The tense two weeks of negotiations in Copenhagen — preceded by an intense
year of international negotiations once the Obama administration came into office — resulted in the creation of the Copenhagen Accord.
That approach contrasts with the strategy tried, in vain, under two
decades of international negotiations aimed at building a comprehensive and binding treaty, and, in the United States, a lost decade aimed at passing a «comprehensive» climate bill.
In announcing the State Department's decision to reject the permit application for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, President Obama focused on how this decision fits into the broader
context of international negotiations on climate change.
«Whatever's China's position on the world stage in
respect of international negotiations on climate change, what they have got is a very clear robust set of five - year plans and the ability to deliver them.»
Yet, more than a decade of inaction — and the collapse
of international negotiations as well as domestic efforts to cap carbon — has proven the perils of the business.
After years of petroleum industry subsidies,
foiling of international negotiation, virtual non-support of alternative energy R&D, and ugh, the Iraq war I guess we can call the goal of slowing greenhouse gas emmissions «full circle.»
This is the only formal
round of international negotiations between the Paris climate summit last December and the forthcoming climate summit in Marrakech, Morocco (COP22) in November.
This undignified
ending of international negotiations looked like an heroic gesture: exhausted officials and environmental activists trying desperately to prevent the Armageddon that looms over us.
Read / Purchase the Report Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements (2010) Agreements to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are currently the
focus of international negotiations, and with such accords will come the need to accurately estimate these emissions, monitor their changes over time, and verify them with independent data.
Therefore, by 30 June 2010, the Commission will carry out an in - depth assessment of the situation of energy - intensive industry and the risk of carbon leakage, in the light of the
outcome of the international negotiations and also taking into account any binding sectoral agreements that may have been concluded.
After nearly 20
years of international negotiations, 191 countries are positioned to adopt a global market - based measure (GMBM) to address emissions growth from international aviation during a two - week aviation summit in Montreal from 27 September to 7 October, 2016.