Sentences with phrase «of international climate talks»

It's based on the goal of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius (global average) above preindustrial conditions, which has been the target of international climate talks.

The U.S. isn't leaving the agreement until 2020, which means it still has a seat at the table of international climate talks.

As latest round of international climate talks kicks off in Bonn, UN seeks to highlight progress being made around the world to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

The turmoil over the United States» climate and energy policies under the Trump administration could slow the push to cap global warming, but it won't derail the effort, according to policy experts and climate advocates gathered in Germany for the latest round of international climate talks.

The Obama administration announced Monday that 81 major companies have committed to large reductions in carbon emissions, part of a broad push by the White House to show progress ahead of international climate talks in Paris this year.

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.

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.

The U.S. delegation's only event at the past round of international climate talks was a panel promoting fossil fuels.

Even as the IEA's new data was released nations were finishing up another round of international climate talks in Bonn, Germany.

The moves are being made ahead of the next round of international climate talks, which kick off in Lima, Peru, on 1 December.

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The less - justified reason is that it became a very convenient political target for the larger international climate activism movement at a time of despair coming out of the [2009] Copenhagen climate talks, that Kyoto was dead and there might not be a successor.

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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

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.

As someone working somewhere in the midst of that nexus of «science, values, ethics and politics» you describe (economics, international relations, technology... the climate policy list goes on), I do recognise what you're talking about, but I really don't see that we should very much care.

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

He agrees with other scientists who think that the U.S. must begin a series of talks with the European Commission and the European Space Agency as well as with counterparts in India, China and Japan to find a way to develop an international climate observing system.

These emails have the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks [the U.N. conference in Durban, South Africa, next week].

«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.

The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks to culminate in an agreement could cost the world «at least $ 1 trillion», according to this year's flagship report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Indonesia's previous president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, pledged ahead of the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 26 percent by 2020, or by 41 percent with international financial backing.

Byass, who co-authored one of the papers, observed that previous international climate talks focused more on economic issues relating to development, curbing emissions and spreading the cost burden.

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.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

Yu Qingtai, China's lead negotiator in climate talks from 2007 through the tumultuous conference in Copenhagen last December, recently gave a blunt speech at the Bejing University School of International Studies on climate, diplomacy and the balance of national and global interests in limiting global warming.

On the international stage, high - level talks lead to the establishment of a Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) during the World Climate Conference 3 (WCC3) in Geneva 2009.

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.

But it could demonstrate leadership, both to the American middle class and the international community preparing for talks aimed at forging a global climate agreement at the end of the year in Paris.

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

He spoke those words as he accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in talks and tours centered on climate and energy on the China leg of her first international trip as part of the Obama administration.

At the same time, climate talks have become a kind of umbrella for just about every international energy and development cause that failed to gain the long - term traction its adherents sought.

Pfeffer talked to me from Washington, where he'll be spending the next year working on improving the interface between climate science and policy at the State Department or Agency for International Development as a Jefferson Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

They have been criticized by environmentalists as an end run around the international climate talks aimed at drafting a new treaty on climate by the end of 2009.

[UPDATE, 8/6: China's lead envoy in climate - treaty talks expressed optimism that a new international agreement on climate will be negotiated this year, but stressed that there is no chance his country will accept hard targets for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.]

Corporate efforts to mitigate the impact of carbon emissions from their direct operations and supply chains are gaining increasing prominence in the lead - up to the international climate talks that begin on November 30th in Paris, France.

However, international chatter ahead of the climate talks have expressed low expectations for any binding agreement.

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.

This is a critical step towards limiting warming and the single biggest climate action of the year, just weeks before leaders meet in Morocco for international climate talks.

* Friends of the Earth International spokespeople are available throughout the COP23 climate talks in Bonn.

Singh has been involved with international climate negotiations since the UN climate talks in Bali in 2007 and has served as part of the negotiating team of the government of Maldives at the climate talks from 2009 to 2012.

More resources: Ozone Secretariat CAN Briefing Paper: Achieving an ambitious outcome on HFC Phasedown under the Montreal Protocol in 2016 (Climate Action Network International) Momentum growing for HFC agreement as Vienna talks kick - off (Natural Resources Defense Council) Primer on HFCs (Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development) The importance of ambition in the 2016 HFC phase - down agreement (Environmental Investigation Agency)

The biggest decision — a binding international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions — is likely to be pushed off until next December, when another round of climate talks are scheduled for Mexico City.

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).