Sentences with phrase «of a global agreement»

In absence of a Global agreement many Chinese investors simply began to trade on foreign exchanges, rendering the whole exercise pointless.

We need agreements to embrace a clean, renewable energy future as part of a global agreement due to be signed in Paris in 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

U.S. President - elect Donald Trump could use legal short - cuts to pull out of a global agreement for fighting climate change within a year, keeping a campaign promise and bypassing a theoretical four - year wait, lawyers say.

The plenary was filled with applause and excitement for what many media broadcasted as «the adoption of global agreement to save the world.»

These meetings are the nuts and bolts of international climate politics, where UN members attempt to negotiate the details of a global agreement that can cut carbon emissions.

The chances of a global agreement are Buckley's to none.

Indeed, it almost fell apart at the 11th hour because someone inserted the word «shall» — which in the arcane world of global agreements suggests mandates — for the less onerous «should.»

The case could expand into a multinational trade dispute given that Canada, a champion of global agreements, filed it in a way that allows other countries to join.

Some have questioned whether a single mandatory scheme for sustainable palm oil across the EU can work, yet Fern found that the absence of global agreement on definitions and standards is a headache for companies striving to reduce deforestation in their supply chains.

The Bulletin panel found that despite hopes of global agreements about nuclear weapons, nuclear power and climate change in 2010, little progress has been made.

However, the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme can not be regarded as consistent with the government's expressed goal of a global agreement to stabilize the climate.

A framework of global agreements aimed at phasing out the climate - impacting refrigerants has been adopted.

Given the lack of a global agreement, the trillion dollar efforts of the United States will result in significant economic dislocations with no measurable benefits for climate change.

Why offer such massive lower - bound cuts in the non-event of an global agreement?

This global warming, climate change, climate variability farce has been going on for over 30 yrs and is no closer now to any form of a global agreement than when it first started.

Like Indonesia and several other emerging countries, Mexico isn't using a baseline year, but instead proposes to reduce its emissions to a level 22 % below a «business as usual» scenario by 2030, with that target nearly doubling to 40 % below business as usual if it receives technical and financial support within the context of a global agreement.

Speaking to Blair at a time when the result of the 2000 presidential election was still in doubt — Clinton told his friend he was optimistic that Vice President Al Gore would prevail — the president cautioned that Europe must overcome its skepticism and embrace carbon trading as part of any global agreement to contain emissions.

Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said pulling out of the global agreement would be a «reckless and foolish mistake» and described the Paris deal as a «triumph of American leadership.»

Less than two weeks have passed since the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC / COP21) led to an adoption of a global agreement to fight climate change.

In three weeks, nations will come together at the COP20 talks in Lima, Peru to continue to hash out the details of the global agreement to address climate change that will be finalized in Paris.

This is yet another example of state governments standing up for the environment following Trump's intention to take America out of the global agreement.

With all its imperfections, the currently proposed ETS (including a 25 per cent cut in emissions as part of a global agreement) is consistent with this position and therefore should be supported unless and until something better can be put in its place.

I think it is unlikely that developing countries will accept emission reductions for Australia of 25 % by 2020 as part of a global agreement that stabilises at 450 ppm.

«If you say to them look, we've had this growth model for 50 years or whatever it is but now we've discovered it's a real problem and you can't carry on growing, there's no way to can persuade them to be part of a global agreement,» he said.

Professor Garnaut said Australia would need to go «considerably further» as part of a global agreement, with full participation by developing countries, to keep climate change at acceptable levels.

Less than two weeks have passed since the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC / COP21) led to an adoption of a global agreement... Read More