Sentences with phrase «industry at climate talks»

Not exact matches

The Challenge began in 2015 at the United Nations climate talks in Paris and has grown to more than 60 members across the industry, including other roasters, NGOs, and the governments of Mexico and Rwanda.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

While national governments gather for the COP23 climate talks, our new report shows here at home, local councils are still backing the industry responsible for the climate crisis, pouring billions into the companies blocking action.

When I asked Charles Sydnor, the owner of Braeburn Farm, about the urgency of climate policy for his industry — he had this to say: «As a farmer, when we look at climate change there are two sides to the story — but we only really talk about one — namely the production of greenhouse gases.

«When it comes to climate action, Governor Brown talks a good game, but he has bent over backwards for the oil and gas industry and refused to protect communities from drilling and fracking,» said Mark Schlosberg, organizing co-director at Food and Water Watch.

Colin Roche, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «Just last week at the UN climate talks the EU was claiming to be a climate leader yet here it is locking us in to a fossil fuel future.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

However, unlike a country, the aviation industry will not face a binding requirement to tackle its emissions at the UN climate talks in Paris this December, where a new international deal is set to be signed.

There's some good news as climate negotiators prepare for the COP23 climate talks, beginning in Germany on November 6th: Global carbon dioxide emissions from energy production and industry were flat for the third year in a row in 2016, at about 35.8 gigatons.

The industry talks center on the range of greenhouse gas policy options such as cap - and - trade systems and carbon taxes, said Roy Kopp, head of the climate program at RFF.