Sentences with phrase «current international negotiations»

In particular, the paper focuses on: 1) the contours of the adaptation issue, as well as its relationship to other important issues; 2) the consideration of adaptation within the current international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the issues relating to adaptation finance; 3) the challenge of approaching adaptation at every level in a country: community, local, regional, sectoral and national.

• Post-2012 climate scenarios: What emissions limits might emerge from current international negotiations on climate change?

Noticeably missing from Tuesday's pledge were specifics on how the U.S. plans to fund its pledge to a floundering international climate change adaptation fund, for example, a key requirement that poor countries have attached to the current international negotiations, intended to partially account for the historical inequality of emissions.

Not exact matches

The current collective bargaining agreement between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association expires on Dec. 1, and among the several items up for negotiation is the possible implementation of an international draft.

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.

The current administration is working on new, more stringent targets for international negotiations to combat climate change

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.

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

What we need now is for us to learn from the current experience to better handling of the negotiations in the years to come before concluding, if ever, what would be the most difficult international economic agreement.

It is reasonable to conclude that China's rising carbon footprint is in no small part attributable to the consumer demands of its trading partners and points to the challenge of apportioning blame responsibilities on a geographic basis, as the current international climate negotiations attempt to do.

This analysis can also be useful for financial institutions in understanding the history and current proceedings in the international negotiations on REDD + funding.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

Many have argued that responsibility for reducing ghg emissions should not only be based upon production of ghgs within a nation, the current presumption of international negotiations, but on products consumed in a nation but produced in another nations in processes which emitted ghgs.

The current political position of India in international climate negotiation is non-commitment... Read more

A seat at the table in top - level international negotiations brings status, so naturally Member States are reluctant to give up their privileged positions (which often reflect post-WWII power relations rather than our current international economic order).

Skilled in Engineering Applications and Contract Negotiations under time sensitive measures; Current US Dept. Of State Clearance for International Contract work!