Sentences with phrase «new global climate change deal»

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.

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Our new deal is a platform, and it resembles, finally, a change in global climate discourse and a possible beginning of the collective green mindset for the future we have been waiting for.

It is crucial that the party develops new approaches to deal with the pressing challenges of the early 21st century, such as rising inequality, declining social mobility, global financial chaos and climate change.

Yesterday, the Conservatives criticised the government's plans to deal with global warming, arguing that cutting carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, as is proposed in the new climate change bill, was not enough.

It's been more than four years since leaders tried and failed to craft a binding new global climate change treaty in Copenhagen, and as nations head toward a new deal in 2015, the aftershocks of that Danish summit continue to reverberate.

President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping struck a historic climate change agreement in Beijing last night, vowing that the world's two largest emitters of greenhouse gases will each undertake steep cuts in the coming decade and will work together toward a new global deal.

If countries succeed in creating a hoped - for new international global warming accord next year in Paris, it could turn the decades - old system for dealing with climate change on its head.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

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Pissant progressives pontificating on economic degrowth, new economic systems eschewing economic growth, global government, using disasters to engineer transformative moments for social revolution, suspension of democracy and the rule of law to deal with the catastrophic risk of climate change or whatever the whine de jour is.

Nicholas Stern, lead author of the 2006 Stern Review on the economics of climate change, says the US / China announcement will give momentum to a new global deal on climate due to be negotiated in Paris late 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.

Anthony Hobley, global head, sustainability & climate change at the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, told RTCC the speech offered some clues to how the US may seek to engage with a new UN climate deal.

A new organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group, has picked up on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has issued a list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high oil prices, climate change and the credit crisnew organization, appropriately named the Green New Deal Group, has picked up on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has issued a list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high oil prices, climate change and the credit crisNew Deal Group, has picked up on this idea and is laying out an ambitious 100 month agenda that it says is necessary to prevent dangerous global warming, reports the BBC.Tackling the triple crisis of energy prices, the credit crunch and climate change Comprising a number of experts from the fields of finance, energy and the environment, this group has issued a list of proposals that it claims will tackle the threats of high oil prices, climate change and the credit crisis.

Lovelock was recently interviewed by New Scientist: Carbon Trading is a Giant Scam, Ditto Carbon Sequestration After saying that there's «not a hope in hell» that we'll be able to work out some global system to deal with climate change similar the global CFC ban in time to save ourselves from climate change, Lovleock called most of the «green» efforts to deal with climate change verge on being gigantic scams,

AMSTERDAM (AP)-- Top U.N. climate change official Yvo de Boer told The Associated Press Thursday that he was resigning after nearly four years, a period when governments struggled without success to agree on a new global warming deal.

Countries are due to announce their targets by the end of March 2015 as part of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's ongoing efforts to garner support for a new global deal.