Sentences with phrase «impossible global deal»

Two weeks ago, the nations of the world converged on Paris for the 21st annual Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), in an attempt, once more, to strike an all but impossible global deal that might steer humanity off our catastrophic course.

Not exact matches

He supports that, but thinks the US and global politics will probably make that impossible - but that a worse deal than that would still be important, though it involves more mitigation of some catastrophic effects than a sufficient deal.

Global warming, on the other hand, is far less of an immediate threat, many of its effects can not be reversed no matter what we do, the cost of attempting such a reversal could destroy the economies of emerging nations and make their development impossible — and it is a slow moving threat, that governments can plan to deal with over time.

Mr. Graham said that any Senate debate on the highly charged subject of illegal immigration would make it impossible to deal with the difficult issues involved in national energy and global warming policy.

Finding an attorney to work for an employee dealing with the federal government (NOAA's NWS) and global warming was impossible.

This doesn't seem very likely, but it would be impossible if both global warming and peak oil aren't dealt with.