Sentences with phrase «possibility of a global deal»

The conference comes on the heels of recent optimism about the possibility of a global deal, thanks to a November agreement on emissions reductions by the U.S. and China, the world's top emitters of greenhouse gases.

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The second lecture deals with the impacts of climate change (with a focus on extreme events and sea - level rise) and the possibilities for holding global warming below 2 °C.
Many GW savvy people around the world are now focusing on the possibility of runaway GW, now that knowledge and proof of «regular» global warming is a done deal.
Though the grand exercise of managing expectations regarding the possibility of actually getting a global climate deal signed at the COP15 talks has been going on for a couple months now, here are the latest examples
The other thing that I think is really important to watch is the possibility of a climate deal with China, and that could be really, really important, because you've basically got the two climate change superpowers finally coming together on this, and if they created some kind of an agreement to limit emissions, even that could have the de facto effect of creating a global carbon price.
Distorting subsidies not only do damage economic now, they strangle any possibility of dealing logically with new challenges like resource depletion and global warming.
To my mind the possibility, which certainly has a great deal of at least circumstantial evidence behind it, that humans are causing global warming is enough to suggest that we should cease the behaviors that have the potential of destroying our planet.
The film portrays Monckton single - handedly attacking the entire global scientific establishment, sabotaging any possibility of climate legislation in the USA, and thereby demolishing any possible global deal on emissions - reduction through the UNFCCC process.
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