Sentences with phrase «new international climate agreement»

It comes as world leaders prepare to descend on New York for a U.N. - sponsored summit aimed at building momentum for a new international climate agreement in Paris in 2015.

With a new international climate agreement being hashed out in the next year, forests in developing countries will be an important piece of determining what that agreement looks like.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.

Dec. 4, 7:34 p.m. Updated CANCÚN, Mexico — At almost every negotiation in recent years aimed at building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of text.

He made his points after joining a panel organized by Unicef to explore the need for any new international climate agreement to consider how decisions on flows of greenhouse gases or money affect people, particularly the poorest communities and least enabled sectors of society (women and children).

But the long speech was mainly focused on Indonesia itself and had a chiding tone that I can't see doing anything to further Kerry's goal of leading efforts to craft a new international climate agreement by late 2015.

The platform does bash the solutions pursued by President Obama, the Environmental Protection Agency and the new international climate agreement produced in Paris in December.

CANCÚN, Mexico — There might have been some hope among parties seeking a new international climate agreement that sunny skies and azure seas would brighten treaty negotiations after the darkness and chill of Copenhagen one year ago.

With high - level talks over a new international climate agreement beginning in Lima, Peru, it's worth reviewing some basic points about climate change driven by the buildup of human - generated greenhouse gases.

The new international climate agreement comes into effect only after 55 countries representing at least 55 percent of global emissions sign onto it.

We're now entering the final, significant stages of negotiations leading up to the major climate summit in Paris in December known as COP21, where countries will reach a new international climate agreement.

However, on an international level, 2013 passed with very little progress in terms of establishing a new international climate agreement.

The world is fast - approaching a key milestone in the global warming battle — a new international climate agreement.

Even before the new international climate agreement is finalized, COP21 has accomplished a lot when it comes to cities, clean energy, business and more.

For the new international climate agreement to be universal, countries acknowledged that effective capacity building is vital to enable developing countries to take strong climate action.

If successful, the new international climate agreement forged in Paris will send strong signals to financial markets — and therefore to businesses and investors — about the direction of energy for the foreseeable future.

«The findings of this study could be important for Chinese policy makers to consider as they position themselves to negotiate a new international climate agreement by 2015.

«It should be clear that we are not going to repeat Kyoto... we are building momentum towards a new international climate agreement,» he said.

The nations of the world will meet in Paris at that time to close the deal on a new international climate agreement that should set the world on a course of actions that avoid dangerous climate change.