Sentences with phrase «contentious issues on the table»
Nobody thought this was going to be easy — how to best launch a carbon cap and trade system is one of the most contentious issues on the table right now.
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Some signed treaties are left in limbo and never ratified, very few become contentious issues and fail (e.g. in a referendum) but for the most part, all the head of states / governments and their representatives around the table have a parliamentary majority behind them and can get whatever they agree on through their own parliament.
At COP17 in Durban, South Africa, Parties agreed to have an «exchange of views» on agriculture under the SBSTA; «mitigation adaptation synergies,» (read: Climate - smart Agriculture) were one of the main, and most contentious, issues on the table during those and previous talks.