Sentences with phrase «international climate change accord»

At a U.N. summit in September to kick off the drafting of an international climate change accord, Obama spoke bluntly of American responsibility for global warming and pledged to unveil ambitious steps over the next year to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

The Tesla boss quit Trump's business advisory group last year over the US abandoning the Paris international climate change accord.

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According to the International Energy Agency, reducing pollution to levels consistent with limiting climate change to less than two degrees would see 715 million EVs cruising the streets in 2040 — which would also shrink global oil demand by 20 % relative to today.

World leaders are awaiting President Donald Trump's decision on the future of the Paris Accord and whether the U.S. will remain in the international climate change pact.

This scenario may simply be a taste of a world undergoing climate change in the mid — 21st century, according to a new report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultuInternational Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a Washington, D.C. — based organization seeking an end to hunger and poverty through appropriate local, national and international agricultuinternational agricultural policies.

There is a risk that severity of epidemics of some wheat diseases may increase within the next ten to twenty years due to the impacts of climate change according to a study by international researchers led by the University of Hertfordshire.

Flooded farmland has already forced thousands of Bangladeshis to higher ground, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, of the numbers of people who will need to move because of climate change in the coming decade, according to a report released by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) at Columbia University, the United Nations University and CARE International today.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Ocean acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research in Nature Climate Change by a team of international collaborators, including University of Delaware professor Wei - Jun Cai.

For example, the frogs of La Selva Biological Station in Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands have endured a 75 percent drop in population since 1970, perhaps due to climate change, according to a study by biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University in Miami, who was not affiliated with this study.

Higher pollution levels were linked to a higher total number of strokes, and researchers said it reaffirmed the growing evidence that climate change and overall air quality contributes to cardiovascular disease, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2016.

New fishery regulations based on science are needed in the Caribbean to give coral reefs a fighting chance against climate change, according to an international study published today.

Coastal regions under threat from climate change and sea - level rise need to tackle the more immediate threats of human - led and other non-climatic changes, according to a team of international scientists.

That includes about half of the mammals and almost a quarter of the birds on the «red list» kept by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

President Barack Obama on Friday will announce a $ 3 billion U.S. contribution to the green climate fund, an international effort to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change, according to an administration official.

If countries succeed in creating a hoped - for new international global warming accord next year in Paris, it could turn the decades - old system for dealing with climate change on its head.

According to an international team of researchers, the rapid pace of climate change is threatening the future presence of fish near the equator.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

While the United States» participation in international forums — including the Paris accord and the Arctic Council — has been reported, its continued, broad and constructive support for climate change efforts in these gatherings has not.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

Frigid weather like the two - week cold spell that began around Christmas is 15 times rarer than it was a century ago, according to a team of international scientists who does real - time analyses to see if extreme weather events are natural or more likely to happen because of climate change.

Climate change is expected to contribute to a dramatic increase in forest fire damage in Europe, but better forest management could mitigate the problem, according to new research from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Appropriate Management of Natural Resources at Centre of Solutions to Climate Change, Says International Resource Panel Decoupling economic growth from escalating resource use should be an integral part of climate policy, according to a group of the world's most renowned natural resources scieClimate Change, Says International Resource Panel Decoupling economic growth from escalating resource use should be an integral part of climate policy, according to a group of the world's most renowned natural resources scieclimate policy, according to a group of the world's most renowned natural resources scientists.

Trevor Houser, who just left the American climate change negotiating team to return to the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has taken a close look at the greenhouse gas emissions reductions pledges of the 92 countries that submitted plans this week under the Copenhagen Accord.

«According to the article, Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute spoke at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change and said Arctic temperatures were warmer during the 1930s, and that most of Antarctica is actually cooling now.

And according to a study made by Habbo — a virtual community — and Greenpeace International, 76 percent of young people believe that climate change is a «real and a serious problem.»

The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord.

As stated during the October 11 edition of 60 Minutes, he sees his role in Paris as more important than fighting ISIS: «My definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that potentially we'll get in Paris.»

