Sentences with phrase «states at climate talks»

Recently, Saudi Arabia blocked a call by vulnerable island states at climate talks for a study... A Fox News / AP article says that Saudi Arabia has a long history of playing an obstructionist role at climate conferences.

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Hawkins was one of 55 people arrested at the April 23 Cuomo Walk the Talk protest at the State Capitol on climate change.

The march, rally, and civil disobedience at the state capital in Albany is called «Cuomo: Walk the Talk on Climate!»

We talked to 30 women politicians in New York at all levels of government about what the political climate looks like in 2016, the year the United States might elect its first - ever woman president.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry — who was often the lone member of Congress to attend U.N. climate talks — will assume the chairmanship from Leona Aglukkaq, the Canadian environmental minister whose tenure at the council's helm has prioritized economic expansion (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

The issue, politically sensitive for many nations, was a bone of contention for the United States and China at U.N. climate talks last year in Cancun, Mexico, although negotiators eventually agreed to develop a global monitoring system.

The commentary, «Facing the diversity crisis on climate science,» was born when Schuldt and co-author Adam Pearson, an assistant professor of psychology at Pomona College, began talking about University of Michigan Professor Dorceta Taylor report, «The State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations.»

He told us this big soil feedback, every year as large as the emissions of the United States, was left out of the climate models used by politicians at the Paris climate talks.

At those talks, in Milan in 2003, Mr. Watson listed a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, which he said were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy — a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

On Friday, Todd Stern, the lead United States negotiator in climate talks, prodded China sharply in a speech at the University of Michigan Law School, criticizing its negotiators for backtracking from commitments that he said were clear cut under the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the chaotic talks last December.

The move seemed to take the states and private groups by surprise, coming just days after the Bali climate talks, at which the administration touted its efforts to limit warming from greenhouse gases.

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

Some officials at the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency had pushed for such a course, but the White House decided on a more moderate approach to give it negotiating room in upcoming rounds of climate and environmental talks.

Pfeffer talked to me from Washington, where he'll be spending the next year working on improving the interface between climate science and policy at the State Department or Agency for International Development as a Jefferson Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

After I gave a talk at Pennsylvania State University not long ago, a professor there asked if I could share the slide I use to describe one source of confusion and disputes when people are yelling about «global warming» or «climate change.»

Eric Roston, a former Time magazine journalist and author of «The Carbon Age,» spent three weeks roaming India at the invitation of the United States State Department to explore and talk about north - south differences in talking about climate change.

CANCÚN, Mexico --- As the main plenary session at climate talks here was getting under way on Tuesday, I received word that Lonnie Thompson, a longtime student of ice and climate at Ohio State University, has a paper coming out in a behavior journal, The Behavior Analyst, concluding with unusual bluntness that humanity is in deep trouble.

COPENHAGEN — In the hall outside the United States promotional pavilion at the climate talks, with crowds watching President Obama on video screens as he gave his Nobel Peace Prize speech and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar giving a press briefing inside, a polar bear rearing on hind legs gave a stern warning to the president to make sure an agreement is produced when he comes here late next week.

The latest word from Todd Stern, the lead United States official in talks aimed at building a new climate treaty, powerfully supports Schelling's view.

In November, the White House announced, as part of the U.S. — China climate agreement, that the United States would «commit» at the Paris talks to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions 26 - 28 % below 2005 levels by 2025.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

They misrepresent the state of climate science, reciting talking points that can be found on any of a number of denialist websites, or heard at conferences sponsored by fossil - fuel funded groups such as the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

As I heard Penn State climate scientist Dr. Richard Alley during his talk at Climate One meeting at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last December, «Scientists are no longer debating (whether humans are causing) climate change because that is no longer a useful discussion.climate scientist Dr. Richard Alley during his talk at Climate One meeting at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last December, «Scientists are no longer debating (whether humans are causing) climate change because that is no longer a useful discussion.Climate One meeting at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco last December, «Scientists are no longer debating (whether humans are causing) climate change because that is no longer a useful discussion.climate change because that is no longer a useful discussion.»

(For reference, the United States pledged a 17 percent cut at the global climate talks in Copenhagen.)

At the Paris climate talks, scientists and people from low - lying island states set 1.5 °C of warming as a red line that must not be crossed.

Thus, she states at the towards the end of one of her talks, «Climate change is an opportunity to express our faith through love.»

The page also states the scientists at the conference would talk about the application of the scientific method in current climate research, and that they think the hypothesis of man - made climate change has failed.

In December 2009 the islands stalled talks at United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated «Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, fearing some other developing countries were not committing fully to binding deals on a reduction in carbon emission, their chief negotiator stated «Tuvalu is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.climate change, and our future rests on the outcome of this meeting.»

Michael Mann, a climatologist at Pennsylvania State University, called those talking points a» «kinder, gentler» form of climate change denialism» in an email.

Durban, South Africa — After nearly two weeks of stalled progress by the United States at the international climate talks, U.S. youth spoke out for a real, science - based climate treaty.

DeSmog captured video of Marc Morano in a debate with state senator Michael Barrett at the UN Climate Talks, where Morano compares carbon pricing to the Salem witch trials: [87]

Key NGO experts attending UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, including Tim Gore and Ruth Davis, will also host a media briefing, webcast live, on Wednesday, December 5 at 15.30 on the Qatar pledge and the current state of the negotiations.

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A coalition of left - wing NGOs is circulating a petition at the UN climate talks in Bonn demanding the UN kick the United States delegation out of the conference!

At the 2014 UN climate talks in Lima, EU Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete stated that if the Paris talks show the EU should reduce more than 40 %, this will be done with international credits

EPA cancelled talks by 3 scientists who were scheduled to discuss climate change at a conference on the state of the Narragansett Bay.

BEIJING — Five days of talks aimed at bringing China and the United States closer together on the issue of climate change did not yield substantial progress, according to a Congressional delegation that met with environmental officials and the country's top leaders this week.