• Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. (skepticalscience.com)
  • And in the melee, the latest earth shaking report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in October 2018 has gone almost unreported in media. (tehelka.com)
  • These new findings build on calls in recent years to protect the integrity of the UN's climate negotiations by establishing clear conflict of interest policies. (globalwitness.org)
  • After over two weeks of negotiations at the conference, alongside multiple global protests and rallies for faster action, negotiations among world leaders managed to pull an arguable meager agreement together, leaving many issues unresolved. (eponline.com)
  • But as Obama pushes his climate agenda in the lead-up to the international negotiations coming at the end of this year, they're hard at work on a new line of attack: convincing the rest of the world that the U.S. is not to be trusted, either. (salon.com)
  • Similar tactics, he said, could be used to undermine global climate negotiations. (salon.com)
  • After two weeks of negotiations, replete with dramatic high-level huddles and multiple all-night sessions, the U.N. climate talks ended with a modest set of decisions to keep countries on the path toward an international climate agreement by 2015. (americanprogress.org)
  • In the time leading up to the talks and throughout the two-week-long negotiations, some developing countries pushed back on taking on commitments and establishing a timeline or process for the 2015 agreement. (americanprogress.org)
  • But he's also led a renewable energy company, and he's been involved in COP summit negotiations for years as the country's climate envoy. (publicradioeast.org)
  • It was the middle of global climate negotiations in 2019, the last time countries met about plans to cut their emissions. (whqr.org)
  • Nakabuye says she felt hopeful after speaking at the last climate negotiations, but little has happened since. (whqr.org)
  • For this year's negotiations, Nakabuye worries that COVID restrictions are making it even harder for the Global South to be represented. (whqr.org)
  • Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth. (kbbi.org)
  • Since 1992, when the United Nations recognized climate change as a serious issue, negotiations among countries have produced notable accords, including the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement. (cfr.org)
  • This has been the basic template for global climate negotiations since they began in earnest in the mid-1990s. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The research community has played a very important role in providing the basis for climate action, which has led to both the international climate negotiations and efforts around the world. (lu.se)
  • Pakistan contributes less than one percent to the global greenhouse gas emissions perpetrating climate change, yet one-third of the country was recently inundated with 'biblical' floods that killed hundreds and displaced millions. (ted.com)
  • We can have a quick catch-up, by examining the 2022 State of the Climate report, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in 2023. (skepticalscience.com)
  • The idea received a cool response from the United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year's U.N. climate summit. (courthousenews.com)
  • In a pragmatic, just and well-managed energy transition, we must be laser-focused on phasing out fossil fuel emissions, while phasing up and scaling up viable, affordable zero-carbon alternatives," said Sultan al-Jaber, a minister and oil company executive who is set to preside over the Nov. 30-Dec. 12 climate summit. (courthousenews.com)
  • U.S. climate envoy John Kerry has described al-Jaber as "a terrific choice " to chair the COP28 summit, noting his commitment to reduce emissions. (courthousenews.com)
  • Instead, it is governments and communities from countries most affected by climate change that are finding themselves shut out, despite the UK claiming it has ensured an in-person and inclusive climate summit. (globalwitness.org)
  • When President Obama joined Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in Ottawa last month at the North American Leaders' Summit to announce ambitious goals on climate and clean energy, EDF President Fred Krupp said that "implementing them will be the true measure of success. (edf.org)
  • This is a prelude to an upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt. (wglt.org)
  • The COP27 summit went late into overtime, with Sameh Shoukry, president of the climate summit, speaking during a closing session on Sunday. (kbbi.org)
  • This September, a delegation from the University of Michigan's Erb Institute traveled to San Francisco to attend the Global Climate Action Summit. (umich.edu)
  • During the summit two Erb Institute (MBA/MS) students interviewed attendees from a variety of industries and expertise and asked the important question, "What role does the private sector have to play on advancing action on climate change? (umich.edu)
  • Let's hope this meeting and the others leading up to the climate summit in Indonesia this December will have concrete and economically viable outcomes. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • The gathering of global sports organizations and sustainability experts, held October 30-31 in Bonn, Germany, preceded the global inter-governmental summit formally known as the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) that ended today. (levisstadium.com)
  • The larger summit was held to advance implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement to address climate change. (levisstadium.com)
  • If you're going to talk about Colombia and the peace process, do it somewhere else," was heard at a regional preparatory meeting for the World Humanitarian Summit, according to Ramón Rodríguez, with the Colombian government's Unit for Attention and Integral Reparation for Victims (UARIV). (ipsnews.net)
  • The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said talks had reached "deadlock" over the U.K.'s financial obligations and that he would not recommend the European Council authorize a shift to the second phase of talks during a summit in Brussels next week. (politico.eu)
  • In partnership with the Global Climate Action Summit and Capital Public Radio, Cool Effect co-hosted the Let's Talk Solutions forum to kick off the conversation about solutions that can be led by states, cities, businesses and NGOs. (cooleffect.org)
  • The summit results in some of the first international agreements on climate change, which become the foundation for future accords. (cfr.org)
  • The press conference today is on COVID updates with a special focus on the linkages between the climate and the COVID-19 crisis and the role of youth in the response ahead of Earth Day, which is 22nd April, and the first Global Youth Summit organised as part of the global youth mobilisation, which is 23rd to 25th April. (bvsalud.org)
  • Speaking at the start of a two-day meeting in Berlin attended by dozens of top climate envoys, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said the world needs to sharply cut greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). (courthousenews.com)
  • Even so, the prospect of the United Kingdom's departure has raised concerns about impacts on climate and energy policy, including possible delays in finalizing the EU's 2030 emissions target. (edf.org)
  • Countries would be legally required to enact domestic climate change policies - but would voluntarily pledge to specific levels of emissions cuts and to channel money to poor countries to help them adapt to climate change. (salon.com)
  • According to the WSJ, Obama administration officials are pretty happy with the way climate talks are going, and they're fairly sure we'll be able to meet our emissions goals with the laws we already have. (salon.com)
  • They say it's a conflict of interest and a cause for concern as he presides over these complex talks to reduce carbon emissions. (publicradioeast.org)
  • And the hard reality is that in order to achieve this goal, global emissions must fall 43% by 2030. (publicradioeast.org)
  • Under current plans, countries aren't cutting emissions enough to avoid extreme climate change impacts. (whqr.org)
  • Elon Musk spoke before an audience at Sorbonne University in Paris on global climate change while the city hosted 190 nations for COP 21 to discuss a possible new global agreement aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. (teslarati.com)
  • To date, 151 Parties, representing around 90% of global emissions, have put forward their intended contributions in preparation for the Paris deal. (europa.eu)
  • The climate action plans outlined in these contributions represent an unprecedented effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. (europa.eu)
  • In addition to emissions reduction, the Paris outcome will also need to address other essential elements, including adaptation to the impacts of climate change and the mobilisation of financing for climate action. (europa.eu)
  • At these talks, the country announced that it continues to see a future of oil production, but will invest in new efforts to capture emissions and prevent them from reaching the atmosphere, known as carbon capture and sequestration. (kbbi.org)
  • Global greenhouse gas emissions are still rising . (kbbi.org)
  • The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change believes additional investments of about US$210 billion a year are necessary to maintain greenhouse gas emissions at current levels until 2030. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • More than 1,000 delegates from around the world will gather to talk about how best to ensure energy investments will contribute to reducing emissions rather than adding to it. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • As national negotiators debate how to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, local leaders point to significant climate action. (nature.com)
  • Climate commitment could help to build momentum towards a new global pact to limit greenhouse-gas emissions. (nature.com)
  • Such emissions are held responsible for causing global warming. (rferl.org)
  • Tourism generates an estimated 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. (wtm.com)
  • Although they don't say it directly, such water use will have also added to climate change emissions, even though these were probably not accounted for either. (wtm.com)
  • Read any number of press releases or websites and you will see companies talk about having reduced their emissions by a certain percent, when what they actually mean is they have increased their efficiency. (wtm.com)
  • A group of 15 international bodies have today announced they are to make their operations 'climate neutral' in a move designed to slash global emissions by over two million tonnes a year. (businessgreen.com)
  • Much of the talk in the corridors and press halls today was about Japan's announcement yesterday that they will neither place their emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol nor even accept a second commitment period when the current one expires in 2012. (iatp.org)
  • The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is here in force, hosting over 70 events during the two-week talks. (iatp.org)
  • Paris (AFP) - Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat from rising emissions. (dhakastories.com)
  • Governments have already accepted that climate change is a grave threat to humanity and the planet, and have advocated immediate action to cut fossil fuel emissions and prepare for the accelerating impacts of warming. (dhakastories.com)
  • The Kyoto Protocol enters into force in February after it is ratified by enough countries to account for at least 55 percent of global emissions. (cfr.org)
  • While the venues are different, the script remains the same: World leaders will outdo one another with dire warnings of catastrophe, agree that the "climate crisis" demands greater ambition to cut emissions, and reiterate their commitment to nonbinding targets the world is unlikely to meet. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Poor countries will demand that rich countries cut emissions first and fastest-and support programs to help the global south adapt to a warming climate. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • An energy transition supported by CCUS will enable global economies to diversify their energy mix, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute to the global transition towards a low-carbon economy, in alignment with the Paris Agreement. (zawya.com)
  • To avoid devastating consequences, countries across the globe have agreed to goals of restricting eventual global warming so that the planet is no more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • But the protocol, the only pact setting legal curbs on global emissions, is due to expire in December 2012. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Developing economies, though responsible for a large share of global emissions, still have the need for development. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • To counter the effects of this crisis, governments around the globe have set national targets to reduce their CO2 emissions and limit global warming (IEA, 2019). (lu.se)
  • This talk addresses the energy transition not only as a goal of technological substitution, necessary for the reduction of greenhouse emissions, but, above all, as the most important global challenge for the transformation of social, ecological and economic relationships. (lu.se)
  • The architects of the climate crisis cannot build a livable and just future when they've already burnt the house down. (globalwitness.org)
  • Other polluting industries deeply implicated in the climate crisis, such as finance, agribusiness, and transportation are also present, although they are generally not included in this analysis. (globalwitness.org)
  • The crisis in Venezuela caused by the violent opposition of followers of Henrique Capriles, who is accusing President Nicolás Maduro of election fraud, and peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas in Havana, are occupying the attention of national and foreign media. (ipsnews.net)
  • It will also be a chance to test the resolve of nations facing a catalogue of crises, including escalating climate impacts, geopolitical tensions, bloodshed in Ukraine and the threat of a devastating global food crisis. (dhakastories.com)
  • There is this disconnect between the scientific evidence of global crisis in the making, of potentially rushing towards unmanageable climate impact, versus the lack of action," Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told AFP. (dhakastories.com)
  • UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres last week warned that Russia's invasion of Ukraine risked slowing action to combat the climate crisis. (dhakastories.com)
