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.
Not exact matches
Thus, now free of the procedural morass that characterised UNFCCC
negotiations in 2012, the ADP process that unfolds over the next three years
represent what may be seen as a contingent moment in the history of the UN
climate negotiating process, where fundamental questions over the design and scope of an
international agreement are up for grabs in a way and manner perhaps unseen since the beginning of the initial intergovernmental
negotiations at the end of the 1980s.
This
represents a shift in the usual analysis of
climate change, particularly in
international negotiations, which tend to focus on how much concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will rise by a particular date.
The participants played the role of negotiators
representing countries and six regional blocs (United States, EU, Other Developed Countries, China, India, Other Developing Countries) and three interest groups (the Press / Media / Journalists,
Climate Activists, and Fossil Fuel Lobby) to create an agreement that limits climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the model UNFCCC Conference of Parties international climate change negoti
Climate Activists, and Fossil Fuel Lobby) to create an agreement that limits
climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the model UNFCCC Conference of Parties international climate change negoti
climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the model UNFCCC Conference of Parties
international climate change negoti
climate change
negotiations.
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
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
international climate negotiations.
The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on
climate change, and
represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of
international climate negotiations.