Sentences with phrase «envoy on»

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius scenario on their business, strategy and financial planning.

Spearheaded by Bank of England Governor Mark Carney (also the head of the FSB) and the former New York mayor and United Nations special envoy on climate change, Michael Bloomberg, the TCFD recommends that companies across all sectors describe the potential impacts of global warming in line with a 2 degrees Celsius

Here's US Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern's comment that helped earn the award: «We should make progress towards a political agreement that hits each of the main elements.»

«It was somewhat astonishing to hear my good friend from China to say commitments apply to only developed country parties,» U.S. Special envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern said.

From 2013 - 2016 he served as Senior Adviser and India Counselor to the U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change, and as a Staff Climate Adviser in the Secretary of State's Office of Policy Planning in the U.S. Department of State.

At both of the sessions the «revered» UN climate celebrities spoke, also known as Christiana Figueres, the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, and Mr. Ahmad Alhendawi, the Secretary - General's Special Envoy on Youth.

Professor Lea will draw on his experience serving as science advisor to the Special Envoy on Climate Change in the U.S. Department of State.

There are no plans to appoint a new envoy on climate change at this time.»

As we are now only 3 weeks away from crucial climate change negotiations in Bangkok (which will set the stage for this years 18th Conference of the Parties, in Doha), US Special Envoy on climate change — Todd Stern — has dropped a bit of a bomb during a speech at Dartmouth.

The demonstration by members of the SustainUS youth delegation was aimed at a press conference about to be held by Todd Stern, the US envoy on climate change.

COPENHAGEN — Jonathan Pershing, the State Department deputy special envoy on climate change, represented the United States as climate talks opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

The head US envoy on climate change has said to the UN that «talks aimed at negotiating a binding treaty to curb global warming are based on unrealistic expectations and are not doable.»

(Bo Derek, a State Department envoy on the issue, is the other celebrity.)

[UPDATE, 5 p.m.: Todd Stern, the United States special envoy on climate, sent his reaction late today.]

At a news conference in Paris Tuesday evening, Todd D. Stern, the State Department special envoy on climate, and Michael Froman, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, answered questions from reporters based in Europe.

Todd Stern, the newly created special envoy on climate change for the United States, will be with Mrs. Clinton in China.

In an interview on Friday Todd D. Stern, President Obama's special envoy on climate change, said that one goal this time is to foster cooperative action and investment on «transformational technologies.»

Todd Stern, the new United States special envoy on climate change, clearly understands the «bathtub effect» that experts say makes the rising human contribution to the atmosphere's greenhouse effect such a thorny challenge.

There's nothing quite so weird as finding pictures of myself scattered around inside the world as I guide this little envoy on her quest to find me.

GM has a new Envoy on the way, but details of its underpinnings are being kept under wraps.

The presentations were done by Mr Aaron Benavot, Director at EFA Global Monitoring Report of UNESCO, who introduced Mr. Gordon Brown (UN Special Envoy on Global Education), H.E. Ms Smriti Zubin Irani (Minister of Human Resource Development in India), H. E. Mr Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi (Minister of Education in Peru), Mr James Heckman (Laureate of the 2000 Nobel Economics Prize), Ms Julia Gillard (Chair of the Board of Directors at Global Partnership for Education), and Ms Camilla Croso (President at Global Campaign for Education).

UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues slams «terrible decision» as crisis grows in Jeremy Corbyn's party

But Tory Sir Eric Pickles, the UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues, branded it a «terrible decision».

During the UN summit, which he is attending as the UN Special Envoy on Climate Change, President Kufuor will participate in the «Climate Dialogue,» which is part of deliberations towards next December's Climate Change summit in Paris, France, where governments around the world are expected to make legally binding declarations towards reduction of gaseous emissions into the atmosphere to limit world temperatures to below two degrees by 2030 of pre-industrial levels.

The UN Secretary - General's Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has debunked assertion by some Ghanaian youth that the only solution to...

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who now works as a U.N. special envoy on global education, said, «Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils»...

The Mexican and Canadian ministers are likely to press Trump's trade envoy on whether their countries will be excluded from the blanket tariffs.

It became clear that Zhang was laser - focused on getting Envoy on solid ground again.

Russia summoned senior envoys on Friday from most of the other countries that have expelled Russian diplomats and told them it was expelling a commensurate number of theirs.

Myanmar's government leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with United Nations Security Council envoys on Monday over the plight of nearly 700,000 mainly Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh amid a military crackdown, pledging to investigate any credible accusations of abuse, said diplomats who attended the meeting.

On one occasion he was also found to have taken a flight with some top Chinese envoys on his way back to China.

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon's three new special envoys on climate change, also headed up the 1987 U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development where the concept of sustainable development was first floated.

Not exact matches

Britain's envoy to Canada highlighted her country's contribution to the talks in a report focusing on the need to use «genuine innovation» to solve «real - world issues.»

President Donald Trump and his national security aides on Thursday discussed options on Syria, where he has threatened missile strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack, as a Russian envoy...

President Donald Trump and his national security aides on Thursday discussed options on Syria, where he has threatened missile strikes in response to a suspected poison gas attack, as a Russian envoy voiced fears of wider conflict between Washington and Moscow.

At Modest, it's set up to alert staffers whenever the doorbell rings; through an integration with Envoy, the sign - in software, it sends around a dossier on visitors before meetings.

The following winter, a second envoy convinced him («convinced, actually, my wife,» Horváth says) to go back to Canada on a more permanent basis.

State Department envoy Clifford Sloan said last month that the United States was in talks with a wide range of countries to speed the transfer of prisoners as President Barack Obama looked to make good on a long - standing promise to close the facility.

The former envoy praised the Republican president's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt for meeting a cross-section of Israelis and Palestinians during a visit last week that has led to U.S. - Israeli discussions on limiting settlement building.

The premier must hope that his new envoy to Washington, Rob Merrifield, can have an effect on U.S. decision - makers, and soon.

Three former Envoy executives — Zhang, Shuler, and Envoy's former head of sales Jason Bartlett — will be moving on to head up growth at JoyRun.

He chose the latter and asked several Envoy staffers to take on more responsibility in order to cover the loss of the executive team.

Though he was spending four to five hours per day in outpatient therapy, he began to get re-involved in Envoy by remotely listening in on company meetings.

On Thursday, he announced the sale of Envoy's operations, including its customer base, campus marketing teams and logo, to food delivery startup JoyRun for an undisclosed amount.

Trump agreed to the possibility of a historic meeting between himself and the North Korean leader late on Thursday after South Korean envoy Chung Eui - yong told him Kim was «frank and sincere» about negotiating on his country's nuclear arsenal.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Wednesday he had invited the Syrian government and opposition to a special meeting next week in Vienna.

The tariffs would likely be «front and center» during a meeting on Monday among Freeland, Trump's trade envoy, Robert Lighthizer, and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, Brady said.

Stephen Lewis, UN envoy to the AIDS ravaged continent, reflects on Canada's role in the face of «constant, pervasive death.»

A senior White House official tells The Jerusalem Post that Greenblatt «will be attending a regular meeting of the Quartet envoys to exchange information and continue our engagement on advancing peace.»

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for what has typically been a routine meeting with envoys from the Quartet on Middle East peace, comprised of the US, EU, UN and Russia.