Sentences with phrase «treaty talks»

Below you'll find a variety perspectives on the climate treaty talks, sent by people who attended in various capacities.

Maybe something got lost in the translation from the French on the way to the world of international treaty talks?

The planned excursion is part of his efforts to prod world leaders to take meaningful steps on global warming in treaty talks in Copenhagen in December.

They directly call for urgent action by the world's nations at the Paris treaty talks in December.

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.

At the same time, China, India and other economic competitors are not likely to be in an agreeable mood at treaty talks in Copenhagen in December if faced with protectionist steps in the United States.

In this case, at least, there's really not much there there, considering how clear Saudi Arabia's position has been in treaty talks over the last 20 years.

In a wide ranging and insightful interview, Yen Saño — the Philippines lead negotiator who rose to fame when, saddened by the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan and frustrated by the slow pace of international action, he fasted through two weeks of climate change treaty talks in Warsaw — has just publicly endorsed the Greenhouse Development Rights approach.

As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing emissions are more of a threat to food webs than the mercury already in the environment.

As the U.N. climate treaty talks wear on, she argued, negotiators and policymakers must better take into account the needs of young women, adding, «In many national and international fora and in planning at more local levels children's voices are still absent.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

Stern made an important broader point by questioning the continued utility of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, the basis for all current treaty talks.

Another round of climate - treaty talks just ended in Bonn, Germany, with another private round of climate discussions coming in South Korea next week (among «major economies» recruited by the Bush administration).

President Obama's fruitless effort in Copenhagen to promote Chicago for the Olympics has provoked discussion over whether he will return for the global climate treaty talks there in December.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

Overall, the meetings of the world's biggest emitters produced what many analysts say is the first sign that treaty talks culminating in December 2009 could produce a meaningful, if still preliminary, step forward from the 1992 climate treaty and its struggling addendum, the Kyoto Protocol.

The need for a direct push on energy innovation is particularly acute given scant evidence, in Cancún treaty talks or elsewhere, that countries where nearly all of the growth in such emissions is coming in the next few decades are willing to restrain this flow for the sake of limiting long - term climate change.

In our conversation, he explained China's enduring «you first» stance in the climate treaty talks despite its position as the world's leading emitter of greenhouse gases.

The initiative is aimed at pressing Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that global climate - treaty talks don't weaken protections on who can profit from new technologies that provide abundant energy without abundant pollution.

The document, released just ahead of the round of climate treaty talks about to begin in Durban, South Africa, is clearly aimed at reinforcing China's case that it is seriously engaged in addressing its contribution to the atmosphere's building blanket of greenhouse gases.

This gag comes amid a flood of news releases from groups pledging or seeking action to limit greenhouse gases as the latest round of climate - treaty talks gets into gear in Bali.

[UPDATE, 8/6: China's lead envoy in climate - treaty talks expressed optimism that a new international agreement on climate will be negotiated this year, but stressed that there is no chance his country will accept hard targets for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.]

But the campaign to make sure that the document has as much impact as possible on climate diplomacy leading up to Paris treaty talks in December is just getting into gear.

There's a lot of mostly wishful talk about the potential impact of the E.P.A. power plant rules on international treaty talks this year and next.

This, too, is wise, given the paralysis in both Congress and international climate - treaty talks over conventional approaches to global warming.

At a multinational summit in Beijing on Nov. 11, the U.S. and China announced new plans to deepen their carbon cuts as part of UN climate change treaty talks.

It'll be interesting to see whether Rebelo accompanies Rousseff to the next big round of climate treaty talks in Paris in December.

One person I see doing this is Billy Parish, who in 2005 was protesting in the halls at the climate treaty talks in Montreal and now has co-founded Mosaic, a company offering investors a way to reap a steady return by providing up - front costs for solar - energy installations.

You must allocate at least one half hour for the post trick - or - treating sibling candy swap, which rivals the SALT II treaty talks in intensity of negotiations.

On the other hand, the idea of parliamentary direction to the executive in treaty talks is unusual.

Those are vague words, but it's a significant step for a number of reasons, and the news provides some clues about China's motivations heading towards December's U.N. climate treaty talks in Copenhagen.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

The comment seemed to produce more Web news than the treaty talks themselves.

But Mark Lynas, the author of «The God Species» and an adviser to the leadership of the low - lying Indian Ocean nation of Maldives, swears there could be meaningful outcomes when the annual climate - treaty talks, after a bland performance in Cancún, Mexico, open in Durban, South Africa, at the end of the month.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied during climate - treaty talks in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

This presented a marked contrast to a similar science meeting held in Copenhagen in the spring of 2009 ahead of the failed climate treaty talks in that city later that year.

Ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks, he helped line up parallel multi-billion-dollar pledges by government leaders and some of the world's wealthiest investors to accelerate clean - energy science and innovation.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

Before he flew to Bali for the climate - treaty talks, James L. Connaughton, the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, acknowledged that FutureGen has problems, saying some aspects may be scaled back.

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.

Last month, he attended the climate - treaty talks in Bali as part of a small delegation representing 200 scientists who signed a declaration pressing negotiators to commit to preventing the global temperature from rising more than 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above where it is now (roughly 59 degrees).

It is not about the details of the outcome of climate treaty talks that concluded yesterday in Lima, Peru.

But Grist's Ben Adler and Rebecca Leber have reported a fresh doozy, finding Trump's name among dozens on a full - page ad that ran on Dec. 6, 2009, in The New York Times, as climate treaty talks were beginning in Copenhagen, calling for President Obama and Congress «to strengthen and pass United States legislation, and lead the world by example.»