Sentences with phrase «international climate change»

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

A number of elements are commonly incorporated in existing — and proposals for new — international climate change agreements.

The government's leverage in international climate change talks is being undermined by its domestic actions, an influential group of MPs has said.

As the dust settles after a decidedly unconventional climate convention, delegates and experts are turning their attention to the outcome, and what it means for the future of international climate change efforts.

It is fundamentally because of this denial that international climate change policy in its current form has no prospect at all of success.

The study comes as countries continue to debate whether to develop a new international climate change treaty.

It was no accident that this happened on the eve of a major international climate change meeting.

· Meeting international climate change commitments of reducing carbon emissions by 80 % (from the 1990 baseline).

This perspective helps us better understand international climate change politics and the prospects for international environmental governance.

We're not going to stop pursuing efforts to combat international climate change in the face of one threat where we're able to do both.

Her research focuses on the interplay of knowledge, language and power in national and international climate change politics.

He worked as official representative of Ethiopia in the many official international climate change conferences from Copenhagen to Paris.

Third International Climate Change Adaptation Conference: The Conference titled «Adaptation Futures 2014» will be the nexus between the research community and the users of climate change adaptation information at regional and global scale.

He coordinates American Progressâ $ ™ s participation in the Global Climate Network, focusing on international climate change policy and the future of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Voluntary cooperation and the use of market mechanisms are an integral part of the new international climate change regime established through the Paris Agreement (PA) at the UNFCCC twenty - first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21).

I am proud that the UK has played a leading role in the revival of international climate change talks through the United Nations at Cancun and Durban.

The so - called «skinny budget» also proposes eliminating international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, as well as research funding and monies to clean up Superfund sites.

The incoming administration could quickly withdraw the U.S. from international climate change agreements, but domestic change is likely slower

Cameron told Barker in a letter last year that the role was an important post and thanked him for putting the UK in «such a strong position for international climate change negotiations».

At COP 20, a Canadian delegation led by Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is joining policymakers from 195 countries to negotiate a legally binding international climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

From Timothy Cama and Scott Wong, The Hill President Obama's election - year plan to win a new international climate change accord is making vulnerable Democrats nervous.

In her address to the COP - 19 assembly, Canada's Environment Minister, Leona Aglukkaq claimed that, «Canada is taking a leadership role in international climate change efforts by focusing on delivering significant environmental and economic benefits for all Canadians.»

The sponsors of the IPCC, the United Nations, and liberal American politicians all share the goal of reducing Americans» wealth by capping our consumption of energy with a binding international climate change treaty.

Real progress needs to be made in the negotiations in Poznań in order to reach an ambitious international climate change deal in Copenhagen next year.

Environmental issues including taxation of transport, international Climate Change issues including global carbon trading and EU ETS, and Energy Issues

He organized the first international climate change conference, held in Manila in 1995, the Asia - Pacific Conference on Climate Change that came out with the Manila Declaration of Archipelagic and Small Island States.

This system of protected areas has been widely praised, and Costa Rica is spearheading moves to get avoided deforestation credits included in international climate change conventions.

Unfortunately, I don't foresee any such changes over the next decade, and with that, I don't foresee an effective and working international climate change agreement.

Energy groups risk wasting $ 1.6 trillion of investment by assuming that current emissions - cutting policies will not be tightened up in the light of the latest science and international climate change goals, according to the think tank Carbon Tracker.

It also significantly departs from one of the core principles of recent international climate change negotiations --[continue reading...]

Israeli - made surveillance balloon Skystar 180 looks over Paris, providing surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance data to protect the world leaders attending the 11 - day international climate change summit.

Polls: Strong Majority Of Americans Support International Climate Change Agreement.

The University of Western Australia has established a new policy research centre with the Copenhagen Consensus Centre, which is headed by international climate change contrarian Bjorn Lomborg.

University and government scientists conducted research; civil servants prepared plans and legislation to reduce emissions; political parties committed to action; and Canada's Parliament endorsed international climate change agreements.

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

The lifelong oilman now leads the State Department, which oversees international climate change negotiations, programs to alleviate energy poverty and environmental treaties

The voluntary coalition also has the potential to jolt the lethargic international climate change negotiations process, which is primarily focused on emissions from carbon dioxide.

The leak — a highly unusual occurrence for a papal encyclical — demonstrates the outsized significance the letter has taken on, coming in the months leading up to key international climate change negotiations in Paris later this year.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

Lastly, the study reveals that Exxon found it necessary to also focus its research on international climate change development and research programs.

For over a decade, it has tried to sabotage international climate change negotiations and block agreements that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions reductions.