Sentences with phrase «kind of climate agreement»

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Now it may not be, you know, the solution to climate change but I think that there will be probably some form of progress made here whether it's an agreement to kind of pre-agree on what a treaty might look like or if it's progress on reducing deforestation and other issues that the country seem to be a lot closer to agreement on.

«One might combine climate and proliferation concerns with a way of attaching carbon credits to new nuclear construction in countries that took certain kinds of agreements around enrichment and reprocessing,» Moniz said.

What kinds of international agreements could effectively limit risks related to human - driven global warming, either by blunting human contributions to climate change or building resilience to hazards related to changing conditions?

David Doniger, the director of the climate and clean air program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (and in the past a negotiator in climate agreements for the United States), said the Paris climate agreement does allow counting these kinds of cuts.

Dec. 4, 7:34 p.m. Updated CANCÚN, Mexico — At almost every negotiation in recent years aimed at building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of text.

Regardless of what we think about D - O events, I am in complete agreement with Stefan that there is no evidence of any kind at present that the present climate suffers any kind of initial - condition sensitivity that would compromise the value of projections of response of statistical quantities to increases in GHG's.

Senior United Nations officials had told me in recent weeks that they were very eager for this kind of language, in hopes that Francis could help drive an agreement in climate treaty negotiations in Paris in December.

The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the possibility of a climate deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect of creating a global carbon price.

It is all about the Paris Climate Agreement targets and it is kind of fun to watch.

If the planetary temperatures rise beyond the 1.5 °C to 2 °C limit proposed by the Paris agreement signed by 197 nations in 2015, then climate change could arrive in Mali, Niger and Chad in the shape of intense rains of the kind identified as seasonal monsoons.

Paris climate talks this week descended into madcap all - night negotiations, as delegates desperately tried to salvage some kind of agreement beyond empty promises to do something sometime about what President Obama insists is the gravest threat to our planet, national security and future generations.

While I am not necessarily in agreement with all of your assumptions about climate change, I am FULLY in support of your right to engage n the discussion, free from any kind of censorship / interference by the Gov. LOVE the billboard concept!

But the paradox, and the tragedy, is that the Climate Summit will not have the cessation of massive world - wide geoengineering as one of it's paramount objectives, but will instead dilly - dally endlessly with how to coordinate international carbon reductions with the stated goal of a signed agreement, while «mitigation» strategies of every conceivable kind will be on the table.

For this to be acceptable (and, indeed, it IS an explanation), we really need to reach some kind of agreement on WHEN weather becomes climate.

That kind of joined - up systems thinking is critical if we're to achieve the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and the global agreement to keep climate change below 1.5 °C of global warming.

``... What do you do if nations disagree about what kind of climate they want...» is no more an issue for geoengineering than it is for truly effective Kyoto - like agreements.

With that kind of pressure, it's only natural that some would be unsure of our ability to effect a unanimous international agreement that would do what absolutely, unequivocally must be done: We must reduce the rate of global warming, immediately and substantially, in order to curtail the devastating effects of climate change.

The problem with getting some kind of global political agreement is that weather and climate are local.