  • Fears of a food crisis have intensified in recent weeks, with India moving to ban wheat exports after the hottest March and April on record - blamed largely on climate change - hit harvests. (dhakastories.com)
  • The pandemic will recede but we will still be left with all the other challenges that we had before including the climate crisis. (bvsalud.org)
  • We are organising and participating in events on climate litigation, science and activism, and the role of the arts in the climate crisis. (lu.se)
  • La coordinación de los sistemas de salud en el nivel de atención primaria, la preparación de los gestores y el mantenimiento de la asignación continua de recursos financieros al sector de la salud son factores importantes para garantizar una respuesta satisfactoria a crisis como la causada por la pandemia de COVID-19. (bvsalud.org)
  • The current climate crisis is a consequence of the hegemonic development model based on intensive consumption of fossil fuels over the last two centuries (IPCC, 2021). (lu.se)
  • In all, it is come through grants not loans, and be urgently scaled estimated that the climate crisis has destroyed a fth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the countries most up before the current review period of 2025. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lee Temple is an award-winning author, visionary, elder, community organizer, and global sustainability activist/consultant-a planetary change agent and vital force for cross-cultural transformation. (primamundi.com)
  • In this episode, we discuss the 'Prize for Cities' recognising transformative projects in cities around the world that are igniting innovation on sustainability and climate action. (lu.se)
  • Music for the climate combines live music and speech to present facts and theories in climate and sustainability research in an unconventional way. (lu.se)
  • Lund University Agenda 2030 Graduate School is a global, cutting-edge research school and collaboration platform for issues related to societal challenges, sustainability and the 2030 Agenda. (lu.se)
  • There has been two talks so far, first climate activist and sustainability entrepreneur Rebecka Carlsson spoke on how we can stop climate change quickly enough and giving good examples of ground breaking sustainable business models. (lu.se)
  • A separate fund to help nations hit by climate disasters, agreed at last year's climate talks in Egypt , is still being set up. (courthousenews.com)
  • After 200 nations debated for 40 hours-and talked past their deadline, the agreements were weak to say the least. (eponline.com)
  • As for providing funds to poorer nations with rising seas, crippling droughts, and other consequences of climate change, fights seemed to drag on and on. (eponline.com)
  • There's a strong understanding of the difficulties of the U.S. situation, and a willingness to work with the U.S. to get out of this impasse," said Laurence Tubiana, the French ambassador for climate change to the United Nations, told the Times. (salon.com)
  • Many environmentalists were disappointed to hear this year's United Nations climate conference will be presided over by an oil executive. (publicradioeast.org)
  • Many nations arrived at the talks with the hope of keeping "1.5 degrees alive. (kbbi.org)
  • Third draft of climate accord includes French proposals intended to coax an agreement out of rich and poor nations. (nature.com)
  • Can nations unite to save Earth's climate? (nature.com)
  • epa) November 6, 2006 -- Some 6,000 delegates from 189 nations have opened the United Nations' 12th round of climate talks in Nairobi. (rferl.org)
  • The 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference concluded today in Germany, two weeks after the San Francisco 49ers helped open the gathering of international climate change advocates by participating in the inaugural UN Dialogue on Sport and Climate Action. (levisstadium.com)
  • IATP President Jim Harkness is blogging from Cancún, Mexico where the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is being negotiated. (iatp.org)
  • These nations are climate villains," said Mohamed Adow, head of climate policy for Christian Aid, a U.K. charity. (politico.eu)
  • The conference will set the stage for a fresh round of major United Nations talks later this year in Egypt. (dhakastories.com)
  • A particular focus will be funding from rich polluters to help vulnerable developing nations least responsible for global heating to cope with its increasingly ferocious consequences. (dhakastories.com)
  • One hundred and ninety-five nations have committed to finalising a new climate pact in Paris by 2015's end. (memorybase.org)
  • After more than two decades of trying but failing to forge a global pact to halt climate change, United Nations negotiators gathering in South America this week are expressing a new optimism that they may finally achieve the elusive deal. (primamundi.com)
  • Poor countries will agree, in principle, to do so if rich countries foot the bill and compensate the nations of the global south for damage from climate change they are not responsible for. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Poor countries face deep energy and food shortages as wealthy nations bid up the price of fossil fuels, food, and fertilizer while simultaneously cutting off aid to poor countries to develop their own fossil fuel supplies and infrastructure in the name of avoiding climate disaster. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But while politicians, United Nations functionaries, climate activists, jet-setting celebrities, and a compliant media will find creative ways to escalate the narrative of cascading catastrophes, filled with anecdotes of raging waters, oppressive heat, parched soil, and killer storms, the data tells a different and far more promising story. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • At the Cancun conference in 2010, industrial nations agreed to provide 30 billion U.S. dollars in fast-start funds between 2010 and 2012 and 100 billion U.S. dollars a year by 2020 to assist developing economies in tackling climate change. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Against the backdrop of the global financial turmoil, it's unrealistic for developed nations to raise all climate funds from public finance," Hou explained. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Following international agreements such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the Bali Road Map, developing nations have been taking concrete measures in performing their obligations over the past few years," she said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Later in 2021, Njuguna attended the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and represented Fridays for Future Kenya. (wikipedia.org)
  • At COP26, Njuguna, alongside Vanessa Nakate and Elizabeth Wathuti, met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many are saying that what agreements they did come to are simply not enough-especially given the alarming nature of the 2019 WMO State of the Global Climate Report . (eponline.com)
  • In a global burden study, researchers estimated that in 2019 alone, over one million deaths were directly caused by AMR bacterial infection, and about 5 million deaths were related to bacterial AMR. (cdc.gov)
  • se seleccionaron 11 estudios publicados en el período 2019-2020. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2021, there was roughly $785 billion deployed at the global level for energy transition technologies. (buzzsprout.com)
