Sentences with phrase «as world leaders meet»

As world leaders meet in Davos, they should make time to consider what they can do to rescue the collapsing global carbon market and one of its most useful tools — the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.

ANNAPOLIS — As world leaders meet in Paris to marshal global climate action, top Maryland lawmakers came together in Annapolis today to unveil their plan to create the largest dedicated clean energy jobs and business development program in state history.

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.

As world leaders meet this week and next at a historic climate change summit in Paris, a new study by Michigan State University environmental scientists suggests opponents of climate change appear to be winning the war of words.

Mayor de Blasio speaks during the «Hamburg zeigt Haltung» (Hamburg shows dignity) gathering on Saturday in Hamburg, Germany as world leaders meet during the G20 summit.

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Its concerts coincide with gatherings of world leaders, such as its Global Citizen Week in New York last month during the UN's General Assembly meeting, as well as encouraging people to lobby governments and institutions year - round.

U.S. President Donald Trump has stunned the world by agreeing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a man he's ridiculed as «Little Rocket Man» and whose regime only months ago he threatened with «fire and fury.»

CNBC's Seema Mody discusses what impact the meeting between North Korean and South Korean leaders is having on the stock market as well what's going on markets around the world.

As global political and business leaders gather for this week's World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the charity's report highlights a global system that rewards the super-rich and neglects the poor.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Dublin on Tuesday as one of the first world leaders to meet with Ireland's new Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, who was elected last month.

«I find it important for Japan and the EU to cooperate with the United States as well to show to the world the flag of free trade as a model,» Abe told reporters before a meeting with European Union leaders in Brussels.

Investors also kept to the sidelines on an uncertain political outlook in the world's two largest oil consumers thi s month as Americans head to the polls for the presidential elections next week and China's leaders meet to fill top posts.

That this incident has occurred just as the leaders of the two largest economic forces in the world are meeting in Mar - a-Lago is an incredible coincidence of timing.

The two countries even did a joint rehearsal of their two leaders meeting, shaking hands, and walking around the grounds of the Demilitarized Zone using stand - ins to make sure every second was calibrated as best as possible for the world's cameras.

This time, there were no eye - catching outfits as Trudeau stuck to tried - and - true business suits and, on occasion, his patented button - up shirt and rolled - up sleeves as he met with world leaders, industry representatives and students.

The crowd was largely restrained, applauding at the end of the address as is typical for the meeting of world leaders, corporate executives, and academics.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

[2] Tom Lauricella, «Dollar's Fall Roils World: As Global Leaders Meet, Strains Rise Among Nations Competing to Save Exports,» Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2010, quoting Edwin Truman, a former U.S. Treasury official now a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

As a Young Global Leader, Sara Sutton Fell had the opportunity to contribute to conversations about the future of work and to be included among the many distinguished leaders attending the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos 2016.

Making his first overseas trip as secretary of state, the ex-CIA chief traded in a small, unmarked government jet, secret overseas voyages and hush - hush meetings with spy chiefs and the occasional rogue world leader for a decidedly conspicuous U.S. Air Force 757 with «United States of America» emblazoned across its fuselage, a traveling press corps and frequent public appearances.

But Trudeau will try to reposition Canada as more than a petro - state this week when he meets some of the planet's top business leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

Huffington Post: At United Nations, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls For Ban On Insulting Prophet Muhammad As anti-American protests continue in Islamic nations against a U.S. - made film that mocks the Muslim prophet, the leader of the world's largest Islamic organization met with United Nations leaders this week to condemn violence over the film and call for a ban on insulting the Prophet Muhammad.

Out of that meeting came the song «If a Song Could Be President,» a deceptively quirky song that imagines great musicians as world leaders.

In l956 the leaders of most of the former colonies of the world met in Bandung to organize a «nonaligned» movement which established their group as a buffer between the proponents of capitalism (First World) and those of communism (Second Woworld met in Bandung to organize a «nonaligned» movement which established their group as a buffer between the proponents of capitalism (First World) and those of communism (Second WoWorld) and those of communism (Second WorldWorld).

The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged world leaders meeting in Germany this week to recognise combatting climate change as an «urgent priority».

