Sentences with phrase «negotiations over climate»

It's to use the expense and complexity of it as leverage in negotiations over climate legislation.

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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.

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.

The success of the ozone negotiations, in other words, has cast a deep and long shadow over the path that the climate negotiations have taken, one that has proven incredibly difficult to unravel.

Over the past decade, the climate negotiations have seen repeated attempts to shift the emphasis of discussions to non-universal settings — the George W. Bush - initiated Major Economies Meeting being a key example.

As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris in just over a week, actions by state governments like New York State provide essential momentum toward a strong and effective agreement.»

It's a shift, analysts say, that peaked after Copenhagen but in reality has steadily evolved over the past two decades of frustrating climate negotiations.

Following up on discussions in the regular negotiations, the accord would establish a start - up fund of roughly US$ 30 billion over the next three years to help developing countries prepare for a warmer climate, integrate new technologies into sustainable development plans and protect their forests.

They see Noh - Bec as a perfect candidate for a carbon - reduction scheme developed over the past decade of climate negotiations.

The fast growing sources dropped out of the climate change accord over the course of negotiations

unequal power in diplomatic negotiations — resulting in climate change discussions prioritising the needs of the developed North over those of the global South.

President Obama's top climate diplomat acknowledged today that Capitol Hill delays over global warming legislation will likely push international negotiations to work beyond a December summit in Copenhagen on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

The repercussions of the findings, which were published Thursday in Science, could make it harder to hold warming to limits set during recent United Nations climate negotiations — but they're being received cautiously by other climate scientists, with questions raised over the results of the analysis.

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.

Over the next few days I'll post the reflections of a variety of observers of the climate treaty negotiations that concluded over the weekend in Cancún, MexOver the next few days I'll post the reflections of a variety of observers of the climate treaty negotiations that concluded over the weekend in Cancún, Mexover the weekend in Cancún, Mexico.

Long before negotiations over strengthening an ailing climate treaty concluded in Cancún, Mexico, with a muted, incremental agreement to keep on negotiating, it was clear that this wasn't going to be much of a news event.

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.

No one would argue that the current multi-lateral climate negotiations are an attempt to establish «ultimate global authority over humanity» and this is certainly never been suggested by the Planetary Boundaries research.

As I've said here before, it's inevitable that environmental lawyers engaged in the fight over greenhouse gases will use whatever statutes they think help their case (and whatever public relations stunts, including dressing up as a bear at climate negotiations).

Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary managing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, gave his latest update to the press today in Bali on negotiations over next steps under that faltering 1992 climate Climate Change, gave his latest update to the press today in Bali on negotiations over next steps under that faltering 1992 climate climate treaty.

For over a decade, it has tried to sabotage international climate change negotiations and block agreements that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

Is it possible to generalize over what the rural poor would ask for from global climate negotiations and what would this be?

Eisenhower initiated the negotiations over the objections of Edward Teller (like Singer, Teller enjoyed a long life and inveighed against anthropogenic climate change until he thought he could score on geoengineering — Singer is still enjoying - good for him).

They are also difficult because the multilateral climate body — the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — includes over 190 countries; these countries are grouped into various blocs with criss - crossing agendas and priorities; long - standing north - south resentments continue to rile the debate; and negotiations are governed by a consensus rule of procedure (bloody conclimate body — the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — includes over 190 countries; these countries are grouped into various blocs with criss - crossing agendas and priorities; long - standing north - south resentments continue to rile the debate; and negotiations are governed by a consensus rule of procedure (bloody conClimate Change — includes over 190 countries; these countries are grouped into various blocs with criss - crossing agendas and priorities; long - standing north - south resentments continue to rile the debate; and negotiations are governed by a consensus rule of procedure (bloody consensus!

Don't expect the United Nations» climate change conference currently underway in Lima, Peru, to deliver major headlines — the negotiations are mostly over technical and bureaucratic issues.

India was positive of a good outcome at the Paris 2015 climate change negotiations which must yield an agreement to keep the global temperatures from rising over two degrees Celsius, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said Saturday.

In truth, the intergovernmental body entrusted to prevent «dangerous» levels of climate change has not only failed to make progress over its twenty - odd years of work (and more than ninety official negotiation meetings since the agreement was adopted), it has overseen a process of virtually uninterrupted backsliding.

My guess is there've been few lessons learned out of coverage of the international climate treaty negotiations and the domestic battle over climate legislation.

When it was pointed out how radical it was to advocate binding caps on emissions given the history of the international climate negotiations, Hu responded philosophically, in reference to his own experience in policy advocacy on various issues over the years:

Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations.

Increase of credits from large hydro expected by 2020A new study released in time for the climate negotiations in Durban confirms that over 20 % of all carbon credits under the UN's offsetting scheme, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), could come from business - as - usual large hydropower projects.

U.S. climate action was on full display during COP23, with over 100 prominent leaders from U.S. state and local governments, private sector and academia gathering in Bonn to voice support for the Paris Agreement and buoy confidence in the negotiations.

This disagreement over the future of the international climate regime has been at the root of the repeated fights in the climate negotiations over the last two years.

Many other leaders promised to attend, too, from the Marshall Islands (threatened with inundation) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hoping for a big wave to carry its negotiators to a successful treaty negotiation over the next 15 months).

Two commentaries published over the weekend said this is an «abstract» and «naive» approach that might hinder climate negotiations.

[1] The Chairs of the ADP (Durban Platform for Action) handed over negotiating documents to the French Presidency of the COP21 climate summit in Paris, formally closing the ADP negotiations.

However, the scholarly literature offers differing views over whether or not the outcomes of recent negotiations strengthen or weaken the multilateral climate regime.

Over the past week and a half youth have challenged Canada's irresponsible Canadian negotiation strategies, indicative of the close relationship between Canada's climate policy and dirty fossil fuels.

The ruckus over restricted access to the Bella Centre — site of the UN climate negotiations — continued this afternoon, as UN organizers continued to leave accredited conference delegates outside in the cold.

Given that for over 20 years since international climate change negotiations began, the United States has refused to commit to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions based upon the justification that there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant action, if it turns out that human - induced climate change actually greatly harms the health and ecological systems on which life depends of others, should the United States be responsible for the harms that could have been avoided if preventative action had been taken earlier?

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Although there has been a US press presence at international climate negotiations since they began over 20 years, the US media reports on the climate negotiations has usually focused on the failures and small success of previous negotiations.

Indeed, the feeling among parties outside the negotiations was largely that the general shape of the deal is known and therefore the time for debates is over and the time for serious climate action has arrived.

The climate conference in November offers an unique opportunity to stress the urgency of climate action as it will be the first time a small island state is called upon to preside over the negotiations.

Frustration with the climate talks has grown in the past two years but progress in this year's conference of the parties (COP) has seen negotiations deadlocked in technical areas, and rich and poor countries at loggerheads over compensation and money.

Friends of the Earth believes that UN climate change negotiations must expand its influence over global economic and development policies to ensure that actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change under the UNFCCC are not undermined.

Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba XX — Peru will identify opportunities for climate policy and finance to align with other public and private investments and commitments to ensure that forests and other ecosystems continue to provide critical support for stable climate and resilient -LSB-...]

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba XX — Peru will identify opportunities for climate policy and finance to align with other public and private investments and commitments to ensure that forests and other ecosystems continue to provide critical support for stable climate and resilient societies.

As evidence of climate change piles up and pessimism grows over climate negotiations, discussion of geoengineering — deliberate large - scale intervention in Earth's natural systems — is rising up the agenda.