Sentences with phrase «environmental treaty in»

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Controversy over the treaty's environmental enforcement provisions remained strong in the late 1990s.

Secretary Clinton may try to re-negotiate environmental and labour issues in the treaty, but let's not typify a knee jerk reaction since she has publicly committed to find common ground and purpose to boost the US economy and promote free trade with like - minded partners.

Although TPP is often seen as another in a line of treaties aimed at liberalizing trade further, a more important goal may have been to «raise the bar» on trade, and to set up a body of rules, including on environmental and labor issues, with which to create pressure for countries like China to comply.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

In addition to environmental variability and lack of treaties, other factors leading to conflict include political and economic instability, and armed conflict, the analysis shows.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

While no country in history has achieved its economic growth without causing environmental damage, expectations for Singapore's mitigation ambition are particularly high because it is a leading figure in facilitating a global climate change treaty.

One possibility, Rodrigues suggests, could be to create a provision in the next international climate - change treaty requiring wealthy countries with high carbon emissions to pay Brazilians for the environmental benefits of keeping their forests standing.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

In an attempt to fix these perceived flaws, representatives from the pharmaceuticals industry and environmental groups began meeting in January to advise the White House on a statement that would clarify some of the ambiguous language in the treatIn an attempt to fix these perceived flaws, representatives from the pharmaceuticals industry and environmental groups began meeting in January to advise the White House on a statement that would clarify some of the ambiguous language in the treatin January to advise the White House on a statement that would clarify some of the ambiguous language in the treatin the treaty.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

A Greenpeace study in 2013 of 18 random Chinese teas found toxic pesticides in 12 of the studied samples that are banned by the Stockholm Convention, an international environmental treaty.

The last environmental treaty the US ratified was the UNFCCC in 1993.

Many seasoned participants in the process, both negotiators and observers, foresee a sustained process that is more akin to decades - long trade talks than to previous environmental treaties like the Montreal Protocol cutting ozone - destroying substances.

For basic developments at the negotiations, there's no better source than the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, with a name dating from when it was a hastily printed flyer in the early days of environmental treaty - making.

In one piece, Bidisha Banerjee explores whether a largely dormant, decades - old treaty, The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, could be wielded by foes of climate intervention.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

As they always have, news services began describing the embargoed findings earlier in the evening, prodded by environmental campaigners and some scientists who hoped the results would inspire diplomats preparing to gather next month in Bali for the latest round of climate - treaty talks.

During a quick European tour, James L. Connaughton, the long - serving chairman of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, discussed in a telephone interview what kind of treaty the United States could embrace.

There's sufficient merit in engaging the north and south, rich and poor, precautionary and libertarian, environmental and industrial factions in discussions every year that the talks under the original climate treaty — the Framework Convention on Climate Change — remain worthwhile.

The Montreal Protocol, often referred to as the world's most successful environmental treaty, was created in 1987 to eliminate the use of the chemicals that were discovered to be destroying the ozone layer.

For evidence of Solomon's strange stance on environmental issues, one need look no further than his comments in the conservative National Review where he argued that the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty dedicated to reducing carbon emissions, was «the single biggest threat to the global environment.»

The Montreal Protocol is a 1980s - era international environmental treaty that restricted the use of some halocarbons, the chemicals causing the hole in the ozone layer.

They did that for Obamacare but also, in partnership with the environmental left for their regulatory siege, the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and the Paris treaty.

This was where the movement turned after two devastating failures: the fruitless effort for an international climate treaty at Copenhagen in 2009, and the death, shortly afterward, of cap - and - trade legislation in the U.S. Senate, despite enormous investments by mainstream environmental groups in these causes.

Campaigners from Greenpeace, the environmental group, scaled the mountain in November 2002 and held a news conference via satellite with reporters at climate - treaty talks in Morocco.

The Montreal Protocol, the world's most successful environmental treaty, has sent an unambiguous message to upcoming climate meetings in Lima and the climate meeting in Paris next year that all countries can take meaningful climate action now.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is an international environmental treaty negotiated at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to 14, 1992.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an environmental treaty that nations joined in 1992, with the goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

The mega-billion dollar environmental lobby saw in the treaty work eliminating CFCs a model for a virtuous new world - wide project.

