Sentences with phrase «as negotiators meet»

Even as negotiators meet in Marrakech, Morocco to take the next steps to avert dangerous human - caused climate change — and, even as the U.S. decides whether or not to elect a president who is skeptical it is happening — a new study has highlighted the sharp stakes involved, particularly when it comes to the ongoing rise in global sea level and the dramatic but uneven way in which it could affect the world's coastlines.

Not exact matches

The Canadian side isn't quite as bullish on prospects for an immediate deal:» (It would be) a bit of a challenge,» Canada's chief negotiator, Steve Verheul, said before a meeting with union officials in Ottawa.

David Robinson, in his capacity as trade and education consultant for Education International, a global union federation claiming to represent 30 million teachers and other education workers, met with WTO negotiators during the ministerial to discuss potential impacts on public education.

The ruling was handed down as negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico met in Ottawa to negotiate reforms to Nafta, a sprawling trade pact that has guided the North American economy since 1994.

He is known at the networks as a fun guy, a genuine hail - fellow - well - met, yet a tough negotiator.

The website, La Voz de Galicia, which is based in the same region as Perez was born brought up, has today published an account of a meeting the striker held last week with Arsenal's transfer negotiator Dick Law.

PEF stands ready to meet with the state's negotiators to reach an agreement that balances the needs of our members, as well as the needs of the state.

After a meeting with the taoiseach, EU negotiator Michel Barnier spelled out that neither of the two customs proposals on the table in London is seen as remotely credible to anyone outside the Westminster bubble.

After a seven hour meeting on Sunday which was described as «very positive and productive» the Conservative and Liberal Democrat negotiators will meet again «within the next 24 hours».

Collins was listed on Sunday's special board meeting agenda as the district's «agent negotiator» with managers and associate superintendents.

Nissan dealers have attained «GT - R Certification» status by meeting a number of strict sales, service and facilities commitments, including dedicating a master technician to GT - R service, special training for service managers and technicians, and designating dealer principals, executive managers and general managers as the primary communicators / negotiators in sales transactions.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

In side - meetings throughout the week, the Bush administration's negotiators — as well as Minority staff from Congress — repeatedly and often quite savagely noted that no current legislation, not Warner - Lieberman, not any other bill, contemplated that level of near - term reductions, and they said flatly that they were not going to agree to something in text on which they saw no prospect of delivering.

Hansen said this publishing timeline was necessary to make the work public as soon as possible before global negotiators meet in Paris later this year.

The International Development Finance Club (IDFC)-- a group of international, national, and regional development banks based in the developed and the developing world — released its annual report on green investment (i.e. mitigation, adaptation and «other» environmental finance which includes environmental protection and remediation related projects)-- as the world's climate negotiators were meeting in Lima, and its numbers are significant.

As COP23 negotiators meet in Bonn, indigenous and rural leaders warn that time is running out to protect global forests — a crucial hedge against perilous global warming.

So we see his role as focused on bringing together the world's leading economies to signal that they're going to do their part while also elevating a sense of urgency in Paris, including through his meeting with the island states, and then having key Cabinet officials and, of course, our negotiator, Todd Stern, work through the whole two weeks, hopefully to achieve a successful framework.

As climate negotiators meet in Lima to discuss a new global climate deal that could limit warming to two degrees or less, we look at each of the issues in turn.

As part of her observing efforts, Persad will meet with an assortment of people including academic delegations, past negotiators, and nonprofit group representatives.

Q: The Chinese chief negotiator on climate change, Xie Zhenhua, Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, has literally thrown the baby and the bath water and the IPCC out, when he said after the BASIC meeting to please look at natural cyclic events as one of the aspects which could be causing climate change.

Over the past weekend, China convened a high level meeting with climate negotiators of Brazil, South Africa and India (together with China, dubbed the BASIC countries) to align around a document outlining a list non-negotiable positions as we head into Copenhagen climate conference next week.

The G8 meeting last week — the last get - together of the leaders of the world's major industrialized nations before the United Nations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to Copenhagen.

As the prospect of paralysis in Peru mounted, lead US climate negotiator Todd Stern met his Chinese counterpart on the Saturday afternoon Xie Zhenhua to thrash out a deal.

In an announcement that originated in a ministerial level meeting in Tokyo, Japanese negotiators reiterated a position they have been making for a year now: they will not sign onto a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, setting new and more ambitious targets for binding emission reductions among the parties of that treaty beyond 2012, unless the biggest carbon polluters do as well.

For example, contract negotiator Pearl Hancock wrote on her resume: «Successfully met strategic licensing agreements within timeframe and budget» instead of a job description such as «Oversaw completion of strategic licensing agreements.»