Sentences with phrase «on international climate agreements»

The controversy associated with our chapter on international climate agreements resulted in that entire section of the SPM being eviscerated of all meaningful substance at the Government Approval Sessions for Working Group III (WG III) in Berlin in April, 2014.

(On this, please see the work of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.)

Senator Barrasso is concerned that the CIA will be wasting time watching weather patterns rather than capturing terrorists, but the CIA insists that the office won't be duplicating the function of other government offices and that the research will be used to advise negotiators as they work on international climate agreements, aka Copenhagen.

The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

[See the extensive work in this area of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.]

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

As I write this, I'm on board a flight from Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco, California, on my way home to Boston, having spent the week of Harvard spring break meeting with senior government officials, academics, and leaders of civil society in Tokyo and Seoul on behalf of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.

The Project on International Climate Agreements at Harvard's Belfer Center has been churning out important work, including a recent paper on the value of an agreement for sequestering carbon in forests.

If you're interested in some of the research, please see the Web site of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.

Another valuable discussion of ways to foster effective international cooperation on climate is under way just down the Charles River from M.I.T., at the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements.

In March national delegations are set to start the final set of negotiations on an international climate agreement.

Not exact matches

He described the reversal of American policy on international agreements, including Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, as «insane.»

It's a logical and smart move: all three have made climate action a priority at home and abroad, and in light of the international climate agreement reached in Paris last year, it makes sense to work together on this crucial issue.

Deadlines are looming and the stakes are high this week, as international negotiators in Bonn get to work on the implementation details that will give life to the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and inagreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and inAgreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

Last month she gave only a soft slap on the wrist to Trump's reckless act: but with her international reputation in the balance, she must publicly show that on climate change she has far more in common with the rest of the world than with Donald Trump and join other leaders in defending and advancing the Paris Agreement.»

On the program's launch, Vinexpo CEO Guillaume Deglise said, «The industry's key decision - makers are now in Bordeaux to address the most important topics affecting our shared interests, from the economy to e-commerce, international agreements and climate change.

But a new chapter in the international climate change negotiations begins this year — and could be a unique moment in efforts to craft international agreement on how the world will collectively attempt to slow global climate change.

No one knows what President Trump will seek to do to international trade agreements, to immigration laws, to the United States» network of bilateral and collective defence agreements, to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, to the fragile condition of race relations in the United States, or to the Affordable Care Act.

Tony Blair is to lead a team of international experts seeking to find the right international agreement on climate change.

With little progress on an international climate change agreement, state and municipal governments worldwide are coming together to address the issue.

The legally binding international Agreement on climate change, among others, addresses issues of global warming, including its impact on food security and agriculture.

The IMO process differs from the international climate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasclimate talks conducted under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case lasClimate Change in that a simple majority can forge an agreement — as was the case last week.

And the lame - duck Clinton appeared to still be optimistic that a climate deal would eventually be ratified by two - thirds of the Senate — a hurdle that has come to be viewed as impossibly high, even for international agreements on less contentious topics.

Hydrogen is «a highly flexible energy vector and energy carrier capable of serving as a weapon against climate change in a future, integrated multi-sector energy system,» said Mary - Rose de Valladares, manager of the International Energy Administration Hydrogen Implementing Agreement, which is developing a comprehensive road map on the production and utilization of hydrogen due for release early next year.

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

«I think we all realize they are not perfect,» said Maite Nkoana - Mashabane, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation and President of the Durban U.N. Climate Change Conference late on the night of December 10, referring to the proposed agreements when the outcome was still in doubt.

That will depend in large part on the success of the international climate agreement adopted in Paris in December, which calls for keeping warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — through an array of individual fossil fuel reduction targets.

Last December's agreement in Bali to launch a two - year negotiation on climate change was good news, a rare example of international cooperation in a world seemingly stuck in a spiral of conflict.

Robert Watson, an atmospheric chemist at the University of East Anglia in the United Kindgdom, is being honored for his studies of the ozone hole and work toward an international agreement to ban the use of the chemicals causing ozone depletion; he later chaired the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

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The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

Thus BiK - F is helping to implement international agreements, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the EU Habitats Directive, the EU Water Framework Directive and the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, through the provision of scientific services and expert opinions to various stakeholders in society.

International cooperation on climate - safe technologies and building capacity in the developing world to address climate change are also significantly strengthened under the new agreement.

Responding to legislation, executive action, and international agreements on climate change, DOT aims to secure economic and social benefits of transportation while reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Subsidy reform has been an important international policy agenda, especially ever since the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change that called on countries to reduce emissions.

He made his points after joining a panel organized by Unicef to explore the need for any new international climate agreement to consider how decisions on flows of greenhouse gases or money affect people, particularly the poorest communities and least enabled sectors of society (women and children).

But the long speech was mainly focused on Indonesia itself and had a chiding tone that I can't see doing anything to further Kerry's goal of leading efforts to craft a new international climate agreement by late 2015.

On Saturday, diplomats announced a new international agreement aimed at phasing out a family of climate - warming compounds called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.

«We think the time has come for the international community to alter its collective climate strategy, cease the search for the impossible all - encompassing top - down agreement — described unattractively as «burden sharing» — and instead encourage an approach that builds on national self - interest and spurs a race to the top in low - carbon energy solutions.

In the first comprehensive international report on Antarctica's climate, there was strong agreement that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will contribute substantially to the ongoing rise in sea levels in a warming world, while increased snowfall in the interior could offset the contribution somewhat.

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.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

One also has to wonder whether the international treaties and organizations needed to agree on and execute a geoengineering scheme are significantly easier to realize than the agreements needed to decarbonize the energy future, which would offer safer and more durable climate protection.

• The Bali Roadmap charts the course for a new negotiating process to be concluded by 2009 that will lead to a post-2012 international agreement on climate change.

Field is listed on the Global Warming Petition Project calling for the U.S. to reject international global warming agreements, while claiming there is «no convincing evidence» that manmade greenhouse gases will disrupt the earth's climate.

[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.]