Sentences with phrase «of international climate negotiations»

International agreements to share the burden and the benefits of developing better and cheaper low - carbon energy technologies will represent the central focus of international climate negotiations.
The latest round of international climate negotiations concluded last week in Bonn, Germany.
«Instead, we risk significant fines for missing EU targets as well as considerable reputational damage in view of the international climate negotiations in Paris at the end of this year» said Sorley McCaughey, head of policy and advocacy at Christian Aid.
For the first time in the 25 - year history of international climate negotiations, the 197 member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have reached an agreement on agriculture.
The Carbon Brief recently published a fantastic article explaining the implications of «net zero» climate targets in the context of international climate negotiations.
The collapse of international climate negotiations in Copenhagen last month was just the latest evidence that efforts to regulate global pollution output can not succeed.
Ahead of international climate negotiations in Paris at the end of this year, the Obama administration announced a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions each year by 26 percent by 2025, compared to 2005 levels.
Many of these techniques have also been part of international climate negotiations as far back as the Kyoto Protocol.
The most recent milestone of international climate negotiations was the development of the «Bali Action Plan» at COP13 last year.
A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.
Climate finance is an ethical, moral, and legal obligation, and an essential component of international climate negotiations.
Having been the totem of international climate negotiations for the past 40 years, it seems unlikely that the two degrees target will simply fade away post-2015.
With another round of international climate negotiations opening this week in Warsaw, Poland, and a new poll finding Canadians wanting leadership on the issue, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative government have an opportunity to turn the tides on what has been so far a policy trend in the wrong direction.
He can lead climate policy development by using existing authority and can ensure that the U.S. has a strong position going into the next round of international climate negotiations.
If such monitoring system is to be accepted by the international community as a bona fide action in the context of international climate negotiations, it must be transparent, accurate and reliable, in line with international standards and accompanied by a system of third - party verification.
The goal of international climate negotiations is «to avoid dangerous atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.»
But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.
When it was pointed out how radical it was to advocate binding caps on emissions given the history of the international climate negotiations, Hu responded philosophically, in reference to his own experience in policy advocacy on various issues over the years:
The world's bishops have a clear message for world leaders set, in barely a month, to enter the latest and perhaps most significant round of international climate negotiations: Get the deal done in Paris.
On Dec. 11, another round of international climate negotiations, sponsored by the United Nations, concluded in Cancún.
Carbon Brief has been talking to a range of people attending COP23, the latest annual round of international climate negotiations being held this year... Read More
A key question for the upcoming rounds of the international climate negotiations, particularly when countries review their climate commitments next year, is exactly how fast would we have to cut emissions to reach these goals?
This week's meeting is the first to embody the Talanoa Dialogues, an approach led by Fiji to rethink the process of international climate negotiations.
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