Sentences with phrase «new global pact»

California is redoubling its environmental efforts less than three months before world leaders gather in Paris for a United Nations summit to create a new global pact for fighting climate change.

But the failure of nations to craft a new global pact has caused demand for the CO2 offsets generated under the U.N.'s carbon markets to dry up, sending prices crashing and nearly bankrupting many of the companies that invested in the schemes.

Almost 200 nations are aiming to agree a new global pact to combat climate change by 2015 that would enter into force in 2020.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive on Monday, after dropping earlier after Iran's oil minister said OPEC would not extend its production cap pact if high crude oil prices continued.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Global benchmark Brent crude turned positive in volatile trade on Monday as it jockeyed between downward pressure after Iran dashed hopes that OPEC would extend its production cap pact and support on fears that U.S. sanctions could dampen Iran's output.

Although Brown welcomes the new emphasis, he thinks it is too late to pin too many hopes on global pacts, which take years to negotiate and even more years to implement.

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

The usual «non papers» were indeed being drafted by working groups on both the Kyoto pact and the broader question of a new global agreement.

James Kanter and I have a story in today's paper about a new tack by the Bush administration aimed at clarifying, for Europe particularly, that the United States is not opposed to any new climate treaty — just all of the formulations that have bubbled up since 1992, when the first global pact was accepted by nearly all countries (it was signed by the first President Bush).

Naderev «Yeb» Sano's emotional appeal was met with a standing ovation at the start of two - week talks in Warsaw where more than 190 countries will try to lay the groundwork for a new pact to fight global warming.

«Environment ministers of the European Union — responsible for only 11 % of global carbon emissions — said they would commit to a new phase of the Kyoto climate change pact, on the condition that nations blamed for the rest join up too.

The former UN climate chief led 195 countries to agree an historic pact to tackle global warming in Paris last December, and hoped this success would convince governments to back her in the contest for the New York post.

Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, and author of the new book, «The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change,» charged that, «This new global environmental pact will have more teeth and cover more aspects of human civilization than the U.N. - Paris climate pact.

Eilperin does note the obvious — that this new piece of «global warming research» is «aimed at marshaling political support for a new international climate pact by the end of the year.»

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

Given how elusive efforts to negotiate a truly global agreement to combat human - triggered global warming have been, conference attendees resolved to draft a new climate pact to take effect in 2020 would be «applicable to all Parties.»

As negotiators headed to Copenhagen in December 2009 to forge a global climate pact, concerned U.S. business leaders and liberal luminaries took out a full - page ad in the New York Times calling for aggressive climate action.

AP: The United Nations secretary - general is calling on world policymakers to show greater effort in addressing the threat of climate change as negotiators attempt to forge a new global warming pact next year.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on WednesdNEW YORK (Reuters)- Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on WednGlobal emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesdnew policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednglobal warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesday.