Sentences with phrase «seek global agreement»

«While we continue to work internationally to seek a global agreement on reducing aviation emissions, each country must take action domestically,» the chancellor said in his pre-Budget report (PBR) statement today.

Although there are many countries other than the United States that have frequently failed to respond to what justice would require of them to reduce the threat of climate change, the United States, perhaps more than any other country, has gained a reputation in the international community for its consistent unwillingness to commit to serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions during the over two decades that world has been seeking a global agreement on how to respond to climate change.

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Abe will seek to secure that exemption, and urge Trump to ensure the stability of the global economy through clear policies and more multilateral agreements.

The Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

Tull, who will remain chairman and chief executive officer of Legendary, has been seeking to expand in Asia with Legendary East and in 2013 signed an agreement with China Film Co. to jointly produce large - scale films for global audiences, such as «The Great Wall,» which will star Matt Damon.

In a partnership hoped to be the first of many similar agreements, the companies seek to create a «country champions» system to compete with Uber's singular global growth.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

But while Monster Energy represents a seismic shift from how NASCAR typically engaged consumers — new and old alike — the company's approach to marketing is also precisely what NASCAR sought when it entered into a two - year agreement with Monster to serve as its Cup Series title sponsor, Steve Phelps, NASCAR's executive vice president and chief global sales and marketing officer, told SB Nation.

The joint agreement also seeks more frequent reports from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Financial Stability Forum on threats to global economy and, in a bid to «improve transparency of markets», calls on the IMF to «strengthen and clarify» its responsibility towards the overseeing of macro financial stability.

As global leaders gather in Paris seeking a much - anticipated agreement to keep global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, nations face increasing pressure to reduce emissions and contribute to decarbonizing the global economy.

New projections by researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Liverpool, and the Australian National University in Canberra, could be the catalyst the world has sought to determine how best to meet its obligations to reduce carbon emissions and better manage global warming as defined by the Paris Agreement.

What it means: Unlike the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 climate pact that sought to force specific pollution reductions on certain countries, but failed to do virtually anything to slow global warming — the hoped - for Paris agreement would see nations taking voluntary steps to stem greenhouse gas pollution.

Through an agreement of cooperation between ZMT and the International Ocean Institute (IOI), with each contributing its respective expertise and channels, it is expected that a global network can be created going beyond science, seeking a comprehensive approach to addressing ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social sciences, economics, and legal elements addressing education, training and research.

The actions announced today by the chief executives of the four counties are in alignment with the state of Hawaiʻi's recent commitment to the goals of the Paris Agreement that seeks to reduce GHG emissions and keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

A key starting point for the conduct of global negotiations under the U.N. system is that delegations are actively seeking an agreement that will meaningfully address the problem at hand.

And then there will be the major economies leader meeting in July — that's the one I'll be going to — where we will seek agreement on a long - term global goal for emissions reductions, as well as an agreement on how national plans will be part of the post-2012 approach.

Negotiators would then seek a binding global agreement in 2010, complete with firm emission targets, enforcement mechanisms and specific dollar amounts to aid poorer nations.

The announcement comes at a critical time as the world's governments seek to finalize a global agreement under the Montreal Protocol to phase down all hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).

The Paris agreement seeks no less than a peaking of greenhouse - gas emissions «as soon as possible» and a de-carbonized global economy within the second half of the century.

President Obama and other world leaders will attend to discuss the urgent problem of climate change, seeking common ground in preparation for a «meaningful global agreement in 2015.»

The Paris Agreement is a milestone agreement within a cooperative system of global governance in which organizations like NATO, the United Nations and the European Union play key roles — a system which some of President Trump's key advisers seek to uAgreement is a milestone agreement within a cooperative system of global governance in which organizations like NATO, the United Nations and the European Union play key roles — a system which some of President Trump's key advisers seek to uagreement within a cooperative system of global governance in which organizations like NATO, the United Nations and the European Union play key roles — a system which some of President Trump's key advisers seek to undermine.

Last month, leaders from nearly 175 nations formally signed the Paris climate agreement, which seeks to limit the change in global average temperatures to «well below» 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels (a change of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Although there is considerable scientific evidence that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C is necessary to prevent very dangerous warming, a fact implicit in the recent Paris Agreement in which nations agreed to work to keep warming as close as possible from exceeding 1.5 degrees C additional warming, if the international community seeks to limit warming to 2 degrees C it must assure that global emissions do not exceed the number of tons of CO2 emissions that will raise atmospheric concentrations to levels that will cause warming of 2 degrees C.

The Paris Agreement on mitigating climate change seeks to limit emissions with the goal of holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 C above preindustrial levels while also pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 C.

This latest report was made at the conclusion of these negotiations during which almost no progress was made in defining equity under UNFCCC by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Durban Platform For Enhanced Action (ADP), a mechanism under the UNFCCC that seeks to achieve a adequate global climate agreement, despite a growing consensus among most observers of the UNFCCC negotiations that nations need to align their emissions reductions commitments to levels required of them by equity and justice if the world is going to prevent extremely dangerous climate change.

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

His Administration has worked tirelessly to derail international agreements on climate change and sought to put narrow US economic interests above global climatic stability.»

Some concluded from the failure in Copenhagen that it was time to give up on the entire U.N. - sponsored process for seeking an international agreement to reduce both global - warming pollution and deforestation.

Even as the Trump Administration seeks to weaken the US response to global warming, however, there are a number of sub-national and private sector efforts emerging to reduce emissions, usher in an era of renewable energy, and honor the Paris Agreement commitments.

The Community and its Member States shall continue to seek an agreement on global measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aviation.

Officially announced on May 23rd by the Digital Currency Group and 56 other companies, the SegWit2x proposal seeks to activate the Segregated Witness update at an 80 % threshold, with the agreement being supported by more than 83 % of the global Bitcoin mining power.

Antpool, the biggest mining pool in the Bitcoin ecosystem with over 14 % of the global hashrate, has mined its first SegWit2x block today, signaling approval for the ambitious scaling agreement that seeks to implement the SegWit soft fork and a subsequent hard fork to increase block size capacity to 2 MB.