Sentences with phrase «important climate change talks»

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As the talks in Warsaw wrapped up late last year, China's lead climate negotiator, Su Wei, told ClimateWire that China has already «launched consultations for actions that would be very important to fight climate change.»

«Understanding the global carbon cycle is really important, especially when talking about climate change,» says Catherine Drennan, an MIT professor of chemistry and biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

Too little talk about climate change addresses these important issues.

The timing is important as these commitments come as world leaders are looking ahead to the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) talks scheduled for Paris in December 2015.

Talking about climate change is one of the most important things you can do to make a difference.

As the United Nations wrapped up its recent climate conference in Bonn, talks organizer Christiana Figueres proclaimed that climate change is the «the most important negotiation the world has ever faced.»

While this was important to inject momentum — and not just be a talking shop — it sets a precedent for work in 2018 to increase climate ambition, speed up the shift of financial flows away from fossil fuels, and build more resilient economies to the current and future impacts of climate change.

Buildings are going to become more important in reaching climate targets, and should be included in December's Paris climate change talks.

«Talking about climate is confusing, causally incorrect and diverts important resources away from more effective interventions,» Lomborg wrote in an article titled «The Climate - Change Distraction» at The Wall Street Jclimate is confusing, causally incorrect and diverts important resources away from more effective interventions,» Lomborg wrote in an article titled «The Climate - Change Distraction» at The Wall Street JClimate - Change Distraction» at The Wall Street Journal.

All this talk about climate change only diverted «the public attention, the political will and potentially trillions of dollars» from more important problems, such as AIDS.

The Climate Change Authority fulfilled a hugely important role on Wednesday by smashing the comfortable agreement between Labor, Liberals and most commentators that we don't need to talk about how much to cut our climate - changing carbon emiClimate Change Authority fulfilled a hugely important role on Wednesday by smashing the comfortable agreement between Labor, Liberals and most commentators that we don't need to talk about how much to cut our climate - changing carbon emiclimate - changing carbon emissions.

The consequences of such doubts are important: elimination of the science is settled arguments; less money and talk on drastic climate change mitigation measures; more focus on alleviation of Third World poverty.

Recognizing strategies that actually work is especially important now, coming off of the climate change talks last December in Lima, Peru, and looking ahead to the next Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris, at the end of 2015, negotiations characterized by the Guardian as the «world's last best chance to reach an agreement on cutting carbon emissions.»

But perhaps the most important reason for talking about climate change and bushfires is so we end our denial of what's to come.

«As we talk about policies that would make cool roofs an important climate mitigation measure all across the world, we want to know how things change in a country like India, which has more pollution,» said Surabi Menon, a climate scientist at Berkeley Lab who is one of the lead researchers on the project.

You can watch NCSE's Executive Director, the wonderful Genie Scott (full disclosure: she's a friend of mine) talk about climate change, and why it's so important that we tackle this issue politically.