Sentences with phrase «international climate change meeting»

In anticipation of an international climate change meeting to be held in the United Nations headquarters this week today, some social and environmental activists are campaigning for the increased consideration and participation of women in

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

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An NDP government would establish a comprehensive upstream cap - and trade system to meet our international commitments to fight climate change and rigorously enforce environmental laws here in Canada.

Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

International development charity Christian Aid is calling on world leaders at this week's G20 meeting to show the US President that he has relegated himself to the side - lines of climate change negotiations.

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

«If we are to meet our international obligations on climate change, it is clear that we need a major increase in rail use.

Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

The United States will begin its leadership of the Arctic Council at an international meeting in Iqaluit, Canada, on Friday, beginning a two - year term in which the State Department has signaled it will focus heavily on climate change.

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy demand.

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«The U.S. submission reflects President Obama's continued commitment to meeting the climate change and clean energy challenge through robust domestic and international action that will strengthen our economy, enhance our national security, and protect our environment,» said U.S. climate negotiator Todd Stern in a prepared statement announcing the commitment.

An international deal to combat climate change is meant to be agreed in December but a meeting in Bonn, Germany, last week ended with little progress toward an agreement to keep average temperature rises within 2C.

The International Polar Foundation welcomes financial support from individual donors and corporate sponsors, towards specific program allocation, to implement its mission for science in the polar regions, meeting the challenge of climate change, and the establishment of a low carbon society.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

This is how Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain described the climate policy challenge in 2005 and, if anything, his statement is more germane now given prospects for prolonged international financial ills: «The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge.»

On that front, both a report from a workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences, «Global Change and Extreme Hydrology,» and an international meeting on «Metrics and methodologies of estimation of extreme climate events» concluded that questions outnumber answers and there's a lot of work to be done.

The plan, called the Renewables and Efficiency Deployment Initiative, is an outgrowth of an international energy partnership created under the administration's Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change, which brought together the handful of countries that are responsible for more than 85 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions in a series of meetings this year.

I went to Toronto one week after Dr. Hansen's testimony to report from the first international «Conference on the Changing Atmosphere» — one of the seminal meetings building momentum toward the first report of the newborn Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

To pick three, he says the world is cooling, Arctic sea ice increased 60 percent over last year at this time, and the International Panel on Climate Change is under so much attack they had to hold a «crisis» meeting.

The report, Energy Revolution: A Sustainable World Energy Outlook, provided a «roadmap» for meeting future energy needs without fuelling climate change, said Sven Teske from Greenpeace International.

Every year, members of the international community meet to negotiate steps to combat climate change, a global problem desperately in need of a global solution.

Few had expected Vladimir Putin's government to meet the UN's loose 31 March deadline for «intended nationally determined contributions» — the series of national pledges that will, in part, form the basis of an international climate change agreement in Paris later this year.

In New York earlier this month, more than 600 scientists, economists, legislators and journalists from many nations met for the second International Conference on Climate Change.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

It needs to reassure its environmental base and its international partners that it is working on climate change and intent on meeting its obligations.

By allowing countries to use international carbon markets to meet their commitments, the Agreement has recognized the cost - effectiveness potential of market - based solutions to climate change.

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.

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

Climate Week NYC, marking its 5th anniversary in 2013, is the global summit that has become a key event on the international climate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion fClimate Week NYC, marking its 5th anniversary in 2013, is the global summit that has become a key event on the international climate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion fclimate change calendar; it is a meeting point for leading governments, investors, businesses, innovators and opinion formers.

To believe that Mann is right, you have to believe that the developer of the first satellite global temperature record, and the winner of the International Meetings on Statistical Climatology achievement award, and the co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences, and the co-editor of Forecast Verification: A Practitioner's Guide in Atmospheric Science, and the co-founder of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, and a member of the UN Secretary - General's High Level Group on Sustainable Energy, and the Professor of Meteorology at the Meteorological Institute of Berlin Free University, and the Professor of Climate and Culture at King's College, London, and the Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the former president of the Royal Statistical Society, and the former director of research at the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute, and the director of the Center for Climatic Research at the University of Delaware, and three professors at the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, and the scientist at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who coined the term «global warming», and dozens more are all wrong, every single one of them.

