Sentences with phrase «global negotiations»

After 25 years of global negotiations, greenhouse gas emissions are still rising.

They have: global negotiations on climate change have been carrying on for more than 20 years.

It is presented daily to the country or countries that do the most to undermine global negotiations to address climate change.

As global negotiations fail on emissions reductions, scientific advisers need to resist pressure to fit the facts to the failure.

Let me briefly trace the evolution of global negotiations in order to set the scene for Paris.

I can also bet you if Obama is elected, the United States and the world all stand a much greater chance at global negotiations for positive and peaceful conflict resolution, for building resiliency together and finally, for using the military to save and improve lives instead of ending them forever.

The announcement by the U.S. and China was important for several reasons: Together they account for around 40 percent of global GHG emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists; there had heretofore been few signs of a Chinese willingness to commit to capping emissions; and it raised hope that future global negotiations might actually yield an agreement to rein in emissions enough to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

This could turn out to be the great challenge of our time in terms of global equity and globalization, and that could affect other global negotiations from the World Trade Organization to the next Doha Round discussions, and even I would argue the Copenhagen climate change talks.

A key starting point for the conduct of global negotiations under the U.N. system is that delegations are actively seeking an agreement that will meaningfully address the problem at hand.

As someone who has been working in and around these international climate talks and other such global negotiations for many years now, I have witnessed first hand Canada's fall from grace.

It was part of the Copenhagen Accord and statements from the G8, and it has formed the basis of most global negotiations.

Steve Waddell, «The Climate Action Network: Civil Society Tackling Global Negotiations,» Global Action Network Net (Jan. 2003), online here.

Managed import / export and logistics operations including global negotiations for transportation and local warehousing consolidations yielding several million dollars of cost savings annually.

Brussels is aiming to agree a 2030 climate and energy package by October, that can contribute to global negotiations in Lima scheduled for December.

(02/20/2012) With global negotiations to tackle carbon emissions progressing interminably, nations are seeking roundabout ways to combat global climate change.

Pachauri cited the report's «obvious significance in respect of the current status of global negotiations and the ongoing debate on actions to deal with the challenge of climate change.»

While developed nations must acknowledge some responsibility, this proposed compromise only requires that they do so from the point that climate change emerged as a concern and global negotiations on the issue were underway.

He's no climate change denier, the underlying message seemed to be; he simply believes that global negotiations aren't likely to effectively tackle the problem.

Others argued that global negotiations could become impossible to manage, and cited UN-led climate talks as an example of how all - inclusive efforts can fail to solve problems requiring decisive action.

The forthcoming Climate Summit in Paris in December comes after many years of global negotiations.

«Obviously, China and India are central to the overall climate equation and to the global negotiation,» he said.

As Qatar comes closer to assuming the Conference of the Parties Presidency and leading the global negotiations for the next year, some are wondering whether having a COP in the Middle East was a big mistake.

Climate change has emerged as one of the most talked - about problems, yet global negotiations have fallen apart, and we are barely any closer to cutting carbon emissions than we were 10 years ago.

The carbon dioxide level is up 40 percent already, emissions are rising rapidly, and global negotiations to limit them have not been very successful.

«Our goal is to build the political will necessary for significant action at the global negotiation in Paris this December,» said Al Gore.

World leaders converged at the United Nations in New York City this past week for Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon's much anticipated Climate Summit, a lead - up to global negotiations that will take place in Lima, Peru, in December of this year, and culminate a year later in Paris.

You can follow, talk about, and publicize the progress of the global negotiations.

And it played a major role in the early stages of the global negotiations on greenhouse gas reduction, hosting the UNFCC gathering at Kyoto in 1997, which gave its name to the first global climate change protocol.

Second, how does the target operate as a policy tool and as a piece of rhetoric in global negotiations?

And it's all leading up to global negotiations that, if things somehow go extremely well, could help get the world on track to avert catastrophic climate change.

So, to be clear — there is no «deadlock» in the global negotiations.