Sentences with phrase «warming treaty at»

In 1990, President Bush signed a Clean Air Act amendment on acid rain, and, two years later, he signed a global - warming treaty at a United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

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In his three years in the U.N. climate post, de Boer, 55, has made himself at home in front of microphones and cameras in the push to craft a new global warming treaty.

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.

WASHINGTON — After a brief but lively internal debate, the Obama administration has decided not to seek an immediate phase - out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC's), a potent group of climate - warming gases, under a treaty aimed at protecting the ozone layer.

This shift away from CO2 - centric emissions debates is also evident in a group blog post by analysts at the Center for American Progress, who propose a «multiple multilateralism» approach on climate that, among other things, seeks quick steps on sources of warming other than carbon dioxide — particularly sooty Arctic pollution and gases already considered under the existing ozone - protection treaty.

Many seasoned participants in nearly two decades of treaty negotiations aimed at blunting global warming had predicted this outcome, despite a pledge by negotiators at climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in 2007 to seal a deal in Denmark this December.

He follows a president who consistently stressed the unknowns about global warming and whose minions sometimes downplayed established science; whose negotiators at climate - treaty talks were instructed to enter into any kind of discussion, but no negotiations.

I first encountered lots of young people focused on global warming at the 2005 round of climate - treaty talks in Montreal.

The head US envoy on climate change has said to the UN that «talks aimed at negotiating a binding treaty to curb global warming are based on unrealistic expectations and are not doable.»

The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), formalized at a conference in Rio de Janeiro, was in effect a treaty to create treaties, an effort to create an international regime that would supposedly deal with the threat of Global Warming.

In a debate about whether the U.S. should sign the Kyoto Protocol to combat Global Warming, Dr. Kenner asks why we should sign a treaty that «won't, in effect, do anything at all?»

At the Paris climate talks, the world has signed up to the first truly global treaty to tackle global warming.

Climate negotiators in 2009 agreed upon an unpalatable goal: to produce a 2015 climate treaty that caps global warming at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

But Ford, the world's No. 2 automaker, declined to address President Bush's decision to withdraw the United States from the 1997 Kyoto treaty aimed at fighting global warming, a move that upset environmentalists and the European Union.

After world leaders announced over the weekend that no legally binding global warming treaty would be reached at the upcoming Copenhagen summit, the post mortems have started coming in fast and furious.

Delegates from around the world gather in Bonn this weekend to chart the future of a new global - warming treaty they hope to sign in Mexico this fall or in South Africa in 2011 at the latest.

Since its foundation it has reported regularly on the state of climate change, with its 1990 report inspiring the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first international treaty that aimed to reduce global warming, which was signed at the so - called Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Several times at the talks now going on in Milan over a global warming treaty, Bush administration officials have portrayed states» actions to curb heat - trapping gases as evidence of American resolve.

It is directed at a conference of diplomats meeting in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate the next global warming treaty.

At the end of 1997, it was listed by Mother Jones magazine among alleged front «astroturf groups that are lobbying against the Kyoto global warming treaty.»