  • Their co-authored essay highlighted a 2021 UNICEF report that stated 2.2 billion children are at "extremely high-risk" of experiencing the consequences of climate change. (wikipedia.org)
  • To avoid these catastrophic health effects across all regions of the globe, there is broad agreement--as 231 health journals argued together in 2021--that the rise in global temperature must be limited to less than 1.5oC compared with pre-industrial levels. (bvsalud.org)
  • The presence of hundreds of those being paid to push the toxic interests of polluting fossil fuel companies, will only increase the scepticism of climate activists who see these talks as more evidence of global leaders' dithering and delaying. (globalwitness.org)
  • And that has a lot of climate activists worried. (wglt.org)
  • Climate activists say this new shift is simply a way to prop up fossil fuels with a technology that will not scale up for decades. (kbbi.org)
  • In 2022, the first Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference was held, using One Health as a guiding principle. (cdc.gov)
  • One article from the Washington Post notes that by and large, the negotiators failed to achieve their primary goals, including persuading the world's largest carbon-emitting countries (including the U.S.) to pledge to tackle climate change more aggressively beginning in 2020. (eponline.com)
  • The article says that negotiators "were at loggerheads while crafting rules around a fair and transparent global carbon trading system," as was expected. (eponline.com)
  • UN climate negotiators are meeting in Peru to try to advance talks on a new global agreement. (memorybase.org)
  • This year's COP was the longest in the 25-year history of the talks, as the official deadline was last Friday evening. (eponline.com)
  • Next year's gathering will be held in Scotland, and in order to avoid uneventful and unfruitful talks like those from this year, countries will be "asked to show up with more ambitious pledges to slash their carbon footprints. (eponline.com)
  • So did India, a country that had pushed back against the idea of phasing out coal at last year's COP26 talks in Glasgow . (kbbi.org)
  • And translating this into rules is very hard," Patricia Espinosa, head of the U.N.'s climate change secretariat, said Saturday. (politico.eu)
  • Climate change is not an agenda we can afford to push back on our global schedule," said outgoing UN climate change chief Patricia Espinosa ahead of the meeting. (dhakastories.com)
  • BERLIN (AP) - Germany called Tuesday for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would "ring in the end of the fossil fuel age" and help prevent dangerous global warming . (courthousenews.com)
  • MARTÍNEZ: I know forums like this are an opportunity for governments to highlight their climate efforts. (wglt.org)
  • Recent meetings such as the INDC Forum hosted by the European Commission and the Government of Morocco, which focused on countries' intended nationally determined contributions (INDC) to the new agreement, demonstrate governments' strong commitment to tackle climate change. (europa.eu)
  • That's because three years ago, the effort was to get 197 governments to agree on the broad terms of what had to be done to rein in global warming. (politico.eu)
  • He is the founder of Climate Outreach which advises the UN, IPCC, World bank, most major green groups and governments around the world. (globallandscapesforum.org)
  • Delegates from nearly 200 governments will attend the climate talks in the South African city of Durban from November 28 to December 9. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • But whatever the implications may be for Britain and the EU, one thing is clear: Brexit can't derail the overwhelming global momentum on climate action that produced the Paris Agreement. (edf.org)
  • And it's not just the disconnect from the general public that the conference seemed to trip over-there is a stark difference from today's climate talks compared to the momentum and drive that pushed the ambitious Paris agreement four years ago in 2015. (eponline.com)
  • The can-do spirit that birthed the Paris agreement feels like a distant memory today," Helen Mountford, vice president for climate and economics at the World Resources Institute, said. (eponline.com)
  • However, a promise like this one seems far-fetched given that many countries have not even met their goals from the Paris agreement in 2015, when leaders pledged to limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit)-and to try to remain below 1.5 degrees Celsius. (eponline.com)
  • The EU is calling for the Paris agreement to deliver a framework that ensures countries keep up and step up their efforts to help keep the world on track to avoiding dangerous climate change. (europa.eu)
  • The gathering was designed to develop collaborative approaches and platforms by which stakeholders at the intersection of sport and climate can contribute to achieving the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). (levisstadium.com)
  • The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world's largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement. (globallandscapesforum.org)
  • Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg heads the Copenhagen Consensus, which has prioritized the world's greatest problems -- global warming, world poverty, disease -- based on how effective our solutions might be. (ted.com)
  • Fundamental change has happened to the perception of the world's second-largest economy regarding the climate issue, as reflected by the recently released white paper on climate change, Hou said. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Countries struggled to compromise on a plan that would reduce global dependence on fossil fuels, while helping vulnerable countries pay for the damage caused by worsening sea level rise, storms, droughts, heat waves and other climate-driven disasters. (kbbi.org)
  • Climate adaptation-the actions that societies take to protect their populations from extreme weather, such as storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and cold snaps-works. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Njuguna started their climate activism in 2017 after severe droughts in Nairobi impacted their school's water supply. (wikipedia.org)
  • What we need to see coming out of COP28 is not just about fossil fuel phaseout, but equitable phaseout of fossil fuels," said Harjeet Singh, head of global political strategy at Climate Action Network International. (courthousenews.com)
  • The case for meaningful global action must not be diverted by a festival of polluters and their mouthpieces, who have no interest in seeing the changes we need to protect people and the planet. (globalwitness.org)
  • Today's announcement provides yet another illustration of the growing importance of North American leadership on climate and clean energy - one of many recent bright spots in climate action. (edf.org)
  • Growing momentum for global climate action. (edf.org)
  • And it comes from an unlikely quarter: climate action. (edf.org)
  • Remember when Republicans' biggest argument against the U.S. pursuing any type of action on climate change was that, without us being able to trust other countries to do the same, anything we achieved would basically be meaningless? (salon.com)
