Sentences with phrase «new global climate»

Finally, the president talked about the prospects of the world agreeing a new global climate deal in Paris in 2015.

The new global climate change agreement establishes a revised goal of keeping average global temperature rise «well below 2 degrees Celsius,» sets up a clear mechanism for countries» greenhouse gas reductions to be revisited every five years and, for the first time, commits every nation - state on Earth — 196 different entities — to do something to address this collective threat... The Paris agreement marks a real turning point in history.

Also on Capitol Hill during this «mother of all climate weeks»: the House Science and Technology Committee will also hold a hearing on Wednesday about measuring greenhouse gas emissions, while the Senate will hear from State Department climate change envoy Todd Stern on new global climate change agreements.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Parisaimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

For the scientists gathering in the Danish capital, this meeting is about removing as much wriggle room as possible from the political negotiations on a new global climate treaty taking place in December.

There's also the small matter of trying to agree a new global climate deal in Paris in 2015.

As climate negotiators meet in Lima to discuss a new global climate deal that could limit warming to two degrees or less, we look at each of the issues in turn.

But negotiators hope that 2015 will bring a new global climate deal, this time at a meeting in Paris.

Experts say US carbon cutting plans may indicate how far it will be willing to go in its commitment under the new global climate treaty

Contributions to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are seen as a vital step towards countries agreeing a new global climate deal in Paris next year.

Each country will have taken a range of factors into account when working out how much to pledge, Oxfam previously told Carbon Brief: from how much of its existing budget can be channelled towards climate change efforts, to how much political will it has for a new global climate deal in 2015.

Efforts to adapt to the new global climate will therefore be required.

The success of ongoing negotiations to establish a new global climate change agreement depends heavily on the agreement's acceptance by the world's major economies, including the United States.

In a bizarre irony, the German daily newspaper Die Welt has proclaimed U.S. President Donald Trump «the most successful climate protector in the world» after a new global climate report revealed that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions dropped dramatically during Trump's first year in office.

UN climate talks opening in Lima on 1 December will be pivotal to gauge political will for a new global climate deal.

His agency hopes to help strike a new global climate pact in crucial talks in Paris late this year.

«Forward thinking companies are setting a precedent for governments to agree a new global climate deal agreement in Paris later this year,» says Samantha Smith, leader of WWF's Global Climate and Energy Initiative.

The Statement, which builds on last November's historic announcement by President Obama and President Xi of ambitious, respective post-2020 climate targets, describes a common vision for a new global climate agreement to be concluded in Paris this December.

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These commitments will be one of the major pillars of a new global climate agreement, expected to be finalized at a United Nations (UN) summit in Paris this December (COP 21).

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.

This week the UNFCCC gathers again for the beginning of the annual two week session in Bonn to continue work on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), which is to deliver a new global climate protocol by 2015 and address the inadeqacy of pre-2020 commitments.

More than 120 world leaders will convene Tuesday for the meeting aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015.

n a fresh effort to generate fervor for a far - reaching new global climate agreement, a U.N. agency is releasing videos featuring «imaginary but realistic» weather reports set in 2050, to illustrate the type of extreme conditions it predicts we will face by mid-century.

We take a more international perspective, looking at how it affects the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

Does Copenhagen, then, mark not the beginning of a new global climate regime but the end of the vision of global, negotiated climate governance?

The Cancun conference also agreed on establishing a new global climate fund under the UNFCCC to help finance the mitigation and adaptation.

We have watched and written as the process to negotiate a new global climate treaty (or whatever) was launched in 2011 and stumbled clumsily forward ever since.

A new global climate agreement based on voluntary national pledges of domestic action is expected to be finalized in Paris in December.

That would represent a big blow to negotiators» chances of getting a new global climate deal in Paris.

In addition, the United Nations is leading an initiative to streamline REDD projects around the world in anticipation that mandatory carbon offsetting might eventually become part of a new global climate treaty.

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A new global climate - change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate - change solutions.

We take a more international perspective, looking at what it might mean for the world's chances of agreeing a new global climate deal.

It's essential to show that developed countries are keeping their commitments so developing countries know they have support for ambitious action when countries meet to forge a new global climate agreement in Paris this December.

Experts said the new data underscored the importance of getting China to sign on to any new global climate agreement.

The report says working toward a new global climate deal remains important.

He credited world leaders for agreeing on 17 goals for sustainable development and working toward a new global climate agreement late this year.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

-- Clarifying what this small group of countries can do to help forge a new global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, — Working out specific partnerships to propel advances toward «transformational technologies» that could supply abundant energy to a growing human population without overheating the planet.

In theory, the goal of the Paris talks over a new global climate agreement is to create a more sustainable human relationship with the climate system by curbing emissions of greenhouse gases and boosting poor countries» capacity to withstand climate shocks.

The United Nations office that manages negotiations aimed at generating a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen has released a basic 53 - page outline for 192 countries to supplement or whittle when the next round of talks begins in June in Bonn.

John Broder has written an update on the climate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emissions.

Countries have set a deadline to agree a new global climate treaty at a conference in Paris this December.

Indeed, as India's contribution to a new global climate change agreement in Paris in December makes clear, «coal will continue to dominate power generation in [the] future.»

WITH less than 60 days to go before world leaders meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a new global climate deal, how do the chips already on the table stack up?

Russia and Japan have walked away from imposing legally binding targets as government ministers plan to resume the pursuit of a new global climate agreement later this month in Durban, South Africa.

The United States along with China, Brazil, India and more than 190 other nations agreed to deliver the new goals by early next year as part of an effort to ink a new global climate deal in Paris in 2015.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.