Sentences with phrase «in meaningful negotiations»

Prior to local project approvals, you'll engage in meaningful negotiation with community stakeholders regarding community benefits and measures to mitigate project impacts;

Discovery is not about gamesmanship, and parties are expected to engage in meaningful negotiation about the terms of discovery agreements.

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It seems likely that meaningful progress in Brexit negotiations since December has brought some much needed reassurance.

«The US dairy industry sees real value in the TPP negotiations if we are able to open new markets, like Japan and Canada, use the TPP process to strengthen global trading rules and secure meaningful competition policy changes in New Zealand's dairy sector,» said Suber.

It is therefore vital that a truly meaningful vote should be held within the time frame of the article 50 negotiations and not be left to verbal assurances — not least because there is no guarantee who will be leading the Conservative party by next autumn, nor indeed where the balance of power might be in any future government or hung parliament.

Even though the slight delay in the public release of Cuomo's budget is meaningless in terms of budget negotiations, it's meaningful as a symbol of his approach to the governor's job.

New York, NY — As final negotiations wrap up on the state budget, public school parent activists and students today rallied outside Tweed Courthouse to urge legislators to pass the meaningful education reforms outlined in Governor Cuomo's education Opportunity Agenda.

The House of Lords will start debating the Article 50 bill on Monday with amendments tabled to guarantee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, for greater scrutiny on the process and for a «meaningful vote» at the end of Brexit negotiations.

As the Brexit bill heads to the House of Lords this week, Mandelson also said he believed the government could be defeated in the upper chamber on the issues of a meaningful parliamentary vote at the end of negotiations and guaranteed rights for EU citizens in the UK.

«This City Council stands united and we call upon the mayor to engage with us in good faith negotiations going forward, to see this as a meaningful, transformative, legacy - making item for this administration and for this council, and we're going to stand strong through our negotiations,» Johnson said.

After decades of failure, a new approach to negotiations has raised hopes that nations meeting in Paris will agree to meaningful climate steps.

In his book The Village Way, Chaim Peri speaks of the DNA of effective discipline — meaningful punishment as a process of dialogue, negotiation, and agreement (DNA).

Social learning theories like social constructivism also emphasize this aspect in teaching and learning suggesting that knowledge construction occurs through meaningful negotiations and collaboration between people (McLoughlin & Lee, 2007).

Reducing absenteeism will make a meaningful difference in school culture and student success, and should be a priority for both sides during these negotiations.

It is not clear to me that Obama implied «unilateral,» given that his Administration is committed to meaningful participation in international negotiations on emissions mitigation.

Unless the negotiations can find the political will to agree on enforceable and meaningful (= large) cuts in emissions, the climate is going to degrade.

Dec. 7, 1:11 a.m. Updated below With the latest round of contentious international climate treaty negotiations getting under way in Durban, South Africa, it's worth revisiting what would be required to meet ambitious targets set for greenhouse gases in California, a state that already has pledged meaningful action.

When you put this news in the context of climate treaty negotiations, it bodes poorly for a climatically meaningful treaty emerging in Paris late next year.

As negotiations neared collapse, the United States refused to concede defeat and worked with global partners to take a meaningful and unprecedented step forward in international climate negotiations.

«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.

Since international climate change negotiations began in 1990, the United States has yet to adopt meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reduction legislation For almost 20 years arguments against US climate change legislation or US participation in a global solution to climate change have been made that have almost always been of two types.

A particularly hot autumn and winter could add to the pressure on policy makers to reach a meaningful deal at December's climate - change negotiations in Copenhagen.

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.

Countries must ensure the meaningful inclusion of Loss and Damage in textual negotiations at Bangkok.

If the world moves ahead under this framework yet again in Mexico next year, negotiations will again fail to produce a meaningful treaty.

And while this year is meaningful in the context of the year - end negotiations, the Road to Paris won't end at the conclusion of COP21.

