Sentences with phrase «international climate negotiations if»

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Changes come even with lower warming What was most surprising, Diffenbaugh said, is that the accelerated melting of the snowpack would occur even if the world were able to limit warming to the target of a 2 - degree - Celsius increase agreed upon in international climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark.

If Obama's clean power plan is rolled back, it could have serious implications for international climate negotiations.

In arguing that the United States or other high - emitting nations need not reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions based on cost, how have you considered, if at all, that all nations have agreed in international climate negotiations to take steps to limit warming to 2 degree C because warming greater than this amount will not only create harsh impacts for tens of millions of people but runs the risk of creating rapid non-linear warming that will outstrip the ability of people and nations to adapt?

«Political credibility of the EU's leadership role in international climate negotiations will be seriously undermined if there is no transparency about the achievements made cutting carbon dioxide emissions at home,» Ms Bollendorff explained.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

That is the major problem with international climate negotiations is that most nations are approaching the negotiations has if their economic interests trump their global responsibilities.

Instead, President Trump has stated that he believes climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese (which doesn't seem to qualify as a joke even if that's what was intended) and today he gave up our nation's seat at the table where life - and - death international climate change negotiations are taking place.

Most importantly if the United States enacts a climate policy it could begin to act like a real leader in international negotiations and push other countries to do the same.

If such monitoring system is to be accepted by the international community as a bona fide action in the context of international climate negotiations, it must be transparent, accurate and reliable, in line with international standards and accompanied by a system of third - party verification.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

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.