  • MARTÍNEZ: The Allegheny Front's Reid Frazier joins us from Pittsburgh, where he's covering the Global Clean Energy Action Forum. (wglt.org)
  • NAKABUYE: We need leadership on climate action, not talks. (whqr.org)
  • Climate action. (whqr.org)
  • Musk urged everyone in the audience to talk about the urgency of climate action with their family, friends and elected officials. (teslarati.com)
  • The recent report by the OECD and the Climate Policy Initiative shows that, while challenges remain, support for climate action in developing countries is making good progress towards the USD 100 billion per year goal by 2020, with public and private climate finance mobilised by developed countries reaching approximately USD 62 billion in 2014. (europa.eu)
  • Curious about the role of business in advancing climate action? (umich.edu)
  • UN climate chief says that global-warming limit is unachievable without further action. (nature.com)
  • Meeting with sports venues and organizations from around the world - big and small - really demonstrated that our Levi's Stadium team is really well positioned to help lead the movement towards a more sustainable future for our industry," said Pat Rogan, Levi's Stadium Director of Engineering Operations, who represented the 49ers in Bonn at the UN Dialogue on Sport and Climate Action. (levisstadium.com)
  • The UN Dialogue on Sports and Climate Action featured two full days of workshops, panel discussions, and keynote speeches focused on leveraging sport and its ability to influence social consciousness. (levisstadium.com)
  • The groups also discussed what individual and collective commitments can be made within the sports industry, what forms of cooperation can be established with relevant entities outside of the sports industry, and how can the sports industry better engage stakeholders to promote broader climate action. (levisstadium.com)
  • WGES, which is held this year under the theme 'Galvanising Action for a Sustainable Recovery,' is a strategic platform to support international collaboration to address global challenges, enhance sustainable development and green economy investments, as well as encourage the adoption of effective relevant policies and plans. (zawya.com)
  • We can't take action on climate change unless we talk about it- so how can we get people talking about something they don't even want to think about! (globallandscapesforum.org)
  • The success of the Forum reflects a growing global recognition of the need to prioritise sustainable energy and climate action. (zawya.com)
  • Members of the Extinction Rebellion movement demonstrate for more urgent action against climate change. (truthdig.com)
  • That's the ambition behind the global research and action agenda for cities. (lu.se)
  • He discusses the importance of informed decision-making, genuinely engaging cities in research processes, and the role of research for transformative climate action in cities. (lu.se)
  • The health argument for climate action is crystal-clear. (bvsalud.org)
  • The approach mobilizes multiple sectors, disciplines, and communities at various levels of society to work together to foster wellbeing and tackle threats to health and ecosystems, while addressing the collective need for clean water, air and energy, safe and nutritious food, taking action on climate change, and contributing to sustainable development ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The report delivers fundamental knowledge support for processes related to climate action, both on international and national arenas. (lu.se)
  • While science cannot dictate decisions, continued research will provide knowledge support and also hopefully uncover any early surprises in waiting, as climate change and climate action progress. (lu.se)
  • At the conclusion of today's session, you will be able to describe the disciplines that are included in One Health, define the challenges to instituting a One Health approach, identify the major global One Health leader organizations and groups, and discuss how the One Health Commission is working to connect stakeholders to create One Health action teams that educate about One Health and the issues surrounding it. (cdc.gov)
  • Ahead of this meeting, we--as health journal editors from across the continent--call for urgent action to ensure it is the COP that nally delivers climate justice for Africa and vulnerable countries. (bvsalud.org)
  • A call for developed countries to continue mobilizing climate finance "at increasing levels" through 2020. (americanprogress.org)
  • The decision requests developed countries to submit strategies for scaling up climate finance through 2020, including information on pathways for mobilizing funds commensurate with a $100 billion annual commitment by 2020. (americanprogress.org)
  • It also says that parties will convene workshops to scale up climate finance that will inform a biennial high-level ministerial dialogue on climate finance-starting in 2014 and ending in 2020. (americanprogress.org)
  • By 2020, the total was 149 million, more than half of whom lived in Asia and two out of five in Africa.1 In 2020, of the 155 countries with sufficient recent data to estimate progress, 53 were on track to reach the global target of 40% reduction in the number of stunted children by 2025 and 74 presented some progress towards that target. (who.int)
  • There has been a modest increase at the global level in two decades - 5.7% of all under-5-year-olds in 2020 compared with 5.4% in 2000. (who.int)
  • As the COP27 talks got underway, a broad coalition of countries began calling for the phase-down of all fossil fuels. (kbbi.org)
  • In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)
  • Addressing officials from about 40 countries attending the annual Petersberg Climate Dialogue in the German capital, Baerbock said that renewables such as solar and wind power are already the most cost-effective form of generating energy in most places around the world. (courthousenews.com)
  • Meanwhile, there are growing calls for "loss and damage" funding for countries already struck by devastating climate impacts, with a specific dialogue on the subject slated for this week. (dhakastories.com)
  • The Forum, held at the Le Royal Méridien Doha, provided a platform for dialogue, knowledge sharing, and the fostering of strategies to drive the global energy transition. (zawya.com)
  • The COP25 of this year, hosted in Madrid, proved a disheartening end to urgent climate talks. (eponline.com)
  • KYIV: Russia on Saturday admitted using advanced hypersonic missiles for the first time in the Ukraine conflict as Kyiv's embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky called for urgent peace talks a day after the Ukrainian authorities claimed to have killed a Russian general by a strike on an airfield. (dawn.com)
  • The Forum, held over three days, focused on fostering international collaboration and accelerating the deployment of Carbon, Capture, Utilisation and Storage to address the urgent challenges posed by climate change. (zawya.com)
  • And AMR is an urgent global public health problem. (cdc.gov)
  • Data analysis of the UN's provisional list of named attendees by Corporate Accountability, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), Glasgow Calls Out Polluters and Global Witness, reveals the scale at which corporate actors with a stake in the continued burning of fossil fuels have been enjoying access to these critical talks. (globalwitness.org)
