Sentences with phrase «take climate ambition»

UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 — Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses and investors are taking climate ambition to the next level.

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«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Definition: Climate ambition is taking a stronger mitigation action than would make sense for reasons of pure self interest * when here is no commitment by others that they will reciprocate.

In the absence of a court adjudicating what equity requires of nations in setting their national climate change commitments, a possibility but far from a guarantee under existing international and national law (for an explanation of some of the litigation issues, Buiti, 2011), the best hope for encouraging nations to improve the ambition of their national emissions reductions commitments on the basis of equity and justice is the creation of a mechanism under the UNFCCC that requires nations to explain their how they quantitatively took equity into account in establishing their INDCs and why their INDC is consistent with the nation's ethical obligations to people who are most vulnerable to climate change and the above principles of international law.

Frank Bainimarama, President of the UN Climate Conference COP23 and Prime Minster of Fiji, has called everyone to take part in the so - called «Talanoa Dialgoue», an important international conversation in which countries will check progress and seek to increase global ambition to meet the goals of...

UN Climate Change News, 4 May 2018 - The opening meeting of the Talanoa Dialogue took place this week, inviting all participants to share stories around climate ambition and to have solutions - oriented conversations on contributions to the Paris Agreement's goals at the «May talanoas» on SundayClimate Change News, 4 May 2018 - The opening meeting of the Talanoa Dialogue took place this week, inviting all participants to share stories around climate ambition and to have solutions - oriented conversations on contributions to the Paris Agreement's goals at the «May talanoas» on Sundayclimate ambition and to have solutions - oriented conversations on contributions to the Paris Agreement's goals at the «May talanoas» on Sunday 6 May.

It has taken so long for the climate change establishment to recognise the relatively strategies advocated by the likes of Lomborg, Pielke and the Breakthrough Institute because their ambition of creating a global political climate institution has been so long in its collapse.

But Prof Glen Peters, from the Centre for International Climate Research, in Oslo, said: «The core part of Paris [is] the global stock - takes which are going to happen every five years, and after the stock - takes countries are meant to raise their ambition, but if you can't track progress sufficiently, which is the whole point of these stock - takes, you basically can't do anything.