Sentences with phrase «meaningful climate change agreement»

With the rich nations clearly in charge and big polluters acting as corporate sponsors, is a meaningful climate change agreement truly possible?

And those choices could very well determine whether we have a meaningful climate change agreement at next year's summit in Paris, when nations will seek to replace the expiring 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

Not exact matches

«This joint announcement provides both practical and political momentum towards a new, universal climate agreement in Paris in late 2015 that is meaningful, forward - looking and recognizes that combating climate change is not a five - or 10 - year plan — but is a long - term commitment to keep a global temperature rise under 2 degrees [Celsius] throughout this century,» said U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres.

With all the difficulties in reaching a meaningful diplomatic agreement on climate change, people have started looking at other ways to get leverage on climate.

The goal five years ago was to build momentum to «seal the deal» on a binding climate treaty — a fruitless task given the divisions among the world's nations — while this conclave was centered on a more modest, but more concrete, achievement — «to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement [notice there's no mention of the word «binding»] in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change.»

Based on the president's work on climate change over the past 10 months — in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral discussions and multilateral consultations — and based on progress made in recent, constructive discussions with China and India's Leaders, the president believes it is possible to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen.

However, as the Agreement's key policies are yet to be realized, member states have both an exceptional opportunity and a moral impetus to use these results to address climate change equity in a meaningful manner.

President Obama and other world leaders will attend to discuss the urgent problem of climate change, seeking common ground in preparation for a «meaningful global agreement in 2015.»

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

A general agreement that IF this trend continues for another «X» years despite continued increase of GHG concentrations, there will be enough evidence in the red column to seriously question the ability of the GCMs cited by IPCC: a) to correctly assess human attribution of past climate change b) to estimate climate sensitivity c) to make meaningful projections of future climate changes due to AGW

While I make no pretense at any particular wisdom in understanding complex geopolitics, the current trajectory of the Paris Climate Agreement is not going to change the Earth's climate in any meaningfClimate Agreement is not going to change the Earth's climate in any meaningfclimate in any meaningful way.

When it comes to COP21, we are hopeful that an agreement will be reached for meaningful action to address the risks surrounding climate change.

Susann Scherbarth, climate campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «G7 countries have signalled their agreement on the importance of tackling climate change eventually, but haven't announced any meaningful action.

The summit is in danger of ending without a strong agreement to fight climate change, mainly because the United States has attempted to abolish any meaningful language on climate change from the German President Angela Merkel's proposed text.

Blocking any meaningful agreement, ignoring their mitigation obligations, advocating for market based approaches - which are all false solutions, just as having the private sector lead the charge against climate change -, and blackmailing other less vocal delegations are just some of the actions that clearly indicate their priorities and whose interests these governments represent.

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.