Like Water for Climate

A Climate Apollo Program

What's happening to the climate?

We were not responsible for the weather.

Private investment responded positively to the favourable local climate.

C. Intergovernmental Meeting on the

C. Intergovernmental Meeting on the World Climate Programme

Also for the euro area, the Ifo Economic Climate index registered a dramatic decline.

Indeed, the most serious casualty of the current political climate in France is Sarkozy s reform agenda.

The cooling of the Ifo World Economic Climate index was particularly marked in Western Europe and Asia.

Human activities, in addition to natural climate variability, are producing these changes.

The private sector responded to the favourable investment climate by investing in services, construction and other resource based industries.

Having considered the report of the Executive Director on the Intergovernmental Meeting on the World Climate Programme, UNEP GC.17 5 Add.5.

All the signs suggest that they are unlikely to sign a global climate treaty.

Part of the project was to showcase sea wind at the December 2009 Copenhagen climate meeting.

(a) Mathematical models of climate, with a focus on regional analysis and the forecasting of climate change in the Mediterranean area

And I consider India and China the best partners in the world in a good global climate policy.

The scientific communities must continue to increase our understanding of the climate and the Earth system, to refine our predictive tools and to reduce remaining uncertainties in efforts to project future climate and the impact of change, in particular at the regional level.

The Ifo World Economic Climate index deteriorated in the third quarter of 2008 for the fourth consecutive time.

That's what the world looks like, under one particular climate model's view, with twice the amount of CO2 in the air.

Recalling its decision 16 41 of 31 May 1991 and, in particular, section IV thereof, on the World Climate Programme,

Each group has distinctive characteristics, accents, customs, social patterns, and forms of cultural adaptation to climate and topography that differentiates it from other groups.

Beyond these technical solutions, our work at the Georgetown Climate Center with communities encourages them to look at what existing legal and policy tools are available and to consider how they can accommodate change.

It was able to run holistic simulations of global climate in both the atmosphere and the oceans down to a resolution of 10 km.

A large number of developing countries had begun programmes of adjustment, reform and opening to the outside world, which made them even more dependent on the international economic climate.

Inaction or delay would be disastrous for the climate, but it would also be disastrous economically.

(d) To assist developing countries to build, within national climate programmes, provision for education, training and public information, with the aim of promoting endogenous capacity building

He noted that the investment climate preconditions for attracting foreign participation applied equally to privatization and to greenfield investment opportunities.

It is quite certain that sea levels have risen over the last century, and continue to rise, in response to changing climate.

It is vital that the Copenhagen delegates recognize and promote Africa s contribution to the world s delicate climatic balance.

Confidence building measures of this kind are in our view essential if the present, unprecedented atmosphere in the peace process is to thrive.

We need to make progress on establishing the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund, including, possibly, regional and thematic vehicles, such as an Africa Green Fund.

2. Urges Governments to ensure the early implementation of the recommendations of the Meeting, particularly in the provision of sufficient resources for the effective implementation of the expanded World Climate Programme

It was essential to pursue such a dialogue and subsequent participation given the current international climate and the fact that the Committee was currently working on new alternative approaches.

The lower graph is with twice the amount of CO2 and 1.8 percent less sunlight, and you're back to the original climate.

However, the growth in the use of these ozone depleting substance replacements will make a substantial contribution to the positive direct radiative forcing of climate and will contribute to global warming.

Subject to the availability of funds, UNIDO will continue to expand its activities in matchmaking, partnership building, barrier removal, climate friendly technology transfer and adaptation to climate change.

He continues to point out that additional mandates are being heaped upon the Organization as a result of the new climate without a corresponding willingness to provide adequate resources for their execution.

120. WMO has initiated a Tropical Urban Climate Programme. The main objective is to provide for an improved understanding of the impact of climate and its variability and change on the urban area.

This reform should be packaged with a careful evaluation of the regulatory climate for business, designed to eliminate or streamline the rules.

With the Copenhagen climate summit only weeks away, forging a commitment on climate change is the most pressing challenge.

China reported that in the future it will improve and further develop the national and regional network for systematic climate observation on the basis of extensive international cooperation with these and other organizations and Parties.

In that connection, we look forward with interest to the launching in October this year of the Investment Climate Facility for Africa, which seeks to identify and overcome the obstacles hindering a business friendly investment climate in Africa.

A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world s leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about global warming into action.

When discussing surface temperature, the annual atmospheric temperature range at any geographical location depends largely upon the type of biome, as measured by the Köppen climate classification.