Sentences with phrase «un envoy»

UN envoy and former New York mayor named as chair of initiative for Financial Stability Board, at COP21 in Paris

There have been a few news stories out of Durban suggesting that China (the worlds largest CO2 emitter) has turned a corner on carbon emissions and has tentatively agreed to limit them, with Bloomberg running an article titled «China Climate Plan Makes «Excited Buzz» as U.S. Lags: UN Envoy.»

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The UN Envoy said the United Nations and the international community would continue to support the region to get rid of Boko Haram insurgents in the Lake Chad Basin.

The UN envoy for Iraq strongly condemned the New Year's triple bombings in Baghdad in which large numbers of civilians were killed and injured.

The permanent secretary described the Nigeria's UN envoy, and other envoys recently posted to other multilateral organisations as «very distinguished personalities».

Not only did Bill Clinton, America's first black president, have to bide his time and eventually cede the spotlight to Barack Obama, America's second black president, but he was virtually forced after the election to hide from public view as a UN envoy.

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

UN envoys in Cancun are working with a text that isn't «very progressive» Hedegaard of the EU said today.

Not exact matches

(Lewis, in addition to being a former diplomat and a UN special envoy, is also a former parliamentarian, so he seemed a good person to ask.)

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.

Speaking at the UN Security Council Friday, the OSCE's envoy to Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini said the current situation was at a «crossroads» where the risk of further escalation remained high despite «encouraging signs.»

Mr Blair, who is an envoy to the Middle East for the UN, the EU, Russia and the US, admitted that fear of trouble was putting people off.

A threatening letter was sent to the President of the National Assembly by diplomatic envoys of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and several nation - states, suggesting that overseas aid would be denied if abortion was not allowed.

Davis was appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICT for the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

In subsequent talks, Moon and his envoys have been able to extract assurances from Kim Jong - un that he would put the nuclear issue on the table.

North Korea's leader, Kim Jong - un, has told South Korean envoys he is willing to negotiate with the United States on abandoning his country's nuclear weapons, and also said he would suspend all nuclear and missile tests while such talks were underway.

Archbishop Bernardito Auza envoy to the UN in New York — appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010.

Since standing down after ten years in Downing Street two years ago Mr Blair has been the envoy of the Quartet - the EU, US, Russia and UN - working to promote peace in the Middle East.

The Nigerian envoy also noted that Nigeria was the world's 14th largest troops contributing nation to the UN peacekeeping operations.

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

In my new role as the UN Secretary - General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health MDGs, I have been charged with formulating a business plan to ensure that resources are secured to meet the malaria goal of near zero deaths, as well as the other maternal, child, AIDS and TB goals by the end of 2015, the internationally agreed deadline.

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 meeting took place on the sidelines of the London summit on ending sexual violence in conflict, co-hosted by Mr Hague and UN special envoy and actress Angelina Jolie.

In other political news, sources confirmed former Prime Minister Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU.

Sources confirmed Tony Blair is to stand down from his role as Middle East envoy representing the US, Russia, the UN and the EU

USA Michel Kazatchkine, UN SG's Special Envoy for AIDS, Executive Director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2007 - 2012) György Thaler, Development Director, Gedeon Richter Plc Fook Kay Lee, Chief Science and Technology Officer, Ministry of Home Affairs, Singapore Presenter for Dr Fook Kay Lee: Michelle Yap, Senior Assistant Director, Singapore Government, Ministry of Home Affairs, S&T Assessment Taskforce, Office of the Chief Science and Technology Officer Thomas Hartung, toxicologist of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

In 2003, she was appointed as UNESCO's Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education and in 2008 the Secretary General of the UN appointed her as Alliance of Civilizations Ambassador.

Who would have guessed that 50 Shades of Grey would be more feminist than the latest film from the UN's most glamorous special envoy?

UNESCO Director - General Irina Bokova, and President of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun - hye, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka, UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser, and Laureate of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Kailash Satyarthi, also spoke at the opening of WEF 2015.

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).

To try to find a way for the world to do better, I have been working over the past year with Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Education, and Anthony Lake, the head of UNICEF, under the auspices of the government of Norway, to build a mechanism that will generate and direct the necessary resources to create a world where no child will have her or his education interrupted because of an emergency or crisis.

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As the UN secretary - general's special envoy for cities and climate change, I encourage President Obama and Prime Minister Harper to engage in talks that can lead to an agreement that will benefit both our nations» economies and environments.

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

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.»

The new UN food envoy, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, has called for United States and European Union biofuel targets to be abandoned, and said the world food crisis is «a silent tsunami affecting 100 million people.»

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales — Keynote Video Message Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE — UN Messenger of Peace The Hon. Mary Robinson — Former President of Ireland The Hon. Lisa Jackson — Administrator, U.S. EPA Julia Marton - LeFèvre — Director General, IUCN Ambassador Donald Steinberg — Deputy Administrator, USAID Muhtar Kent — Coca Cola CEO (Video Address) Paul Polman — CEO, Unilever and Co-Chair, Consumer Goods Forum The Hon. Bård Vegar Solhjell — Minister of the Environment, Norway Jonathan Pershing — Deputy Special Envoy - Climate Change, U.S. State Dept. Dr. Zhang Songdan — Deputy Dir.

US envoy Todd Stern said the stalemate put at risk a climate pact due to be signed in Paris in 2015, as well as the credibility of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)-- an offshoot of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit «All we have achieved so far will be at risk, and all that we hope to achieve will be at risk as well,» Stern warned delegates.

Now employed as a United Nations special climate envoy, Robinson — who was talking up the Paris UN climate summit scheduled for December — says that:

'' is a separate initiative spearheaded by Former New York Mayor and UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown, working in parallel with We Are Still In to compile and tally the climate actions of states, cities, colleges, businesses, and other local actors across the entire U.S. economy.

Compared to this, even Tony Blair's appointment as UN Middle East Peace Envoy seems sensible!

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.

Mr Bloomberg, who was recently appointed a Special Envoy for Climate Action to the UN Secretary - General, will make the contribution to the budget through his Bloomberg Philanthropies foundation.

Mr Bloomberg commented on Twitter that: «As the new UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, I'll work with state and non-state actors to help implement policies that reduce emissions & build resilience».

(Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, and the UN's special envoy for cities and climate change.)

``... [The] Report was introduced by Commission Co-Chair Ricardo Lagos, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary - General on Climate Change and former President of Chile.

'' Cities and businesses recognise the economic benefits that come with fighting climate change, and they're setting a great example by establishing clear goals and measuring the impact of their work,» said Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP, three - term Mayor of New York City, the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, and chair of the Financial Stability Board's Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures, who joined a discussion on climate risk disclosure.

One interesting scrap of legal news that passed under the radar recently was a testy exchange involving Hideaki Ueda, Japan's human rights envoy to the United Nations at a session of the UN torture committee in Geneva, Switzerland.

Source: Yabiladi, May 10, 2918 UN Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler is expected to hold a meeting on Tuesday 15th of May at the European Parliament.