Sentences with phrase «international climate agreement»

This is why we need international climate agreements in which all nations commit to reducing their emissions.

The new international climate agreement comes into effect only after 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions sign onto it.

Companies have some flexibility, but science - based targets still prove that the company is serious about fighting climate change and about supporting an ambitious international climate agreement.

How the current dispute is resolved will set an important precedent, with implications for future international climate agreements, some of which could have substantive implications for global trade and competitiveness.

However, on an international level, 2013 passed with very little progress in terms of establishing a new international climate agreement.

Cutting all fossil fuel subsidies, tough cap - and - trade programs, and an ambitious international climate agreement wouldn't hurt.

But it can, and will, come up again, both from future international climate agreements and state objections to their enforcement domestically.

The controversy associated with our chapter on international climate agreements resulted in that entire section of the SPM being eviscerated of all meaningful substance at the Government Approval Sessions for Working Group III (WG III) in Berlin in April, 2014.

But the long speech was mainly focused on Indonesia itself and had a chiding tone that I can't see doing anything to further Kerry's goal of leading efforts to craft a new international climate agreement by late 2015.

The Project on International Climate Agreements at Harvard's Belfer Center has been churning out important work, including a recent paper on the value of an agreement for sequestering carbon in forests.

Table 13.2 provides a summary review of recent proposals for international climate agreements as reported in the literature (see also Bodansky, 2004; Kameyama, 2004; Philibert, 2005a), although not all proposals cover all elements that are necessary to describe a full regime.

On November 19th, 2015, the White House launched American Campuses Act on Climate (ACAC) initiative to amplify the voice of the higher - ed community in support of a strong international climate agreement in the United Nations COP21 climate negotiations in Paris.

The right way is to ensure that all major economies are bound to take action and to work cooperatively with our partners for a fair and effective international climate agreement.

After two weeks of difficult negotiations and a nail - biting finale, delegates in Lima laid the groundwork for a successful international climate agreement in Paris next year.

Trump's decision to withdraw from international climate agreements, and his seeming climate change denial, may restrict the US from legitimately using climate security rationales for informing grand strategy and foreign policy.

«We need a strong, lasting, equitable international climate agreement in Paris at the end of 2015.

The platform does bash the solutions pursued by President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency and the new international climate agreement produced in Paris in December.

Outside of Mexico City, delegates from the world's 17 biggest economies are meeting this week to further negotiate international climate agreements.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

His effort has been hailed by environmental campaigners and United Nations officials as a critical prod to negotiations aimed at crafting a meaningful international climate agreement in December in Paris.

Conclude a new international climate change agreement: Working through the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to negotiate a new, ambitious international climate agreement applicable to all countries by 2015 to take effect in 2020.

When the post-2012 international climate agreement comes into effect, it is critical that countries employ both common methodologies to track greenhouse gas emissions and common international accounting standards.

United Nations member states will convene in Warsaw next week to continue negotiating a post-Kyoto Protocol international climate agreement, which has previously stumbled on the topic of monitoring of REDD activities.

The briefing on South East Europe was developed in spring 2016 to give a brief overview and update on South East Europe and its relevance for EU climate policy after the UNFCCC international climate agreement that was made in Paris in December 2015.

Canada played an important role in reaching a binding international climate agreement in Paris last month.

Moreover, even larger forces will now be at play: its newly departed CEO and board chair Rex Tillerson, now freshly confirmed as US Secretary of State, can be expected to favor more oil drilling over drilling down on keeping and improving international climate agreements.

These agreements follow on the heels of last Sunday's announcement at the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting that the United States has embraced the Danish proposal for finalizing an interim international climate agreement in Copenhagen in December.

In a notable development, the G20 powers recently launched a joint probe into the global financial risks posed by the potential for fossil fuel companies» so - called «stranded assets» — investments in costly ventures that may never be viable in light of emerging international climate agreements.

Countries across the globe adopted an historic international climate agreement at the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in December 2015.

Read / Purchase the Report Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements (2010) Agreements to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are currently the focus of international negotiations, and with such accords will come the need to accurately estimate these emissions, monitor their changes over time, and verify them with independent data.

Negotiators will discuss two critical issues: How to substantially step - up the level of ambition by countries, companies, cities, and civil society; and how to ensure a strong international climate agreement by 2015.

Another valuable discussion of ways to foster effective international cooperation on climate is under way just down the Charles River from M.I.T., at the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.

One of the themes at a recent climate conference arranged by the Norwegian research program RENERGI was how we can achieve an effective international climate agreement.

If successful, the new international climate agreement forged in Paris will send strong signals to financial markets — and therefore to businesses and investors — about the direction of energy for the foreseeable future.

However, Friends of the Earth Europe is concerned that the September 23 «talk shop» will only see leaders fiddling with flimsy pledges instead of setting the groundwork for an ambitious international climate agreement

It comes as world leaders prepare to descend on New York for a U.N. - sponsored summit aimed at building momentum for a new international climate agreement in Paris in 2015.

It's a logical and smart move: all three have made climate action a priority at home and abroad, and in light of the international climate agreement reached in Paris last year, it makes sense to work together on this crucial issue.

Midterm elections have led other nations to question if the U.S. will be a part of an international climate agreement

That will depend in large part on the success of the international climate agreement adopted in Paris in December, which calls for keeping warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — through an array of individual fossil fuel reduction targets.

There is another way to commit the United States to an international climate agreement, however, without having to clear the 67 - vote barrier.

With a new international climate agreement being hashed out in the next year, forests in developing countries will be an important piece of determining what that agreement looks like.

He also pushed for Kerry to use his role to make a case for an international climate agreement to the American public — something the State Department has so far rarely done.

However, international climate agreements have not been very effective so far in reducing emissions, so there is still hope that United States will proceed on other fronts, such as through bilateral agreements, clean - tech development and investing to new «negative emissions» technologies.

Something to consider, as the 2015 deadline for reaching an international climate agreement approaches.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.