Sentences with phrase «treaty talks last»
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:
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
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).
During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.
Did you say last night that one thing you'll be pushing for [at upcoming climate - treaty talks] in Bali is a component for doing a lot more on R&D?
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.
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.
The media took note as the Japanese environment minister cut the birthday cake for the Kyoto Protocol's 10 - year anniversary during treaty talks in Bali last December.
The last week of the talks had been dominated by financing issues on one hand, and the treatment of an estimated 13 billion of surplus credits that remained from the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, and which threaten to offset all the gains from the second period, and could yet dilute a future treaty.
Emission reduction policies announced by President Barack Obama last week could indicate the extent to which the US will commit to the new UN global climate treaty, according to experts tracking the talks.