Sentences with phrase «meetings on climate»

It's one of the first major international meetings on climate change.

A common criticism of major international meetings on climate change is that countless tons of carbon emissions are created by everyone flying and driving in for these meetings.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern delivered a speech on Wednesday (June 3) on the relationship of China and the U.S. and what both must do together as we head into a crucial period of bilateral and multilateral meetings on climate change.

The First Ministers» Meeting on climate change and clean growth, happening this week in Ottawa, is the next step in the process as provincial and territorial premiers work with Ottawa to develop a national climate strategy.

The group wants the United States to public commit to transition to a 100 % clean, renewable energy economy by 2030 when the UN meeting on climate change takes place in NYC in September.

• Author Invited Paper, Expert Meeting on Climate Change and Its Linkages with Development, Equity, and Sustainability (1999).

He stated flatly at a recent meeting on climate science and policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz, that the primacy of energy demands in developing countries will prevent a carbon price from working to cut the carbon from global energy menus any time soon.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

Updated A daylong Vatican meeting on climate, energy, ecology and equity has produced a declaration that offers a promising vision for religious and secular leaders eager to foster a sustainable human journey.

That trait was on display last year in a lecture he gave at a meeting on climate change and agriculture in Punjab, India:

Now the movement, much enlarged, is invading Washington, where several thousand young people from around the country have assembled for a meeting on climate and energy today, called Power Shift.

(Note: An analysis by Bloomberg News on December 6 found: «Government officials and activists flying to Bali, Indonesia, for the United Nations meeting on climate change will cause as much pollution as 20,000 cars in a year.»

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has invited California governor Jerry Brown to deliver a keynote address in their upcoming meeting on climate change to be held in the Vatican.

«COP 24 in Katowice, Poland will be the most critical meeting on climate change since the Paris Agreement was adopted, with the world watching to see if countries are serious about implementing and strengthening the historic agreement they reached three years ago.

11/19/15 — Political leaders in the United States and Europe seem to differ about whether any agreement resulting from the upcoming United Nations meeting on climate change would be legally binding or simply a statement of what participating countries think they can do.

On March 10, 2006, Peter Gleick addressed a Town Hall Meeting on Climate Change called by Assemblyman Joe Nation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- The United States hopes to promote wider use of fossil fuels at a global meeting on climate change next week, a White House official said, reflecting the gaping divide between Washington and the rest of the world on the issue of global warming.

The People's Climate March came two days before the US president, Barack Obama, and about 120 other world leaders gather for the UN meeting on climate change.

Max Boykoff speaking at side event at the United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco.

Meanwhile the E.U. shows no sign of abandoning the system, leaving business leaders like Mr. Thumann with little choice but to speak out at home and to press developed nations abroad to match Europe's efforts when they gather at the U.N. summit meeting on climate change in December in Copenhagen.

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The earlier summit will bring together officials from more than 150 countries, including 70 heads of state and government, making it the largest - ever meeting on climate change by world leaders.

As Eli was saying Barak Obama obviously reads Rabett Run, for in his speech to the UN special meeting on climate change, he said

Prospects had been diminishing until this past weekend that the next U.N. meeting on climate change in Copenhagen would result in a positive outcome.

We are met on Climate Etc. and have come to dedicate a portion of that blog as a final resting place for those arguments if any that were deemed unsound by mutual consent, that science might live.

In 2015 Carbon Tracker presented the stranded assets / unburnable carbon idea to a full meeting of central banks and regulators at the Financial Stability Board meeting on climate change hosted by Mark Carney, effectively contributing to the creation of the Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

Later, as the UNEP boss he organised the first international expert group meeting on climate change.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — ON Tuesday, world leaders will converge at United Nations headquarters in New York for a summit meeting on the climate that will set the stage for global negotiations next year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the threat of global climate change.

The report by the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change, a grouping of 41 mainly free - market bodies, comes on the eve of an international meeting on climate change in Bali.

Rather, NOAA superiors rushed the study through in a «blatant attempt to intensify the impact» of the paper on the Paris meeting on climate change, he said.

Putting an end to the debate over climate change, the UN Security Council in a presidential statement declared at its meeting on climate change on July 20 that possible adverse effects of climate change may, in the long run, aggravate certain existing threats to international peace and security.

This is the first time a meeting on climate change has been convened explicitly by the Secretary General before the General Assembly...

The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session, putting him at odds with Sen. John McCain who noted «there's great urgency... and the scientific evidence continues to accumulate.»

WASHINGTON - The US Senate's most vocal global warming skeptic, James Inhofe, on Thursday dismissed a UN meeting on climate change as a «brainwashing» session.

Yet given that his sole and erstwhile ally on the issue - Australian Prime Minister John Howard - was unceremoniously dumped yesterday, he will likely start feeling some major heat as the U.N.'s meeting on climate change in Bali approaches.

FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2017 file photo, Arnold Schwarzenegger waves as he arrives at the Elysee Palace prior to a meeting on climate change in Paris.

Not exact matches

U.S. officials attended a meeting on Saturday of ministers from more than 30 of the nations that signed the climate change agreement.

For instance, when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne emerged from a January meeting with Alberta's Rachel Notley to say warm, fuzzy things about Alberta's new climate strategy and the quest for pipelines, the prime minister quickly praised their efforts from Switzerland, where he was attending the World Economic Forum: «I am very much in the camp of both premiers, Wynne and Notley, who demonstrated that Canada can and should work together on economic issues for all of us.»

WHITE HOUSE, citing a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: «If all member nations met their obligations, the impact on the climate would be negligible,» curbing temperature rise by «less than.2 degrees Celsius in 2100.»

«While he expressed his disappointment, given Canada's position on this issue, we both agreed that our close friendship on a whole range of issues — including energy and climate change — should provide the basis for an even closer co-ordination between our countries going forward,» Obama said at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.

California is on track to meet the 2020 climate target to cut emissions to 1990 levels.

When visiting leading figures from Europe, there were discussions that the U.S. and Europe met eye - to - eye on, like fighting the so - called Islamic State, while other issues revealed divided opinion including Russia and climate change.

The EU considers itself at the forefront of the fight against climate change and as a bloc it's on track to meet its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, which limits the emissions of gases that warm the planet.

WASHINGTON — French President Emmanuel Macron irked Republicans during his address to a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday by mentioning climate science and the need to preserve the planet.

Meanwhile, failure to agree on climate doesn't stop countries from moving ahead in meeting the Paris agreement's goals, or exceed them if they want to.

On a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquOn a similar theme, I was also on the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.&raquon the jury for the $ 4 million Zayed Future Energy Prize, based in the United Arab Emirates, which encourages entrepreneurs to find innovative solutions «that will meet the challenges of climate change, energy security and the environment.»

out of 26 energy technology categories the International Energy Agency tracks are on pace to help meet global climate goals.

His utilities have been criticized for relying on coal, and at Berkshire's annual meeting last May he had to fend off a shareholder effort related to climate change.

Notley also kicked off the week by letting cameras into the NDP caucus meeting, where she teed off on the «UCP's job killing, climate - denying, gay - outing, school - cutting, health - privatizing, backward - looking, hope - destroying, divisive agenda.»

«Most Canadians want a credible plan to meet our climate commitments — including a minimum price on carbon that applies across the country — and are expecting federal and provincial leaders to deliver it.»