Sentences with phrase «national commitments»

The research agenda outlined below seeks to develop information and analyses that could be helpful in ensuring that nations take equity and justice seriously when making national commitments on climate change.

While current national commitments are a substantial improvement, projected warming is still on course to produce dangerous climate impacts.

The report makes eight key findings, including the top level finding regarding the sustained national commitment.

They should link this vision to specific and measurable national commitments that will signal a global turn from words to action and a new can - do attitude for addressing climate change.

The proposals for change are based on «voluntary national commitments», which are not legally binding and will not commit countries to meet any targets or to work within a given timeframe.

Now there is no escaping the international community from reviewing national commitments through a justice lens.

The deal is based on national commitments put forward by more than 180 countries.

Without continued national commitment, any major shift will take many decades or until that stuff runs out.

Nor do regional and national commitments offer more hope.

There will be three hours for heads of state to announce national commitments on climate change, followed by thematic discussions.

There are already national commitments and policies in place to address Indigenous health inequality - what is missing are appropriately funded programs that target the most vulnerable.

Current national commitments to cut greenhouse gases would likely allow average global temperatures to rise by 3.5 °C by 2100, suggest new modeling results released today.

Rather than strive for an elusive, binding global treaty, the idea is to encourage countries to make strong national commitments in their own economic self - interest and then roll those up in the Paris agreement, which would not take the form of a treaty and thus would not need to be ratified.

And so, strong claims can be made that certain justifications for national commitments on ghg emissions reductions fail to pass any reasonable ethical analysis even though one can not say absolutely what perfect justice requires.

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

«Our results also illustrate how important it is to promote a successful eutrophication management in the Baltic Sea — a factor which, unlike rising global temperatures, could be achieved by national commitment.»

Head Start was a significant national commitment to deliver early learning services in vulnerable communities.

Last December's Paris agreement on climate change introduced national commitments from 2020 to limit emissions from power generation, land transport and deforestation.

Hundt served as Chairman of the FCC from 1993 - 1997 and played a major role in implementing the Snowe - Rockefeller program that directs more than $ 4 billion annually to connect all classrooms to the Internet and is hailed as one of the largest single national commitments to K - 12 education in American history.

To do that requires national commitment.

In response to this important research on brain development and parental involvement, President Clinton has proposed the single largest national commitment to child care in the history of this nation, including a $ 3 billion Early Leaming Fund.

As a result there is a huge gap between national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions that have been made thus far under the UNFCCC and global ghg emissions reductions that are necessary to limit warming to 2 oC, a warming limit that has been agreed to by the international community as necessary to prevent very dangerous climate change.

And so, climate change is a civilization challenging problem of distributive justice and no matter what ethical considerations are taken into account to define an arguably distributively just allocation of ghg emissions targets among nations, many national commitments utterly and obviously flunk any ethical test.

These cities commit to achieving or surpassing relevant national commitments; commit to adopting a comprehensive action plan; engage in regional initiatives, and agree to regular reporting, which is needed to enable cities to compare their success with others worldwide.

We welcome the fact that the draft guidance for national commitments retains an invitation for Parties to consider the relevance of human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, gender equality and a just transition.

The speakers sought to encourage a broad national commitment to bilingualism through two means: educating limited - English - speaking students in both English and their native tongue, and increasing...

The United States, lacking such history, may find it hard to achieve a similar national commitment.

TFA's presence in the Greater New Orleans area represents one of the organization's most substantial national commitments.

However around 170 of the 195 countries in the UNFCCC process have tabled national commitments to tackle climate change — an unprecedented signal of a new global action on this issue.

As we debate our entire national commitment to climate change action through the proxy of an oil sands pipeline project or two, we should remember every one of us has had a hand in getting the bitumen into that pipe.

The 2018 Global Climate Action Summit, hosted in San Francisco September 12 to 14, will bring together state and local governments, business, and citizens from around the world to showcase climate action taking place, thereby demonstrating how the tide has turned in the race against climate change and inspiring deeper national commitments in support of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.

- A major announcement on the combined climate leadership in the US from states, cities and businesses, in relation to US national commitments, and their contribution in delivering the Paris Agreement

Klein points out that for some scientists and policymakers, dimming the sun or geoengineering the atmosphere seem more plausible approaches than undertaking a serious national commitment to solar and renewable energy.

Although nations could reasonably disagree on what equity frameworks should guide national commitments on ghg emissions, no nation can deny its responsibility to reduce its ghg emissions on the basis of equity and principles of distributive justice to levels that will prevent dangerous climate impacts around the world.

Defending the environmental balance of the planet is one of our most universal national commitments.

After decades of energy stalemate, in the midst of yet another oil crisis, it is time to make a real national commitment to technology innovation and secure America's energy leadership once and for all.