Adapting to climate change will cost many times more than the UN has estimated, according to a report by former IPCC working group co-chair Martin Parry and colleagues, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College climate change will cost many times more than the UN has estimated, according to a report by former IPCC working group co-chair Martin Parry and colleagues, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College Lchange will cost many times more than the UN has estimated, according to a report by former IPCC working group co-chair Martin Parry and colleagues, published by the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College Climate Change at Imperial College LChange at Imperial College London.

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.

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqClimate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic conseqclimate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

And they're hardly alone, according to a new study called «Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change ``, which was published jointly by the World Resources Institute (RRI) and Rights and Resources International (RRI) this week.

When the MMCA first started working in Myanmar about four years ago, staff quickly learned that the government is «still very cautious when dealing with international agencies,» according to the Global Climate Change Alliance's website.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

International climate negotiators agreed in the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement on climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate climate negotiators agreed in the Copenhagen Accord, a global agreement on climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate climate change that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate cchange that took place at the 2009 United Nations» Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate Climate Change Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate cChange Conference, that warming this century shouldn't increase by more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) to avoid the worst impacts of climate climate changechange.

While attention has been focused on Trump's rhetoric, State Department envoys, federal agencies, and government scientists remain active participants in international efforts to both research and fight climate change, according to U.S. and foreign representatives involved in those efforts.

Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth's warming.

Participants wondered whether the U.N. Security Council or a new international treaty might eventually regulate geoengineering, but to cover experiments on the shorter term, scientific societies, national science academies, or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were each proposed as possible venues for some sort of geoengineering accord.

PRESIDENT TRUMP - New York (CNN) President - elect Donald Trump conceded Tuesday there is «some connectivity» between human activity and climate change and wavered on whether he would pull the United States out of international accords aimed at combating the phenomenon, which scientists overwhelmingly agree is caused by human activity.

Asked if he would withdraw the US from international climate change agreements, Trump said he is «looking at it very closely,» according to Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were live - tweeting the meeting.

According to the International Monetary Fund, when you factor in implicit subsidies from the failure to charge for pollution, climate change and other externalities, the post-tax cost of support for fossil fuels comes in at close to $ 2 trillion each year.

On the international level, Christiana Figueres, who used to lead the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat and helped write the Paris Climate Accord, told Reuters that all Arctic oil exploration should stop.

Global methane emissions are growing rapidly, and according to international experts, the surge is threatening the world's efforts to fight climate change.

The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAClimate Action Network - International (CAN - I).

Two weeks ago, just prior to the start of these negotiations, numerous credible reports were published by an array of well respected scientists, economists and climate change experts, all with essentially the same conclusion - we are currently on an unsustainable path which virtually guarantees the world will be faced with catastrophic effects from climate change, according to Greenpeace International executive director, Kumi Naidoo.

According to David Wasdell, International Coordinator, Meridian Programme: «A runaway climate change is now clear and beginning to be quantified for the first time... the greatest threat we face as a planet... The rate of change we're generating in the current situation is between 200 - 300 times faster than that experience of any extinction event apart from the asteroidal impact.

Governments must enact domestic laws on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions if international efforts to stall global warming are to succeed, according to the UN's climate chief.

However delaying action to address climate change would result in significantly more severe asset stranding, according to this analysis by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

On what specific basis do you disregard the conclusions of the United States Academy of Sciences, and numerous other Academies of Sciences around the World including the Royal Academy of the UK, over a hundred of the most prestigious scientific organizations whose membership includes those with expertise relevant to the science of climate change, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, and according to the American Academy of Sciences, 97 percent of scientists who actually do peer - reviewed research on climate change whose conclusions hold that the Earth is warming, that the warming is mostly human caused, that harsh impacts from warming are already being experienced in parts of the world, and that the international community is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming.

On what specific basis do you disregard the conclusions of the United States Academy of Sciences, and numerous other Academies of Sciences Around the World including the Royal Academy of the UK, over a hundred of the most prestigious scientific organizations whose membership includes those with expertise relevant to the science of climate change, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, and according to the American Academy of Sciences 97 percent of scientists who actually do peer - reviewed research on climate change which conclusions hold that the Earth is warming, that the warming is mostly human caused, and that harsh impacts from warming are already being experienced in parts of the world, and that the international community is running out of time to prevent catastrophic warming.