Eyckmans, J. and M. Finus, 2003: Coalition formation in global warming game: How the design of protocols affects the success of environmental treaty - making.

In September, Blair announced that he had given up on climate change treaties because, «The truth is, no country is going to cut its growth or consumption substantially in light of a long - term environmental problem.&raquIn September, Blair announced that he had given up on climate change treaties because, «The truth is, no country is going to cut its growth or consumption substantially in light of a long - term environmental problem.&raquin light of a long - term environmental problem.»

«It's not going to happen if we boast about how we're going to scrap international treaties, or have elected officials who are alone in the world in denying climate change, or put our energy and environmental policies in the hands of big polluters,» Mr. Obama said.»

PHILIP CLAPP, Pres., Natl. Environmental Trust: There was a commitment by the United States, as a ratified party to that treaty, to return its emissions by the year 2000 to the level they had been in 1990, which, frankly, would've been a fairly easy thing to do if we had started in 1992 when we ratified it.

In a press briefing with India just a few days ago, several different members of civil society (from environmental groups or the press) asked the same question in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»In a press briefing with India just a few days ago, several different members of civil society (from environmental groups or the press) asked the same question in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»in an accusatory tone: why won't India comply with the EU's «legally - binding treaty»?

The UNFCCC is a global environmental treaty set up in 1992 to tackle «dangerous anthropogenic interference.»

Particularly in today's grim international context, the ratification of even this weakened first - generation climate treaty must be counted as a major victory for democratic, multilateral environmental governance.

The word «uncontentious» in Revkin's article is a hyperlink to a 1998 NY Times article, alleging «Industry opponents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science».

We must elevate the status of ecosystem conservation from a side issue in global environmental talks and treaties (that are exclusively focused on carbon) to an urgent high priority issue.

The international environmental left is living in a fantasy world, and the United States should leave them there by withdrawing from the UNFCCC, a 1992 treaty with a clear «clexit» clause.

«Finally, the link which the provisions of Chapter 13 of the envisaged agreement display with trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore is also specific in nature because a breach of the provisions concerning social protection of workers and environmental protection, set out in that chapter, authorises the other Party — in accordance with the rule of customary international law codified in Article 60 (1) of the Convention on the law of treaties, -LSB-...]-- to terminate or suspend the liberalisation, provided for in the other provisions of the envisaged agreement, of that trade.»

The fact that the EUSFTA does not explicitly allow for cross-suspension (for instance, suspending the reduced tariff rates for certain categories of imported goods in the event of a breach of one of the environmental provisions), did not deter the Court from finding that a breach of Chapter 13 could constitute a material breach of the Treaty and therefore authorising the Parties to suspend the agreement under international treaty law.

She has a diverse practice, serving Aboriginal clients in negotiations and litigation, in areas of Aboriginal and treaty rights, environmental law, IBAs and commercial transactions, energy and mining law, administrative law, issues facing reserves and Indian Act matters.

Larry has worked with First Nations on lands and resources issues for more than 25 years, and has developed extensive experience in the negotiation of impacts and benefits agreements, environmental assessment, co-management measures and treaty provisions.

With chapters written by leading international experts, topics covered include: the government's role in energy ownership and development; industry standards for establishing liability; legal concepts excusing performance during periods of commodity price or supply volatility; right of access to infrastructure; barriers to entry for foreign companies; criminal, health and safety, and environmental liability; sovereign boundary disputes; and relevant energy treaties.

Securing a $ 380m award for Burlington Resources, Inc. (ConocoPhillips) in an ICSID contractual and investment treaty arbitration against Ecuador following Ecuador's imposition of royalties on extraordinary revenues, and reducing Ecuador's $ 2bn environmental counterclaim to an award of $ 40m in its favor.

There is a more than plausible case to make that this distinction between the case law based justifications and Treaty derogations is artificial and out of line with the importance the Treaties attach to other public policy goals, notably environmental protection, protection of fundamental rights and consumer protection (although the Member States have never amended 36 TFEU in subsequent Treaty amendments).