Sentences with phrase «at side events»

Who are Corporate Europe Observatory to say who should and should not be at side events at COP meetings?

Meanwhile, at side events throughout the negotiations, forestry advocates complained that restoration of degraded forests was getting short shrift in negotiations.

The consensus that climate change needs to be addressed immediately and on all levels was evident in the diversity of voices represented at side events.

While many civil society groups were competing to build their own image at the side events in the official Rio Centro tents and other locations, the so called Peoples Summit in the Flamingo Park was a chaotic demonstration that lead to thousands of civil society representatives from across the world being stranded and lost without any sense of direction or coordination.

«U.S. coalitions from the state and city level are forming and they will likely have a strong presence at side events for COP23,» Saikawa says.

Whether you are kicking it old - school on a cabinet at a side event tournament, playing it on a legacy console or on current consoles such as the PSP and Vita or on an emulator you should check out this tutorial if you need some pointers.

Four climate scientists - James Hansen, Tom Wigley, Kerry Emanuel and Ken Caldeira (left to right)- explained their support for nuclear power at a side event at the Paris climate treaty talks.

Max Boykoff speaking at side event at the United Nations Conference of Parties meeting on climate change (COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco.

«I am at the side event at the EU Pavilion, Brussels room, the event refers to the DURBAN ACTION GLOBAL SCENARIOS FOR 2 C: FEASIBILITY, IMPLICATIONS AND IMPACTS.»

The final influence on my thinking at Paris was completely unexpected, and was captured in this observation made at a side event: «Investors are running ahead of governments.»

My first day at the UN climate summit, the COP 20, was actually outside the main venue, at a side event located in a San Isidro hotel.

The topic of funder accountability received glaring attention in Cancún at a side event organized by Avoided Deforestation Partners, where Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo railed Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the World Bank for hindering delivery of the first installment of $ 250 million in climate funding which Guyana had fulfilled the requirements for 11 months ago.

If corporate influence over governments is conspicuous at international conventions, that's nothing compared to the chumminess once corporations go home, Lidy Nacpil, head of the Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, said at a side event last week.

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If crop yields on existing farmland are boosted, pressure to convert forests to agriculture might be reduced, however, raising crop yields could also increase the incentive to convert more land to agriculture, Angelsen cautioned at a side event held at U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland.

BONN: Virginia has today become the latest US state to commit to action on climate change, becoming a member of the Under2 Coalition of leading sub-national governments at a side event hosted during the 23rd UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn.

Statement by the Executive Secretary at the Side event on «How global legal frameworks can make a difference in practice»

Campaign representative Richard Moyes from Article 36 spoke about meaningful human control of autonomous weapons at a side event on 16 October hosted by UNIDIR and the governments of the Netherlands and Switzerland.

At the side event convened by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots on Monday, 21 October, Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams said, «I don't want to see robots operating on their own, armed with lethal weapons» and asked the audience, «Do we really want to go there?»

At the side event, Heyns described fully autonomous weapons as «one of the most interesting topics» that he has ever dealt with as rapporteur.

Not exact matches

Whereas the natural course of events a decade ago might have been to start on this side of the border and then jump across it, today's founders are choosing to stay at home.

(This year's event could even see some side bets on whether there will be another envelope snafu at the end of the night, though the Academy and PricewaterhouseCoopers have taken some precautions against that possibility.)

«These are intricate networks of distribution that include Americans on this side of the border that are part of their network,» Rubio said during an event at the American Enterprise Institute.

Also in creating the networking event at the Summit, Justin, and his co-founders Nik Sharma and Troy Osinoff of All Things Social Media, allowed full access into the conversations and meetings of like - minded people in the networking side of things.

[16:00] Pain + reflection = progress [16:30] Creating a meritocracy to draw the best out of everybody [18:30] How to raise your probability of being right [18:50] Why we are conditioned to need to be right [19:30] The neuroscience factor [19:50] The habitual and environmental factor [20:20] How to get to the other side [21:20] Great collective decision - making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating meaningful work and meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision - making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?

Jobs also became one of Silicon Valley's most prominent opponents of the Trump administration's restrictive immigration policies, including speaking out at public events, lobbying politicians on both sides of the aisles and funding multi-platform media campaigns, this year aimed at the at - risk Dreamers.

The New Testament claims that this Jesus of history, whose father and mother were well known to his contemporaries (John 6:42) is at the same time the pre-existent Son of God, and side by side with the historical event of the crucifixion it sets the definitely non-historical event of the resurrection.

One side of a familiy not showing up at a family function just because the event is held in the wrong church or because the other side has the wrong take of the same damn religion.

