Sentences with phrase «weeks of talks»

A dispute about the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which set out the world's first program of emissions limits, marred the two weeks of talks.

BONN, Germany, May 11, 2018 (ENS)-- It was a record - hot April in Germany, where governments Thursday concluded two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual United...

UN Climate Change News 10 May, 2018 — Against the backdrop of a record hot April in the host country of Germany, governments are concluding two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual climate conference to be held in Katowice, Poland in December.

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.

Original post As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably.

CANCÚN, Mexico — China and the United States, thanks to some innovative proposals from India, have inched toward agreement on ways to measure and verify countries» actions under a new climate agreement, should the outline of one start to emerge as formal negotiations crest here as two weeks of talks end Friday.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.

During two weeks of talks nobody upped their promises to curb emissions.

The two weeks of talks begin Nov. 30 and will take place at Le Bourget airfield on the outskirts of Paris.

A similar attempt last summer to link the rent laws, 421 - a and other housing issues in one package of bills collapsed after weeks of talks, sources said.

ALBANY — There will be no special session of the legislature next week, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said late Friday, announcing the end of weeks of talks about government reform, ride - hailing and a salary increase for state lawmakers.

Olenghankoy said that any deal resulting from the weeks of talks between the ruling coalition and the opposition mediated by the Catholic Church would come as a shock.

After weeks of talks with NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Goldman Sachs agreed not to spend any money on political ads this year.

Weeks of talks between the parties may now lie ahead.

It was a sign of unity after weeks of talk by a Florida pastor who threatened to burn the Muslim holy book on 9 - 11 but who ultimately cancelled the event.

After a week of talking quite a bit about synthetic food dyes (namely, the FDA's decision not to require food dye warning labels, even though dyes exacerbate hyperactivity in some kids), I was happy to stumble on this story.

But State Department negotiator Andrew Rakestraw in the first week of talks came out strongly against the adoption of a resolution calling for any absolute emissions cuts, implementing a strategy left to him by former White House energy adviser George David Banks.

I'll leave it to Fader to wind up what became two weeks of talking about Sex on the blog, with a very personal revision of a post she first wrote last week

Eventually I ended up going out on dates with two guys from an online dating site, after weeks of talking both online and via phone.

So, after two weeks of talking about it, I finally caught Steven Soderbergh «s Haywire.

We had the awesome pleasure this week of talking to Halloween star and movie icon P.J. Soles, who confirmed exclusively to

After weeks of talking, playing, sunbathing and skirting the issue, the two connect.

The world's biggest photography festival gets under way in Arles with an opening week of talks, projections in the Roman amphitheatre, events, book signings and exhibitions.

[UPDATE, 8/17: Yvo de Boer, who runs the office administering climate negotiations, says a week of talks in Bonn did little to reduce the thickets of brackets still clogging negotiating texts.]

Through the first week of talks, I'll be doing a mix of tweeting, blogging, writing print articles and more along with Tom Zeller, the editor of the Green Inc. blog, and James Kanter of the International Herald Tribune.

Many environmental activists and policymakers say two weeks of talking have watered down the draft.

The last week of the talks had been dominated by financing issues on one hand, and the treatment of an estimated 13 billion of surplus credits that remained from the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, and which threaten to offset all the gains from the second period, and could yet dilute a future treaty.

Negotiators added an extra week of talks for September in Bangkok, Thailand to develop a negotiating text for COP 24.

The first week of the talks was marred by poor attendance from environmental ministers, who are expected to revise current ambitions and focus on contributions to the Kyoto agreement — as well as discuss new post-2020 climate commitments, expected to be agreed in Paris in 2015.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.

An extra week of talks in September has been scheduled to try and get the process back on track.

Not exact matches

After collecting my desired profile for a potential board member; she returned a week later with eight candidates, all of whom fit the profile and were at least tacitly interested in talking with me.

In the video, a treehouse employee talks about how he's able to participate more in childrearing because of having an extra day away from the office every week.

We talked to a number of the honorees of National Small Business Week, an annual celebration of small business owners across the country, about what they have learned about being productive.

Backstage at TechCrunch Disrupt last week, preparing for his talk with the founder of Frontback — an app that lets you take pictures with both of your iPhone cameras at the same time — Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, is reflecting on the six - year history of this start - up launch conference.

Yet, when I had a bunch of VCs in here last week from the United States and I was talking to them about various things, I was asking how our wireless and broadband are here because we're told in Canadian terms that we have superior networks.

A single event might be a talking point, the conversation will die down within a week if it's not a regular part of the company's offering.

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

«You're trying to talk to someone, and they don't know what the price of steel is going to be six to eight weeks from now.

US President - elect Donald Trump talks with media, after his meeting with families and victims of last week's attack at Ohio State University, December 8, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio.

Sticking with Europe, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier stated Monday that he expected initial talks with the U.K. - on the terms of the country's exit from the bloc - to begin on the week starting June 19; Reuters reported.

Last week we talked about multitasking and the associated «time costs» of splitting your attention between projects, on - going tasks, and interruptions.

However amidst the talk of «no action» from the BOJ this week, the finer details of the meeting could be missed.

The fourth round of Brexit talks are scheduled to begin on Monday after they were pushed back by a week.

The comments came as representatives Dassault Aviation and Eurofighter talked up the merits of their individual jet fighters this week at a major industry trade show in Ottawa.

He said it will become clear by the first week of May whether an agreement in principle is possible this spring, after which point the talks could languish until 2019, while Mexico elects a new president and the U.S. elects a new Congress.

One such risk that does cloud the outlook is the potential dismantling of the North American Free Trade Agreement, as the latest round of strained talks commenced this week.

Over the next few weeks, a handful of our clients who are involved in the fundraising process forwarded that article to me and asked if there was anything «special» they needed to do when talking to VCs.

Year - round attention to detail means that Keflezighi can afford to be relaxed and philosophical with one of the biggest races of his life a week away, as he was when I talked to him a few days ago.

Speaking in Houston last week at the Circular Summit, Marcelo talked about the early days of her company, and particularly her experiences raising so much money, while also sometimes being underestimated as a woman tech CEO.