Sentences with phrase «special climate envoy»

Now employed as a United Nations special climate envoy, Robinson — who was talking up the Paris UN climate summit scheduled for December — says that:

U.N. special climate envoy Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland on May 10, 2007 declared the climate debate «over» and added «it's completely immoral, even, to question» the U.N.'s scientific «consensus.»

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When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

«I can't imagine a scenario where U.S. companies are not in that game,» echoed U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing.

Xie Zhenhua, China's top special envoy, reiterated yesterday that his country's stance on the climate deal will «remain the same and unchanged,» no matter what the world's other economic superpower chooses to do.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a statement to ClimateWire: «At the upcoming meeting of their presidents, the United States and Brazil will address the broad range of bilateral issues that engage them.

That has meant steadily breaking down what U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has called the «firewall» between developed and developing countries.

Kerry will speak at the conference and author a summary document capturing its «key outcomes,» according to Karen Florini, deputy special envoy for climate change at the U.S. State Department.

«But mayors, as we know, have never waited for Washington to act here in the United States,» said Bloomberg, who is also the United Nations» special envoy for cities and climate change.

That was the message from James Steinberg, the United States's new deputy secretary of state, and Shyam Saran, the Indian Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Nuclear Issues and Climate Change, at an event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., today.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

«Parties understood exactly what was going on in the discussions in Durban about this new legal agreement,» said Todd Stern, the United States» special envoy for climate change.

The Obama administration will host a high - level meeting to discuss ways to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in annual international global warming assistance, State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern said in a recent speech.

That's when the first internal conversations began between U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's office and the White House, allowing Stern to say publicly in Warsaw that a post-2020 process was underway and lobby, successfully, for countries to formally unveil their targets during the first quarter of 2015 (ClimateWire, Nov. 18, 2013).

Peter Ogden, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former chief of staff to U.S. State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, DClimate Change Todd Stern, called the deal a sign of how far the the two countries have come since openly sparring at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Dclimate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern has said the United States» submission will be released by tomorrow.

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd D. Stern addresses the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw on Nov. 20Climate Change Todd D. Stern addresses the U.N. climate talks in Warsaw on Nov. 20climate talks in Warsaw on Nov. 20, 2013.

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Emily Seen, a special assistant in the office of the special envoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate special assistant in the office of the special envoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate special envoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate chenvoy for climate change, expressed her excitement to visit the wPOWER Hub at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in April 15, 2016 and share the work of the Special Envoy office towards combating climate Special Envoy office towards combating climate chEnvoy office towards combating climate change.

Todd Stern, the new United States special envoy on climate change, clearly understands the «bathtub effect» that experts say makes the rising human contribution to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect such a thorny challenge.

«The Time For Denial & Delay Is Over»: US Special Envoy for Climate Change

As the UN secretary - general's special envoy for cities and climate change, I encourage President Obama and Prime Minister Harper to engage in talks that can lead to an agreement that will benefit both our nations» economies and environments.

In an interview on Friday Todd D. Stern, President Obama's special envoy on climate change, said that one goal this time is to foster cooperative action and investment on «transformational technologies.»

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

Todd Stern, the newly created special envoy on climate change for the United States, will be with Mrs. Clinton in China.

At a news conference in Paris Tuesday evening, Todd D. Stern, the State Department special envoy on climate, and Michael Froman, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, answered questions from reporters based in Europe.

[UPDATE, 5 p.m.: Todd Stern, the United States special envoy on climate, sent his reaction late today.]

COPENHAGEN — Jonathan Pershing, the State Department deputy special envoy on climate change, represented the United States as climate talks opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

New Report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Pan African Climate Justice Alliance This week in Washington, DC, U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is organizing the Ministerial Meeting on Mobilizing Climate Finance.

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As we are now only 3 weeks away from crucial climate change negotiations in Bangkok (which will set the stage for this years 18th Conference of the Parties, in Doha), US Special Envoy on climate change — Todd Stern — has dropped a bit of a bomb during a speech at Dartmouth.

They could, for example, be used to promote sustainable agriculture practices that reduce pressure on forests, said Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy for Climate Change.

A high - level panel chaired by Farhana Yamin of Track 0 and featuring Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, and Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice President & Special Envoy for Climate Change, will underline why the Paris talks must signal decarbonization of the global economy and built environment.

«On top of this, you have voluntary markets doing something totally different involving the private sector, and California is doing something in another zone, also in the private sector,» says Kevin Conrad, Papua New Guinea's Special Envoy and Ambassador for Environment & Climate Change and executive director of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.

Todd Stern, the State Department's Special Envoy for Climate Change, is arguing that a nonbinding agreement is the way to go, since more countries would sign on.

U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern delivered a speech on Wednesday (June 3) on the relationship of China and the U.S. and what both must do together as we head into a crucial period of bilateral and multilateral meetings on climate Climate Change Todd Stern delivered a speech on Wednesday (June 3) on the relationship of China and the U.S. and what both must do together as we head into a crucial period of bilateral and multilateral meetings on climate climate change.

Or as Shyam Saran, Special Envoy of the Indian Prime Minister, said, the G20 is not the forum for substantive discussions of climate change.

Following the release of the America's Pledge report on the morning of Saturday, November 11th by California Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown and United Nations Special Envoy for Cities & Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg, this event will provide a more in - depth look at the report findings.

Thursday, November 16th 12:00 - 13:00 Fiji Dome A conversation with Todd Stern, former Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Obama Administration and Sue Biniaz, the former principal legal advisor on the climate negotiations for the United States, who will discuss the future of the Paris AgrClimate Change in the Obama Administration and Sue Biniaz, the former principal legal advisor on the climate negotiations for the United States, who will discuss the future of the Paris Agrclimate negotiations for the United States, who will discuss the future of the Paris Agreement.

America's Pledge Launch Event Saturday, November 11th 10:30 - 12:00 Fiji Dome Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown will release a new America's Pledge report detailing U.S. states, cities, and businesses» climate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reductionClimate Change Michael R. Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown will release a new America's Pledge report detailing U.S. states, cities, and businesses» climate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reductionclimate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reduction goals.

Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change Michael R. Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown will release a new America's Pledge report detailing U.S. states, cities, and businesses» climate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reductionClimate Change Michael R. Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown will release a new America's Pledge report detailing U.S. states, cities, and businesses» climate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reductionclimate - related actions that are keeping America on track to meet its Paris Agreement carbon reduction goals.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead the U.S. delegation, along with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and Todd Stern, a special envoy for climate change.

This was revealed recently by Ed Miliband's Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment, Barry Gardiner MP, who is quoted by Energy Live News,

As your Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern is fond of saying, politics is the art of the possible.

If he hasn't, what exactly is his Special Envoy for Climate Change and the Environment telling him?

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales — Keynote Video Message Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE — UN Messenger of Peace The Hon. Mary Robinson — Former President of Ireland The Hon. Lisa Jackson — Administrator, U.S. EPA Julia Marton - LeFèvre — Director General, IUCN Ambassador Donald Steinberg — Deputy Administrator, USAID Muhtar Kent — Coca Cola CEO (Video Address) Paul Polman — CEO, Unilever and Co-Chair, Consumer Goods Forum The Hon. Bård Vegar Solhjell — Minister of the Environment, Norway Jonathan Pershing — Deputy Special Envoy - Climate Change, U.S. State Dept. Dr. Zhang Songdan — Deputy Dir.