Sentences with phrase «party conference agenda»

It's safe to say climate change is not on the Conservative Party conference agenda this year.

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Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey led attacks against the Conservatives at the start of the Brighton conference, telling the Observer newspaper «tea - party Tories» were threatening his environmental agenda.

Conferences, like US conventions, offer parties the chance to dominate the media, shape policy agenda and capture the political imagination.

The Sunyani Conference, according to Nana Akufo - Addo, will set the tone for the party to meet and «set the agenda and framework for the 2016 campaign, to show the world that the NPP is, indeed, all there, ready to take on the task of winning next year's election and forming an honest government that will provide relief, progress and prosperity for the great, longsuffering people of Ghana.»

In a nod to the party leadership, the group said the prime minister was right to put «strivers» at the heart of the government's agenda in his leader's speech at the party conference.

The mainline conference over the last several months has received reinforcements in the form of the labor - aligned Working Families Party, which released on Monday a «resistance» manifesto that urged the IDC to reconcile in order to pass sought - after liberal agenda measures.

A party pursuing an agenda of increased tax and redistribution, regulation and nationalisation is never going to have a cosy relationship with media barons and big business in general (though it's worth noting that the corporate lobbyists who stayed away from last year's conference came flooding back this time) but it can reach people in other ways.

The shadow chancellor said delegates decide the agenda at the party's conference, as Jeremy Corbyn avoided a potential clash over Brexit.

As the party prepares to sign off on key policy points at its spring conference this weekend, an attempt will be made to seize the political agenda and set the terms of debate.

The Working Families Party on Monday expressed disappointment over the decision by the seven - member Independent Democratic Conference to side with the Senate GOP in a governing coalition while also urging the lawmakers to help bloc the «Trump agenda» in Albany.

«I've watched the last two Labour party conferences and the debate, and it seems to me that trade unions have an agenda not to promote some of the policy issues, but merely to defeat the government, defeat the platform,» Lord Morris told GMTV.

The agenda for the party's annual conference in Liverpool reveals growing tensions between activists and the party leadership over the decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives.

Cruddas will take the leadership contenders up on their offer, saying: «I want to see a more democratic party with an actively involved membership, a conference that is strengthened and its agenda setting opened up.

The conference, in preparation for many months, will encourage greater debate within the Liberal Democrats to determine how far the party can push the equality agenda within the coalition.

As Marc Herman, the Democratic challenger to Saladino in the November election, outlined the party's agenda for new ethics rules, Saladino interjected comments during the news conference that lasted about 30 minutes.

Their researchers say the issue will be forced back on to the agenda after party conferences when Douglas Carswell, who defected from the Tories to Ukip, is expected to win a Clacton - on - sea byelection and become the Eurosceptic party's first MP.

The Labour leader, who said Britain needed a more responsible capitalism in his party conference speech last autumn, revealed details of his party's agenda for reforming the banking sector.

That reality prompted, as part of the Osogbo conference agenda, the idea of federalizing political parties, along geo - political lines, with local demands driving each party's national charter, though with APC as case - point.

«I think one of the tasks Nick Clegg and his colleagues have got at this conference is to give the party a sense of ownership of the whole agenda,» he argues.

Hunt reinforced the positioning of mental illness at the top of the political agenda, when he told the Tory party conference in Manchester last week that mental health was a «personal priority» for the prime minister after «decades» of being a «second class citizen in the NHS».

During the primary, Mr. Cuomo's longshot challenger Zephyr Teachout called the Women's Equality line «a sham party,» pointing to reports that the governor had colluded with the State Senate's breakaway Independent Democratic Conference to allow the GOP to continue to control the upper house of the state legislature — which led to the failed effort to pass the complete Women's Equality Agenda.

«Bold and savage» spending cuts are on the agenda and some cherished Liberal Democrats policies are at risk at the start of the party's annual conference.

The party's agenda in making reform of the welfare system the centrepiece of its autumn conference in Manchester is being overshadowed by apparent uncertainty over whether a retrospective referendum on the Lisbon treaty should take place if it is ratified.

Saying the conservative grassroots movement is «now the most potent force in Republican politics» and pointing out Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Campaign Committee, and Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican Conference, are both members of the new House Tea Party Caucus, DNC chairman Tim Kaine said «the Republican Party agenda has become the Tea Party agenda and vice versa.»

Immigration continues to lead the agenda for the UK independence Party, as its spring conference gets underway.

Bill Lipton, state director of the progressive Working Families Party, on Monday called Cuomo's refusal to push for a unified Democratic conference «a stark reminder that despite his accomplishments, he remains deeply committed to a fiscal policy and agenda supported by his billionaire donors at the expense of working families.»

«While we certainly support the issues laid out in this agenda... it frustrates us that in this time of Trump and the national rhetoric attacking the Labor Movement that the National Democratic party has not seen fit to include one labor issue in its policy platform,» the eight members of the state Senate Independent Democratic Conference wrote in a letter to two party leaders.

Labour frontbenchers Mr Balls and Chuka Umunna will address the British Chambers of Commerce annual conference and stress the party's pro-business agenda following a string of attacks from senior corporate figures in recent days.

The party's executive has put down a policy screed of their own (in such a last - minute fashion that it didn't make it into the conference agendas handed out to delegates) which takes precedence over the others.

General secretary Len McCluskey told the Unite conference in Liverpool that the union had had its problems with the party but that they offered an «increasingly radical agenda» and were the only alternative to the «ruinous Conservative coalition».

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3 November 2017 Washington, D.C. This year's climate talks may not be as glamorous or high - profile as the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that adopted the historic Paris Agreement two years ago, but the agenda for COP23 that starts Monday in Bonn is packed with key issues that need to be resolved to fully implement the Agreement.

3 November 2017 Washington, D.C. This year's climate talks may not be as glamorous or high - profile as the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that adopted the historic Paris Agreement two years ago, but the agenda for COP23 that starts Monday in Bonn is packed with key issues that -LSB-...]

This meeting report is based on the transformational potential associated with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the twenty - first session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, as transport sector is a key issue in the fight against climate change.

This statement will provide insight on water issues, also as they relate to other major forthcoming global events on development, such as the UN General Assembly's anticipated confirmation of the Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 Development Agenda and the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) on Climate Change, amongst others.

For this reason, the agendas of the last few Conferences of the Parties (COP) UNFCCC meetings have sought to increase the ambition of nations to increase their ghg emissions reductions commitments both in the short - and long - term.

The 21st meeting of the Conference of the Parties (or COP21) is underway, with the goal of hammering out a deal to reduce global carbon emissions top of the agenda.

The Government of Papua New Guinea, by its communication dated 28 July 2005, requested the secretariat to add an item entitled «Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action» to the provisional agenda of the Conference of the Parties at its eleventh session.

Biodiversity is moving up the global development agenda, following a major meeting of policymakers at the 12th Conference of Parties (COP12) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

UNEP News Center: The Convention on Biological Diversity closed the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties today with Governments committing to step up actions to achieve, by the end of the decade, the Aichi Biodiversity Targets agreed four years ago, and contribute to the sustainable development agenda.

At the same time, reforming international investment law is not only on the agendas of contracting parties, it also plays an important role for international organizations, such as the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), or the Southern African Development Community (SADC).