Women from around the world are mobilising today to call for action on climate change as international leaders meet in New York at the United Nations General Assembly.

A small group of companies from the energy and manufacturing sectors met with officials from the International Energy Agency (IEA) today for the first time for an exploratory discussion on the threats to energy systems from climate change.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Speaking at an International Science meeting in February 2004, he said «In my view, climate change is the most severe problem that we are facing today — more serious even than the threat of terrorism.»

I met him at the First International Conference on Climate Change in New York in 2008.

The rise in atmospheric CO2 levels is, of course, not only attributable to the US ghg emissions, yet the United States has played a major blocking role in preventing international action on climate change up until the recent more constructive role of the Obama administration which recently made commitments before the December Paris meeting to reduce US CO2 emissions by 26 % to 28 % by 2025 below 2005 levels.

On March 8 - 10, more than 500 of those scientists who dispute the vast global warming hoax will meet in New York for a second international conference on climate change sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a non-profit, free market think tank.

So, at the Met Office now, we have a series of international partnerships that we're growing that takes our climate science to help understand the vulnerabilities in China, Brazil, South Africa, South - east Asia and India, and work with the scientists in those regions to develop climate services that takes that climate science and converts them into services that can help reduce the impact of climate change, or reduce the damage done by natural disasters.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

WASHINGTON — The number of large - scale projects to capture and bury carbon dioxide has fallen to 65 from 75 over the last year, a worldwide survey has found, despite a consensus among scientists and engineers that such projects are essential to meet international goals for slowing the buildup of climate - changing gases.

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.

China will be at the forefront of combating climate change by 2020 if it meets government targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the International Energy Agency suggests.

The international community agreed at a meeting of the conference of the parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen in 2009 that the world must work together to limit warming to an additional 2oC to avoid rapid non-linear impacts from climate Climate Change in Copenhagen in 2009 that the world must work together to limit warming to an additional 2oC to avoid rapid non-linear impacts from climate cChange in Copenhagen in 2009 that the world must work together to limit warming to an additional 2oC to avoid rapid non-linear impacts from climate climate changechange.

Over the next 3 years the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative project aims to: Develop and validate algorithms to meet the Ocean Colour GCOS ECV requirements for consistent, stable, error - characterized global satellite data products from multi-sensor data archives; Produce and validate, within an R&D context, the most complete and consistent possible time series of multi-sensor global satellite data products for climate research and modelling; Optimize the impact of MERIS data on climate data records; Generate complete specifications for an operational production system; Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between international Earth observation, climate research and modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific exceClimate Change Initiative project aims to: Develop and validate algorithms to meet the Ocean Colour GCOS ECV requirements for consistent, stable, error - characterized global satellite data products from multi-sensor data archives; Produce and validate, within an R&D context, the most complete and consistent possible time series of multi-sensor global satellite data products for climate research and modelling; Optimize the impact of MERIS data on climate data records; Generate complete specifications for an operational production system; Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between international Earth observation, climate research and modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific exceclimate research and modelling; Optimize the impact of MERIS data on climate data records; Generate complete specifications for an operational production system; Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between international Earth observation, climate research and modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific exceclimate data records; Generate complete specifications for an operational production system; Strengthen inter-disciplinary cooperation between international Earth observation, climate research and modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific exceclimate research and modelling communities, in pursuit of scientific excellence.

At the 2015 international climate summit in Paris, Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to design and adopt the rules and procedures that will guide countries in meeting their obligations under the Paris Agreement on cliclimate summit in Paris, Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to design and adopt the rules and procedures that will guide countries in meeting their obligations under the Paris Agreement on cliClimate Change (UNFCCC) agreed to design and adopt the rules and procedures that will guide countries in meeting their obligations under the Paris Agreement on climateclimate...

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«But as long as the scientists continue to spread the message that we will be ok if we all make a few small changes, then climate change will never be on top of the policy agenda and we will fail to meet our international commitments to avoid a 2 °C rise.»

Released as officials from 190 countries meet in Durban, South Africa for the 17th UN Summit on Climate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other iClimate Change to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other imChange to discuss the future of international efforts on climate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other iclimate change, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other imchange, the study is just the latest to argue a growing urgency for slashing emissions in the face of rising extreme weather incidents and vanishing polar sea ice, among other impacts.