Sentences with phrase «mitigation ambition»

Updated compilation of information on mitigation benefits of actions, initiatives and options to enhance mitigation ambition.

This can only be achieved if the agreement recognises that insufficient mitigation ambition directly increases adaptation needs as well as loss and damage.

Loss and damage was introduced as an insurance mechanism to address sea level rise in hopes to push for greater mitigation ambition.

Agreement on the Kyoto Protocol had been guided by the 1995 Berlin Mandate that limited binding emission reductions to developed countries; and the attempt at a new agreement in Copenhagen had a full - blown agenda specified in the 2007 Bali Action Plan.By contrast, the ADP mandate is relatively non-prescriptive, simply setting out a goal for a legal instrument to be agreed by 2015 and an interim process to raise mitigation ambition in advance of this legal instrument coming into force in 2020.

The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) said: «If Durban puts off a legally binding agreement and closes the door on raising mitigation ambition before 2020 many of our small island states will be literally and figuratively doomed.»

Prior to his government service he was Senior Fellow and Director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he advised the Center's founder John Podesta, and worked primarily on comparative mitigation ambition, transparency, climate finance, and mitigation of short - lived climate pollutants.

Reaffirming the need to raise mitigation ambition levels between now and 2020, and achieving emission reductions on the order of 8 - 13 Gigatonnes of emissions in the pre-2020 period, beyond existing commitments and actions registered under the UNFCCC.

ECO wants you to make sure that it's regularly reviewed in the ADP in light of mitigation ambition and the needs of — and support to — developing countries.

The meeting aimed to help participants explore options on how to further strengthen co-operation regarding mitigation ambition, including through the targeted utilization of existing UNFCCC institutions and mechanisms and forging new partnerships, to strengthen ongoing efforts to address the increase in non-CO2 GHG emissions.

In fact, the co-chairs» text had no mention of specific principles, but rather mentioned that «the» workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition needs to be «conducted in a manner that is guided by the principles of the convention.»

We agree to continue our efforts to address climate change and recognize the need for increased mitigation ambition in the period to 2020, with a view to doing our part to limit effectively the increase in global temperature below 2ºC above pre-industrial levels, consistent with science.

For developing countries raising mitigation ambition, NCD implementation, dealing with increasingly ferocious climate impacts all come back to finance.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

Though the same decision, the COP decided to launch a workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap, with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties.

By the same decision, the COP launched a workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties.

Decision 1 / CP.19 requested the ADP to accelerate its conduct of the workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap, with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties in the context of decision 1 / CP.17, paragraphs 7 and 8.

The content of AGDP's workplan will focus in particular on «enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties.»

Scale up enabling policies through the Global Climate Action Agenda and the Technical Exami - nation Process on mitigation to drive pre - 2020 mitigation ambition

There is a crying need for countries to step up what climate policy insiders refer to as «mitigation ambition», as demonstrated in a series of annual reports quantifying the Emissions Gap produced by the UN's Environment Programme.