Sentences with phrase «global climate treaty taking»

For the scientists gathering in the Danish capital, this meeting is about removing as much wriggle room as possible from the political negotiations on a new global climate treaty taking place in December.

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One focuses on the architecture of a new global climate treaty that would take effect after 2020, when the current Copenhagen commitments expire.

As it stands, the countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change have agreed to draft a global treaty by 2015, which would take effect in 2020.

Climate analysts said they were buoyed by Kerry's general comments on global warming and said they are hoping to see him take a more personal interest in the U.N. treaty negotiations.

With regard to the economic cost - benefit analyses of global warming, or of a climate treaty to brake it, it should be pointed out that economists must ignore the alternate new pathways that the economy will doubtless take under the vibrancy of capitalism, because these do not presently exist.

Another problem is the failure of international governments to achieve a global climate treaty to take the place of the expiring Kyoto Protocol.

The treaty set limits on countries» emissions, taking into account their historical contribution to climate change and ability to implement policies, with the aim of cutting global emissions five per cent on 1990 levels by 2012.