Sentences with phrase «proposed global climate agreement»

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I hope that takes the form of an energy and climate «listening tour,» as I proposed early in 2011 — with the listening aimed at identifying the many points of agreement on energy efficiency and innovation that get lost in fights over global warming.

It's just one of several drastic measures proposed to combat global warming, now that most scientists are in agreement that carbon dioxide, primarily from burning fossil fuels, is changing Earth's climate.

However, the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme can not be regarded as consistent with the government's expressed goal of a global agreement to stabilize the climate.

Edward B. Barbier proposes creating a new Global Agreement on Biodiversity (GAB) modeled after the 2015 Paris Climate Change Accord.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.