Sentences with phrase «world climate conference»

1979: The first World Climate Conference is held.

Jesse met Bob in 1978 during preparations for the first UN World Climate Conference and they work closely together on studies of the impacts of climate variability and change for the next 20 years.

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)- Formed at the Second World Climate Conference (1990).

Following the recent discussion here on access to climate data, it's been interesting to see the theme emerge in Geneva this week at the third World Climate Conference.

«We agreed on the need for climate services across all nations», says Martin Visbeck, chair of the committee of scientific experts to the World Climate Conference.

It mentions the first World Climate Conference, which took place in Geneva in February that year, and also the CIA study five years before that, which warned of shorter growing seasons and the dangers of global cooling.

The quote comes from a speech by the good professor to the World Climate Conference in Geneva last week.

They identify the first World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1979) as «the first major conference to address human health» (p. 8).

United Nations Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon looks on at a news conference after the high level segment of the World Climate Conference - 3 (WCC - 3) at the International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG) in Geneva September 3, 2009.

... «It would be desirable for the Panel's report to be ready by august 1990 for presentation to the Second World Climate Conference and to the United Nations General Assembly.

Yet last week in Geneva, at the UN's World Climate Conference — an annual gathering of the so - called «scientific consensus» on man - made climate change — Prof. Latif conceded the Earth has not warmed for nearly a decade and that we are likely entering «one or even two decades during which temperatures cool.»

In addition, it was known that the island nation would chair the 23rd World Climate Conference, which took place last November in Bonn.

2009: Geneva - World Climate Conference 3, focusing on climate predications and its impacts on users such as agri - sector, water, health, tourism, UM Millennium Goals, Hyogo Framework Action on Disaster and Risk Reduction, etc..

While on his way to the recent world climate conference...

I'll be heading to Geneva this coming Sunday to attend the World Meteorological Organisation's third World Climate Conference.

Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, led the United States delegation this week to the World Climate Conference, a meeting in Geneva aimed at providing the world with the information needed to navigate a changing climate.

On the international stage, high - level talks lead to the establishment of a Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) during the World Climate Conference 3 (WCC3) in Geneva 2009.

In response to calls from the Second World Climate Conference (Geneva, 1990), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) created the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) in March 1991.

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Cutmore covers the biggest business gatherings for CNBC including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos and China, the IMF / World Bank Annual Meetings in Washington, D.C. and the United Nations Climate Change Conferences.

Policy - makers from around the world are currently meeting in Bonn, Germany, under the auspices of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

A report for the Rio +20 climate change conference last year, «Leadership in a Rapidly Changing World,» interviewed top CEOs from multinational firms to determine what skills they are looking for when hiring.

«Everybody needs the kinds of cheaper panels, not only in China, but also the world,» said Li Junfeng, a senior Chinese economic adviser and the architect of many of China's renewable energy policies, at The New York Times's Climate Tech conference on Thursday in San Francisco.

After pulling a dramatic all - nighter, delegates at the U.N. conference on climate change left beautiful, lush Bali for the real world with an agreed text on their laptops.

Most Rev Justin Welby wrote to delegates - representing most of the world's governments - who are attending the 23rd annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bonn.

As world leaders prepare to head to the climate conference (COP21) in Paris, Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney have written to David Cameron urging him to include meat reduction in the new global climate agreement.

Concluding the five - day world economic forum (WEF) conference at Davos in Switzerland, the prime minister emphasised the importance of action on climate change among both emerging and established countries in order to mitigate the impact of global warming.

This conference is famous for, among other things, creating the International Panel on Climate Change, whose reports have warned the world of accelerating climate Climate Change, whose reports have warned the world of accelerating climate climate change.

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On Dec. 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

The risks to islands will be showcased on the world stage as delegates convene at the global climate change conference in Bonn, Germany, over the next 10 days.

Duncan Marsh, director of the international climate program at the Nature Conservancy, said both leaders» speeches were made not only to the world leaders assembled at the U.N. conference but also to their home audiences.

A different sort of horror held sway in Paris, where big public visualisations of the desperate state of the world's climate occupied the streets during the UN's COP21 conference on climate change.

COPENHAGEN — Today begins a 3 - day conference on climate research meant to lay out the scientific case for the world's next major climate agreement.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

COPENHAGEN — Ten of the world's top universities have convened a conference here with the tacit support of the United Nations, hoping to sway policymakers toward taking an aggressive stance on climate change.

Climate change leaders from around the world are applauding the French government's decision to press on with a landmark U.N. conference in Paris at the end of the month, even in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks.

Talks likely to continue, but slowly Japan, meanwhile, focused on ways to curb more emissions by midcentury instead of by 2020; Saudi Arabia, like India, insisted that the burden of doing more to cut emissions falls squarely on the shoulders of industrialized countries — which, within the world of U.N. climate talks, does not include Saudi Arabia, despite its wealth and vast oil resources; and Qatar, which is hosting the next major climate conference but which has historically played a quiet role in the talks, did not offer a submission.

Next year, at the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, representatives of all the world's countries will be hoping to reach a new deal to cut greenhouse gases and prevent the planet overheating dangerously.

Indian delegates first formally complained about the IPCC's social cost analysis before the Climate Conference in Berlin in April, when environment minister Kamal Nath wrote to ministerial colleagues round the world claiming the calculations were «absurd and discriminatory», and called for them to be «purged from the process».

As world leaders prepare to meet in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, UK health professionals have formed an alliance of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to advocate for stronger measures to tackle climate Climate Change Conference, UK health professionals have formed an alliance of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to advocate for stronger measures to tackle climate climate change.

The World Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.pWorld Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.pworld is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.p.m.).

Earth - observation programs will fail to provide the data continuity required for climate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., lasclimate science unless they are more adequately managed and supported, Kevin Trenberth, a senior researcher at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Sciences in Boulder, Colo., told the World Climate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., lasClimate Research Program conference in Denver, Colo., last week.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

This December, a United Nations (UN) conference in Paris will attempt to get the world's leaders to adopt a new treaty to slow climate change — and global warming.

Leaders and diplomats from around the world are huddling at the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference in an effort to produce a global response to the climate pClimate Change Conference in an effort to produce a global response to the climate pclimate problem.

The four - day Climate Engineering Conference 2017, organized and hosted by the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, drew attendees from around the world.

«Jae's leadership has ensured PNNL's presence at the most esteemed integrated assessment and climate - related conferences and collaborative meetings in the world.

As world leaders including President Obama gathered in Paris to discuss climate change last week, Ames, Iowa, Mayor Ann Campbell joined a conference call of U.S. mayors with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz — all part of the 21

The findings were published online Dec. 2 in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, just as world leaders gather in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference.

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