Sentences with phrase «of global climate negotiations»

CANCUN — Figuring out what to make of China is always a touchy subject in the context of a global climate negotiations.

President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry showed up strong, worked the agreement hard, and for the first time in the long history of global climate negotiations, gave Americans a reason to be proud of their federal government.

Claire provided a short description of the history of the global climate negotiations, following the current round of talk's progression from the beginnings in Montreal, through to the breakthrough in Bali last year.

However, they said it challenges the focus of global climate negotiations since they began in earnest in about 1990.

Not exact matches

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal Kvisle Published in the Hill Times — December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how...

As Matthew Hoffmann has argued [2], the ozone negotiations marked a normative shift over the desirability of universal participation in global environmental negotiations, a shift that was locked into the initial negotiations on climate change.

The marginal impact that years of climate negotiations have made on the pace and direction of global greenhouse gas emissions finds its roots, at least in part, in the successes of the ozone negotiations.

With the global climate negotiations in Paris beginning Nov. 30, now is the time for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to make an enforceable commitment to end coal - burning in the Empire State by the end of the decade.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

unequal power in diplomatic negotiations — resulting in climate change discussions prioritising the needs of the developed North over those of the global South.

Nuclear energy supporters, renewable power purists and all flavors of environmental activists in between gathered in Paris last December and applauded as world leaders inked a global agreement to combat climate change, the fruit of 20 years of fraught negotiation.

And while China is still not committed to absolute emissions reductions in global climate negotiations, experts say its «intensity - based» U.N. carbon reduction targets, which are based on improving the relative efficiency of industrial processes, could be as effective as Western - style absolute cuts in emissions.

As many of us are paying attention to the climate change negotiations in Doha, Qatar these next two weeks, I think it's important to keep in context just how many moving pieces there are when it comes to crafting domestic policies that address a global issue.

It follows much discussion on the nature of global change in a warmer 21st Century at the COP23 Climate Negotiations in Bonn last week.

Climate scientists say politicians must move on from Kyoto - style piecemeal negotiations on individual national targets to a global plan to cap concentrations of critical greenhouse gases, especially CO2.

Since global climate negotiations began in the 1990s, United Nations delegates have accumulated an idiosyncratic cache of climate diplomacy gobbledygook.

Others argued that global negotiations could become impossible to manage, and cited UN-led climate talks as an example of how all - inclusive efforts can fail to solve problems requiring decisive action.

Insiders say the new strategy is an attempt to put public pressure on elected officials, while also drawing upon the financial resources and discontent of a global population that finds itself increasingly frustrated with slow - paced climate negotiations.

Still another impediment has been fear that the initiative's «avoided emissions» strategy would lead to similar plans being considered as part of future global warming / climate change treaty negotiations.

Jennifer Morgan, director of the Global Climate Program at the World Resources Institute, said the commitments would «help build trust with developing countries ahead of the climate negotiations in Paris&Climate Program at the World Resources Institute, said the commitments would «help build trust with developing countries ahead of the climate negotiations in Paris&climate negotiations in Paris».

For example, substantial commitments to reduce carbon emissions from the US and China, Europe, and a host of high income countries form the basis of negotiations, while ten global cities representing 58 million people have drawn up ambitious plans to tackle climate change.

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(B) promotes the successful negotiation of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and

With its mention of the ocean and the pursuit to reduce global warming to well below 2, even 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures, the agreement adopted by all 196 parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris on December 12, 2015, is appreciated by scientists present at the negotiations.

In a consortium led by the Finnish consultancy GAIA and with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NewClimate Institute carried out a study on behalf of the Nordic Working Group for Global Climate Negotiations (NOAK) to identify how Nordic finance institutions can best contribute to mobilising climate finance to developing countries in a way that supports the implementation of the Paris AgrClimate Negotiations (NOAK) to identify how Nordic finance institutions can best contribute to mobilising climate finance to developing countries in a way that supports the implementation of the Paris Agrclimate finance to developing countries in a way that supports the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Yet U.N. climate negotiations have largely ignored the acidification problem, focusing instead on the goal of curbing global warming to less than 2 °C (3.6 °F).

The idea, through two weeks of climate negotiations that ended Saturday, was to find new ways to craft a common, global approach to avoid overloading the atmosphere with greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and forests.

Our objective is to come together on a common approach that will contribute to the negotiations under the U.N. Framework Convention of global climate once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.

Michael Schlesinger, a climatologist and professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, had his 81 students in his course on Climate and Global Change watch the film (at the suggestion of Emily Cross, a student who contributed a piece from the last round of climate treaty negotiations in DecClimate and Global Change watch the film (at the suggestion of Emily Cross, a student who contributed a piece from the last round of climate treaty negotiations in Decclimate treaty negotiations in December).

The United Nations office that manages negotiations aimed at generating a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen has released a basic 53 - page outline for 192 countries to supplement or whittle when the next round of talks begins in June in Bonn.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

There are plenty of hurdles ahead, but this shift bodes well for the next rounds of negotiations toward a global climate agreement, in Lima next month and Paris a year from now.

Many seasoned participants in nearly two decades of treaty negotiations aimed at blunting global warming had predicted this outcome, despite a pledge by negotiators at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to seal a deal in Denmark this December.

Many years of multi-lateral climate negotiation indicate a recognized need for global management of the CO2 emissions that occur locally.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.

Mr. Moosa's comments came ahead of climate - treaty talks in December in Poznań, Poland, that are aimed at pushing forward negotiations on a new global agreement on cutting emissions — and where concerns about allowing emerging economic superpowers like China and India to pollute as much as Western countries is almost certain to be a key stumbling block.

After all of the INDCs have been submitted, it's very unlikely they will be enough, collectively, to keep global warming to below 3.6 °F — which is the overarching goal of the international climate negotiations.

As another round of climate negotiations begins, nations» commitments to reduce pollution fall short of what is needed to limit global warming, according to a U.N. report.

It's hard for anyone to digest of all the intricacies of international negotiations, let alone the understand the extraordinary complexity of negotiating a global climate deal.

COP18 / CMP8 entered the crucial phase of climate change negotiations on Day 9 with world leaders issuing a clarion call for urgent global action at the opening of the High Level Segment of the conference.

Climate change has emerged as one of the most talked - about problems, yet global negotiations have fallen apart, and we are barely any closer to cutting carbon emissions than we were 10 years ago.

We as youth do not accept the coal industry's attempts to influence the global climate negotiations, to attack the bases of climate science, and to brand «clean coal» as a viable mitigation solution.

By aligning ourselves with the Bush Administration in this way we have excluded ourselves from the negotiations that will determine the course of global efforts to protect the climate.

«The Role of Science in the Global Climate Negotiations.»

«Our announcement can inject momentum into the global climate negotiations,» Secretary of State John Kerry wrote in an op - ed for the New York Times.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.