Whether hosting an event on campus to inform your community about a humanitarian issue happening on the other side of the world, going into your city to help at a local organization or picking up trash on the way to class, getting involved and engaged in any way possible is an important facet to add to your college life.

The cross is certainly a many - sided event and symbol, and contexts alter meanings; but in our context at least, I believe, it should be seen primarily, not as a divinely managed human sacrifice to a righteously wrathful God but as God's own solidarity with the creature and the decisive statement of One who would be «with us» unreservedly.

But the lay witnesses may have erred on the side of emphasizing the personal, the existential, too much; at some of those events the attitude was that «I'll communicate my high to you in the hope that you'll get a Jesus high, too.»

How many times did Mom open it wide to serve a dozen people a holiday meal at which we eagerly stuffed ourselves fuller than she packed the turkey, debated our views of the day's events and laughed as our seemingly meek grandma displayed her sassy side?

At the time, however, most British people were unconcerned about this tragic event on the other side of Europe and were more focussed on the question of Irish Home Rule, which threatened to erupt into civil war.

The Yehudi kept on the other side of the realm of magic which the Seer and his friends entered at that time in an attempt to reach the Messianic sphere by affecting current events; he did not wish to hasten the end, but to prepare man for the end.

«Science and technology are on our side,» Denise Harle, who defends pro-life health care workers and activists as legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, said at the Evangelicals for Life event.

Not long before his death, in a work entitled On the Church of Christ (1970), he wrote: «It seems to me, very significant that these two events of such great bearing — on the Jewish side the return of a portion of the people to the Promised Land, on the Christian side the Second Council of the Vatican — took place at almost the same time, the first in 1948, the second in 1962 — 1965.

Occasional remarks are found such as «before there reigned any king over the children of Israel» (Genesis 36:31), which seem to imply that from the standpoint of the writer the monarchy had already been established; and «the Canaanite was then in the land» (Genesis 12:6, 13:7), which implied that it was being written after Hebrew occupation; and finally repeated instances of the use of the phrase «on the other side of the Jordan,» in reference to events occurring in the lifetime of Moses, which led scholars to doubt if Moses could have been the author at least of the whole of the Pentateuch.

[Side note: I didn't get a chance to take any photos at the event, so I'm just including a few recent snaps taken in NYC]

Organic Valley is also supporting all of Rodale 2012 public events at the Institute, and the two organizations are partnering on a side - by - side soils experiment to more deeply understand the impacts of three organically approved soil amendment techniques, among other on - farm initiatives and aforementioned research being conducted on the Burkholder herd.

I am gearing up to travel to Boulder, Colorado in April to teach two food styling and photography workshops at The Makerie retreat.It will be a weekend of learning, eating and other side events like these two events I will be part of on April 10th.

It's also a pretty satisfying dish since it's a bread salad, so it could be served as the prominent or only side at any summery event.

At a side - event we presented stories that show impact on the ground in our project on nutrition - sensitive agriculture, run in 5 countries.

A side benefit is that it's not officially a charity event, but attendance at fiesta activities netted $ 35,000, which will be donated to a variety of good causes.

Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) RT15 November 27 - 30, 2017 - Grand Hyatt Bali, Indonesia Adrienne Stork, Lita Natasastra, Nicole Pasricha, Richard Donovan and Stephen Krecik of the Rainforest Alliance will participate and will host a side event on the new Accountability Framework — on Thursday, November 29, 3:00 - 5:30 pm at the same venue.

Partnerships for Coffee Sustainability March 16, 2018, 4:30 - 5:30 PM CST - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States - Sheraton Hotel, Bayside C (4th Floor) We will be hosting a side event at the National Coffee Association Annual Convention, bringing together key coffee industry stakeholders to discuss certification and beyond and showcase collaborative initiatives.

For most sit - down events, entrees will be beautifully presented on plates, with select sides served family - style at tableside, giving the feel of one - on - one service.

That would seem to indicate that he is not intending to take the Europa League too seriously, and judging by the amount of changes to the starting line - up he intends to make tonight it will look like one of his League Cup sides, but Wenger is still pretending that he wants to win it but admits his disappointment at not being in the major event.

Hyperbolic speeches, screaming crowds, sign waving, goofy hats, certitude that their side will win — it's all there at both events.

Suarez, who missed last year's event due to suspension, scored 59 goals in all competitions for Luis Enrique's side this term, and will have been desperate to end his magnificent season with a strong showing at this summer's showpiece.

With at least nine different competitive levels, the event will once again fea - ture as many as 130 sides competing in over 200 matches.