Sentences with phrase «international climate negotiations get»

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.

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«Whatever's China's position on the world stage in respect of international negotiations on climate change, what they have got is a very clear robust set of five - year plans and the ability to deliver them.»

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

The need to turn up the visibility on the ethical and equitable unacceptability of national ghg commitments is not only important to get nations to increase their emissions reductions commitments in international negotiations, it is also important to change the way climate change policies are debated at the national level when climate change policies are formed.

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.