Sentences with phrase «international climate policy»

First emerging decades ago as a relatively obscure plea by small island states, loss and damage has now gained recognition as the third pillar of international climate policy, after mitigation and adaptation.

The focus for international climate policy should be on policies, architecture and commitment, not specific goals and outcomes, they suggest.

In addition, you will support the group on international climate policy in acquiring, managing and completing projects, writing research reports and providing ad - hoc advice.

That's one of the many reasons why international climate policy is so complex and why real world goal setting doesn't start with single numbers and work backwards.

Key items of discussion included international climate policy, developments in gas markets and carbon leakage.

Here, we take a look at where the two degree target came from, and how it has ended up guiding international climate policy.

And, if so, should this more ambitious number become part of international climate policy?

However, the alarmist narrative which created the basis for international climate policy has exhausted itself.

In fact, there are already official agreements about loss and damage in international climate policy.

Duncan Marsh, director of international climate policy at the Nature Conservancy, praised Indonesia's climate efforts and noted that the government said it can achieve the deeper end of its 29 - to -41-percent emissions curb by 2030 if it receives international finance.

«The United States saw an opportunity to break down the wall blocking adoption of binding commitments by the largest emitting developing countries and took advantage of that,» says Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a U.S. - based environmental group.

LONDON, 30 May, 2017 — In forthright language seldom heard in international climate policy negotiations, a renowned German economist says it is time for the world to accept the truth about the real cost of fossil fuel, and to reject the lie that coal, oil and gas cost society nothing.

Still other groups are taking a harder line, opposing any incorporation of REDD into international climate policy until the rights of forest people are determined and other issues are worked out.

Former Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight, traveling around the world to train an army of activists and influence international climate policy.

By Avipsa Mahapatra, EIA International Climate Policy Analyst and Lisa Handy, EIA Senior Policy Advisor

The FAO workshop brought together high - level staff of Ministries of Agriculture or National Statistical Agencies, and Bureaus responsible for national GHG reporting under international climate policy processes, to help further the conversation on how to improve agricultural / forestry statistics to prepare and submit the Biennial Update Reports (BUR) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA).

Rixa Schwarz, Team Leader International Climate Policy at Germanwatch: «We were positively surprised how clearly the most crucial issue was discussed in Bonn: we need more ambition in order to reach the objectives of the Paris Agreement.

And last year IPCC Working Group III co-chair Ottmar Edenhofer said international climate policy is not about environmental policy; it is about «how we redistribute the world's wealth.»

«Ironically, the exit would enter into force the day after the 2020 election in the U.S.,» says Brandon Wu, who works on international climate policy with ActionAid USA.

A National Emissions Inventory (NEI) measuring a country's GHG emissions in a year is required by the UNFCCC to provide a benchmark for the country's emission reductions, and subsequently to evaluate international climate policies such as the Kyoto protocol (although the original has now expired, extensions have been agreed) as well as regional climate policies such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

ETH Convener International Climate Policy Research, Environmental Change Institute; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Geography and the Environment; Member of the Faculty of Philosophy; Supernumerary Fellow.

«I really still can't believe we have to fight for facts,» says Stephanie La Hoz Theuer, a Brazilian expert on international climate policies who lives in Bonn.

Jean covers international climate policy for ClimateWire.

-- A report on a debate over international climate policy between Yvo DeBoer, the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who heads Columbia University's Earth Institute.

(It strikes me that the optimists coming out of COP15 are those who actually know a thing or two about international climate policy.)

The European Union: A Challenged Leader in Ambitious International Climate Policy.

You have insight into the UNFCCC international climate policy and the Kyoto Protocol.

Steven leads the UN regulatory and policy stream and advises CCC's funds on policy and regulatory developments of the international carbon market and broader international climate policy developments.

And even with strong international climate policies, more rapid decarbonization (the rate of decrease in emissions per unit of GDP) will require higher costs and major policy change.

Framing international climate policy in such terms is like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole because it simply sweeps over the fact that supply chains have become, after decades of low energy prices, highly transnational in nature.

The Initiative serves as a nexus for international climate policy across WRI, drawing on the organization's expertise on a wide range of issues including greenhouse gas reporting, adaptation, finance, energy, forests, cities, and water.

It's a short and quite readable piece that offers five potential indicators and links to several enlightening examples, but for a more philosophical dive, you can turn to «Comparability of Effort in International Climate Policy Architecture ``, a discussion paper published at the very beginning of the year by Joseph Aldy of Harvard and William Pizer of Duke in January.

Thanks to the strategic room arrangement (i.e. garish tables for the developed countries or materials supporting creativeness of the additional roles) which were made by PEV Private School staff, the high school students were transformed into zealous international climate policy makers in a short while.

EIA's team will be at these meetings and I sat down with our in - house international climate policy expert, Avipsa Mahapatra, to help us understand why these meetings are being held and why HFCs are taking center stage.

Germany's abandoned 2020 targets are the latest domino to fall in what is failed international climate policy.

The success of 2018 in international climate policy also depends on the German chancellor Merkel: she will host ministers from across the world at the Petersberg Dialogue on 18 June — a great chance to prepare a success of COP24 in Katowice.

UNFCCC — 20 Years of Effort and Achievement Key Milestones in the Evolution of International Climate Policy November 1988 IPCC Established World Meteorological Organization WMO and UN Environment Programme UNEP establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC.

The Norwegian proposal «is the type of political will needed to move the climate talks forward to a strong deal in Copenhagen,» Greenpeace International Climate Policy Director, Martin Kaiser said today.

If international climate policies succeed, against all odds, in sealing an ambitious deal on the confinement of global warming to < 2 °C, then the focus of TE research should actually shift to the social transformations arena: a massive acceleration of innovation processes for the decarbonization of our contemporary industrial metabolism will be the only way to deliver.