Sentences with phrase «global warming treaty»

At the end of 1997, it was listed by Mother Jones magazine among alleged front «astroturf groups that are lobbying against the Kyoto global warming treaty.»

It is directed at a conference of diplomats meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate the next global warming treaty.

A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect.

Obama's Climate Trick To implement its War on Coal and a Global Warming treaty, the administration tries an end - run around the Constitution [PDF here]...

Several times at the talks now going on in Milan over a global warming treaty, Bush administration officials have portrayed states» actions to curb heat - trapping gases as evidence of American resolve.

President Obama signed a new global warming treaty on his way out the door, while insisting it wasn't a treaty, because it stands no chance in Congress.

«The campaign against the 1997 Kyoto global warming treaty waged by right - wing think tanks has been another area where corporate America has heavily invested in right - wing policy groups that advance its interest» noted author David Callahan in 1999.»

After world leaders announced over the weekend that no legally binding global warming treaty would be reached at the upcoming Copenhagen summit, the post mortems have started coming in fast and furious.

We look forward to working with Rep. Conaway to strengthen this bill and to fight for the strongest possible international global warming treaty later this year.

That's an interesting point given that the U.S. is the only industrial country in the world that never ratified the Kyoto global warming treaty and that much of Europe is operating under a carbon cap right now.

DETROIT — AP — Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

The UN made a big mistake in choosing Poland to host this global warming treaty summit.

Inhofe spoke against President Obama joining the UN's global warming treaty.

Environmentalists are claiming victory following General Motors Corp.'s (GM) decision to quit a lobbying group that has led the opposition to a 1997 global warming treaty reached in Kyoto, Japan.

In his book, The Green Wave (Capital Research Center, 2006), author Bonner Cohen notes that the companies expected to profit handsomely from the Kyoto global warming treaty by creating the worldwide trading network in which industries would buy and sell carbon emissions credits.»

In his three years in the U.N. climate post, de Boer, 55, has made himself at home in front of microphones and cameras in the push to craft a new global warming treaty.

But the diplomat said he agreed with U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer, who earlier this summer made a similar assessment that the Copenhagen negotiations won't be the end - all on a global warming treaty that applies to more than 190 nations.

The Obama administration also must gear up for U.N. - led negotiations on a global warming treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol — with talks resuming next month in Bonn, Germany, and concluding in December in Denmark.

350 ppm, while merely a number, represents humanity's potential capacity to solve the most pressing problem it has faced; it also represents a target for international negotiators to aim for in forging an effective global warming treaty.

Leftist governments in Bolivia and Ecuador have enshrined nature rights in their national constitutions, and a similar proposal was offered for inclusion in the draft United Nations global warming treaty.

Now may be the ideal moment to reexamine the origins and shortcomings of the Kyoto Protocol, and to learn its lessons before future global warming treaties repeat its mistakes.

Not exact matches

Kyoto will be ineffective — even assuming the overstated pro-Kyoto science is correct, Kyoto will reduce projected warming insignificantly, and it would take as many as 40 such treaties to stop alleged global warming.

The global warming / climate change noise machine has reached a crescendo this week with Al Gore's trip to Oslo to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize, our colleges sponsoring» Focus the Nation» weeks to promote the self - evident moral truth of combating warming, and above all the U.N. - sponsored Bali conference meant to produce a treaty to succeed the soon - to - expire Kyoto.

The discovery that forests are not a panacea for global warming only emerged after they were given a central role in the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty signed two years ago by most of the world's governments in a bid to stem the greenhouse effect.

President Obama's top climate diplomat acknowledged today that Capitol Hill delays over global warming legislation will likely push international negotiations to work beyond a December summit in Copenhagen on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

Environmental groups have been frustrated by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes as its tendency to deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving global warming.

The north Queensland coral wipeout occurred around the same time that global temperature rise was reaching the halfway point toward the 3.6 °F of warming that a new United Nations treaty aims to prevent.

World leaders gather in Rio next month to sign a treaty that commits them to do virtually nothing to prevent global warming.

Still another impediment has been fear that the initiative's «avoided emissions» strategy would lead to similar plans being considered as part of future global warming / climate change treaty negotiations.

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.

A longtime champion of climate action and an intense observer of the U.N. treaty process, Kerry said in no uncertain terms yesterday that he will make global warming a priority.

This December, a United Nations (UN) conference in Paris will attempt to get the world's leaders to adopt a new treaty to slow climate change — and global warming.

Global - warming treaties there will restrict carbon dioxide output and regulate fuel economy.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

My research, (which amounts to amassing thousands of stories, websites, reports, and international meeing and treaty summaries, along with a close following of all international bodies concerned with global warming, into a huge, huge, disorganized, bookmark list,) indicates, that, for the worst effects of global warming to be SOMEWHAT diminished, we would need to get under 300 ppm.

Societal response strategies are also investigated, focussing on international environmental treaties, international and Australian policy approaches to global warming, and management and adaptation strategies.

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.

As world leaders and their top advisers convened in Manhattan for Tuesday's United Nations summit on global warming, there were hints of accord on a few issues that could form the basis for a climate deal in December in Copenhagen — something less that a full - blown treaty but sufficient to avoid total breakdown of an international effort.

With China and India, and all the developing nations, refusing to participate, the Kyoto treaty would serve to shackle US economic development and do next to nothing to reduce global warming.

In the meantime, negotiations toward a new treaty on global warming slowly got into gear in Bonn, Germany, with nary but ambitious statements of concern emerging for the moment.

Many seasoned participants in nearly two decades of treaty negotiations aimed at blunting global warming had predicted this outcome, despite a pledge by negotiators at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to seal a deal in Denmark this December.

I think all Crichton is saying is that we need to be very, very sure we are right about global warming before we expose our economy to the potential disruption the Kyoto treaty would entail.

The trigger was an e-mail chain maintained by Benny J. Peiser, a British social scientist who sends out daily summaries of research questioning dangerous human - caused global warming and international climate treaties, along with other subjects.

When global warming enters the realm of politics, the conversation usually focuses on a few «solutions» — a bill capping carbon dioxide, «clean coal,» a climate treaty (you've read a lot here on «clean coal»; a lot more on treaties is coming shortly).

He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.

That treaty set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases for the three dozen industrialized countries that ratified it, but is seen by a growing number of climate and economic experts as a faltering model for effective action to limit global warming.

I first encountered lots of young people focused on global warming at the 2005 round of climate - treaty talks in Montreal.

There are 85 days until world leaders will come together in Copenhagen to negotiate a global treaty to deal with global warming.

The head US envoy on climate change has said to the UN that «talks aimed at negotiating a binding treaty to curb global warming are based on unrealistic expectations and are not doable.»

The charts in question are among the best known in the portfolio of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the established curators of the scientific consensus on global warming and the UN's chief scientific advisors to climate treaty negotiators.