On Monday, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres opened the annual end-of-year international climate negotiations.
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It was no accident that this happened on the eve of a major international climate change meeting.
Whether or not governments do so will be a major factor in determining whether international climate targets are met.
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In the current international climate it is hard to see how all these issues could be resolved at the September meeting.
Now, ahead of the international climate-change conference in Copenhagen in December, he wants to show that France is taking the lead.
The intent is to develop reportable and verifiable measures in the plan that could facilitate China's participation in an international climate agreement.
However, the BASIC countries have now affirmed that the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) should be the sovereign body for international climate talks.
He said that any international climate change agreement must ensure that developing countries "are able to continue their economic growth at an accelerated pace".
The Hong Kong dollar is kept pegged to the U.S. dollar, a recipe for distortion of economic activity in the current hot-and-cold international climate.
Delegates to an international climate meeting in Montreal salvaged two weeks of negotiations by agreeing today to keep talking about ways to curb global warming.
Samer Frangieh, QNFSP, senior advisor to Chairman, Qatar and Graham Pugh, Team Leader, International Climate Activities, Department of Energy, United States.
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That's why we've renewed our leadership within international climate change negotiations.
This dire Himalayan glacier calamity was predicted by a preeminent international climate science organization, none other than the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Now, despite an absence of any measurable warming in the past decade and a half, our feverish pal Al is launching a new international climate crisis campaign.
The Indian foreign minister stressed the need for "an ambitious and at the same time equitable and fair outcome" at the Copenhagen international climate conference later this year.
And we have renewed American leadership in international climate negotiations.
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The verdict is likely to prove an embarrassment for Qatar which has worked hard to cultivate a progressive, modern image, and is currently playing host to a major international climate change conference.
Gunnar Myhre of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, for example, notes that the amount of black carbon in the Arctic is small and has been falling in recent decades.
By prominent members of the international climate science community whose "Climategate" e-mails purloined from the prestigious East Anglia University Climate Research Unit that exposed clear evidence of data manipulation, concealment of public records and exclusion of disagreeable research findings from influential publications.
For all the fuss that has surrounded its Kyoto protocol and subsequent negotiations, the Framework Convention on Climate Change shows, at best, that international climate negotiations are possible but it may never show that they can achieve significant results in mitigating global warming.
As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.
The renewed clamoring to rush through Congress a European-style climate bill before the international climate talks convene in Denmark in December has at least temporarily shoved aside debate over whether alternative carbon control strategies, such as a carbon tax, might be a better choice both economically and environmentally.
What occurred to me as I listened to him is how relieved he must be to be able to be talking about these things - indeed any things - other than the economy at a time when the latest statistics are alarming, the international climate uncertain and the markets are volatile.
The 2008 Benetti yacht Alibella is a high-profile example of the effect the international economic climate.
The Cancun summit agreed to establish an international Green Climate Fund that is supposed to provide much of that support.
Information on Arctic Ice research can be found at The International Arctic Climate System Study, a global consortium of polar scientists.
But in one fell swoop, it completely changed the international banking climate.
None of that gain, as Mr Netanyahu implied, and the Arab foreign ministers implicitly conceded, can be reversed in the present international business climate.
The science of their Assessment Reports has been thoroughly rebutted by the hundreds of pages of science in Climate Change Reconsidered, and Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report, both written by dozens of scientists with the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and published by the Heartland Institute, the international headquarters of the skeptics of the theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming.
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In 2009, Heartland published Climate Change Reconsidered: The Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).
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