Mr Stevenson was leading a debate on Scotland's contribution to the UN Climate Summit, on 24 November 2011.
He said he was hopeful that an action plan and funding would be agreed at a climate summit in Africa next month.
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President Obama did attempt to give global leadership on the climate issue, by attending the UN's Copenhagen climate summit in 2009.
This is due in part to the United Nations' climate summit now in progress in New York, the largest-ever gathering of world leaders to discuss climate issues.
Representatives from the small island nation of Tuvalu, concerned that their country might disappear in the coming decades, became the poster children of the Copenhagen climate summit last year.
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The issue peaked just before the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, when a batch of e-mails and other documents was stolen from a CRU server and made public - the affair dubbed "ClimateGate".
The UN talks here are due to conclude on Friday, and to set out some goalposts as governments look to the next UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year.
In November, shortly before the Copenhagen climate summit, a stash of e-mails from and to various researchers at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia somehow found its way onto the web.
At the recent United Nations climate summit in Nairobi, a number of delegations, including those of Britain, Australia and the US, pointed out that they had managed to grow their economies without significant increases in carbon emissions.
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Timothy Wirth later became undersecretary of state for global affairs for the Clinton-Gore administration, U.S. representative to the 1992 UN Rio de Janeiro Climate Summit that set Kyoto Protocol carbon regulations in motion, and president of the UN Foundation.
The e-mails, along with other documents, covered a period dating back to 1997 and were released into the public domain just before the Copenhagen climate summit last year, with some seeing it as a political act designed to destabilise the summit.
They'll be talking about what needs to be done to ensure that an adequate proposal goes on the table at the next UN climate summit, in Qatar in December, for putting EU emission cuts (and possibly others too) under the Kyoto Protocol.
Another document shows that the police decided not to make a media appeal for information to assist the investigation during the Copenhagen climate summit (known as COP15), because "with COP15 still underway in Copenhagen raising awareness still further may have an negative impact on the conference".
Returning from the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit last year, Dowden notes that representatives from the legal sector were largely absent from the otherwise well-attended event.
These are the dog days of Australia's permanent campaign, a rolling partisan battle that began in the weeks after the Copenhagen climate change summit, when Mr Abbott mounted the Liberal comeback, and has gone on pretty much uninterrupted ever since.
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Unless a new commission is agreed before then, you end up with a caretaker administration, which would for example be unable to take big decisions on things like the state aid investigation into Opel, or speak for the EU at the Copenhagen climate change summit with their usual authority.
In 2005 it hosted the first World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, a meeting which paved the way for the creation of the C40 -- a group of large cities committed to tackling climate change that includes members as diverse as New York, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Johannesburg and Jakarta.
Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, is likely to lead a delegation of 53 countries (all of Africa minus Morocco) to the climate-change summit in Denmark's capital, Copenhagen, in December, where he will presumably lodge this demand.
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Setting a limit on companies' emissions beyond which they must buy offsets is not thought to be on the cards, but hopes are growing that China will commit to some kind of non-binding target, possibly at the Copenhagen climate-change summit at the end of this year.
The material belonged to some of the world's leading climate scientists and caused them difficulty just before the major United Nations Copenhagen summit on climate change.
The outlook for the global summit on climate change to be held in Copenhagen in December is uncertain.
As the president is here in Europe, we also have representatives of our government attending the Bonn summit on climate change.
There is a growing danger that this bill will not be passed through the Senate and reconciled with the House version in time for the Copenhagen summit on climate change in December.
New building projects in two areas of London and the creation of a new city in central Florida -- Destiny -- were among 16 projects announced at the summit as climate-positive initiatives and supported by the Clinton Climate Initiative.
His desire to make a difference has seen him working with charities such as Oxfam and SOS, while in 2009 he spoke at the United Nations' Summit on Climate Change in New York -- a far cry from his early days as a lonely child in Benin.
It will be hard to secure an EU summit deal on climate-change targets in December, for instance (see article).
It is a great pleasure and honour to welcome you to this very important summit level Conference on Climate Change.
Rio housed the prior summit, known as the Earth Summit, which brought climate change to the forefront along with environmental degradation.
Yesterday, I wrote about the announcement, little noticed at the time, that G8 leaders had agreed to join the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-lived Climate Pollutants during their May Camp David summit.
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Mistakes had been made, she said, at December's Copenhagen summit, which was intended to provide a comprehensive package of measures to combat the causes and impacts of climate change - the conclusion to a commitment made by all governments at the 2007 summit in Bali - but which ended with no such thing.
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