Sentences with phrase «at international negotiations»

Part of the International program, Erika's work focuses on climate change, at international negotiations and with U.N. Environment Programme and regional bodies like the Arctic Council to reduce emissions of atmospheric pollutants.

It is hard to escape the conclusion that the CCA's recommended targets are based on the numbers currently on the table at international negotiations.

Vienna, Austria, 25 July 2016: Civil society organisations welcome the progress that has been made at the international negotiations for phasing down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) which ended on a high this weekend in Vienna.

Not exact matches

China is increasingly assertive in international forums such as the G20, and at negotiations such as the recent Copenhagen climate - change summit.

«They wouldn't commit, and it was a sticking point,» said Max Bergmann, a former special assistant to the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security at the time those negotiations occurred.

Zhang Baohui, a specialist in Chinese politics and international relations at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, said Xi's address was strategic in that it allowed China to save face at home, while paving the way for trade negotiations with the US to prevent any further escalation of the trade spat.

It hurts Canadian manufacturers and other exporters because Canada's insistence on protecting supply management puts Canada at a disadvantage in every trade negotiation, hindering access to international markets.

«I expect protracted negotiations as the international organizations will ask for more than amending the central bank law,» Daniel Bebesy, who helps oversee $ 1.5 billion mostly in Hungarian government bonds at Budapest Fund Management, said by phone today.

He was a graduate research fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation and has taught at both Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

«If Trump announces a US withdrawal from NAFTA, well, at that moment the negotiations stop,» Raul Urteaga, head of international trade for Mexico's agriculture ministry, told Reuters.

Previously, he was Deputy Chief Economist at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) with responsibility for economic analysis in support of trade negotiations and trade litigation, and served as contributing editor of DFAIT's Trade Policy Research series (2001 - 2007 editions).

International development charity Christian Aid is calling on world leaders at this week's G20 meeting to show the US President that he has relegated himself to the side - lines of climate change negotiations.

actively participated in the global food sovereignty movement by attending conferences of La Via Campesina and the International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty, as well as participated in global food security governance negotiations at the World Committee on Food Security;

Beginning as a summer intern at Dole Seafood in 1989, he initially led the marketing planning process, developed packaging, and conducted domestic and international sales negotiations.

The 20 - year - old England international is reportedly unwilling to sign a huge # 180,000 per week contract at Anfield, putting off negotiations until the summer in a bid to concentrate on his football.

At some point, likely during the next Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations in 2016, MLB and its team owners will bring up the international draft to the Players Association, and it will very likely be integrated into the game.

Chelsea are also interested in 19 - year - old Belgian striker Kevin de Bruyne but have not yet entered into negotiations with his club, Genk, and would balk at the suggestions being made that the youth international would cost up to # 10 million.

City are currently in negotiations with Premier League rivals Swansea City in a bid to thrash out a deal that allows them to bring Wilfried Bony to the Etihad Stadium, but with the Ivorian international out of action for a month whilst he plays at the African Cup of Nations, it would appear that City want to keep Jovetic for now.

West Ham boss Sam Allardyce told reporters at his pre-match briefing that negotiations between the two clubs are ongoing despite Blackburn rejecting an initial # 2million bid for the Swedish international full - back.

At the beginning of the month, the Mirror reported that, despite having three years remaining on his current contract, the France international was offered a new deal — although his wage demands saw negotiations over an extension break down.

Jan Komarek, a lecturer at the London School of Economics» European Institute and Department of Law, says that, as Article 50 is «silent» on whether a withdrawing member state could change its mind during the negotiation period, lawyers would have to look for other examples in international law.

Thus, now free of the procedural morass that characterised UNFCCC negotiations in 2012, the ADP process that unfolds over the next three years represent what may be seen as a contingent moment in the history of the UN climate negotiating process, where fundamental questions over the design and scope of an international agreement are up for grabs in a way and manner perhaps unseen since the beginning of the initial intergovernmental negotiations at the end of the 1980s.

If one is to think «rationally» in building a nuclear programme, one must first attempt to acquire the technical know - how, then demonstrate it by testing it (or at least creating enough suspicion about testing it) and once the international community «recognises» one's capability of developing a sufficient deterrent then negotiations can begin.