  • We need to 'climate-proof' economic growth," said the UN's top climate official Yvo de Boer yesterday. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) secured over $9bn in commitments at a recent pledging conference in Berlin. (memorybase.org)
  • The path to shared global prosperity is a low-carbon path. (edf.org)
  • Elon Musk spoke to an audience at the Sorbonne in Paris on December 2 and urged people to support policies that will address the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and climate change. (teslarati.com)
  • This sort of semantic double play can be seen when companies talk about carbon offsetting. (wtm.com)
  • The Forum, coordinated in collaboration with Qatar's Gulf Organization for Research and Development, Global Carbon Council and Birba (an Omani company) along with various partner organisations, including the Al-Attiyah Foundation who served as a knowledge partner, brought together over 500 delegates and visitors from over 70 countries, including government representatives, industries, and leading climate and technology experts. (zawya.com)
  • Throughout the Forum, attendees engaged in lively discussions, interactive sessions, and thematic panels that covered a broad range of topics such as the deployment of carbon capture and utilisation technologies, energy efficiency, methods of storage, climate finance, and other technologies critical to achieving national climate targets. (zawya.com)
  • Speaking on GCC's endorsement for the event, Dr. Alhorr added: "Global Carbon Council's support for CCUS Forum is motivated by its commitment to the region's energy transition and low-carbon development. (zawya.com)
  • We take immense pride in being the first and only international carbon credit program rooted in the Global South, originating from Qatar. (zawya.com)
  • In the long run, the CCS methodology will amplify the positive impact of approximately 1,500 climate mitigation projects already submitted to the Global Carbon Council from 45 countries. (zawya.com)
  • Further, the biomass of amphibians and reptiles in certain areas can exceed that of all other vertebrate animals, which means they play a major role in nutrient cycling (functioning as prey and predators) and sequester large quantities of carbon, thereby buffering global climate change ( 13 - 16 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In the Global South, inequality gaps, colonial trajectories of dispossession, and the economic and fiscal dependence on carbon-intensive commodities are central aspects that limit the speed, available resources, and scope of energy transition pathways. (lu.se)
  • After teen climate activist Greta Thunberg shames them for their inaction, leaders claim they will do more but concede it's not enough. (truthdig.com)
  • Today's press conference will include three special guests and I'm happy to welcome Greta Thunberg, Climate and Environmental Activist, Elahi Rawshan from Bangladesh, volunteer in the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, supporting young people in Bangladesh, and Daisy Moran from the USA, Global Youth Mobilisation Youth Board Member and World YMCA Representative. (bvsalud.org)
  • His climate envoy, John Kerry, spoke yesterday. (wglt.org)
  • Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, presented the U.S. vision for the 2015 agreement in an October speech, calling for nationally determined commitments to be announced by early 2015, followed by a period of review and consultation. (americanprogress.org)
  • U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to all fossil fuel use , which is blamed for the majority of global warming that has occurred since the start of the industrial era, warning that otherwise the goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) may be missed. (courthousenews.com)
  • And since that went over so well , it seems to have given Congress' top global warming truthers some ideas. (salon.com)
  • This issue brief further explains the outcomes of the Warsaw meeting and what work lies ahead for the international community to address global warming. (americanprogress.org)
  • During the 2011 U.N. climate talks in Durban, South Africa, countries decided to create a global climate agreement applicable to all parties by 2015-known as the Durban Platform-with the goal of keeping average global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, the level scientists say is necessary to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. (americanprogress.org)
  • Lauren Sommer covers climate change for NPR's Science Desk, from the scientists on the front lines of documenting the warming climate to the way those changes are reshaping communities and ecosystems around the world. (whqr.org)
  • The final deal, announced Sunday morning in Egypt, reiterates the goal set by the 2015 Paris climate agreement to keep overall global warming from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (about 2.8 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial era of the 1800s. (kbbi.org)
  • The global economy will be fueled by over US$20 trillion of spending on energy over the next two decades and this week's round of talks on global warming, which begin today in Vienna, Austria, will focus on how to make that investment as green as possible. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • Countries have pledged to limit global warming to 2 °C, and climate models say that is still possible. (nature.com)
  • In October, former World Bank chief economist Sir Nicholas Stern issued a 700-page report on the economic impact of global warming. (rferl.org)
  • As of Monday, ministers take over for the final week - and the issues they face are the same ones that have bedevilled climate talks for years, despite increasing signs that global warming is accelerating . (politico.eu)
  • and between countries dramatically affected by global warming and those keener on industrializing. (politico.eu)
  • Katowice is supposed to end with a rulebook on how Paris is to work, but the cooperation that existed three years ago is now frayed - think Donald Trump and other climate skeptics who doubt that global warming is happening and who will bear no burden to tackle it. (politico.eu)
  • But as things are going, the world is unlikely to be able to meet the Paris climate deal's commitment to limit warming "well below" 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. (dhakastories.com)
  • Global warming is real and human-caused. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Under the guise of climate "skepticism", the public is bombarded with misinformation that casts doubt on the reality of human-caused global warming. (skepticalscience.com)
  • For the world to continue its ongoing efforts against global warming, a seamless connection between the protocol's first and second periods is needed, said Hou Yanli, director of the Climate & Energy Programme of the WWF's Beijing Office, in an interview. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • So the message is clear, the effluent needs to compensate because when global warming brings misery, it would be equitable affecting both developed and under developed economies. (tehelka.com)
  • Dan Rutz] A lot of talk these days, Alan, about global warming. (cdc.gov)
  • Global warming can be concerning, but are your patients wondering whether climate change can affect health? (medscape.com)
  • Diplomats attending the meeting in Berlin will also be discussing how to ramp up various forms of financial aid for developing countries hardest hit by climate change. (courthousenews.com)
