Sentences with phrase «negotiations on climate change»

The UNFCCC, being the only body facilitating multilateral negotiations on climate change, is made up of a maze of different issues and tracks.

In announcing the State Department's decision to reject the permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama focused on how this decision fits into the broader context of international negotiations on climate change.

• Post-2012 climate scenarios: What emissions limits might emerge from current international negotiations on climate change?

«If you start from a perspective that [UN] negotiations on climate change are about the climate, or about the environment, then you don't really understand what the negotiations are about.»

Chan - Woo, K., 2002: Negotiations on Climate Change: Debates on commitment of developing countries and possible responses.

Equity has always been central to multilateral negotiations on climate change.

Incorporating such considerations into international negotiations on climate change is not fanciful or unrealistic.

As a result of political horse trading at UN negotiations on climate change, countries like Russia and the Ukraine were allowed to create carbon credits from activities like curbing coal waste fires, or restricting gas emissions from petroleum production.

e360: A lot of people think the whole process of international negotiations on climate change is — and I'm quoting you here — «stuck» and «ineffective.»

A short summary reads: UN-led negotiations on Climate change are to deliver an agreement in Paris in 2015.

The first chapter describes how the concept of NAMA emerged in the context of the negotiations on climate change.

As we have seen, the first Bush administration had agreed to and had ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under which international negotiations on climate change would proceed.

The key institutional outcome was speculation that the UNFCCC may not be the best venue going forward for productive negotiations on climate change.

Any future negotiations on climate change will take place under the auspices of the United Nations and in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

This is my third time coming to the U.N. negotiations on climate change.

He also referred to the international negotiations on climate change in Paris beginning in December.

There's a lot of posturing and that's pretty common for international negotiations on climate change; everybody like [s] to beat their chests and you know stake extreme positions.

«Whatever's China's position on the world stage in respect of international negotiations on climate change, what they have got is a very clear robust set of five - year plans and the ability to deliver them.»

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

As Matthew Hoffmann has argued [2], the ozone negotiations marked a normative shift over the desirability of universal participation in global environmental negotiations, a shift that was locked into the initial negotiations on climate change.

Last December's agreement in Bali to launch a two - year negotiation on climate change was good news, a rare example of international cooperation in a world seemingly stuck in a spiral of conflict.

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Respondents were asked about their views on climate change, support for specific policies under consideration in the federal / provincial / territorial climate action negotiations underway in Fall 2016, and the federal government's role in implementing a national climate plan.

International development charity Christian Aid is calling on world leaders at this week's G20 meeting to show the US President that he has relegated himself to the side - lines of climate change negotiations.

Negotiations on the future of climate change, if they remain dominated by targets for dates far into the future, risk losing resonance with the individual.

But a new chapter in the international climate change negotiations begins this year — and could be a unique moment in efforts to craft international agreement on how the world will collectively attempt to slow global climate change.

In November, countries will meet for the 19th session of the Conference of the Parties for negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discuClimate Change, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discusChange, where loss and damage from climate variability and climate change will be vital to discuclimate variability and climate change will be vital to discuclimate change will be vital to discuschange will be vital to discussions.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

The current administration is working on new, more stringent targets for international negotiations to combat climate change

As climate change negotiations drag on, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, fulfilling scientists» predictions.

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

This represents a shift in the usual analysis of climate change, particularly in international negotiations, which tend to focus on how much concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will rise by a particular date.

Speaking in Beijing during the latest round of the U.S. - China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that the two sides remained committed to «close dialogue» on climate change negotiations.

Even climate change negotiations can be thought of as a prisoner's dilemma: no country wants to pay the cost of cutting emissions (keep shtum) if everyone else is going to keep on emitting (snitch).

It follows much discussion on the nature of global change in a warmer 21st Century at the COP23 Climate Negotiations in Bonn last week.

The leak — a highly unusual occurrence for a papal encyclical — demonstrates the outsized significance the letter has taken on, coming in the months leading up to key international climate change negotiations in Paris later this year.

«The fact that the Paris climate negotiations are such an extreme high priority for President Obama and Secretary [of State John] Kerry has meant in the lead - up to this meeting with President Jokowi and every leader that has come to Washington this year, it has forced climate change and the Paris negotiations on the agenda for every meeting, and this is no exception,» he said.

A brief stop in a Dutch ministry on housing led in 1994 to a job working on climate - change negotiations, something he knew little about.

With President Obama slated to address a special U.N. summit on climate change this week, will he successfully add momentum to the international climate negotiations?

(B) promotes the successful negotiation of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and

With its mention of the ocean and the pursuit to reduce global warming to well below 2, even 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, the agreement adopted by all 196 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris on December 12, 2015, is appreciated by scientists present at the negotiations.

The Science Media Centre asked climate change experts for their take on negotiations at the conference in Bali on its final day.

On the other hand, such urban areas are unencumbered by the complicated international negotiations that hamper climate change action at the international level.

Obama has made it clear he plans to tackle climate change head on, spending some $ 15 billion a year on energy efficiency and renewable energy and taking the lead internationally on climate change negotiations.

Costa Rica took the lead in the Paris Agreement on Climate Change 2015 by the United Nations with its diplomat Christiana Figueres playing a pivotal role in negotiations as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Over the weekend, I posted and alerted senior members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Climate Change when an errant description of the panel's 2007 conclusion on the human climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate influence found its way into an important draft document listing «elements of an outcome» for long - term action on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on climate — essentially a draft of what may emerge here when negotiations end on Friday.

If you are one of the ~ 6.99 billion earthlings focused on issues other than climate change as the climate treaty negotiations outside of Paris grind forward through Dec. 12, skip this post.

But moments later, that sense of triumph was followed by half an hour of passionate protests on the floor, after it was announced that separate negotiations had failed to increase sources of funding to support poor countries in their quest to limit impacts from a changing climate.

Over the past two days I listened to a seemingly endless parade of national statements from all the world's countries about climate change and the negotiations going on here.

Key to linking these markets together is a secure and integrated international regulatory framework post-2012 when the Kyoto Protocol will expire, the very subject that so many people are focusing on in Bali and where political chiefs are expected to come up with a new master plan to fight climate change, or rather a blueprint for further negotiations to reach that master plan.

If you want to review the history of climate diplomacy before you start seeing coverage from Doha, Qatar, next Monday of the 18th round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, two choices are to click on the 83 - second animation above or click here for my past coverage for Theclimate diplomacy before you start seeing coverage from Doha, Qatar, next Monday of the 18th round of negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, two choices are to click on the 83 - second animation above or click here for my past coverage for TheClimate Change, two choices are to click on the 83 - second animation above or click here for my past coverage for The Times.