Sentences with phrase «real global progress»

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

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While this ambitious global pursuit by China is being closely monitored, the first thing we need to see is some real progress in market reforms that conform to World Trade Organization (WTO) ethics.

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«We have yet to make real progress in turning the world toward decreasing CO2 emissions,» says the study's co-author Chris Field, director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif. «A greater buildup of CO2 means more warming.»

There has been little real progress since the failure of the 2009 talks in Copenhagen, and the Global Carbon Project's latest report suggested global emissions are consistent with the worst of four scenarios — threatening up to 5 °C of warming byGlobal Carbon Project's latest report suggested global emissions are consistent with the worst of four scenarios — threatening up to 5 °C of warming byglobal emissions are consistent with the worst of four scenarios — threatening up to 5 °C of warming by 2100.

Teachers will benefit from digital participation in communities of practice with global reach and from dashboards that actively display real - time data regarding their students» progress.»

If things continue to progress this way there's a real possibility that Amazon might end up overtaking Samsung for the second position in the global tablet market.

A global climate strategy, for instance, will only work in the real world if it takes into account the glaring energy gap that hinders progress for the world's poorest billion or two.

And there are real questions about the future of global progress against deprivation unless we deal with issues of sustainable development and the global commons.

From ridiculous and patently false claims that global warming has slowed, that the world can't be warming because winter still exists, that (seriously) plants like carbon dioxide so we're just feeding them; these people's only purpose is to slow any real progress on fixing the planetary mess we're in.

With a single, streamlined certification process that reduces costs and complexity, Gold Standard for the Global Goals will assess the impact of project activities toward the Sustainable Development Goals» targets and indicators, allowing demonstration of real progress toward meeting the ambition of the 2030 global development aGlobal Goals will assess the impact of project activities toward the Sustainable Development Goals» targets and indicators, allowing demonstration of real progress toward meeting the ambition of the 2030 global development aglobal development agenda.

What we really want is much more clarity on effective policy responses — with a focus on the real issues of global economic progress and environmental protection.

Further that such little observational data that we have, indicates that the effect of adding more CO2 to the atmosphere with respect to global temperatures, is somewhere between very small and negligible, then we would be making real progress.

We can't make any progress on the real and potentially devastating effects of global warming until we have politicians who understand it and take it seriously.

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.

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Now this isn't really news to readers of Climate Progress or Real Climate (here and here) or William Connolley, but the global cooling nonsense is still the most common way people dismiss global warming to me.

One of my favorite sayings is that «years from now, environmentalists will look back on the current obsession with global warming and say that it did incredible harm to real environmental progress.»