  • She shares a vision for global climate diplomacy where the countries responsible for pollution pay reparations for the damage they've caused, while developing countries bring forward a clean, green future. (ted.com)
  • The Least Developed Countries Group, comprised of 49 developing countries particularly vulnerable to climate change,urged for the Warsaw meeting to adopt "a clear roadmap for negotiating the planning, scope, structure and design of the new 2015 agreement" and for a draft agreement by 2014, followed by consultations ahead of adoption in 2015. (americanprogress.org)
  • Next week, world leaders meet to negotiate new climate agreements - high stakes for developing countries. (whqr.org)
  • Developing countries arrived with a key demand at these talks: wealthier countries must compensate them for the rising costs of floods, storms and other climate impacts . (kbbi.org)
  • Ahead of the conference, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo De Boer, told AP television that the delegates will talk about issues of concern to developing countries. (rferl.org)
  • We will be talking about technology transfer, and we will be talking about how developing countries can get more access to projects that will 'green' their economic growth and 'green' their energy sector. (rferl.org)
  • Developed countries want a narrow scope for those guidelines, but developing countries are pushing for finance and adaption in them," said Liz Gallagher from the think-tank E3G, and a long-time observer of the UN talks process. (memorybase.org)
  • Such an agreement would address climate mitigation, adaptation, and finance. (americanprogress.org)
  • Countries agreed to introduce their national climate mitigation contributions by early 2015, which would provide time to assess whether their actions are sufficient to address severe climate change. (americanprogress.org)
  • I sat in on one of them, a press conference, and heard their new refrain, that 85 percent of funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation will "have to" come from the private sector. (iatp.org)
  • This is the biggest disconnect between this process and what's going on in the real world that I've seen," said Alden Meyer, director of strategy and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, who has been attending climate talks since the early 1990s. (eponline.com)
  • That's a key takeaway of the new fifth National Climate Assessment , a sweeping, U.S.-focused report in which top climate scientists summarize the latest research on climate change science, impacts, and solutions. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Doha, Qatar - The CCUS Forum, a landmark gathering of world leaders, policymakers, scientists, and industry experts, successfully concluded on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone in the global efforts to combat climate change and transition towards sustainable energy. (zawya.com)
  • Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden's IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report. (lu.se)
  • But leaders have struggled to maintain momentum and failed to slow global temperature rise. (cfr.org)
  • U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses delegates during the opening of the high-level segment of the U.N. climate conference in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, November 19, 2013, as U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, right, listens. (americanprogress.org)
  • Nature tracked the run-up to the twenty-first meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which produced a historic global accord. (nature.com)
  • Among them is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) [PDF], which aims to prevent "dangerous" human interference in the climate system, acknowledges that human activities contribute to climate change, and recognizes climate change as an issue of global concern. (cfr.org)
  • However, their aggregate effect falls short of what is needed to put the world on the most cost-effective pathway to the internationally agreed objective of keeping global temperature rise below 2°C. (europa.eu)
  • World Meteorological Organization says that a record-breaking temperature in 2015 underscores the need for a global climate deal. (nature.com)
  • Sea-surface temperature patterns in the tropical Pacific were characteristic of La Niña, a phenomenon that should have mitigated against atmospheric heat gain at the global scale. (skepticalscience.com)
  • However, the annual global surface temperature across land and oceans was among the six highest in records dating as far back as the mid-1800s. (skepticalscience.com)
  • According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), the global average temperature over land and ocean from January to October was the hottest since records began in 1880. (memorybase.org)
  • The global temperature for August 2018 was the fifth highest August temperature since global records began in 1880 while nine of the ten warmest August global land and ocean surface temperatures have been reported since year 2009. (tehelka.com)
  • One of the direct effects of climate change is, of course, an increase in ambient temperature in the Arctic. (cdc.gov)
  • But while Japan's move is making headlines, the global community's collective response to climate change is under much more insidious attacks in myriad meetings and processes that are either closed to the public or deemed too arcane to be newsworthy. (iatp.org)
  • Global leaders will convene this week at the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh for another round of haggling over the global response to climate change. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Countries gathering next week at UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, will seek to make progress on the draft text of the new global climate agreement due to be adopted in Paris in December. (europa.eu)
  • The Alliance of Small Island States has warned that the Bonn conference must not be "just another talk shop", calling for a "clear view" on when and how this financing will be put in place. (dhakastories.com)
  • If we're serious about raising ambition, then fossil fuel lobbyists should be shut out of the talks and out of our national capitals. (globalwitness.org)
  • Deep-seated tensions flared between richer countries that have prospered by burning fossil fuels, and developing ones, which are bearing the brunt of climate-driven disasters. (kbbi.org)
  • Climate disasters? (medscape.com)
  • The novel inclusion of a gender perspective in the peace talks that led to a historic ceasefire between the Colombian government and left-wing guerrillas is a landmark and an inspiration for efforts to solve other armed conflicts in the world, according to the director of U.N.-Women in Colombia, Belén Sanz. (ipsnews.net)
  • There is a growing sensation in Colombia that the peace talks with the FARC guerrillas are "about to come to an end" - in success or failure, according to the government's chief negotiator, Humberto de la Calle. (ipsnews.net)
  • Three major advances were made over the last week in the peace talks that have been moving forward in Cuba for nearly two years between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, while the decades-old civil war rages on. (ipsnews.net)
  • International peace talks on the Syria conflict could take place next month, Syria's deputy prime minister has said. (ipsnews.net)