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio traveled through Paris yesterday, laying wreaths at the sites of the recent terror attacks, meeting with dignitaries and Jewish community leaders and, as the mayor of a city with a prominent Jewish population, speaking about «the cancer of anti-Semitism» throughout the world.

The family will meet with Labour leader Ed Miliband tomorrow and David Cameron on Wednesday, as the after - effects of the News of the World scandal continue to ripple through British politics.

The Nigerian leader would also hold a bilateral meeting with the UN scribe as well as a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump of the United States of America, along with other world leaders.

COP 22, which will be attended by representatives from 197 countries including world leaders, environment ministers, government officials as well as a wide range of representatives from civil society and the private sector, is the first meeting of State Parties since the entry into force of the landmark Paris Agreement on November 4, 2016.

In the last month, officials with the World Wildlife Fund met with White House environmental officials as well as congressional leaders to urge their participation.

As world leaders prepare to meet in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, UK health professionals have formed an alliance of doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals to advocate for stronger measures to tackle climate change.

Earlier this year, Christiana Figueres, head of the UN climate talks, described it as a summons for world leaders «to meet for one day under one roof to discuss one thing: climate change».

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In 2005 he was appointed as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and served as co-chair at the WEF's Annual Meeting in 2012.

Each program is tailored to meet specific needs described by the client, and uses the same instructional methodologies, curricula, and expert faculty that have established the Harvard Graduate School of Education as a world - class provider of professional development for education leaders and practitioners.

These assessments are intended to play a critical role in educational systems; provide administrators, educators, parents, and students with the data and information needed to continuously improve teaching and learning; and help meet the President's goal of restoring, by 2020, the nation's position as the world leader in college graduates.

Also working in the tourism industry as an International Tour Leader; which allows me to travel around the whole world, explore new cultures and meet new people.

With a state - of - the - art convention center, world - class hotels and one - of - a-kind luxury service, Los Cabos continues to position itself as a leader in corporate meetings and incentive travel.

The 2017 Frieze Teens learn about the inner workings of the contemporary art world through visits with leaders in the field including artists Nicole Eisenman, Caroline Larsen and Jean Shin; trips to major exhibitions at city museums including The MET Breuer and the New Museum; and participation in events such as Pioneer Works» Alternative Art School Fair.

It's also the message we want to send to world leaders, as they meet in #Marrakech at the annual climate change conference #COP22.

As First Lady Michelle Obama has said: «The White House isn't simply a home to First Families or meeting space for world leaders, it's also known as «The People's House», a place that should be open to everyone.&raquAs First Lady Michelle Obama has said: «The White House isn't simply a home to First Families or meeting space for world leaders, it's also known as «The People's House», a place that should be open to everyone.&raquas «The People's House», a place that should be open to everyone.»

They will meet and interact with leaders in the art world, and tour the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, PS1, The Whitney Museum, The Frick Collection, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Dia Beacon; galleries in Chelsea, Midtown, Lower East side and Brooklyn as well as individual artists» studios.

There's a batch of new proposals for breaking the persistent global deadlock over dealing with global warming, all coming as world leaders prepare to meet at the Group of 8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, and in parallel sessions of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases.

At the United Nations summit meeting on Tuesday, Secretary General Ban Ki - moon exhorted world leaders to act as if their constituency were all of the planet's residents.

We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States met as the world's major economies in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan, on 9 July, 2008, and declare as follows:

The President's announcement comes as this week's Major Economies Meeting in Paris begins to lay the groundwork for the world leaders» climate meeting to be held in conjunction with the upcoming G - 8 Meeting in Paris begins to lay the groundwork for the world leaders» climate meeting to be held in conjunction with the upcoming G - 8 meeting to be held in conjunction with the upcoming G - 8 Summit.

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Russia, the host of next month's G - 8 summit, placed environmental protection as the second most important topic of the meeting of world leaders.

A Drive towards Sustainable Business Trends As the world's leaders met at 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris to reach a global agreement to reduce climate change, time has also come when entrepreneurial leaders of the world have to think about most sustainable ways to conduct business.

«As an Official Partner of COP21, our senior management team will also be on - site in Paris to participate with the world's leaders, proponents of sustainability and delegations from over 150 countries, to help them explore how utility - scale solar energy can be part of the solution mix in helping them meet their respective climate commitments, objectives and initiatives.»