Sentences with phrase «promising global accord»

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During his campaign, Trump also called global warming a hoax and promised to quit a global accord to cut greenhouse gas emissions, though he has since softened his stance and said he is keeping an «open mind» about the deal.

Some big American coal companies have advised President Donald Trump's administration to break his promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement — arguing that the accord could provide their best forum for protecting their global interests.

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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.

«Medi - spas,» which promise the pampering of a spa with the expertise of a doctors office, have grown in number by more than 50 percent since 2006, according to SpaFinder, which reports on the global spa industry.

Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out - of - School Children, released today during the Education World Forum.

Leeds Global Partners, the New York firm that helped reorganize the Education Department «and create policies and procedures that promote student achievement in Connecticut» says it has only been paid half of the $ 200,000 it was promised by the state, according to the complaint.»

The growth of alternative fuel vehicles is promising, according to J.D. Power and Associates, the global market research firm.

According to a presentation given by Packaged Facts at last month's Global Pet Expo, the term «natural» was the number - one marketing claim made by new pet products introduced over the past year; and while a great many of these products do deliver on this promise, there is also a lot of «green - washing» going on.

According to a report at the time by Sovereignty International, Professor Robert Watson, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was asked in a press briefing in 1997 about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man - induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences.

The Paris accord confirmed the commitment of global leaders to limit dangerous warming to below 2 °C but also promised to pursue an even stricter 1.5 °C target, adding more pressure for companies, investors and regulators to act.