leaders are coming together for

Their positions at the global climate talks are increasingly driven by the narrow economic and financial interests of multinational corporations, according to Friends of the Earth, in particular Australia, Canada, Japan and the US.