Sentences with phrase «world leaders agreed»

At the Paris climate summit in December 2015, world leaders agreed to work to limit global climate change to 2 °C and to try to achieve 1.5 °C.

In Copenhagen in 2009, world leaders agreed to work together to keep global temperatures below that mark.

FlightPath 1.5 expressed concern that the current proposals for a global aviation climate deal fall far short of aviation's fair share of effort towards the global climate goals world leaders agreed in Paris last December.

In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

World The Paris Climate Change Conference came to a close over the weekend and world leaders agreed on a few items.

In 2011, world leaders agreed a deal at a summit led by David Cameron to vaccinate 250m children.

Christians are being urged to pray that world leaders agree on Saturday to a ceasefire in war - torn Syria,... More

World leaders agree on one thing: there is not enough time left before the December meeting in Copenhagen to negotiate a binding treaty to combat climate change

«By midcentury, possibly before, the average global temperature is projected to rise by more than 2 degrees Celsius; scientists and world leaders agree this point would trigger cataclysmic consequences.

The CTI report says there will be no need for new coal mines, oil demand will peak around 2020, and growth in gas will disappoint industry expectations if world leaders agree and then implement the policies needed to meet the UN commitment to keep climate change below 2 ˚C − the threshold agreed by most governments.

Not exact matches

Just listen to the urgent speeches from world leaders, and you might think that most governments agree that while we have no sustainable, clean alternative to fossil fuels that we can implement on a large scale today, we need to find one and put it in place quickly.

For once, the competing leaders agreed on one thing: the historical shift of bringing broadband connectivity to the developing world.

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned the world by agreeing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man he's ridiculed as «Little Rocket Man» and whose regime only months ago he threatened with «fire and fury.»

PARIS, May 2 - France's L'Oreal on Wednesday said it had agreed to buy South Korean make - up and fashion firm Nanda, as foreign cosmetic industry leaders jostle for a slice of one of the world's most innovative beauty markets.

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

In a much - needed win for Trump, the two leaders agreed on a 100 - day assessment of the trade imbalance between the world's two largest economies.

World leaders failed to agree a new deal at the last attempt, at the Copenhagen summit in 2009.

The world of politics provides a great example of the need for identified and agreed - upon organizational goals in order for leaders to effectively lead.

President Moon Jae - in met with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone in an event that was aired around the world last Friday, when the two leaders agreed to formally end the 68 - year - old Korean War and to work toward the «complete denuclearization» of the peninsula.

The two leaders, who realized they stand to benefit more from cooperating in order to push prices higher, agreed to work together to help world oil markets clear a glut that had more than halved oil prices since 2014, pummeling Russian and Saudi government revenues.

The leaders of the world's two most powerful economies agreed to a 100 - day plan to discuss trade talks directed at boosting US exports and reducing Washington's trade deficit with China, according to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

«This important research affirms that church leaders broadly agree our faith compels us to care sacrificially for refugees, but also finds that relatively few congregations are actively engaged in doing so,» said Stephan Bauman, president of World Relief.

It also comes as no great revelation that those same leaders overwhelmingly agree that the constituting elements of democratic capitalism» political freedom, democracy, free markets, and the free flow of ideas» are good not just for Americans but for the world.

McCain Foods, the world's leading producer of frozen French fries, has agreed to acquire a 49 % stake in Brazil - based Forno de Minas, a leader in cheese breads.

In December, world leaders met in Paris to agree on a global agenda for tackling climate change.

This proved he was «the most anti-European Tory leader they have ever had - much more so than Margaret Thatcher», the Normanton MP continued, which in turn meant he would never be able to agree to deals the world needs to tackle climate change.

U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer of New York announced today that Senate and House leaders agreed to renew the World Trade Center Health Program for the next 75 years.

He told BBC Radio 4's World At One deputy leader Tom Watson agreed the appointment of Emily Thornberry was a mistake.

On October 13, 2008, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown [24] said world leaders must meet to agree to a new economic system:

12.16 Nick Clegg agrees that world leaders need to work together but that Brown needs to practise at home what he preaches abroad, accusing the fiscal stimulus of not being green enough and not acting against tax havens.

World leaders have agreed on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but arguably Goal six — the water and sanitation goal — will have the hardest job building on the work undertaken by the previous Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

In December leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions for decades to come.

This is key to achieving the goals that European leaders agreed to in Lisbon in March 2000 and in Barcelona in March 2001, which include making Europe the most competitive knowledge - based economy in the world and devoting 3 % of gross domestic product to research by 2010.

World leaders have already agreed that there is no longer any serious scientific argument about the fact that the Earth is heating up and − if no action is taken − will exceed the 2 °C danger threshold.

The pressure is peaking, with 2015 a watershed year for world leaders and national governments to agree on and commit to action for a sustainable and equitable future.

While your editor may not necessarily agree with all of their policy solutions (and note that much of their proposals ignore the consequences of the War on Drugs in perpetuating gun - related homicides), I also believe that our youth, our future adults and leaders, have a right and moral obligation to be engaged in the real world.

I agree with your summary the next president must evolve into a leader that unites the world through peace rather than continually wanting to obliterate different countries through war because they don't share our ideoligies.

World leaders at the Copenhagen Climate Summit agreed to aim to keep warming below two degrees Celsius.

He credited world leaders for agreeing on 17 goals for sustainable development and working toward a new global climate agreement late this year.

Leaders from the «Group of 8» leading industrialized nations — United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia — agreed in L'Aquila last week that developed nations should aim to reduce emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 — a formula that essentially requires the developing world to make a 20 percent cut.

Last year, with the IEA World Energy Outlook 2010 we were happily surprised to see that the IEA still takes the 450 ppm CO2 stabilisation scenario seriously — indeed corresponding with the 2 degrees climate target that world leaders have agreed on multiple tWorld Energy Outlook 2010 we were happily surprised to see that the IEA still takes the 450 ppm CO2 stabilisation scenario seriously — indeed corresponding with the 2 degrees climate target that world leaders have agreed on multiple tworld leaders have agreed on multiple times.

This must be a strong argument for world leaders to agree a strong and binding climate deal in Copenhagen in December.»

When leaders from the developed world pushed Prime Minister Narenda Modi's government to refocus his government's energy plans on renewable power on the sidelines of the COP21, the Indian leadership agreed — if those affluent countries helped India and other developing countries cover the costs.

If Europe wants to show the world it is serious about climate change, its leaders need to agree which objectives really matter.

In fact, tropical forests contribute to achieving more than half of the 17 sustainable development goals agreed by world leaders in 2015.

The American president joined 150 world leaders for the opening ceremony on the first day of the UN climate conference in Paris where thousands of delegates hope to agree legally binding international agreements to prevent catastrophic climate change.

The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at the United Nations General Assembly and agreed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among which is the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.

The world's political leaders are ostensibly agreed that, if the planet is to avoid what is customarily misdescribed as «catastrophic climate change», our economies and lifestyles will have to be decarbonised in short order.

Malcolm Turnbull could've stayed leader in 2009 — all he had to do was agree to delay the emissions trading scheme until the rest of the world acted.

From job creation to economic development, from security concerns to the full empowerment of women, energy lies at the heart of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- agreed to by the world's leaders in September 2015.