Sentences with phrase «on climate action»

This set the stage for more progress on climate action across a wide spectrum of areas.

As leaders on climate action they are also well positioned to influence policy makers.

The time is right for companies around the world to demonstrate leadership on climate action by aligning corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reduction targets with climate science.

Our new five - session discussion course on climate action will help you take action to increase resilience and mitigate the impacts of climate change.

But while the biomass directive makes a minor appearance, it also makes it easier for our leaders to keep dragging their feet on climate action.

But on the climate action plan there's certainly a lot of opportunity for improvement.

Even if the latest talks won't be enough to meet that 2 °C goal, they note, building forward momentum on climate action is worthwhile in its own right.

They desperately need to prove they haven't sold out their nation's future with their attacks on climate action.

So far, local and city governments across countries have developed a voluntary cooperation on climate action while staying within the nationally determined climate policy.

In reality, an eight year delay on climate action would be accompanied by cuts to renewable energy research that could in turn harm emissions reductions rates.

There's a lot I'm hearing that's concerning about climate change, about the rolling back of progress we've made on climate action.

We are seeing a new corporate model emerge that is pushing faster on climate action than almost anyone thought possible.

There's no reason to think that the assault on climate action won't continue in 2018.

The benefits, indeed, the necessity of partnering and collaborating on climate action is increasingly being recognized.

But this is the closest it's come to outright advocacy on climate action.

Clearly, the choice of location is an ironic one for a group with so little to say on climate action.

This widespread rollout of climate policy is a growing cause for optimism as it's a key gauge for tracking progress on climate action.

More companies are committed to leadership on climate action than at any time in history.

If you haven't yet participated in our newest discussion course on climate action, now is the time!

Its outcome will inform Parties in updating and enhancing their actions and support and enhancing international cooperation on climate action.

And between now and December, all countries must use a number of key moments to ramp up political pressure, including at the Petersberg Dialogue and Ministerial on Climate Action in June, the UN General Assembly in September and the World Bank / IMF Annual Meetings in October.

@lindsayiversen weighs if China can assume global lead on climate action if #POTUSTrump pulls U.S. back.

The Petersburg Dialogue in Berlin and the Ministerial on Climate Action meeting in Brussels, held back - to - back in mid-June, are excellent opportunities for ministers to start providing some of that leadership.

«The Paris Agreement is a testament to the broad international consensus on climate action.

«It's awfully good to see the president starting to move forward on climate action — after the hottest year in American history, it's appropriate that the White House would move to act.

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CLIMATECOIN, Solvay, US Climate Leadership Council, CDP and Deutsche Bank were some of the financial industry representatives who challenged the traditional financial system to shift focus on climate action through innovative financial instruments and services, such as cryptocurrencies and green bonds.

A good place to start: the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and its anti-social and anti-business stance on climate action.

[Translate] By Justin Catanoso, NEWSMONGABAY.COM Kaisa Kosonen, a political advisor on climate action for Greenpeace in Germany is...

As a leader among emerging economies and a country committed to the Paris Agreement, Argentina must leverage progress on climate action by promoting a development model that is compatible with the long - term goals of the Paris Agreement by phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

A strong agreement on climate action in Paris could accelerate the global transition to clean energy.

«After winning the Colossal Fossil award — given to the country doing the most damage to climate talks in a given year — five years in a row, Canada is in a league of its own for its total lack of credibility on climate action,» said Christian Holz, Executive Director of Climate Action Network Canada.

«A climate change response must have at its heart a REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH and resources,» Emma Brindal, a «climate justice campaign coordinator» for Friends of the Earth Australia, wrote Wednesday on the Climate Action Network's blog.

[UPDATE, 7/9: Please see the new post on the joint statement of developing and developed countries on climate action.]

The Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group organized a letter to the G20 and EU Finance Ministers urging them to play an active role in supporting the negotiations and 421 companies have committed to leadership on climate action through the We Mean Business coalition, including several partners of the WWF Climate Savers programme.

I very much doubt the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report will move the needle on climate action because of its inadequacies; because the media has scaled back climate coverage and let go of its best climate reporters; and because the fossil fuel funded disinformation campaign will try to exploit those first two problems to make it seem like this report gives us less to worry about, when it simply underscores what we have known for a quarter - century.

Scientists expressed concern that the oil and gas regulations will fail to do anything meaningful on climate change given the federally - allowed expansion of oil sands developments, and the long history of broken promises on climate action.

Trembath said the agreement is a model for international collaboration on climate action that reduces our collective carbon footprint without the geopolitical hassle of a legally binding global treaty.

Now it's up to ministers and heads of state to fill these vessels with increased ambition on climate action, so as to close the substantial gap between the commitments countries have put forward to reduce their emissions and the much higher level of ambition needed to meet the temperature limitation goals established in the Paris Agreement.

While there is a significant improvement on climate action globally, despite US rollbacks, President Trump's announced intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, has led to a significant deterioration in the effect of Paris Agreement commitments (NDCs)-- by about 0.3 °C.

America remains a serious laggard on climate action.

The current level of spending on climate action in 2014 - 2016 was only 17.6 percent of the budget, meaning that the EU would have to increase spending to 22 percent from 2017 to 2020, it said.

The aim of the Ban Ki - moon summit is to build momentum on climate action at the highest level.

Kaisa Kosonen, a political advisor on climate action for Greenpeace in Germany is prepping for the mid-year United Nations climate conference in Bonn, running May 8 - 18.

«Building on our climate action forum, the initiatives announced today will reduce greenhouse emissions and strengthen state environmental commitments.»

The Cancun text also obliges developing countries to report their national emissions every two years as well as on their climate actions and the results in terms of emission avoidance.

Even though this is a very conservative member of Congress, this staff person did not give us an negative push back on climate action.