Sentences with phrase «today at the climate talks»

A coalition launched today at the climate talks in Lima aims to boost efforts to save billions of dollars and billions of tonnes of CO2 emissions each year by measuring and reporting reductions of greenhouse gas emissions resulting from projects and programmes that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.

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Today we talk to Henriette Walz, Climate Change & Environmental Expert at UTZ, about the environmental pillar through the lens of our coffee program.

As the Spuds continue to splash their cash and find yet another # 15m to sign a striker today, we at Arsenal are left to make do with both manager and club chairman talking about the affects of the current economic climate and how it influences our transfer policy.

When we talk about climate change today, we have to look at what the climate was previously like in order to recognise the natural variations and to be able to distinguish them from the human - induced changes.

And yet this critical technology found itself confined to small rooms constructed out of plywood buried within a labyrinth at the latest iteration of climate talks in Paris, a handful of enthusiasts, both old and new, talking to each other about roads not taken and humility while zero megawatts of plant - fired power with CO2 capture and storage exist in the world today.

In doing my reporting for the story in The New York Times today on Saudi Arabia's latest maneuvers in climate treaty talks (they are reviving longstanding demands for compensation for lost oil revenue), I found an interesting paper on the oil kingdom's involvement in climate talks by Joanna Depledge, a research fellow at Cambridge University focusing on climate negotiations.

Today in the Times, on page A21, we find the article «At Divided Climate Talks, Consensus That U.S. Is at Fault,» by Thomas Fuller and Elisabeth RosenthaAt Divided Climate Talks, Consensus That U.S. Is at Fault,» by Thomas Fuller and Elisabeth Rosenthaat Fault,» by Thomas Fuller and Elisabeth Rosenthal.

Delegates at Paris climate talks agreed on a final draft text on Saturday to present today to top government officials.

8:00 p.m. Updated Today saw the official opening in Cancún, Mexico, of talks over a new treaty aimed, theoretically, at avoiding dangerous human interference with the climate system.

The warnings come at the beginning of United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011 that take place in Durban from today (28 November) until 9 December - and Oxfam says the talks must succeed.

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.

If firm action is not taken at the forthcoming climate change talks in Paris and the Earth's temperature warms by a further 5 degrees C then investors are facing losses of almost $ 7T at today's prices, new research shows.

Today in Bonn, delegates are taking a first step towards understanding and fixing the remarkable limitations placed on civil society participation at the UN climate talks.

[Doha — Qatar]-- December 4, 2012 — Climate Action Network - International will hold a media briefing at 1 pm today which will update journalists on the latest developments in the UN climate talks iClimate Action Network - International will hold a media briefing at 1 pm today which will update journalists on the latest developments in the UN climate talks iclimate talks in Doha.

The European Union today became the first major power to show its cards and announce the level of climate action it proposes to pledge at global climate talks in Paris later this year.

The United Nations climate talks have made little progress on the most critical aspects of a deal to respond to the climate crisis, said Friends of the Earth Europe today at the mid-point of the summit in Paris.

After politicians tabled a weak draft at the climate talks in Paris today, hundreds of protestors, including Friends of the Earth International activists, staged a loud protest inside the climate summit to expose the fact that politicians are failing to provide a fair and just climate deal in Paris.

One of the top headlines on the NY Times today «China and U.S. Hit Strident Impasse at Climate Talks» spoke about the U.S. - China disagreement with regards to the MRV question.

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA — Today — Civil society leaders from across Africa, with support from global movements, launched a letter to climate negotiators that warns that focusing on launching a new mandate at the Durban talks risks backtracking on promises to the poor and the planet.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA., DEC. 12, 2013 — Gavin Schmidt, the NASA scientist and climate science blogger at the website RealClimate, had the late Stephen Schneider behind his left shoulder for much of his talk at the AGU meeting today.

In other words, the earth today is dangerously close to the temperature levels during that period when the sea levels were up to two stories higher than they are today, making a comprehensive climate agreement at the COP - 21 talks in Paris all the more urgent.

Today's communique sends a strong signal to negotiators ahead of the Paris talks, says Dr Ed Hawkins, a research fellow in climate predictability at the University of Reading.

June 4th 2007, Brussels - Friends of the Earth Europe warned today that unless European leaders take the lead and stand up to US President George Bush on climate change at the G8 talks in Heiligendamm, Germany this week, the eight most industrialised nations will let down the world's poorest nations.

President Obama made a small reference to climate change in his victory speech following his historic re-election last Tuesday, but his answer today was the most the president has talked about the issue at any length since at least Hurricane Sandy.

The Prime Minister is «talking rubbish» on climate change, according to a headline at The Guardian Australia today, which pretty well encapsulates Australia's utter failures in public policy on climate change.