Sentences with phrase «with major emitters»

So too for the way we should approach our negotiating position with the major emitters in the developing world.

It could be launched with the major emitters, perhaps three dozen countries in all.

Having now endorsed Obama's abandonment of the U.N. process, greens have bet all their chips that Obama will show up to the next round of negotiations with major emitters with a domestic cap in hand.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration has taken steps to reduce these emissions through bilateral and multilateral agreements with major polluters, including China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and India.

The conference agreed that by 2015 governments would finalise a «protocol, legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force» that would impose targets on all major emitters, rich and poor.

CO2 is a key greenhouse gas leading to anthropogenic climate change, with cities around the world as major emitters of CO2.

This major emitters» process should include, inter alia, national, regional and international policies, targets and plans, in line with national circumstances, an ambitious work program within the UNFCCC, and the development and deployment of climate - friendly technology.

There are alternate strategies as well: I know a firm working with the major insurance and financial sectors to deny financing to carbon emitters as a way to force change, since the US government is filled with hopeless whores.

The bigger deadlock remains, however, with the once and future major emitters of greenhouse gases — the United States and China — still locked in the old Alphonse and Gaston routine, each offering the other the opportunity to step first.

Unlike other countries that have pledged, Russia says its final decision is contingent upon the outcome of the UN climate negotiations, along with the INDCs of other major emitters.

The process works on a rolling basis, with the US one of 18 nations currently undergoing review along with other major emitters Russia and Japan.

With the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begWith the world's two major emitters sending their top leaders to Copenhagen with gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begwith gifts of numerical targets, and with the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begwith the U.S. successfully engaging India to commit to a successful Copenhagen outcome just as it did with China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begwith China (see my guest post on Climate Progress on the new U.S. - India Green Partnership), momentum is definitely picking up as with just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begwith just a week and a half to go before the Copenhagen climate conference begins.

Unfortunately, Australia's plan, like Europe's, gave away far too much to major emitters of CO2 and does far too little to reduce emissions, aiming for a 5 percent cut in carbon by 2020, with uncertainty as to how deep the cuts may be beyond then.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

That's just one of several headline takeaways on a Tuesday of big announcements from Brazil, China, and the US — three of the world's top greenhouse gas emitters — with major implications for the UN climate talks in Paris later this year.

During my chairmanship of the Western Governors» Association, we focused specifically on the global nature of climate change, working directly with China and other major carbon emitters on this critical issue.

Washington state, like the entire West Coast, is a leader on forward - thinking climate policy with legislative targets for emission reductions, a greenhouse gas inventory of major emitters, and a Clean Air Rule adopted by the Inslee Administration.

India's reply was consistent: perhaps we haven't made ourselves clear enough, but we are not major emitters — we are an enormous country with a very small per - capita carbon footprint, and to put us at the same level as A1 countries is to undermine the very principles of the Convention and to shift the focus of obligation to developing countries.

Chong: My plan syncs with provincial plans with respect to the oil and gas sector, other major emitters, and other trade - exposed, export - oriented industries.

A recent survey of 144 of the world's top economists with expertise on climate change found that 88 % agreed that the benefits of carbon pricing outweigh the costs, and over 94 % agreed the US should reduce its GHG emissions if other major emitters also commit to reductions (which many already have, particularly in Europe):