Added to these over-arching responsibilities are individual powers to operate the Royal Prerogative (as the de facto chair of the Privy Council)- to declare war (including single - handedly authorising the launch of a nuclear strike), to sign international treaties and to represent the UK at the highest level in international and European negotiations.

On the international stage, however, will this increase in domestic power lead to an advantage for the United Kingdom at the negotiation table in Brussels?

The 2015 general election campaign will come at the same time as the next round of international UN negotiations on climate change, which campaigners say will be a critical moment in determining the planet's future.

There is growing pressure for international efforts to be directed at ensuring peace negotiations in Geneva.

This stated, «We will promote animal welfare at an international level and work towards the inclusion of production standards in WTO negotiations».

(CNN)- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Jackie Speier took time out from immigration and student loan negotiations Thursday night to tour the Asiana flight 214 crash site at San Francisco International Airport.

A senior State official said they were «cautiously optimistic» that the deal, still under negotiation, would be finalized by a vote at a meeting of the United Nations» International Civil Aviation Organization in a month.

«I became very involved with many negotiations,» Brackett explains, «and because the NWT had a strong representation at the IUCN, this gave me the opportunity to see the problem in an international context.»

Such a double whammy of failure in international environment negotiations could effectively mark the end of an era of optimism about environmental diplomacy that began at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, when the original climate and biodiversity conventions were both agreed.

«The task for the year ahead,» Kraut says, «is to continue to demonstrate to those on the Hill what all of us in the community already know, that the nation's most pressing problems — the violence of terrorism, economic well - being, learning and literacy, international negotiations, ethnic and minority group discrimination — all have at their core a social and behavioral base that simply can not be addressed without the knowledge from the social and behavioral research that NSF supports.»

Ulvestad says negotiations will now begin with the potential partner or partners with a view to signing a deal before the current management arrangement, with SRI International, runs out at the end of March 2018.

«I don't think [the revised data] will affect the climate negotiations,» says Sha Fu, an environmental economist at China's National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation in Beijing who is a member of the Chinese delegation to the talks.

«Suffering» for a shopping mall At international climate negotiations, Indian leaders point to their rural poor as the raison d'etre for the nation's economic development agenda.

Faced with looming climate regulations now under negotiation at the International Civil Aviation Organization, aircraft makers and operators around the world are also looking for incremental solutions for improving the environmental performance of their fleet.

«A lot of people feel like it's been a lot of years of talking and negotiations at the international level, and we don't need any more grand negotiations right now; we need to implement what has been agreed upon,» he said.

John Upton is a Senior Science Writer at Climate Central, where he has covered international climate negotiations, oceans research, climate change adaptation, and the global trade in wood energy.

This event was kindly hosted at the South African pavilion during the COP23 negotiations in Bonn: Tuesday, November 14th from 10:00 - 11:45 Background: The responsibility to address the growing climate impact of aviation and shipping falls on the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

On the other hand, such urban areas are unencumbered by the complicated international negotiations that hamper climate change action at the international level.

The deal was brokered by Don McGowan, General Counsel at The Pokémon Company International, who led the negotiations with outside counsel Dan Black of Greenberg Traurig.

The complications and tricky negotiations of family, as siblings grow up and leave to establish their own lives and their own families, was a central theme of numerous films at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.

In 2010 he received the Jeffrey Rubin Theory To Practice Award, awarded by the International Association for Conflict Management and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.

Prior to her current post, she was the Assistant Director for Negotiations for the Office of International Aviation at the Department.

In 1975, Belize's position at the negotiations was greatly strengthened by the international support gained for its cause.

Yogyakarta Open Studio 2016, presented in conjunction with 17 studios, looks at the way studios function in the Indonesian art scene: as place to work, but also as sites of cultural negotiation, as international meeting points for friends and colleagues to organize art activities, and as administrative centers for complex, demanding careers.

Dec. 4, 7:34 p.m. Updated CANCÚN, Mexico — At almost every negotiation in recent years aimed at building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of texAt almost every negotiation in recent years aimed at building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of texat building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of texat the end of the first week to start framing some kind of text.

I hope I'll be wrong — maybe successful Doha negotiations and a new US President (and even some scientific breakthroughs while I'm at it) will energize international negotiators to come to a useful climate change agreement!

Roger Pielke Jr. has picked up on a response from Obama on international climate negotiations that is, at best, a huge stretch of reality.]