Sentences with phrase «down global deal»

Gone for now is the quest for a top - down global deal setting one concrete but unworkable emission - reduction target for all countries, and it is place is a flurry of «Intended Nationally Determined Contributions» (INDC), which are bottom - up proposals that countries around the world will begin submitting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) after December's talks end.

He was among nearly 150 world leaders and other representatives from 190 countries gathered in Paris to nail down a global deal to cut carbon emissions.

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The prospects for an oil price recovery are still unclear, van Beurden said, despite attempts by OPEC and other producers to agree a deal to limit output and reduce the global glut which has pushed oil prices down by 50 % since June 2014.

Oil prices slipped away from 2018 highs on Thursday, with global benchmark Brent trading at $ 71.15 in early afternoon deals, down 0.8 percent, and WTI trading at $ 66.38, around 0.6 percent lower.

Merger activity this year is down 14 percent from this time last year, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, which cited the lower dollar value of deals in the health care and materials sectors.

Overall, deal activity was down — global financings dropped six percent to 1,886 total in the last quarter.

Global ECM deal volume totaled $ 196.2 billion in the first quarter of this year, down 11 % from $ 220.4 billion in the first quarter of last year, according to Dealogic.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Oil prices rallied on Monday after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about pursuing nuclear weapons after signing a 2015 deal with global powers, while global stock indexes dipped with the S&P 500 led down by losses in technology.

Indeed, after abandoning the Trans - Pacific Partnership, playing hardball with South Korea over an existing bilateral trade agreement (Trump favors bilateral trade deals to multilateral agreements, arguing he can negotiate better deals that way) and potentially scuttling NAFTA, the US may increasingly be seen as tearing down the post-WWII global architecture.

U.S. stocks are mostly green in today's session, though there is a good deal of red in global stocks, notably in emerging markets, where the popular EEM emerging markets ETF is down close to 1 % as I type this and the Brazil (EWZ) is down more than 2 %...

Instead of threatening to take down the deal through legislation or litigation, Republicans released a few muted statements arguing that the global agreement would falter on its own.

We'd recommend you to deal mostly with local ones because global dating is good but it pretty never comes down to real appointments.

WME Global and Bloom are tying down the biggest world rights deal I can remember happening out of Berlin.

The reality is our current infrastructure is nowhere near prepared to deal with an outbreak on this scale and the results could be dire; emergency services and law enforcement become quickly overwhelmed, basic infrastructure starts to break down, and global shipping and transit become non-existent.

I can't wait to deal with the global problems handed down to my generation.

And even when we knelt and watched a shiny tumblebug rolling, rolling, turning upside down and pushing with her hind feet onward the perfect globe of shit she'd made, and we saw her pause, and scurry round to where she'd dug the hole just big enough, measuring with antennæ twiddling, then shove and shove the ball down and in, and go in after — I think we didn't know that she'd be laying eggs just where each hatchling's mouth would find a feast, before she came back out, retraced her trail and started to shape another global deal almost worthy of Ares, money - changer of dead bodies.

* The government insists that dealing with global warming is way down the priority list and since our economy is booming because of mineral exports (including heaps of coal don't you know) we should concentrate on that and not get too worried about the water situation.

The earth has had significant Global Warming for some 20,000 years now... The only real argument is to the degree that mans activity has augmented that... We just came out of one - point - five - million years of continuous glaciation with sheets of two mile thick ice down past the 44th parallel... I will cheerfully deal with warming issues over that, any day...

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Down in the «Partisan Gaps over Priorities» table, «Protecting the environment» is running three times higher among Republicans, so we can see that is being differentiated from «Dealing with global warming.»

At the 36th OEWG, Parties have four amendment proposals to consider for negotiating a deal on a global phase - down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); HFCs are a group of potent greenhouse gases used mainly in refrigeration and air - conditioning, with climate impacts hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2.

EIA expects that the progress made thus far will result in the Parties to the Montreal Protocol beginning to craft a global deal to phase down HFCs at the OEWG.

We need answers as to why the former President Yar» Adua's Government awarded the licences to Exxon at a seemingly knock - down rate, despite being offered what appears to be a far superior deal from a credible competitor,» said Dominic Eagleton, a senior campaigner with Global Witness.

The United Nations» top climate diplomat will step down July 1 following a raucous four - year term during which world leaders struggled to reach agreement on a new international global warming deal.

In the first part of my interview with Paul Faeth of Global Water Challenge, we discovered how both top down and bottom up approaches are needed to deal with the water crisis.

Those watchers, not to mention the lawyers involved in the M&A deals, have not had much to get excited about with both the number and value of global M&A deals well down in 2009.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has clamped down on virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, directing all entities regulated by the central bank — mainly banks, finance companies and wallets — not to deal with or provide services to any individual or business entities dealing with or settling virtual currencies, joining the global crackdown on trading of virtual coins.