Sentences with phrase «international summit»

Moreover, we host a leading international summit annually, which attracts more than 500 people from around the world.

Nobel laureate David Baltimore of Caltech speaks to reporters at the National Academy of Sciences international summit on human gene editing, on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of scientists and ethicists from around the world debating how to deal with technology that makes it easy to edit the human genetic code.

The first international summit in personalized healthcare and nutrition gathered dietology, nutritionology, gastroenterology, personalised medicine and life science experts involved in technological healthcare development from all over the world.

Gaining agreement at international summits really does come down to the phone calls, the one - to - one meetings, the cajoling undertaken by political leaders, but in the lead - up to the Cannes G20 summit we saw no evidence of any such leadership.

After a banner week of international summits, a great leap forward on climate policy has yet to materialize, and some players are expressing a growing frustration.

In March 2011 then Secretary Duncan hosted the first international summit on the teaching profession in New York City.

Representatives from over 60 countries are gathering in Paris for a major international summit on the future of Libya.

At last December's international summit meeting in Washington DC on the ethics of using CRISPR on humans, it was agreed to maintain a moratorium on germ - line manipulations that would be transmitted to future generations.

He has addressed numerous international summits including the Bali Climate Change Conference (COP 13) in 2007, the United Nations Climate Summit in September 2014, the Lima Climate Change Conference (COP 20) in December 2014 and the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) in 2015.

David Cameron has arrived in Canada for the G8 summit, having written an article criticising international summits as «grand talking shops».

In addition to the MPW Summit, Fortune is proud to present Most Powerful Women International Summits in Asia and Europe, and the Fortune MPW Next Gen Summit, held annually since 2014.

But with the long - term occupations coming to an end, and more - traditional activism coming to the fore (protesting international summits is not exactly a new thing), is Occupy fading as a distinct movement?

Politicians could manage to eradicate extreme poverty for good, MPs are urging, ahead of a key international summit next week.

While Canada, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium all managed to keep the increase in their subs low, whoever negotiated the deal on our behalf seems to have preferred to have UK taxpayers assume greater debt liabilities so that they could sit on a bigger chair at the various international summits they attend on our behalf.

He nodded firmly every time Brown made even the vaguest allusion to world affairs, in full international summit mode.

The senators» vote comes at an awkward time for the government, whose international summit on AIDS takes place in Paris this week.

A discussion is scheduled for Dec. 1 - 3 during the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine international summit here Washington, D.C.

The research will be presented at the Sutton Trust's «Best in Class» international summit later today.

With 62,000 sq ft of conference space, the hotel manages international summits, board meetings and gala celebrations of all kinds.

In the years after I attended several more international summits, and this sense has only increased.

The World Coal Association's international summit aims to have a direct influence over the outcome of COP 19, and so to strengthen the dangerous role of fossil fuel energy in the UNFCCC negotiations.

In his address, Sen. Inhofe promised the assembled deniers that the United Nations COP21 summit would fail as prior international summit attempts had.

If the Chamber or other lobbying groups send any staff to international summits like the upcoming Copenhagen conference, their goal is to «loiter» in the coffee shops and collect business cards from delegates they can target later on legislative matters back home.

Almost inevitably, at international summits from Kyoto to Copenhagen, governments failed to take any meaningful action on global warming.

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One Tory rebel told BuzzFeed News: «David Cameron just doesn't want to be embarrassed at international summits.

The Sustainable Foods Summit is a series of international summits that focuses on the leading issues the food industry faces concerning sustainability and eco-labels, such as Organic, Fair trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc..

Last year saw glimpses of revolutionary devices being unveiled at major international summits.

Additionally, Linda has represented the voice of mothers at national and international summits including a post — State of the Union education roundtable at the White House, Mom + Social, and the International Congress of Midwives.

When we hosted the first international summit in New York City in 2011, it wasn't evident that it would create an ongoing international community of practice dedicated to enhancing the teaching profession, and dedicated to improving learning for all students.

At least that's what George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, told the Washington Post at an international summit on human gene editing taking place in Washington, DC.

New funds for the program would need to be raised at an international summit in Brussels in October.

Scientists and ethicists gathered at an international summit in Washington said it would be «irresponsible» to use gene editing technology in human embryos for therapeutic purposes, such as to correct genetic diseases, until safety and efficacy issues are resolved.

The New York Climate Week, an international summit launched in 2009, is always busy, and security, especially around the United Nations, is always insane.

Speaking in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, where finance ministers and central bankers are gathered for an international summit, Mr. Morneau highlighted the Canadian government's efforts to prioritize the middle class.

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These are, however, geopolitical and investment choices that go beyond the reach of the G20 and that of any international summit.

Yet, international summits have had a limited impact on energy markets.

Yet, international summits have a limited impact on the structure of the energy market.

International summits are like a soldier's experience of war: a long period of boredom, followed by a sudden frenetic burst of activity.

His Vice, Paa Kwesi Amissah - Arthur, is also in the United States» City of Houston, Texas, where he has been attending an International summit of oil and gas experts.

The areas is seen as one in which, if Labour gets it right, the party can leasfrog the laissez faire internationalism shown so far by David Cameron at all major international summits.

People who take too long to acclimatize to their foreign surroundings risk appearing more like a zombie than a quick - minded advisor at those international summits.

The need for clear guidelines has spurred the organization of an international summit on human gene editing.

The international summit on gene editing, sponsored by Britain's Royal Society, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the US National Academies, has grappled with such thorny questions during three days of sometimes - heated discussion on editing the human genome that comes to a close today.

And the international summit saw many discussions of CRISPR's promise for repairing genetic defects in human embryos, if society dares to cross what many regard as an ethical threshold and alter the human germline.