Sentences with phrase «with international climate action»

As perhaps a last - ditch effort to get a new administration on - board with international climate action efforts, a few experts agree the best way forward might be to appeal to Trump's business sense.

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What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

A little over a month ago 400,000 of us marched in conjunction with the UN Summit, demanding international action on climate change.

In line with the SAMOA Pathway approved at the Third International Conference on SIDS in 2014 and the UNESCO SIDS Action Plan adopted in 2016, this session will review imminent climate change issues within these countries.

They looked at each of those conditions through, first, a business - as - usual lens that assumes a lack of international climate - policy action with continued high rates of greenhouse gas emissions and, second, an optimistic scenario of reduced emissions with climate change policy interventions.

Such wide coverage, with countries from all continents, levels of development and historic positions in the climate negotiations is in itself a major step forward for climate action and a signal of commitment to the Paris negotiations,» says Teresa Ribera, project leader and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI).

Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic «Doomsday Clock» to 11:57 p.m.

Art and Social Activism investigates art's relationship to activism, creating a live forum in which to discuss the visual arts in our current climate of grassroots action, demonstrations, and international protest movements — with the goal of promoting awareness, increased involvement, and change.

The right way is to ensure that all major economies are bound to take action and to work cooperatively with our partners for a fair and effective international climate agreement.

Mr. / Mrs. Candidate: The Presidential Climate Action Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it mClimate Action Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it muAction Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it mclimate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it muaction in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it must be.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

An International Tribunal of Climate Justice is hereby established to address cases of non-compliance with the commitments of developed country Parties on mitigation, adaptation, provision of finance, technology development and transfer, capacity - building, and transparency of action and support, including through the development of an indicative list of consequences, taking into account the cause, type, degree and frequency of non-compliance.]

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

But some of those most intimately involved with the Climate Summit or the UNFCCC process have not lost hope that these international discussions can produce concrete actions to counter that upward swing in global temperatures.

Every nation's government must take action in working with international agencies to replant and protect forests as a way to battle climate change.

If Environment Minister Hendriks» does announce a stringent, comprehensive limitation on overseas coal financing, in line with the international community, it would be exactly the kind of action that 100,000 environmental, labor, faith, and social justice activists will be marching for this Sunday in New York City at the People's Climate March, and its affiliated events worldwide.

To assist policymakers as they set climate and development goals and design policies in international and domestic forums, the World Energy Council, in partnership with global management consultancy Oliver Wyman, has published the 2015 «World Energy Trilemma report: Priority actions on climate change and how to balance the trilemma».

As part of the international effort, That Uppity Theater Company in St. Louis partnered with US Green Building Council - Missouri Gateway Chapter and Missouri Interfaith Power & Light to present «Playhouse Emissions: A Climate Change Theatre Action.»

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Climate Action Network International Annual Policy document 2016 with key policy priorities for Marrakech available online here

Climate activists with the international Rising Tide network embarrassed the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby group composed of 33 prominent businesses and organizations, by distributing a spoof press release declaring that the consortiumâ $ ™ s members had committed to a 90 percent reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

In addition to engaging around the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, the International Climate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships betweInternational Climate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships between couClimate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships between couclimate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships betweinternational cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships between couclimate policy; and key bilateral relationships between countries.

Paul Keating's government, faced with the prospect of international action on climate change, took steps to preserve the coal industry - a tactic that has been rebooted many times since.

ICF International is an accredited 3rd party greenhouse gas verifier under the ISO 14065 GHG Accreditation Program with the California Climate Action Registry http://www.climateregistry.org/tools/verification/verifiers.html.

«For the purposes of decreasing the likelihood of catastrophic climate change, preserving tropical forests, building capacity to generate offset credits, and facilitating international action on global warming, the Administrator shall set aside the percentage specified in section 781 of the quantity of emission allowances established under section 721 (a) for each year, to be used to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation in developing countries in accordance with part E.

The climate talks — the first in the Middle East — are at a crucial juncture with key elements stalling despite the arrival on ministers yesterday, Wael Hmaidan, director of Climate Action Network - Internationaclimate talks — the first in the Middle East — are at a crucial juncture with key elements stalling despite the arrival on ministers yesterday, Wael Hmaidan, director of Climate Action Network - InternationaClimate Action Network - International said.

The UN climate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate talks failed to deliver increased cuts to carbon pollution, nor did they provide any credible pathway to $ 100 billion per year in finance by 2020 to help the poorest countries deal with climate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAclimate change, according to the 700 NGOs who are members of Climate Action Network - International (CAClimate Action Network - International (CAN - I).

We are heartened that despite the domestic and international political challenges that have limited actions to address climate change, the year brought broader recognition and acceptance of the science of climate change along with a greater understanding of its likely costs.

