Sentences with phrase «negotiate international climate agreements»

Outside of Mexico City, delegates from the world's 17 biggest economies are meeting this week to further negotiate international climate agreements.

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Thus, now free of the procedural morass that characterised UNFCCC negotiations in 2012, the ADP process that unfolds over the next three years represent what may be seen as a contingent moment in the history of the UN climate negotiating process, where fundamental questions over the design and scope of an international agreement are up for grabs in a way and manner perhaps unseen since the beginning of the initial intergovernmental negotiations at the end of the 1980s.

Negotiating an international agreement to fight climate change is hard enough.

At the same time, in order to ensure an effective and ambitious global post-2012 climate regime, all major economies will need to commit to meaningful mitigation actions to be bound in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

The President also believes that the most effective approach to maintaining a level playing field is to negotiate a new international climate change agreement that ensures that all the major polluters take significant actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

• The Bali Roadmap charts the course for a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 that will lead to a post-2012 international agreement on climate change.

But I wanted to start a discussion here about the relative importance of forging legislation to cap and trade carbon, negotiating international agreements, or pursuing an energy - technology quest as a way of attacking the many energy - related issues confronting the planet in the next few decades, including climate.

[UPDATE, 8/6: China's lead envoy in climate - treaty talks expressed optimism that a new international agreement on climate will be negotiated this year, but stressed that there is no chance his country will accept hard targets for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.]

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United Nations member states will convene in Warsaw next week to continue negotiating a post-Kyoto Protocol international climate agreement, which has previously stumbled on the topic of monitoring of REDD activities.

The simulation exercise provided participants an experiential learning opportunity to explore the risks of climate change impacts, climate change mitigation options and the challenges of negotiating international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

When international delegates meet in Paris next year to negotiate a new global climate agreement, they'll be aiming to keep global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels.

Alone among the nations of the developed world, key members of fossil fuel lobby groups have actually been made members of Australia's official delegation that has negotiated − or more accurately, attempted to derail − international agreements on climate change, notably the Kyoto Protocol.

The CIA's Center for Climate Change and National Security «provides support to American policymakers as they negotiate, implement, and verify international agreements on environmental issues.»