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.
Not exact matches
The legislature then
gets the chance to ratify the
treaty (say «We agree») or not (say «That's crazy
talk!
All but one set of adjusted figures show that we will have already passed 1 °C before the next round of UN
talks on a global climate
treaty get under way in December (see graph).
The article focuses on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to
get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate
treaty results from
talks next year.
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.
Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate
treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on
getting U.S. and China, the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before
talks begin in Copenhagen.
Mr. Bush last year vowed, by the end of this year, to
get them to agree on a goal for big cuts later in the century, in a process that he says is intended to aid the separate United Nations
treaty talks.
The forum, organized to build pressure on rich countries just weeks ahead of
treaty talks in Copenhagen, is yet another strong indication that the biggest barrier to
getting agreement on a new climate accord next month is the stark disagreement over the scale of what amounts to a climate debt.
Having said that, since the climate
talks have postponed a global
treaty until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to
get a momentum for multilateral agreement.