Sentences with phrase «international climate negotiations»

Some targets called for in international climate negotiations to date would require even larger reductions than those outlined in the B1 scenario.

This set the tone for the next five years of international climate negotiations.

Others said it also could build momentum for international climate negotiations.

Additionally, awareness of this relationship between greenhouse gases and conventional air pollution facilitates progress on international climate negotiations.

As results from international climate negotiations have a distant horizon, civil society push governments to take domestic action to increase resilience and protect the vulnerable against the effects of climate change.

People who watch international climate negotiations closely, however, say none of it is enough — not yet — to keep the world below 2 degrees of warming.

Since the first international climate negotiations, corporations have been a part of the process.

International agreements to share the burden and the benefits of developing better and cheaper low - carbon energy technologies will represent the central focus of international climate negotiations.

We generate and share knowledge on international climate negotiations, tracking climate action, climate and development, climate finance and carbon market mechanisms.

It wasn't always that way; it was President George H. W. Bush who brought the U.S. into international climate negotiations in 1992.

It's not as if the British or American public were ever really asked about their views before international climate negotiations began, and thus there's no evidence that public opinion ever led to the failure of climate policies.

In support of the Paris Agreement, science - based targets from leading companies demonstrate to policy - makers the scale of emission reductions that are achievable to positively influence international climate negotiations and domestic climate policy.

«The US will have much more credibility and influence in the next international climate negotiations if it shows, by 2014 and 2015, that it is making good on the president's pledge,» says David Doniger, climate policy director with the NRDC.

Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba XX — Peru will identify opportunities for climate policy and finance to align with other public and private investments and commitments to ensure that forests and other ecosystems continue to provide critical support for stable climate and resilient -LSB-...]

Paris on the horizon Though the focus was on domestic squabbles, a broader issue was evident in the president's remarks: the role that the United States will play in international climate negotiations late this year in Paris.

As secretary of State, she helped lead international climate negotiations and she created the Climate and Clean Air Coalition with other countries to reduce climate superpollutants like soot and methane.

That parallels the time frame that climate change fell off the radar of Capitol Hill and international climate negotiations ended in Copenhagen, Denmark.

By implementing the quartet of policies by 2015, nations could buy «precious time while international climate negotiations continue,» says economist Fatih Birol, the lead author of a report released here yesterday by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Nor are the United Nations international climate negotiations — set to resume November 29 in Cancun — yielding much progress.

John Upton is a Senior Science Writer at Climate Central, where he has covered international climate negotiations, oceans research, climate change adaptation, and the global trade in wood energy.

The two - week climate change conference was a way forward, but due to «United States delegation to the Bali International Climate Negotiations — well the fake delegation, not the real delegation», their tactic derailed the negotiation with some backup with Japan and Canada.

You mention something that is very important to keep in mind, but frequently ignored in press and other commentary on the ongoing international climate negotiations, namely: «No hard lines going forward.»

For now, international climate negotiations tend to center around 2 °C.

Just a month after international climate negotiations in Paris, both China and the United States have announced bold steps to address domestic coal leasing.

Still, those who closely follow international climate negotiations praised it, saying it could help break the impasse that threatened to stall progress toward a worldwide deal at talks in Paris late next year.

International climate negotiations highlight the need for a fundamental shift in energy production globally — towards a system of clean, climate - friendly energy choices.

It is reasonable to conclude that China's rising carbon footprint is in no small part attributable to the consumer demands of its trading partners and points to the challenge of apportioning blame responsibilities on a geographic basis, as the current international climate negotiations attempt to do.

Amidst high - profile international climate negotiations that focus largely on emissions mitigation, the message that those who are least responsible for driving climate change will suffer the greatest consequences is often lost.

The latest round of international climate negotiations concluded last week in Bonn, Germany.

Fifty years later, the impending Paris international climate negotiations represent our last chance to heed the expert counsel about the dangers posed by human - caused climate change before we're fully committed to the deleterious consequences that climate scientists have been warning us about for a half century.

U.S. action will have major implications for international climate negotiations planned for this year and next in Lima and Paris, particularly with regard to China, the world's largest emitter of carbon.

Foley contrasted the long - standing ambitions of those arguing for action on climate change who have focused on the «wholesale transformation of the world's economy and energy systems» with the prevailing dysfunction in Washington and the endless debate that has derailed international climate negotiations.

China is the world's second largest CO2 emitter behind the U.S. To what extent China gets involved in combating global climate change is extremely important both for lowering compliance costs of climate mitigation and adaptation and for moving international climate negotiations forward.

With international climate negotiations mere weeks away in Paris, there is keen interest in how countries» climate action plans, known as INDCs, will address climate change.

The UN conference is meant as a preparation for the major international climate negotiations scheduled for next winter in Paris, a summit that is theoretically intended to produce an aggressive carbon - cutting treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

In reality, the sour legacy of Copenhagen has haunted international climate negotiations ever since.

With another round of international climate negotiations opening this week in Warsaw, Poland, and a new poll finding Canadians wanting leadership on the issue, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government have an opportunity to turn the tides on what has been so far a policy trend in the wrong direction.

According to the New York Times and the independent Climate Action Tracker website — which helps keep world leaders honest in the run - up to this year's possibly pivotal international climate negotiations in Paris — the new rule puts America on a middling emissions - reduction pathway, at best.

As international climate negotiations get underway, the world's nations are all looking to one another, and especially to the U.S., to see whether they're serious about reducing emissions.

Furthermore, Canada is seen as actually slowing international climate negotiations.