Sentences with phrase «strong global climate deal»

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They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.

Joydeep Gupta, editor of indiaclimatedialogue.net and a co-author on the report, said: «Given that India is ranked the second most vulnerable to the economic costs of climate change, only a strong global deal can generate the finance to avert disaster.

We collectively need to demand that there is no acceptable response to climate change other than strong emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are returned to 350ppm levels, global temperature rise is kept (at the maximum) 2 °C and, even better, 1.5 °C — to do that, as was emphasized on numerous occasions, we need a F.A.B. climate deal: Fair, Ambitious, and (perhaps most importantly) Binding.

The US has a major role to play in achieving a global climate deal in Copenhagen, and has much to gain by coming to the table with a strong message of urgency and commitment to the task at hand.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday explicitly called for the U.S. to remove itself from the Paris climate agreement, one of his strongest remarks yet expressing his opposition to the landmark deal to keep global warming below 2 °C.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gases on the table at the UN's climate change conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: the time to take climate action is now!

- To seek a fair, strong, legally binding, global climate deal which limits temperature rises to below 2 °C.

With a global deal to limit greenhouse gas emissions on the table at the UN's climate conference in Paris this year, it's more important than ever that we build strong public support so world leaders know: we want a clean, healthy, and prosperous future — and getting there starts with stopping climate change.

From a strong global deal at the Paris climate talks to ambitious commitments from businesses and communities, and from local, national and international government bodies alike, there are many preconditions for Greenpeace's scenario to pan out.

# 249 I'll listen to a hurricane expert anytime, but Dr Nye deals with Global Climate very well, of which stronger more frequent hurricanes are a mere symptom of a serious problem.