Sentences with phrase «national contributions»

Using different base years for measuring emissions has an effect on estimates of national contributions to global warming.

Despite the general prohibition on foreign national contributions and donations, foreign nationals may lawfully engage in political activity that is not connected with any election to political office...

In 1990 she took the Golden Lion prize for the best national contribution to the Venice Biennale.

The extent to which national contributions reflect goals determined domestically (a «bottom up» system) or negotiated targets (a «top - down» approach) remains a central topic of discussion, as do the nature of the contributions themselves and how they will be distributed across countries.

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This work is a contribution to the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA), a joint European Science Foundation / European Commission scientific program, funded by the European Commission and by national contributions from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Damon Matthews of Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and his colleagues calculated national contributions to warming by weighting each type of emission according to the atmospheric lifetime of the temperature change it causes.

«National contributions provide entry point for the low - carbon transformation.»

Trio said Britain's pledge would need the approval and input of the other 27 nations because national contributions were considered in the E.U. contribution.

A General Agreement on Climate Change (GACC) would consist of core agreements on allowable national contributions to global warming over time and would enable a wide range of other agreements on technology transfer, funding mechanisms and other issues as needed to accommodate the interests of nations.

A successful outcome of Paris would be a treaty with five - year reviews — ensuring countries consistently revisit and raise ambition; strong national contributions supported by realistic financing; and an action agenda, not only from governments but also from players outside of government, such as business, city governments and civil society.

Maintain the requirement for Member States to include in their NECPs linear trajectories between 2021 - 2030 for the renewable energy and energy efficiency national contributions

The first being the proposal of ex ante review of intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) which amount to allowing the international community to determine national contributions, as this is against the principle of sovereignty.

Understanding your current average national contribution in tons of carbon per person per year is the basis for understanding and changing not just your personal choices, but your local and national systemic issues necessary for getting to sustainable carbon levels.

At the same time, it is precise enough to quantitatively evaluate and compare national contributions to the common effort, as they are being tabled in the international climate negotiations.

The majority report should, but does not, address the relationship between its recommendations and Australia's carbon budget consistent with a fair and equitable national contribution to the global budget.

«If Mr. Wylie's allegations are true, the Justice Department could prosecute Cambridge Analytica and its managers for knowing and willful violations of the prohibition on foreign national contributions,» he told The Post.

Others see the national contribution as a step in the right direction.

National contributions can be adjusted upwards over time, especially as mobilization of climate finance and other forms of multilateral cooperation which are catalysed by the new Paris agreement will allow governments to go further and faster, even before 2030.

In 2007, she was awarded the Harold McGraw Prize for national contributions to education.

It's a marvellous role, and one that requires you to feel proud of, and enchanted by, our national contribution.

If Parties so wish, they may include specific adaptation measures in their national contribution or communicate their needs and efforts through other existing channels.

Strengthen the provisions on setting and assessing the national contributions for renewable energy and energy efficiency to ensure that the EU targets will be met

But in the absence of binding national targets for energy efficiency and renewable energy, the Commission proposal does not provide incentives for Members States to make appropriately ambitious pledges regarding their national contributions on renewable energy and energy efficiency.

It also does not convincingly define what happens if the national contributions do not add up to the EU targets.

To further facilitate independent assessments, the secretariat could also help out — they could be mandated to prepare a compilation and synthesis of the national contributions as well as establish an electronic bulletin board so that Parties and stakeholders can post comments and questions to others about their contributions.

And a new study, Assessing the missed benefits of countries» national contributions, by the NewClimate Institute, says that with an increased emission reduction target India can save much more on fossil fuel, cut premature deaths caused by pollution, and create green jobs.

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National contributions «will not be consistent» with international climate targets, researchers led by British economist and climate - change expert Nicholas Stern contended in a recent report cited by the Guardian.

Corporate and foreign national contributions are not permitted.

Our analysis shows that the national contributions to date, with no further progress post-pledge period, result in expected warming in 2100 of 3.3 °C (with a range of uncertainty of 1.9 — 4.4 °C).

The sum of the national contributions does not lead to enough reductions.

The existing INDCs thus far contain mainly domestically focused actions, because they were supposed to be national contributions.

As the apex of seven years of persistence and diplomacy on a global climate deal, Todd played a pivotal role leading up to and in Paris of securing the agreement of nearly 200 nations to commit to holding global warming to below two degrees Celsius and to transparently submit their national contributions to this goal for review by the rest of the world.