Sentences with phrase «un processes»

Such bilateral agreements as the one announced by the US and China could undermine the global consensus and weaken UN processes.

In these UN processes it has become clear for civil society, that it is urgent and greatly needed, to create effective mechanisms and offices that would guarantee the timely accompaniment of civil society of all these UN decisions making processes, for the good of humans and the care of the planet.

Our government is considered one of what they call «the evil three» in UN processes (along with the US and Canada) as it serves to protect corporate interests over the rights of the people.

The UN process could be reformed to allow for ratification when a proposal receives the support of a large majority of countries.

«The lesson for the U.S. may be that the UN process isn't working and they're better off to negotiate directly with key countries,» Doelle says.

Moreover, it is generally accepted that Congress can set aside customary international law by statute and thereby make it unenforceable in U.S. courts» thus, there is a powerful democratic «check» on the UN process.

The key, he is reported to have said, is to appear to be endorsing the UN process while still pushing for other fora to do the «heavy lifting».

But the report places its full faith in the UN process, saying «anything done in parallel such as by the major economies meeting or the G8 will only be helpful if they support the UN process».

Many were reluctant to be seen to prejudge a UN process still in motion.

As a result, the Coalition has secured a place for the STEM community in the UN process and ensured that the perspectives of United States - based scientists, engineers, and health professionals inform that process.

In April 2010, the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) adopted a statement on the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, undertaking to engage the scientific community in defining the content of the right and determining its application to a diverse range of scientific disciplines and to contribute these findings to the UN process of defining the right (Statement: Appendix A).

Many, although not all, environmentalists called the agreement a disaster; speaking to a crowd of journalists shortly after the announcement, Lumumba Stanislaus Di - Aping, chief negotiator for the G77 group of developing countries, called the deal a «gross violation» of the UN process that would do little to curb global warming.

There's already a UN process to address climate change, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Fred Heutte of Sierra Club US describes how the decisions made these next days will have great consequence for the UN process.

Uchita de Zoysa (Sri Lanka) is a thinker, writer, speaker, strategist and frontline leader in mobilizing civil society alliances for shaping policy for the global sustainability movement with connections to the UN process that extend back to the 1992 Earth Summit.

The UN process on Financing for Development / FfD, works to understand and map out the present financial architecture, and what the needed architecture for sustainability must look like.

The report concludes that China's increased engagement with the UN process stems from a drive to address serious environmental impacts in its own country, on climate change and air pollution, as well as a desire to demonstrate true geopolitical leadership.

Developing countries have had a hard road to climb in the UN process and three are stepping up to nominate a replacement for Boer.

However, the U.S. has pledged to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 % from 2005 levels by 2025 in its internationally determined contribution (INDC) to the UN process, meaning that the US must make more than an additional 16 % reduction from fuel efficiency standards, energy efficiency programs, non-CO2 greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, hydrofluorocarbons) reductions, and other components of Obama's climate action plan in order to meet its INDC.

Another, and complementary, approach is to make more effort to bring down emissions outside the UN process, for instance by engaging «non-state actors» such as cities, local governments and businesses to do more.

As the conference got underway, a controversial secretly - negotiated document («The Danish Text») was leaked to the Guardian, sparking an uproar, as developing nations denounced it for both its substance — shifting costs onto them — and for its subversion of the open deliberative UN process.

Friends of the Earth Europe calls on policy - makers in Europe to hold European companies legally accountable for any harm they do around the world, and to participate in the UN process for a binding treaty for businesses in relation to human rights.

There are a lot of hard decisions to be made and whereas I think that the major players would prefer to make use of the cover of that the UN process could give to tough and unpopular choices on energy provision and consumption, I doubt that this will prove but a minor delay in the process of enacting the inevitable, and that the minor players will get what they are given, the crumbs.

While the election of Barack Obama as US president brings renewed energy and hope to the UN process, President Bush will be holding court when environment ministers from some 192 nations meet next week in Poznan.

He told the Climate News Network: «One key way the UN process can help is with finance.

This keeps their options open to label just about anything that happens next as forward «progress» for the UN process.

Over the years, Monckton has attempted to disrupt the UN process with various stunts of ill - taste - but none so offensive as the one he tried to pull this time.

The only formal texts in the UN process are the ones tabled by the Chairs of this Copenhagen conference at the behest of the Parties.»

The United States is a full member of the UN process, and for the next few years at least, the Paris climate agreement as well.

The Government should also have taken note of the dramatic back - flip by the Bush Administration at the G8 meeting in June, which endorsed the UN process as the only way forward.

The UN process is broken, but the US Senate wasn't going to ratify a treaty, anyway.

«There is a clear need to rebuild trust in the UN process,» remarked Ms. Figures, «and one can start doing that in Cancun delivering concrete results.»

Yes, after Copenhagen there were fears that the UN process would collapse.

These have now been made a formal agreement under the UN process.

Hours later, as African negotiators were leading an uproar over the accord and civil society groups were protesting outside, it was still unclear which other countries were willing to support a backdoor deal forged by just five countries outside the typical UN process.

«Participants then discussed how the ERF could be constituted: at the prescriptive end it could be perhaps through a COP decision that could engage the IPCC and SBSTA and at the facilitative end it could be outside the formal UN process but exert influence through informal channels.

Or argue, with disingenuous resignation, that the UN process is obsolete.

These submissions to the UNFCCC's «Talanoa Dialogue» add to growing calls for action on ending fossil fuels within the UN process and beyond.

I'd note that Greenpeace is effectively abandoning the UN process and international agreements in favor of «civil disobedience»»:

Not exact matches

The company embarked on an intensive research process during which time Gebbia visited Jordan, Macedonia and Greece, as well as major refugee camps in Kenya and Rwanda, and joined President Barack Obama's Leaders» Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis during the UN General Assembly last year.

But while the entire MDG process has been basking in the glow of the poverty - reduction results — and talking of eliminating poverty altogether — none of this progress is properly attributable to UN efforts in particular, or the global governance movement in general.

A highly standardized process leads to yearly executive pay packages which combine salary, bonuses, stock options, restricted stock grants, performance share un...

When Japan announced that it was following Canada and backtracking on emission cut commitments previously made, and Australia gave multiple signals that it was utterly unwilling to take the UN climate process seriously, the integrity of the talks was further jeopardized.

- Pursue the UN Commission of Inquiry's recommendation of referral to the International Criminal Court; - Thoroughly consider and instigate appropriate alternative justice mechanisms to compliment the International Criminal Court process; - Ensure that all discussions on the North Korea at the UN and the EU include human rights and especially the «orphaned right» of freedom of religion and belief: Article 18.

Second, the US relies on the UN to process and refer applications for asylum from its own refugee and resettlement camps.

He was credited by the UN's Christiana Figures as having a «major impact» on the process to agree the world's landmark deal on climate change.

Along with the time delay, allowing the campaign longer to work up support, the revisions in Draft II have probably increased the document's chances in the UN, and the revision process is not over yet.

Groups across the political spectrum are working to create customary international law through the UN's processes.

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.