Sentences with phrase «of international climate change talks»

I am proud that the UK has played a leading role in the revival of international climate change talks through the United Nations at Cancun and Durban.

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Director of Advocacy at the international Christian charity Tearfund, Ruth Valerio, said: «The Archbishop is absolutely right when he talks about the need for immediate attention in the battle against climate change.

IFOAM — Organics International is attending the COP22 climate talks to speak out on behalf of the organic food and farming community and to raise awareness of the urgent need to make organic agriculture part of a climate change solution.According to Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy Manager at IFOAM — Organics... more

The government's leverage in international climate change talks is being undermined by its domestic actions, an influential group of MPs has said.

«I don't think [the revised data] will affect the climate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to theclimate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to theClimate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to the talks.

Thousands of people gathered in Honolulu, Hawaii, last week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress to talk about Earth's ecosystems, endangered species and climate change.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

Despite strong talk from the Obama administration on climate change — to be fair just reengaging with the international community on the issue and not being an utter obstruction is a major shift over the policy of the

Sutter's visit to Oklahoma is part of his yearlong «2 Degrees» series looking at climate change science and choices ahead of the Paris talks, starting on Nov. 30, aimed at creating a new international climate change agreement.

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.

Expect technology transfer, and in particular, the responsibility of developed countries to facilitate technology transfer to developing countries, to be a key agenda item on China's climate change policy as international climate talks reach a critical phase.

The EU has set out its contribution to a new international climate change agreement, in advance of talks in Paris this December.

How to deal with the impact of climate change is front and centre at international climate talks in Warsaw, with a fund for «losses and damages» caused by climate change to developing nations on the table.

Hansen, noted for his outspokenness on the topic of climate change and his willingness to venture into an advocacy role that many other climate scientists try to avoid, has previously voiced his concern about the 2 - degree warming benchmark, saying in 2011 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) that, «the target that has been talked about in international negotiations for 2 degrees of warming is actually a prescription for long - term disaster.»

HERE is a detailed description of the most recent climate change talks in Bonn in June 2010, along with an excellent account of the history of the negotiating process, from the reliable IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development).

Over 800 members of civil society walked out of the UN climate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greeclimate talks (COP19) on what was supposed to be the penultimate night, led by social movements like the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Justice Alliance (PACJA) and the Bolivian Platform on Climate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and GreeClimate Change, the International Trade Union Confederation, as well as NGOs including LDC Watch and Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, who were joined by household names like Oxfam, WWF and Greenpeace.

«This is why we made climate change awareness as one of the main objectives of our expedition,» said Pasang Lhamu, sharing her experience at a talk program hosted by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on Wednesday.

SciDev.Net: The interests of rich countries can seem to dominate climate change negotiations, but a study that models such talks as a «bargaining game» shows that side deals among poorer nations could boost chances of an international agreement.

Press Trust of India: India has told a high - powered summit on climate change convened by UN chief Ban ki - Moon that if the developed world «walks the talk», the international community can certainly achieve the targets it has set to tackle climate change.

The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAClimate Action Network - International (CAN - I).

One day before the scheduled conclusion of the international climate talks in Warsaw, hundreds of climate activists — including Friends of the Earth — have walked out in protest at the lack of ambition at the talks, and in solidarity with people affected by climate change.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

The «Paris Protocol» communication also published today is the European Commission's proposed position for the EU ahead of the United Nations climate talks in Paris in December where a new international climate change agreement is expected to be made.

Other nations will be watching the United States» actions on climate change ahead of international talks set for later this year.

A hellish vision of a world warmed by 4C within a lifetime has been set out by an international team of scientists, who say the agonisingly slow progress of the global climate change talks that restart in Mexico today makes the so - called safe limit of 2C impossible to keep.

Australia's official position at the international climate change talks is to have a range of ambition from a 5 per cent reduction in 1990 emissions by 2020, out to 25 per cent, depending on what other countries do.

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I don't think [the revised data] will affect the climate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to theclimate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to theClimate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to the talks.

As such, the U.S. should remain diplomatically engaged in international climate talks independent of the administration's position on climate change.

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Kumi Naidoo, director of Greenpeace International, said that «The Polish government has done its best to turn these talks into a showcase for the coal industry», and that «backsliding by Japan, Australia and Canada» was a «slap in the face to those suffering as a result of dangerous climate change» (i.e. nobody).

Barack Obama won't be attending the next round of international climate talks next month in Poland, nor is he in Los Angeles today for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's conference on climate change.

Today, on International Human Rights Day, Friends of the Earth joined thousands of people on the streets of Lima, Peru, where the United Nations climate talks are taking place, to highlight the injustice which links climate change and human rights.

I'm talking to Shell International's climate change team but this approach will do equally for the new foundation as it's only one step or so off Shell's equivalent of a board level.

As international climate talks resume in Bonn today, two months after climate scientists warned of climate - change - related risks from extreme events, leaders of the G7 are meeting in Brussels to discuss topics including the Ukraine, climate and energy.

With climate change talks running into their second week, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued a statement directed to the negotiators, warning that its analysis «shows achieving the internationally agreed climate goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius is becoming more difficult and more expensive with every passing year».

Today, I plan to talk about the state of climate science, the Federal Government's evolving international position and the emerging security issues associated with climate change.

The plan is a crucial part of President Barack Obama's overall strategy for combating climate change, and its stalling could undermine promises America made during recent international climate talks held in Paris — although, of course, the White House says things will be fine.

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«The R - 20 is a global coalition committed to fast tracking the development of clean technologies, climate resilient projects and green investment, and influencing national and international policies,» according to a Governors» Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in Decemberclimate resilient projects and green investment, and influencing national and international policies,» according to a Governors» Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in DecemberClimate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in Decemberclimate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in December, 2008.

This was our question to a panel of international journalists, as we led the opening session of the second annual climate communications day at the UN climate change talks in Doha.

The Guardian is reporting that's what's being proposed by 50 of the world's least developed countries in the latest round of UN climate change talks in Bonn: The compulsory levy would generate an estimated $ 10 billion per year, and according to the Danish environment and energy minister would be matched by a surcharge on all international shipping fuel.

The United Nations» Paris climate talks are less than six months away, and have been widely described as our best chance for an international agreement to curb the effects of global climate change.

India has been obstructing progress on international climate talks, culminating during the two weeks of U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations that ended Saturday in climate talks, culminating during the two weeks of U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations that ended Saturday in Climate Change negotiations that ended Saturday in Warsaw.