Sentences with phrase «international climate agreement comes»

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.

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

Not exact matches

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

And the lame - duck Clinton appeared to still be optimistic that a climate deal would eventually be ratified by two - thirds of the Senate — a hurdle that has come to be viewed as impossibly high, even for international agreements on less contentious topics.

In the field of forest governance, many international agreements and varied stakeholders have come into play amidst the emerging scene of climate change mitigation.

«We think the time has come for the international community to alter its collective climate strategy, cease the search for the impossible all - encompassing top - down agreement — described unattractively as «burden sharing» — and instead encourage an approach that builds on national self - interest and spurs a race to the top in low - carbon energy solutions.

I hope I'll be wrong — maybe successful Doha negotiations and a new US President (and even some scientific breakthroughs while I'm at it) will energize international negotiators to come to a useful climate change agreement!

Coming out of Copenhagen, many participants in the international climate negotiations (as well as informed observers), noted that the UNFCCC has real limitations as the sole venue for future climate negotiations: too many countries — 192, excessively stringent requirements for agreement — unanimity, and a distinct tendency to polarize debates between developed and developing countries.

Ulriikka Aarnio, CAN Europe International Climate Policy Coordinator said: «The EU played a crucial role in ensuring the Paris Agreement came into place, but domestically the EU keeps acting as if Paris never happened.

Even before the new international climate agreement is finalized, COP21 has accomplished a lot when it comes to cities, clean energy, business and more.

The first week of the U.N. climate talks in Paris, or COP21, has culminated in delegates coming to an agreement on the draft text of the international climate agreement, a 48 - page blueprint that ministers will review and hopefully finalize into a comprehensive agreement by the time the conference ends on December 11.

Coming off of the hottest year on record globally, international leaders met last week in New York to sign the historic Paris Climate Agreement.

Now here's a thought: if our leaders were able to leave the politics and vested interests aside for just seven days, we could come out of this week's meetings in Bonn and Brussels with across - the - board support for an international deal on HFCs and a meaningful EU emissions target, inspiring other countries around the world to raise their game and opening the way for an ambitious global climate agreement in 2015.

Any agreement will come too late for the international climate talks next month in Poznan, Poland (of all places).

Leaders from around the world came together to try and achieve a new common international agreement on the climate, with the aim of maintaining global warming below 2 °C.

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 indeInternational 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 indeinternational 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.

It would make it possible to ensure Canadian oilsands activities did not trash our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement and international climate change measures yet to come.