Sentences with phrase «progress on climate»

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.

There was minimal progress on climate finance for developing countries, with several European countries making pledges totaling US$ 6 billion over the next three years.

Until this question is resolved, there will be no scientific progress on climate change.

BONN, 12 November 2017 — As thousands meet at the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference to discuss progress on implementing the Paris Agreement, a new report released today has found that over 100 of the world's state and regional governments are making significant progress on climate action — particularly in the short - term.

We're not sure if specific energy issues will come up, but even if energy isn't mentioned by name, the need for secure, reliable, affordable energy pervades a host of issues likely to dominate the debate — much as they've been central to discussions around the country involving races up and down the ballot — issues such as economic revival and strength, jobs, U.S. security in the world and others, including progress on climate.

If support for Green parties is to be broadened — and to make progress on climate change it has to be — then tolerance for new viewpoints from new allies will have to broaden, too.

The obstacle to progress on climate issues remains leadership.

It is widely held that a major progress on climate finance is necessary for success in the Paris COP this December (see, for example, this statement by French President Francois Hollande, and Mueller makes the point himself).

It should really cheer you up if you're frustrated with the lack of visible progress on climate action.

FINALLY some reasonable progress on Climate Change.

During his time in office, Obama has made modest progress on climate issues.

The illusion has stifled real progress on climate talks almost since they began in 1992, but it started losing its grip two years ago, on a frigid morning in Warsaw, when negotiators abandoned the quixotic quest for a one - size - fits - all, top - down agreement like the failed Kyoto Protocol and aimed instead for a global framework within which countries can embed their own unique climate action plans.

But together they become something more — elevating the individual policy measures that have characterized this administration's approach to clean energy into a single overarching framework to help guide the federal government in making progress on climate and energy,» said Bracken Hendricks.

In addition to making progress on climate finance methodologies, the «parties» in Paris should clarify that the promised $ 100 billion is to be made up of grants and grant - equivalents, with developed countries agreeing to yearly commitments through 2020 to meet this target in full.

The People's Climate March represents a significant global turning point, but to make meaningful progress on climate, we'll all have to continue moving forward!

He suggests ways India can address risk and make progress on climate and development.

But that strategy got harder as the power of the right wing grew; for 25 years, they've been unable to win significant progress on climate change.

We are already making real progress on climate change.

Contrary to all our modern instincts, then, political progress on climate change requires not more scientific input into politics, but less.

Their dwindling but still powerful movement seeks to stall progress on climate action by persuading the public that the science on the issue remains unsettled.

Indeed, as New York magazine's Jonathon Chait points out, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions such as an economywide price on carbon.

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

That would give President Barack Obama some progress on climate to show off in Copenhagen, Denmark, where world leaders will discuss what to do about global warming, but leave a final push in the Senate for early 2010.

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) called it a «good first step» that would pave the way for progress on climate and energy legislation.

When it comes to making actual progress on climate through the reduction of carbon emissions, basically there are two groups: talkers and doers.

Given that the political sphere has not made sufficient progress on climate change, will the business world be able to instigate radical gains in moving the world closer to a carbon neutral economy?

The Paris deal has laid the foundations for real global progress on climate change.

If you are interested in real progress on climate and clean energy, oppose SB 5735.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

In the final years of the Obama presidency, despite the attention generated by McKibben and Steyer's campaign strategies, the most significant progress on climate change may occur by way of a traditional insider legal strategy with roots dating to the 1970 Clean Air Act.

Indeed, to the extent that the Obama administration has been able to make substantive progress on climate change, it has been through a combination of smaller scale, less politically visible approaches like fuel efficiency standards or EPA rules, rather than pushing for society - transforming solutions like an economy - wide price on carbon.25

Katie Ross is an Associate with WRI's Climate Program, where she supports the development of research and information products for the Open Climate Network — an independent partnership of policy institutes from around the world that aims to track national progress on climate change.

-LSB-...] of course, served with great distinction in the Obama Administration where, among other things, Summers helped sabotage progress on Climate Change mitigation (much as he had undermined Global Warming mitigation efforts in the Clinton Administration).

The importance of public demonstrations of frustration at both the lack of political progress on climate change and the barriers presented by vested interests is widely recognised — including by government itself.

... The Washington Independent» It's Good to Be Larry Summers... A decade later, will Summers again sabotage progress on Climate Change?

He added: In the U.S., progress on climate change has always been driven from the ground up, not the top down — and that's what we'll emphasize in Bonn».

In his lecture at Cambridge University's Solar Radiation Management Science 2015: Engineering the Climate, Duncan McLaren points out, ``... all discussion of geoengineering is a sign of our collective ethical failure to achieve adequate progress on climate mitigation.»

This is important, market - driven progress on climate, which API and its member companies consider an important issue for constructive engagement — engagement that also is seen in approximately $ 90 billion in oil and natural gas industry investments in zero - and low - emissions technologies since 2000, nearly as much as the federal government and more than twice that of the next largest industry sector.

One such example is a July 2016 article by Lawrence, Sovacool and Stirling with a press release claiming «Pro-nuclear countries «making slower progress on climate targets» http://nukespp.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/bias-leads-to-cherry-picking.html Co-author: Stirling is an ex-Greenpeace International board member.

A number of other bills have been introduced in the House and / or the Senate that could also slow progress on climate change or roll back environmental regulations.

Part of the problem: in many cases, the failed approaches and ideologies of years past are still limiting or outright stifling progress on climate and energy policy.

«We have seen unprecedented, historic and miraculous improvements,» she said of global progress on climate change, «but it's very fragile.»

With the public conversation hijacked, meaningful progress on climate policy is blunted and the vested interests seeking to maintain our current addition to fossil fuels prevail.

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At the same time, focusing on the multiple compelling reasons for improving nitrogen and phosphorus management may represent an opportunity to make progress on climate policy in ways that are less politically divisive.

As Obama delivers his State of the Union address, National Geographic takes stock of his progress on climate over the past year.

«What California's resolve shows is that even if progress on climate change and clean energy is stymied at the level of global governance or the nation - state, the subnationals can still move ahead to build a critical mass from below,» he wrote.

But many developing countries lack the tools to measure, report and verify progress on their climate commitments and actions.

I'm thrilled New York will support public projects like LED conversions to reduce costs, cut emissions, and continue our progress on climate change under Reforming the Energy Vision.»

The new paper's findings, helpfully unpacked here, cut against arguments of those who say flawed media coverage is a big factor impeding progress on climate policy.