The need for financial disclosure from both parties is a fundamental one in order for both parties to obtain legal advice and to engage in meaningful and informed negotiations for settlement.

Even if clients would pay for first - years» work, the lawyers who would train them in the most meaningful way - through supervision, mentoring, and inclusion in meetings, hearings, negotiations and client - focused activities - are pressured to bill hours, not to teach.

From R. v. Powley in 2003 (which recognized that Métis communities have pre-existing aboriginal rights protected by s. 35) to Cunningham v. Alberta in 2011 (wherein Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin urged that «the time has finally come for recognition of the Métis as a unique and distinct people») to Manitoba Métis Federation v. Canada in 2013 (which recognized the outstanding constitutional grievance of the Manitoba Métis flowing from land grant provisions set out in s. 31 of the Manitoba Act, 1870), the Supreme Court of Canada has been consistent and unequivocal: s. 35 demands good faith and meaningful negotiations and reconciliation with the Métis people as well.

Even where the customer anticipates that it will be able to use other mechanisms to encourage or compel the service provider to have discussions about pricing, e.g. the threat of re-sourcing, in - sourcing or terminating services, the customer will frequently be hamstrung in any resulting negotiations by the lack of meaningful information about the components of the service provider's pricing.

In North Sea Continental Shelf (Germany v. Denmark), the ICJ held that international law on the delimitation of continental shelf boundaries required the two states to negotiate sincerely and to make real efforts to equitably accommodate one another's interests («to enter into negotiations with a view to arriving at an agreement... [and] so to conduct themselves that the negotiations are meaningful, which will not be the case when either of them insists upon its own position without contemplating any modification of it...»).

Real Estate Agent • Take information from clients regarding their need for buying, selling, leasing and renting • Look through company database to determine if similar properties are available in needed categories • Compare prices and chart out the best possible solution for clients, based on their individual needs • Appraise properties using local comparison charts and discuss cost of maintenance and repair • Visit sites to determine suitability for clients and show properties that are deemed suitable • Create effective and meaningful relationships with clients for further purchase and sale purposes • Provide clients with financial assistance solutions and ensure that appropriate background checks are carried out • Educate clients on equity in their property and refinancing options • List properties for sale or purchase in local newspapers and respond to calls for information • Assist clients through the payment procedures and indulge in negotiations • Ascertain that all paperwork involved is in order and that any discrepancies are managed before a transaction is carried out

IBCT changes negotiation to be based on internal choices to act in meaningful ways («Kiss your partner because you want their day to start well»).

A human rights based approach regards capacity building in Indigenous communities as essential to facilitate their equal and meaningful participation in the planning, design, negotiation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, programs and projects that affect them.11 Furthermore, it recognises that governments and the private sector have a role in assisting Indigenous peoples in this regard.

Government attitude towards negotiation has been a concern in Western Australia where the Office of Native Title has been reluctant in particular cases to engage in the mediation process both in terms of meaningful input and physical presence at formal mediation sessions convened by the Tribunal.

This fiduciary duty provides a much stronger basis for a Court to order a government to enter into meaningful negotiations than that available in Australia, where, in effect, the order to attend mediations and negotiate is a procedural matter unrelated to the substantive rights of the claimant group.

The mediator does not have the power to dictate a settlement but rather, uses skills to facilitate a meaningful discussion and open and free exchange of information between the parties fostering negotiation in a neutral and stable environment.

Given that the native title representative bodies do not have enough time, money or people available to ensure that native title holders and claimants in their area are able to exercise their procedural rights in hundreds of separate negotiations with mining companies and the State, a formalised «opt in» process negotiated by Indigenous peak bodies may prove to be a means to ensure that native title parties have some meaningful participation in decisions regarding mining exploration over their land.

Even if unions make concessions, «The rolling contract expirations alone will mean any meaningful change could take several years to attain,» notes Morgan Stanley's Mark Wiltamuth in his report on the upcoming negotiations.