Sentences with phrase «treaty talks just»

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).

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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.

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.

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.

McNutt (who was just nominated * to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences) points to studies showing that nations» emissions - cutting pledges made ahead of Paris climate treaty talks this December are insufficient to keep the planet from heating up beyond the 2 - degree Celsius threshold the world's nations previously agreed to avoid.