Sentences with phrase «at multilateral»

Whilst the deliberation of reform at multilateral level has been passed to UNCITRAL, it is one of a number of considerations being reviewed by the working group, concerning both the substantive protections afforded to investors and the mechanism by which disputes are resolved.

Sohn, J., S. Nakhouda, and K. Baumert, 2005: Mainstreaming climate change at the multilateral development banks.

At the multilateral level, we recovered from the Copenhagen shock.

Along with a coalition of CSOs CAN Europe has set out recommendations to ensure that lessons are learnt from other investment initiatives at the multilateral and European level; both the positive examples of careful, evidence - led work and negative, long - term damaging examples of hastily established funds.

The US is aware of this potential, and has instructed its delegates at multilateral development banks (MDBs) to promote access to and cleaner, more efficient fossil fuel usage in the world in a bid to reverse World Bank restrictions.

Lia represents the country at multilateral environmental events, in particular negotiating on climate change under the UN.

Mentions that the EU - China trade agenda should focus on improving market access opportunities and addressing Chinese overcapacity, and calls on China to engage at the multilateral level.

To illustrate, look at the multilateral development banks: Beijing has not only joined but supports with financial muscle all of the prevailing development institutions, both globally and in Asia.

Not exact matches

It's a matter that should be confronted at the national and multilateral level.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«At the same time, we will continue to resolutely be a protector and promoter of the global climate system process, proactively participating in the multilateral climate change process,» Hua said.

Re-engagement with the Commonwealth «will pressure Mnangagwa to implement reforms, which in turn will help to convince potential funders, such as the Paris Club donors and multilateral lenders such as the IMF, to approve new financing,» William Attwell, practice leader for sub-Saharan Africa at research firm Frontier Strategy Group, told CNBC via email.

It includes such things as a boarder adjustment tax, increased tariffs aimed at specific industries or countries, non-tariff barriers, and even broader multilateral measures.

A say at the table in these multilateral organizations also gives Canada a greater bargaining chip when it comes to negotiating the terms and conditions of such contracts.

At the official level, Track 1, we will meet North Korean participants through meetings of the ASEAN Regional Forum, on the sidelines of multilateral meetings, and occasional, ad hoc Track 2 meetings.

Clark said mischievously he recommends Canada seek a border adjustment carbon tax at best, but at a bare minimum he believes Canada should require the Paris Agreement be added to a list of multilateral environment agreements to which NAFTA countries must belong.

«Our work at the outset was primarily with multilateral development banks, and we're increasingly seeing more activity through European corporate issuance and American municipalities,» says Navindu Katugampola, Executive Director in the Sovereign, Supranational & Agency Group.

But at the same time, Canadians expect us to stand up for our own values, to make our own choices, whether it's around climate or multilateral institutions, and that's exactly what we're going to keep doing.

If multilateral cooperation were to fail, governments would have incentives to set tariffs at levels which would be «optimal» in a pure mercantilist setting.

«At a time when protectionism and inward - looking policies are proliferating, concluding the CPTPP would send a strong signal to the world about the benefits of multilateral economic cooperation.»

I hope we aren't so thinly spread that we can not practice bilateral and multilateral diplomacy in Asia at the same time.

As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of multilateral and some national aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for aid.

At the UN, Western diplomacy had followed suit, emphasizing the need for a multilateral intervention led by African states, but supported with hardware and training from the outside.

But more than this, the two statements quoted at the start of this article suggest that the United States still occupies a unique leadership role, and that there remains a belief that the success of many regional multilateral agendas requires the presence of a US President.

A previous enthusiasm for a multilateral approach to trade negotiations at the global level appears lately to have given way to a preference for bi-lateral deals.

The idea was that it is easier to reach ambitious agreements through multilateral trade negotiations dealing with many issues at once than through piecemeal bilateral agreements.

JSPS also has a number of fellowship programs that are designed to engage international scholars at all levels in their careers, while JST offers a cofunding program in cooperation with more than 20 counterpart foreign funding organizations in order to promote bilateral and multilateral research collaboration.

Such shared efforts are only possible, however, when OSPs — or at least bilateral or multilateral agreements — are in place.

If you look at the following video, this is an example for a low - intensity plyometric exercise (disregarding that it is multilateral), because the hurdles are small and there is not a lot of impact on landing and taking off.

Represents a tangible intervention strategy to climate change disasters at a local level, while integrating with the multilateral processes that support local action.

The goal was to contribute to the challenges posed by the implementation of Global Education after Declaration of Maastricht in 2002, which requires multilateral policy coordination at all levels.

It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major international organisations supporting climate action in developing countries, such as the Global Environment Facility.The first section of the book sets the stage and provides an overview of independent evaluations, carried out by multilateral development banks and development organisations.

We note the significant progress made by the multilateral development banks on the Clean Energy Investment Framework (CEIF) agreed at Gleneagles and welcome their joint level of ambition to mobilize public and private investments of over US$ 100 billion up to 2010 from within existing resources.

This goes someway towards explaining why the UK government does not (can not) put all this on the back burner at this point in time, and why it pursues a track that lacks multilateral support.

The money needed can be catalyzed — at least initially — through existing multilateral financial instittions liked the Asian Development Bank (ADB), China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the World Bank and others.

Notably, of the fossil fuel - based projects across the four multilateral development bank energy portfolios, only one percent (by dollar amount) included provisions aimed at increasing access for the poor.

At maturity, investments in the initiative are expected to hit around $ 4 trillion, stemming from private sources, dedicated funds, and multilateral development banks.

It draws attention into the need to come up with a equitable and binding multilateral agreement at the negotiations.

Analysis shows that multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience, a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds, are at the forefront.

Authorizes the EPA Administrator to support activities only in a developing country that: (1) is experiencing deforestation or forest degradation or has standing forest carbon stocks that may be at risk of deforestation or degradation; and (2) has entered a bilateral or multilateral agreement with the United States establishing the conditions of its participation.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

But this poses a problem since multilateral attempts at coordinated global action are falling short, according to a report by the Federal Environment Office.

As this occurred, Hainan and the Northern Territory would become the bookends of a grand theatre of multilateral cooperation aimed at ensuring — for everyone's benefit — the security and smooth functioning of a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure.

In light of the «very slow» progress in multilateral approaches to regulate climate change, it is «likely that the future climate change regime will be a patchwork of domestic systems - or assimilated systems such as that of the European Union — loosely coordinated at the international level», he told swissinfo.ch.

At ClimateWorks, Segafredo leads a number of research projects in collaboration with several partner organizations, ranging from scientific groups to multilateral development banks.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Take, for example, the new issue at the heart of the multilateral negotiations: the Warsaw Mechanism on Loss and Damage associated with climate impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

We also, in Paris we launched something I think will turn out to be very important for us — a C40 finance facility, which is largely funded by the German government at the moment, and is intended to fill that gap where we've got lots of cities with really well technically designed projects, low carbon projects, whether that be cycle routes, or a new low carbon building developments, but where the city just doesn't have the capacity to turn those into really bankable projects — something that a private investor, or indeed a multilateral funding agency, feels comfortable about putting the money into, because it's just not what they're used to doing.

It looks at whether funds are being equitably disbursed, «country ownership» is being enhanced (encouraging devolved management rather than control by multilateral institutions), and vulnerable countries and communities are being targeted.

Dr Birol also held meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Environment and with New Zealand's Climate Change Ambassador, where the IEA and New Zealand agreed on the need to support global policy advice and quantitative analysis for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies and the energy transition, both through bilateral collaboration and multilateral fora, such as APEC, the WTO and the G20.