  • Colombia's FARC guerrillas announced Friday a "pause" in the peace talks in Havana, which formally opened a year ago. (ipsnews.net)
  • Against the backdrop of two major announcements of Israeli settlement expansion, U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians resumed Thursday in Jerusalem. (ipsnews.net)
  • Syria's opposition will not participate in proposed international peace talks in Geneva next month, their leader has said. (ipsnews.net)
  • Colombian government and guerrilla delegates have announced an agreement on the question of land reform - an important step in the peace talks that began six months ago in Havana. (ipsnews.net)
  • The Obama administration hopes to announce a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. (truthdig.com)
  • The fossil fuel lobby at COP is larger than the combined total of the eight delegations from the countries worst affected by climate change in the last two decades - Puerto Rico, Myanmar, Haiti, Philippines, Mozambique, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Pakistan. (globalwitness.org)
  • A new era of climate leadership: Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. announced major joint commitments on climate and clean energy on June 29, 2016. (edf.org)
  • There are also processes in which the report will connect very directly, such as the ongoing so-called second periodic review of the long-term goal (i.e., global climate goals from Paris 2015). (lu.se)
  • He goes on, saying the disconnect is exemplified by the fact that leaders and policymakers do not seem to want to approach the topic of climate change with the same sense of urgency or alarm as the citizens outside the doors. (eponline.com)
  • Christiana Figueres sits down with Nature as the Paris talks enter their final days. (nature.com)
  • China's rising as a global power on the world stage has made it an important force in driving global emission reduction efforts. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The white paper, "China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change", showed the nation's emission reduction efforts made in line of its obligations within international cooperation framework during its 11th Five-Year Plan Period (2006-2010). (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • The European Union also contributed to the positive mood by agreeing climate targets for 2030 . (memorybase.org)
  • This news comes as groups around the world, many from countries that bear the brunt of climate impacts, have criticised unequal access to COP26, citing barriers to participation, amidst vaccine apartheid, costly travel restrictions and a lack of safeguarding guarantees. (globalwitness.org)
  • With the world quickly running out of time to avert climate disaster, this COP absolutely must be a success. (globalwitness.org)
  • The world is playing catch-up when it comes to the key Paris goal of holding global temperatures down to 1.5 degrees. (publicradioeast.org)
  • The war against climate change is not a war against oil," De Boer said, recognizing that the world will likely be dependent upon oil and coal for many years to come. (thegreenskeptic.com)
  • The problem is, the mystique surrounding these two ideas permeates not just the developed world, but also the mentality of elites in the global South. (iatp.org)
  • The recently restarted talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are the only peaceful political activity amidst ongoing violence in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Egypt, Bahrain and elsewhere in the Arab world. (ipsnews.net)
  • DUBAI - The UAE hosts various international conferences and offers awards to celebrate innovators and bright minds from around the world, encouraging them to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to global humanitarian and development challenges to ensure a brighter future for humanity. (zawya.com)
  • Through the awards, the UAE hopes to awaken the enthusiasm of individuals, bodies and organisations and enhance their social responsibility, as well as encourage global innovation, research and development (R&D), and adoption of the latest disruptive technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, to ensure a more sustainable future for the whole world. (zawya.com)
  • In that time, much has happened in the world of climate change. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Days later, 125 world leaders attended a meeting called by the UN secretary general, where they re-affirmed their commitments to tackle the problem through a new global agreement . (memorybase.org)
  • As the first CCUS Forum in the MENA region, this event marks a turning point in our collective efforts to address the pressing climate challenges faced by the region and the world. (zawya.com)
  • BEIJING - An extension of the Kyoto Protocol beyond its first commitment period ending in 2012 is of crucial importance to global efforts in addressing climate change, a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) official said Saturday. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • We interview Rogier Vandenberg - the Global Director for the Ross Centre for Sustainable Cities at the World Resources Institute (WRI). (lu.se)
  • For example, the question of adapting to the consequences of climate change. (rferl.org)
  • Biden warned his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping of "consequences" for any financial or military aid for Russia, a move that could turn the standoff into a global confrontation. (dawn.com)
  • Officials scrambled to finalize a complex set of rules to implement in the 2015 Paris climate accord, but a number of higher-emitting countries targeted a number of smaller and more vulnerable countries. (eponline.com)
  • MERGE's administration is organised at the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC). (lu.se)
  • The 25th meeting of the UN Climate Talks ended with frustration, worry, and a lack of united agreement on climate issues this past Sunday morning. (eponline.com)
  • Today's announcement is a particularly strong signal from Mexico, which - with a well-earned reputation for climate leadership on the international stage - must still demonstrate how domestic policy will match those ambitious targets. (edf.org)
  • And Republican leaders have undoubtedly been distressed that the Obama administration's figured out how to facilitate an international climate deal without having to deal with Congress. (salon.com)
  • Hammond, speaking during a visit to the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting in Washington, called on his Conservative Party colleagues to focus on the Brexit talks even though "passions are high and people have very strong views about this [Brexit]. (politico.eu)
  • From Bali to Copenhagen and Cancun, the international climate talks have been through ups and downs. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • It is increasingly evident that the existing power structures and economic systems in place are insufficient to address climate change. (lu.se)
  • But it is mind boggling that countries did not muster the courage to call for phasing down fossil fuels, which are the biggest driver of climate change. (kbbi.org)
  • Thankfully, science has delivered the solutions, and we have the technology we need to provide energy and services without causing climate pollution, but we need to move very quickly in shutting down fossil fuels and replacing them with clean alternatives. (lu.se)