Sentences with phrase «of environmental treaty»

Eyckmans, J. and M. Finus, 2003: Coalition formation in global warming game: How the design of protocols affects the success of environmental treaty - making.

For basic developments at the negotiations, there's no better source than the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, with a name dating from when it was a hastily printed flyer in the early days of environmental treaty - making.

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Though a sweeping peace treaty with the environmental movement seems unlikely, the War of the Woods proves there are ways to lower the temperature of the conflict and regain the public's trust.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

He would also have the US Trade Representative notify Mexico and Canada that the US intends to propose some amendments to the treaty, which could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country of origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

A memo, obtained recently by CNN, says Mr. Trump intends to propose changes to the treaty on issues such as currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labelling for meat as well as environmental and safety standards.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

American foreign policy has long put its sovereignty first, whether by not joining the League of Nations, the International Criminal Court or various international treaties on human rights and environmental controls.

The Montreal Protocol — one of the world's most successful environmental treaties — has protected the stratospheric ozone layer and avoided enhanced UV radiation reaching the earth's surface,» said UN Under - Secretary - General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.

In addition to environmental variability and lack of treaties, other factors leading to conflict include political and economic instability, and armed conflict, the analysis shows.

Environmental groups have been frustrated by the Bush administrations rejection of the Kyoto treaty and what Sohn describes as its tendency to deny, deflect blame and delay when it comes to issues involving global warming.

One possibility, Rodrigues suggests, could be to create a provision in the next international climate - change treaty requiring wealthy countries with high carbon emissions to pay Brazilians for the environmental benefits of keeping their forests standing.

As Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, George Shultz helped negotiate the most successful global environmental treaty to date: the Montreal Protocol, which phased out the use of chlorofluorocarbons and other ozone - depleting chemicals.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

In an attempt to fix these perceived flaws, representatives from the pharmaceuticals industry and environmental groups began meeting in January to advise the White House on a statement that would clarify some of the ambiguous language in the treaty.

Today, Nuclear Watch of New Mexico and Tri-Valley CAREs of California asked a federal judge to halt construction of two new biosafety level 3 (BSL - 3) labs, claiming that the department hasn't adequately studied the environmental risks and considered whether the new labs would endanger U.S. compliance with nonproliferation treaties.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

The report credited the Montreal Protocol, which it called «one of the world's most successful environmental treaties,» for the recovery of the ozone layer, which it projects will help prevent two million cases of skin cancer by 2030, besides preventing damage to humans» immune systems as well as wildlife and agriculture.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

A Greenpeace study in 2013 of 18 random Chinese teas found toxic pesticides in 12 of the studied samples that are banned by the Stockholm Convention, an international environmental treaty.

In one piece, Bidisha Banerjee explores whether a largely dormant, decades - old treaty, The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, could be wielded by foes of climate intervention.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

A number of lawmakers, foreign governments and environmental advocates had urged the administration to offer an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty on ozone - depleting substances, calling for the rapid elimination of HFC's.

(To my mind, there's enormous potential for progress testing new ways to share and shape ideas, and far slimmer prospects for using environmental treaty - making and other tools of global governance.)

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

Mr. Bush's initiative was criticized by some countries and environmental groups as kind of an end run around international climate - treaty negotiations that involved all countries, small and large.

During a quick European tour, James L. Connaughton, the long - serving chairman of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, discussed in a telephone interview what kind of treaty the United States could embrace.

Second is the environmentalist's myth that climate change is an «environmental problem,» best addressed by treaties establishing targets and timetables for the reduction of harmful emissions.

The biggest shift since the earlier gathering may be the end of a presumption that international tools like treaties should be a central focus of efforts to drive environmental progress.

The Montreal Protocol, often referred to as the world's most successful environmental treaty, was created in 1987 to eliminate the use of the chemicals that were discovered to be destroying the ozone layer.

For evidence of Solomon's strange stance on environmental issues, one need look no further than his comments in the conservative National Review where he argued that the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty dedicated to reducing carbon emissions, was «the single biggest threat to the global environment.»

The Montreal Protocol is a 1980s - era international environmental treaty that restricted the use of some halocarbons, the chemicals causing the hole in the ozone layer.

Montreal IGSD names «that other» climate treaty, 1987's Montreal Protocol «one of the world's most successful multilateral environmental agreements, having phased out 97 percent of almost 100 ozone - depleting substances — placing the ozone layer on a path to recovery later this century».

A small side note: Blur can happily ignore the pretty horrific environmental impacts of uranium mining, the substantial CO2 emissions associated with which will conveniently go on somebody else's climate treaty tab.

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This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

For two days, speakers, panelists and commentators will examine deep - rooted problems... evaluate how nations have sought to solve them with central planning and governmental mandates... explore market - oriented alternatives to command - and - control approaches... and address the pros and cons of international treaties and protocols that often involve one - size - fits - all «solutions» to narrowly defined environmental problems and concerns.»

Americans spend enough on environmental cleanup and should not take on the burden of this treaty.

Energy Probe has also highlighted the social and environmental costs of the Kyoto treaty, which too often receive short shrift.

Buyers of the credits include power plants that need to offset emissions that exceed European limits, countries buying offsets to comply with the Kyoto Protocol — an international environmental treaty — and some environmentally conscious companies that voluntarily offset their carbon footprint.

The Earth Summit yielded several principles for development and international environmental law, but most importantly it gave birth to 3 main conventions or international treaties to tackle climate change, loss of biodiversity and desertification.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an environmental treaty that nations joined in 1992, with the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.

• The Montreal Protocol is hailed as the most successful multilateral environmental treaty having rid the world of 97 % of ozone depleting chemicals while providing extra time and technical and financial assistance to developing countries.

Clearly, the consequences of the Montreal Protocol — probably the world's most successful environmental treaty — clash with the aim of the UNFCCC, leading to this confusion of forums.

A majority of IWC member countries, along with animal protection and environmental organizations, believe that the treaty has evolved into a conservation agreement that allows for greater protection for whales from environmental, commercial, and other types of threats.

Last year's promises are part of the efforts to amend the Montreal Protocol, considered the world's most successful international environmental treaty, which was established to phase out of ozone depleting substances (OSDs).

The Montreal Protocol is the most successful international environmental treaty, and is uniquely positioned to adopt and implement a phase - down of HFCs.

In September, Blair announced that he had given up on climate change treaties because, «The truth is, no country is going to cut its growth or consumption substantially in light of a long - term environmental problem.»

«It's not going to happen if we boast about how we're going to scrap international treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters,» Mr. Obama said.»