He promised that Canada was «back» on the International stage as a major contributor to global action on climate change, he promised to make real reconciliation with Indigenous peoples a pillar of his agenda, and he promised to overhaul the shattered National Energy Board review process for every single pipeline project.

Sara Shaw concurs; the international program coordinator for Climate and Justice with Friends of the Earth International in London says that, «The rest of the world can not let the US drag them down; they must take immediate climate action without the Uinternational program coordinator for Climate and Justice with Friends of the Earth International in London says that, «The rest of the world can not let the US drag them down; they must take immediate climate action without the United Climate and Justice with Friends of the Earth International in London says that, «The rest of the world can not let the US drag them down; they must take immediate climate action without the UInternational in London says that, «The rest of the world can not let the US drag them down; they must take immediate climate action without the United climate action without the United States.

Trudeau had recommitted Canada to the UN's international climate action process in Paris, brokered a deal with all 12 provinces and territories to put a price on carbon, and introduced a nationwide phaseout plan for coal - fired power.

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In the mid to late 1990 she also worked with the Global Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate Climate Coalition, a special interest group of coal, oil and utility companies, set up to lobby against international action on climate climate change.

COP10 had barely opened when the US proposed to delete agenda items which welcomed input from other international negotiations (the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island States, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, and the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development) with the clear motivation of blocking any dangerously proliferating discussion of the impacts of climate change.

This is in stark contrast with the actions of people mobilising around the globe, increasing the resistance to fossil fuel extraction and leading the way towards climate - safe societies,» said Jagoda Munic, chairperson of Friends of the Earth International.

The resulting compromise safeguards the vested interests of global dependency on fossil sources of energy, while constraining the capacity of the international community to take any effective action to deal with the threat of dangerous climate change.»

«I am pleased that with this publication we have been able to build on over a decade of Winrock's leadership and expertise in this area working with a number of recognized organizations including the Clean Development Mechanism, The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, International Tropical Timber Organization, Voluntary Carbon Standard and California Climate Action Registry,» said Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock's Chief Scientist, whose team developed the standard.

Foley contrasted the long - standing ambitions of those arguing for action on climate change who have focused on the «wholesale transformation of the world's economy and energy systems» with the prevailing dysfunction in Washington and the endless debate that has derailed international climate negotiations.

Parties are to enhance understanding, action and support, including through the Warsaw International Mechanism, on a cooperative and facilitative basis with respect to loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change.

Marc Morano was a speaker on Panel 14: «Action Items for Policymakers,» at the Heartland Institute's Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C., with Myron Ebell and Bette Grande.

With international climate negotiations mere weeks away in Paris, there is keen interest in how countries» climate action plans, known as INDCs, will address climate change.

Taking bold climate action makes good business sense Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, had a bold message when he opened the Climate Savers Business Event with a video message: there is business opportunity in fighting climate climate action makes good business sense Marco Lambertini, Director General of WWF International, had a bold message when he opened the Climate Savers Business Event with a video message: there is business opportunity in fighting climate Climate Savers Business Event with a video message: there is business opportunity in fighting climate climate change.

On April 1, 2008, as part of the Fossil Fools International Day of Action, 30 activists with Eastside Climate Action blockaded the front entrance of E.ON's headquarters in Nottingham, England.

If such monitoring system is to be accepted by the international community as a bona fide action in the context of international climate negotiations, it must be transparent, accurate and reliable, in line with international standards and accompanied by a system of third - party verification.

Oil Change International, in collaboration with 350.org, Amazon Watch, APMDD, AYCC, Bold Alliance, Christian Aid, Earthworks, Équiterre, Global Catholic Climate Movement, HOMEF, Indigenous Environmental Network, IndyAct, Rainforest Action Network, and Stand.earth

Here's where this «loophole of uncertainty» comes into play - because China has implemented actions that address climate change through its Eleventh Five - Year Plan since 2005 and has internally funding all of its energy efficiency measures and mitigation actions (and furthermore hasn't asked for any funding with regards to their 40 - 45 % reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 from 2005 levels), China would therefore be exempt from international MRV if this text is eventually agreed upon.

Myron Ebell was a speaker on Panel 14: «Action Items for Policymakers,» at the Heartland Institute's Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC10) in Washington, D.C., with Marc Morano and Bette Grande.

During the 8th Sustainable Innovation Forum (SIF), Climate Action partnered with international organisations to bring together city Mayors and regional governments to discuss ways to tackle air pollution.

RFF experts, in partnership with the the Instituto Technológico Autónomo de Mexico in Mexico and the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Canada, are exploring a number of issues, including onshore oil and gas regulations, enhanced integration of the electricity grid and competitive wholesale power markets, options for coordinated action on climate change, and fossil energy export strategies.

It's conclusion begins with «We urge all nations, in the line with the UNFCCC principles, to take prompt action to reduce the causes of climate change, adapt to its impacts and ensure that the issue is included in all relevant national and international strategies.»