Sentences with phrase «first global convention»

MOSCOW (Sputnik)- Governments should educate people about the risks associated with cryptocurrencies and learn more about the blockchain technology before attempting to regulate its currency by - products, experts told Sputnik on the sidelines of an international conference «First Global Convention of Miners» held in Moscow.

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The Domestic Workers Convention sets the first global standards for the estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers worldwide, the vast majority of whom are women and girls.

30 years after they were first produced industrially and used around the world, the expert committee of the Stockholm Convention has classified HBCDs as POPs and thus laid the foundations for a global ban.

Our research underscores the importance of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the first global treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from this element's adverse effects.

Two years after setting targets in Aichi, Japan, for saving global biodiversity, the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity has struck its first deal on how to pay for the goals.

In fact, the inaugural Global Tire Expo captured media attention long before the first attendee walked into the Las Vegas Convention Center.

For the first time, the LGBT travel group held its annual Global Convention on the African continent, welcoming more than 300 delegates from 26 countries to Cape Town....

After unveiling the new offerings at the brand's North American Convention, the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) in Berlin is the first opportunity for international developers and investors to see and learn about the brand's global development strategy for these two new hotel products.

Best Western International, the World's Biggest Hotel FamilySM, continues its global expansion with the addition of the company's first hotel in Russia, the BEST WESTERN Vega Hotel & Convention Centre, in the country's capital city of Moscow.

The Indie MEGABOOTH works with hundreds of game studios across multiple global showcases per year, including industry events such as the Game Developers Conference and E3, along with their first ever co-organized indie convention with BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan.

In public conference rooms and private hotel suites, they are (in theory at least) trying to prepare a two - year «road map» for updating the faltering 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, the world's first experiment in common action to limit global warming.

* First, our dialogue at political, policy, and technical levels has built confidence among our nations and deepened mutual understanding of the many challenges confronting the world community as we consider next steps under the Convention and continue to mobilize political will to combat global climate change.

It should be born in mind that both the governing council of UNEP and the executive Council of WMO expected the first report of IPCC to form the basis for international negotiations on a global convention on climate change.

``... the Kyoto Protocol... the first component of an authentic global governance...» — Jacques Chirac, President of France, speech to the Sixth Conference of the Parties, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Nov. 20, 2000

The rest of the world learned its lesson during the early years of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, when the U.S. first helped shape, but then failed to ratify, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol: American inaction is no excuse for global dithering.

Nations should reassert the world's commitment — first stated in the 1992 Framework Convention — to «prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system,» as well as the agreement in the 2009 Copenhagen Accord to limit the increase in global temperatures to 2 degrees C.

On harmful substances and hazardous waste, the report spotlights the historic adoption of the Minamata Convention on Mercury — a global, legally binding agreement to reduce mercury emissions and the first new global convention on environment and health for close to a decade — which was widely viewed as a major step forward in the global phase - out of the deadly heConvention on Mercury — a global, legally binding agreement to reduce mercury emissions and the first new global convention on environment and health for close to a decade — which was widely viewed as a major step forward in the global phase - out of the deadly heconvention on environment and health for close to a decade — which was widely viewed as a major step forward in the global phase - out of the deadly heavy metal.

Since its foundation it has reported regularly on the state of climate change, with its 1990 report inspiring the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the first international treaty that aimed to reduce global warming, which was signed at the so - called Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Whereas although the Convention, approved by the United States Senate, called on all signatory parties to adopt policies and programs aimed at limiting their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in July 1996 the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs called for the first time for «legally binding» emission limitation targets and timetables for Annex I Parties, a position reiterated by the Secretary of State in testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate on January 8, 1997;

Although during the plenary President Hollande announced that this was the first global agreement on climate, he was ignoring the United Nations» Framework Convention on Climate Change that was signed in 1992.

If scientists understood in 1979 that global warming was going to happen, and if they knew by the early 1990s that it was starting to happen, and if our first president Bush signed the framework convention [at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio], why are we still here, in 2007, still arguing about whether global warming is even happening?

-LSB-...] In 1987, the scare abruptly changed to «global warming», and the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) was established (1988), issuing its first assessment report in 1990, which served as the basis of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC).

Sri Lanka's Business and Biodiversity (B&B) Platform has emerged as the first from South Asia to gain membership of the Global Partnership on Business and Biodiversity (GPBB) established under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

UNEP Convention on Biological Diversity Press Release: First - ever global guidelines adopted on genetic resources 19 April 2002 found at http://www.biodiv.org/doc/meetings/cop/cop-06/other/cop-06-pr-end-en.pdf.

Last fall, I submitted proposals for workshops on my latest work, so I was delighted to be invited to present at the Canadian Positive Psychology Association (CPPA) Conference, the European Conference on Positive Psychology, the first - ever International Positive Education Network Festival, and the Global Zumba Instructor Convention.

A surprise spray of fireworks and rainbow confetti showered hundreds of corporate real estate executives who gathered Monday to celebrate the first - ever CoreNet Global Summit at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.