Sentences with phrase «economic conferences since»

«The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War.»

To give some sense of the scale of wealth transfer he described the up and coming UNFCCC Cancun meeting as «not a climate conference» but «one of the largest economic conferences since WWII».

Flashback: IPCC official admits UN climate meetings redistribute wealth in one of the «largest economic conferences since WWII» «JoNova

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In prepared remarks for a Boston Fed conference, Rosengren also pointed to economic trends that suggest an even more accommodative policy stance might have been needed since the Great Recession.

In 2016, the Far East Federal District's trade with China amounted to $ 6 billion, accounting for 25 percent of its foreign trade volumes.47 In a meeting with the vice premier of China's State Council, Putin stated that Chinese investment in the Russian Far East has exceeded $ 3 billion since 2015.48 According to Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East Alexander Galushka, as of November 2017, the number of projects in the PDAs and the Free Port of Vladivostok involving Chinese capital tripled in the past year to twenty - eight projects worth $ 4 billion that account for 85 percent of foreign investment attracted to the Russian Far East since 2015.49 At the Third Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017 — an annual conference to attract foreign investment to the Russian Far East — Putin even used these investment figures in jest to encourage Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to increase Japanese investments in the Russian Far East.50

Although that's 100 % the right call - not least given the economic turmoil - the party probably has more right to be upbeat at this year's Conference than at any time since 1987.

Paul Hawken is a renowned lecturer — since 1983, he has keynoted conferences and led workshops on the impact of commerce upon the environment, and consulted with governments and corporations throughout the world on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.

This, in turn, has morphed, since 1992 and the Rio Conference, into a legitimising myth for a gamut of interconnected political agendas, above all for a range of European sensibilities with regards to America, oil, the car, transport, economic growth, trade, and international corporations.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution,» Figueres asserted, at a February 3rd press conference during the Geneva climate talks.

«Consumer confidence improved to its highest level since 2000 (Nov. 2000, 132.6) after a modest increase in January,» said Lynn Franco, director of Economic Indicators at The Conference Board, in a statement.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell held his first news conference since becoming Chairman, echoing the Federal Open Market Committee's views on a strengthened economic outlook in recent months.