Sentences with phrase «countries agreed to the deal»

At this year's UN climate conference in Lima, Peru, representatives from 196 countries agreed to a deal that could eventually commit every nation to slow the growth of its greenhouse - gas emissions.

Nearly 200 countries agreed to the deal last year, which would commit governments to limiting global temperature increases to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Not exact matches

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

The deal would be structured something like this: The SP agrees to make an investment in your business — to help you cover what the government subsidies don't — in exchange for getting the government to grant them the rights to conduct more business in their country.

Turkey hopes that the deal would allow it to acquire the technology to develop its own defense system, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in an interview with Turkish newspaper Aksam, said the two countries had agreed on joint production.

In that deal, PhotoPoint CEO Ed Bernstein agreed to pay Kodak a flat fee in exchange for access to the film - and digital - camera users who bring their pictures to 40,000 Kodak PhotoNet processing locations throughout the country.

In early 2018, however, Chapman agreed to sell LDSman and his logistics company that specializes in importing good from countries around the world in a deal worth over $ 10 million with outside investors.

The U.S. and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control deal for cyberspace, where each country would agree that it will not be the first to use cyberweapons to cripple the other's critical infrastructure during peace time.

Pascual said he does not believe the absence of a NAFTA agreement would result in new tariffs on the energy sector, should the three countries fail to agree to a revised deal.

Trade specialists agree that it has proven difficult to separate the deal's direct effects on trade and investment from other factors, including rapid improvements in technology, expanded trade with other countries such as China and unrelated domestic developments in each of the countries.

After Trump pulled the U.S. from the 12 - nation deal last year, the remaining 11 countries agreed to a separate pact.

Hamm, who yesterday cleared a cool $ 3 billion in less than three hours off his shares in Continental Resources Inc. after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced that it had finally agreed to cap its production at 32.5 million barrels per day, also serves as the CEO of Continental Resources, which is clearly a full - time gig when he's not busy raking in billions on the back of OPEC deals.

«In July 2009 the two countries signed a deal under which Brazil agreed to triple its payments to Paraguay.»

Lighthizer's push to hammer out a deal could bump into a difficult reality, as the three countries still haven't agreed on thorny issues such as rules for car manufacturing in the region.

Just last fall, both newspaper companies agreed to a deal that has the Tribune printing and distributing the Sun - Times, an insourcing / outsourcing deal now not uncommon in the daily press across the country.

A number of oil exporting countries have suggested a six - month extension to the oil supply cut deal agreed by OPEC countries and non-OPEC crude producers, Iraqi oil minister Jabar al - Luaibi Continue Reading

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

Not only do all countries need to agree on a deal, but the US trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, needs to give Congress 90 days» notice before the president signs it.

After the Obama administration agreed to the nuclear deal, Iranian oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh was determined to see his country's production rise to pre-sanctions levels, and it's been widely reported that any talk of a freeze would have to be around the 4 million bpd mark.

After a day of marathon talks on Monday, leaders from Greece's 18 fellow euro - zone countries agreed that Tsipras's government was finally getting serious about striking a deal after it submitted a set of reform measures that began to converge with the terms demanded by creditors.

'' President Trump agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three countries.»

That changed when, as part of a deal to be removed from President Donald Trump's seven - country travel ban, Iraq agreed to once again begin accepting deportees — something the war - ridden nation hadn't done since 2010.

«Whenever you have a scenario where, in this country, all consumer goods manufacturers have to deal with a very concentrated retail environment, you will go through periods of trading where you may not necessarily agree with their point of view, and they may not necessarily agree with our point of view.»

It agreed a deal last May with Carlsberg to brew and distribute its namesake beer and Kronenbourg 1664 in the country.

This is according to the Mirror, who state that the Reds believe that the 22 - year - old has yet to sign a deal with any club, and that reports in the player's home country of Germany have recently stated that the midfielder had agreed a deal to join Bayern Munich, as the player is out of contract in the summer according to Sky Sports.

Of course you are dealing with employment laws across different states and different countries and to try to police legally something like that, it was agreed in the room that all the lawyers in the world couldn't come up with a contract to police it.

Several young stars from foreign countries that have agreed to deals with the Premier League only for their moves to be delayed significantly due to work permit problems.

If they agree a deal for the Brazilian, there could be a green light on Alonso's return to his home country.

Last year, Bogotá signed a historic peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the country's largest rebel group, which as a result agreed to disarm.

This is basically to make a trade deal easier to negotiate — it's simpler to agree things between countries with identical legal requirements.

And other countries would not want or be able to agree a deal with the UK until they understood what its final relationship with the EU was.

Does the Prime Minister agree, however, that in the weeks to come it will be important for the country to know that at the same time as trying to deal with Gaddafi, the Government are also intent on forging ahead, with our European partners, in keeping the middle east peace process revitalised and going, so that we can draw the poison from the well?

Under the deal, the U.S. would agree to lift economic sanctions against Iran in return for measures to prevent the country from building nuclear weapons.

I must be the only one in the country who will be voting Liberals, well I might as well get use to it now labour has agreed to boundary changes in a deal with the Tories, my area will become a Liberal area after 102 years in labour.

Italy's Five Star Movement and the right - wing League parties on Friday agreed a deal to govern the country, promising tax changes, a basic income for the poor and pension reforms.

«I want to see proper environmental safeguards and generous community benefits for the areas where fracking will take place, but does my right hon. Friend agree that shale gas has the potential not only to lead an industrial renaissance in this country but to play a serious part in dealing with fuel poverty?»

And while Obama called the 18 December deal he brokered an «unprecedented breakthrough» in getting developing countries to agree for the first time to voluntary reductions in greenhouse - gas emissions, he knew that it was missing major components that supporters had sought, ranging from mandatory mitigation targets to deforestation.

Noting that China has never before agreed to top out its emissions, Obama said he hopes the world's two largest economies can steer other countries toward a new global deal at the Paris conference.

Around 195 countries ended a two - week meeting in Warsaw on Saturday evening to agree the outlines of a deal meant to be agreed in 2015 to combat global warming.

In proposing a system that the United States and China might agree upon, Ramesh in no uncertain terms told U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman that money and technology assistance to developing countries must be part of any deal on formulating a transparent system.

AT&T said on March 20 it had agreed to buy T - Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom AG, in a deal that would combine the second - and fourth - largest U.S. wireless operators to create the country's largest.

Realtors from all the over country agree that it takes no more than a week to close the deal on a house.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

I just read in its 22 March edition, under a heading «The hot air of hypocrisy,» that at a March meeting of European leaders, «Leaders from countries with powerful heavy - industry lobbies called for explicit measures to «protect» European firms in case talks on a global climate - change deal failed... Germany, France, Austria, Italy, and the Czech Republic all asked the EU to plan for failure, insisting that defensive measures must be agreed before climate - change talks in Copenhagen at the end of 2009.»

Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on getting U.S. and China, the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before talks begin in Copenhagen.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

A UN deal agreed by all countries in Paris in 2015 stipulated that temperature rise must be kept to well below 2C, and below 1.5 C if possible.

He told the crowd that the negotiations were at an «interesting juncture» following the results in Durban — which saw all countries agree to be part of a future deal setting out climate change targets.

At Copenhagen, where the finance part of the deal was only sorted out at the very last minute, rich countries agreed to supply $ 30bn ($ 20bn) of «fast - start» financial assistance to the poor nations, and they said that by 2020, financial flows of at least $ 100bn a year would be provided.