Sentences with phrase «national climate action»

In countries where business has had the opportunity to provide inputs on national climate action plans (Nationally Determined Contribution, or «NDCs»), the process can already be seen to have benefitted from such engagement.

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This week's first ministers» meeting, which aims to build agreement on national climate action, offers a prime opportunity to make clean energy a pan-Canadian priority.

by Deborah McNamara on June 2, 2017 2 Bill McKibben leaving the Paris Climate Agreement Mayors National Climate Action Agenda Paris Climate Accord

Wednesday, November 12, 2014: The tabling of national climate action commitments by the world's two major polluters, the US and China, adds welcome momentum to what will amount to our first steps in unison down a low carbon development pathway that brings us closer to a phase out fossil fuel pollution in favour of 100 % renewable energy.

The Climate Equity Reference Framework is designed to support the meaningful analysis of national climate action pledges, relative to the global challenge and relative to other national pledges.

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«Soft» diplomacy (read a relevant book chapter here) is reflected in a new system for pledging national climate actions that emerged in last year's outcome in Warsaw and was refined a bit in Lima this time around: «Intended Nationally Determined Contributions,» or INDCs in United Nations parlance.

As empowered citizens, members of the Portland Chapter talk with neighbors, friends, and local officials about how national climate action can help ensure a healthy future while strengthening the American economy.

These strategies are central to achieving the long - term goal of limiting warming to well below 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) and begin to reveal the scale of transformation needed to bring national climate action in line with global ambition.

There is no question that the world now understands that innovation is the core to meet the INDCs [national climate action plans, known as «intended nationally determined contributions»].

Enacted during President Obama's first term, these rules represent the first - ever national climate action taken to rein in greenhouse gases.

Beyond implementing national pilots to engage the private sector in carbon offsetting, some of these governments also view their «voluntary» programs as the first step toward developing national climate action plans and regulated carbon marketplaces.

China's post-2020 national climate action plan, known as an INDC, indicates commitment to addressing both of these emission sources, setting goals for increased coal bed methane production and controlling emissions from rice fields.

If adaptation is included within national climate action plans it will help to reinforce this vital pillar of the entire convention».

Fully implement and enhance national climate action plans (NDCs) in the United States, the European Union, South Africa, Brazil, India and China.

One sign that the international commitment to climate action is strong is an expanding set of national climate action laws to back up Paris pledges.

28 September 2016 — The Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF, to 30 September) is set to kick off in Panama City 28 September, bringing together key players from the private and public sectors to discuss ways to speed up the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions through national climate action plans and market - based mechanisms, and to reach out to cooperation agencies, potential investors and service providers.

Mexico on Friday became the first developing country to upload its proposed national climate action plan, known as its «Intended Nationally - Determined Contribution» (INDC) to the United Nations web site.

The Talanoa Dialogue on national climate action: This year marks the start of the Talanoa Dialogue, an outcome of COP23 aiming to establish in - country consultations on climate change throughout the year, with a clear outcome by COP24.

Just as the Mayor's National Climate Action Agenda reminds us, «The world can not wait — and neither will we.»

Inspired by Talanoa, an approach used in Fiji and the Pacific, these multi-stakeholder consultations are designed to be participatory and transparent, promote cooperation and ultimately raise the level of ambition in national climate action plans.

On the eve of the COP21 conference, 184 countries covering around 95 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions had delivered their national climate action plans to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«These INDCs — or national climate action plans — represent a clear and determined down - payment on a new era of climate ambition from the global community of nations.

A report released today by the UNFCCC secretariat, assessing the collective impact of over 140 national climate action plans, indicates that together they can dramatically slow global emissions into the atmosphere.

In July 2013, President Obama outlined a national climate action plan that focuses on several specific ways to reduce emissions.

On the federal end, President Obama recently announced a national Climate Action Plan.

Governments of both developed and developing countries are currently hard at work creating their national climate action plans, which outline what each country will do after 2020 to reduce emissions.

As Governments meet in Bonn to discuss a fast implementation of the Paris Agreement and raised ambition for the national climate action plans, known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), the rise in science - based target - setting sends a clear signal that business is ready to deliver.

Separately, a report from IRENA explored how the national climate action plans put forward under the Paris Agreement are underselling the amount of renewable energy capacity many countries plan to deploy.

Third, countries have already committed to putting their national climate action commitments on the table well before the Paris summit so that the world can assess their ambition and fairness.

The national Climate Action Plan I unveiled will cut carbon pollution, protect our country from the impacts of climate change, and lead the world in a coordinated assault on a changing climate.

Ambitious Corporate Climate Action Driving Delivery of Paris Goals Business Commitments Need Reinforcing by Strong National Policies Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 - Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislation...

With REDD + completed, countries can more aggressively incorporate it into their national climate action plans, or «Intended Nationally - Determined Contributions» (INDCs), although they won't know until Paris how such inclusion will be recognized.

The country has a national climate action plan, also known as its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), to simultaneously expand energy access and limit emissions.

Environmentalism: The Way Forward A talk (by videolink) to the National Climate Action Summit University of Melbourne, 9 April 2011 Clive Hamilton The difficulty and importance of the global warming campaign is many times greater than every other environmental struggle.

Marrakech, Morocco, 9 November, 2016 — Private sector leaders have come together at the COP 22 Business & Industry day to call for countries to fully implement their national climate action plans (the NDCs) through strong domestic legislation so that the many climate commitments of the private sector can be speedily implemented.

As the Paris COP approaches, national climate action plans — known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs)-- and their associated emissions reductions have captured headlines.

The portfolio of NFP projects to boost the development of carbon market instruments as a means to help countries achieve their national climate action plans was showcased

They began exploring ways to meet and surpass goals established in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)-- national climate action plans submitted under the Paris Agreement.

This, in combination with the approval of the Food Security Act, has left the national climate action plan effectively dead in the water, opening the door for the money it should have received to be diverted into food subsidies, experts fear.

Since 2009, when the national climate action plan was launched, there has been just one meeting of a handful of scientists in New Delhi under the Himalayan Mission, he added.

Its two day Summit will be addressing Public and Private Finance for national climate action or blended solutions for national climate action.

He can bolster his National Climate Action Plan and secure the progress that his administration has made in reducing domestic carbon emissions.

With the dust having settled from the Paris Summit's dramatic denouement, it looks increasingly likely the treaty will be ratified and that the national climate action plans that underpin the agreement will shape the direction of the world's largest economies for decades to come.

28 March 2015 Earlier this week, the World Resources Institute (WRI) launched its CAIT Paris Contributions Map, a new tool on the CAIT Climate Data Explorer for tracking and analyzing intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), which are the national climate action plans that will form the basis of a new international climate change agreement, set to be finalized during a high - level climate summit in Paris in December (COP 21).