Sentences with phrase «week at the climate talks»

More than one - fifth of the carbon stored in the world's tropical forests lies in territories belonging to or claimed by indigenous groups, concludes an analysis released this week at the climate talks in Paris.

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11:50 AM Mayor de Blasio delivers the keynote address at C40 Talks to kick off climate week.

Gary Cohn, the top White House economic adviser, is expected to lead the U.S. delegation in a climate discussion at the U.N. talks in New York this week (Climatewire, Sept. 13).

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

By Alister Doyle and Nina Chestney OSLO / LONDON (Reuters)- World governments are likely to recoil from plans for an ambitious 2015 climate change deal at talks next week, concern over economic growth at least partially eclipsing scientists» warnings of rising temperatures and water levels.

Obama also is planning to speak Tuesday at the United Nations during a special summit on climate change as diplomats look to kick - start talks that U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon said this week are stalled.

These emails have the appearance of having been held back after the theft of data and emails in 2009 to be released at a time designed to cause maximum disruption to the imminent international climate talks [the U.N. conference in Durban, South Africa, next week].

THINGS took an interesting twist at the latest UN climate summit held in Doha, Qatar, over the past two weeks when nations began talks over paying for the damage caused by climate change.

VETERAN climate negotiators arriving at this week's talks in New York faced an uphill struggle.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.

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.

Eric Roston, a former Time magazine journalist and author of «The Carbon Age,» spent three weeks roaming India at the invitation of the United States State Department to explore and talk about north - south differences in talking about climate change.

This week, as leaders from business and governments are coming together to showcase action and commitments, and demonstrate demand for an ambitious global deal to be made at the December climate talks in Paris, we hope you'll jump in and join the action too by organizing a course or by joining our upcoming EcoChallenge!

COPENHAGEN — In the hall outside the United States promotional pavilion at the climate talks, with crowds watching President Obama on video screens as he gave his Nobel Peace Prize speech and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar giving a press briefing inside, a polar bear rearing on hind legs gave a stern warning to the president to make sure an agreement is produced when he comes here late next week.

BONN, Germany — Little concrete progress was achieved at the climate talks that ended here this week, but the fault lines that will divide the world as its attempts to negotiate a new climate treaty by the end of this year became vividly clear in the corridors of the Maritim Hotel Conference Center.

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.

The Paris «premiere» took place on 7 December 2015 at the tiny Cinéma du Panthéon, about 15 kilometres away from the actual venue of the major United Nations COP21 climate talks, which were beginning their second week.

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These contributions will be posted online on the We Are Still In website, and showcased during the week of the Global Climate Action Summit in California and at the next iteration of major UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24 in DecClimate Action Summit in California and at the next iteration of major UN climate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24 in Decclimate talks in Katowice, Poland (COP24 in December).

The only event the Trump administration hosted at the COP23 UN climate talks during the last two weeks in Germany was a panel promoting «clean» coal, nuclear, and other fossil fuels.

«While progress was made on a number of negotiating issues during this first week of the climate talks here, much of the conversation since has focused on the implications of a Trump presidency,» said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Colin Roche, extractive industries campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «Just last week at the UN climate talks the EU was claiming to be a climate leader yet here it is locking us in to a fossil fuel future.

The NewYork Times: With one week left for the U.N. climate change talks to conclude, developed and developing countries remain at odds on how to solve the crisis being linked to the recent spate of extreme weather events that have claimed lives and destroyed property worth billions of dollar.

These thoughts were reinforced a couple of weeks ago talking to Eli Lehrer from R Street at a debate held in DC between Lehrer and Bob Inglis on one side and James Taylor (Heartland) and David Kreutzer, (Heritage) about how to deal with climate change.

OSLO (Reuters)- Government plans for slowing climate change remain «woefully inadequate» despite promises of tougher action under the 2015 Paris agreement, according to Fiji, which will preside at United Nations talks in Germany next week.

Australia's grilling by other major nations at this week's climate talks in Bonn show that it still has serious questions to answer over the scope of its greenhouse emissions - reduction targets.

South American diplomats expect to make progress towards a global climate deal at this week's UN talks in Lima, despite growing criticism from NGOs that governments in the region are backtracking on pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect the environment.

So this week we're breaking down climate science to its most basic key terms and phrases to help you better grasp what's going on in the world with climate change, both at the UN climate talks and beyond.

Durban, South Africa — After nearly two weeks of stalled progress by the United States at the international climate talks, U.S. youth spoke out for a real, science - based climate treaty.

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Another agricultural strategy — raising bioenergy crops and capturing the carbon dioxide from their combustion when they're burned — led to a dust - up between climate campaigners at the UN talks in Bonn last week because of disagreement over the likely impacts on farming and food prices.

This week at the U.N. climate treaty talks, governments are poised to hash out the details needed to bring the Paris Agreement from concept to reality.

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Attributing the current drought directly to climate change is impossible, but in the words of Sir John Beddington, the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser, in a talk at Oxfam last week, «worldwide, events like this have a higher probability of occurring as a result of climate change.»

Touting its creation at the Poznan climate talks a few weeks ago, UNEP's Achim Steiner declared that the enterprise would help fight climate challenge and bring energy to billions.

Envoys at United Nations climate talks were locked in negotiations during the final day of a two - week conference as 193 nations remained divided about how to curb global warming.

Tendetza had planned to condemn the project at a Rights of Nature Tribunal organised by NGOs at the climate talks which are taking place this week in the Peruvian capital.

Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.

Australia must commit to strong pollution targets, and no carbon offsets at the Copenhagen climate talks in two weeks.

June 4th 2007, Brussels - Friends of the Earth Europe warned today that unless European leaders take the lead and stand up to US President George Bush on climate change at the G8 talks in Heiligendamm, Germany this week, the eight most industrialised nations will let down the world's poorest nations.

This is all set against the weighty backdrop of continuing talks at the COP22 international climate summit in Marrakech and falls within a week of Donald Trump being elected as the next US president.

BEIJING — Five days of talks aimed at bringing China and the United States closer together on the issue of climate change did not yield substantial progress, according to a Congressional delegation that met with environmental officials and the country's top leaders this week.

The statement, supposedly coming out of Washington but with the phone number of a London - based public relations firm associated with it, went on: «In an effort to encourage decisive action (at climate change talks) in Bali this week, USCAP's members have committed to a 90 % reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050,» said Matt Leopard, a spokesperson for the consortium.