Not exact matches
By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an
international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN
climate change
negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive
plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an
international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN
climate change
negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive
plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...
«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.»
Key to linking these markets together is a secure and integrated
international regulatory framework post-2012 when the Kyoto Protocol will expire, the very subject that so many people are focusing on in Bali and where political chiefs are expected to come up with a new master
plan to fight
climate change, or rather a blueprint for further
negotiations to reach that master
plan.
The Gender Action
Plan (GAP) of UN
Climate Change promotes advancement of women's participation in delegations and
negotiations at an
international level and in ministries and governments at a national level.
If Obama's clean power
plan is rolled back, it could have serious implications for
international climate negotiations.
The most recent milestone of
international climate negotiations was the development of the «Bali Action
Plan» at COP13 last year.
The news is well timed, too: Nations are developing their
climate plans ahead of
international negotiations in Paris this December.
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.
Noticeably missing from Tuesday's pledge were specifics on how the U.S.
plans to fund its pledge to a floundering
international climate change adaptation fund, for example, a key requirement that poor countries have attached to the current
international negotiations, intended to partially account for the historical inequality of emissions.
The
plan also relies on a speedy timetable, which assumes that Mr. Obama's administration will issue and begin enacting all such regulations before he leaves office... «The United States» proposal shows that it is ready to lead by example on the
climate crisis,» said Jennifer Morgan, an expert on
international climate negotiations at the World Resources Institute, a Washington research organization.