Sentences with phrase «lead negotiator»

This is the core political thing,» Claudia Salerno, lead negotiator for Venezuela, the country that led the charge against changing the current Kyoto system, said when asked what was at stake.

As a national trial counsel for nearly a dozen major parties to mass tort litigation, Patrick was instrumental in developing discovery and trial strategies for use by local counsel nationwide, and he often served as lead negotiator in settlement negotiations on behalf of these clients.

Math aside, Rattner's opinion certainly merits attention considering his role as lead negotiator in President Obama's bid to restructure the auto industry back in 2009.

Su Wei, one of China's lead negotiators on climate, was blunt in demanding that rich countries must act much more decisively if less rich and poor countries are to go along with a new climate deal.

In that capacity, he was the Parliament's lead negotiator during the launch of the prestigious European Research Council, as well as a series of partnerships between public and private research bodies, called Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs).

I'm sure you talk with Secretary of State John Kerry and maybe lead negotiator Todd Stern.

In the two years leading up to the 2015 Paris climate summit, C2ES convened the Toward 2015 dialogue, which brought together lead negotiators from more than 20 countries to discuss options for a new climate agreement.

In a wide ranging and insightful interview, Yen Saño — the Philippines lead negotiator who rose to fame when, saddened by the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan and frustrated by the slow pace of international action, he fasted through two weeks of climate change treaty talks in Warsaw — has just publicly endorsed the Greenhouse Development Rights approach.

«A market is important but it's premature to deliver it now... with so many other issues that have to be resolved before 2015,» said Khalid Abuleif, an advisor to Saudi Arabia's ministry of petroleum and mineral resources and the country's lead negotiator at the U.N. talks.

At the conclusion of the July round of talks, the division between the two sides was obvious, with the EU's leading negotiator Michel Barnier demanding the U.K. clarify its position and what it hoped to achieve in the exit discussions.

According to Clark, he even asked the US State Department's lead negotiator if there were any strings attached to the agreement and was told «only fair and open competition.»

ALBANY, NY (10/02/2015)(readMedia)-- New York State Public Employees Federation (PEF) President Wayne Spence announced today that PEF is being represented by a new lead negotiator in contract talks with the state.

The Senate GOP longtime lead negotiator Robert Mujica left to become Cuomo's budget director while Assembly Chief Counsel James Yates retired this summer, potentially putting state lawmakers at a disadvantage in 2016.

John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon sit down with Wendy Sherman, lead negotiator behind the Iran nuclear deal.

But lead negotiators say they're proud of what the General Assembly has accomplished, including giving teachers what they consider to be a much - needed pay raise.

Or perhaps lead negotiators really were too busy hammering out texts behind closed doors that they didn't have time to check their e-mail.

C2ES continues to regularly organize informal discussions among lead negotiators, focusing now on key issues in implementing the Paris Agreement, such as transparency and the five - year «ambition cycle.»

When softly spoken lead negotiator Su Wei held a press briefing on day four of UN climate talks in Lima, journalists hung on his every word.

The next day, ELPC's lead negotiator quit.

After Monday's empowering speech by the Philippines lead negotiator Naderev «Yeb» Sano and his decision to fast in support of his home country until a meaningful COP outcome was in sight, the youth of COP 19 decided to show solidarity for Yeb and the Philippines by participating in a voluntary fast for climate change.

He was founding Dean of the Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School of Singapore and lead negotiator for major Duke programs in China and elsewhere.

In 2002, Baron & Budd co-founder Russell Budd successfully served as lead negotiator in a triumphant lawsuit against Halliburton, arguing a $ 4.2 Billion settlement for victims exposed to asbestos.

Lead negotiators Todd Stern and Jonathan Pershing should be isolated, an international climate court should be established, and preparations made for comprehensive sanctions against US goods and services.

«Without the active participation of the two biggest emitters, namely China and the United States, it's not a global effort,» said Shimada, who was formerly Japan's lead negotiator at the talks.

He's the leading negotiator on behalf of the other 27 EU countries.

The EU's leading negotiator, Michel Barnier has already dismissed such figures.

But after Ross botched — in Trump's eyes — his dealings with China, he decided Lighthizer would be the lead negotiator on all trade issues.

Kirsten Hillman, the lead negotiator for the TPP talks and a senior official on softwood lumber issues, will act as MacNaughton's deputy in Washington and will also play a significant role.

So he folded it into a paper airplane and launched it across his desk at Japan's lead negotiator... The 1985 deal capped weeks of negotiations in which Lighthizer, then the deputy U.S. Trade Representative, shocked his Japanese counterparts with rough - hewn jokes and wore them out with his disdain for their proposals, former colleagues recalled.

The lead negotiator for the past four collective bargaining agreements with the NBPA, he's also represented the league in negotiations concerning television contracts and Olympic eligibility for NBA players.

The aforementioned Times report states that Pjanic has a # 31 million release clause in his contract, which is a figure that was discovered by Marina Granovskaia, a Chelsea director and their lead negotiator.

(CD): I mean, I've mentioned earlier, John Katko, the only reason he voted against the Trans Pacific, or excuse me, the Trade Promotion Authority was because Obama was the one that was the lead negotiator.

NJ Transit may take steps to shut down its commuter railroad as early as today in advance of a potential strike, the agency's lead negotiator.

«The lead negotiator is Mustapha Zanna, a lawyer.

David Laws, the Liberal Democrats» lead negotiator in 2010, recalled being greeted by O'Donnell and the private secretary to the Queen when he went into 10/70 Whitehall on the Sunday after that election to hold the first formal day of coalition negotiations.

Alison Hirsh, the political director and a registered lobbyist for the building workers union 32BJ, is now the lead negotiator in the speaker's race for the council's Progressive Caucus, which Mark - Viverito co-chairs — and which is expected to emerge as a power broker in the speaker's race.

Stewart - Cousins said that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Cuomo.

The two lawmakers, set to respectively become Senate President and House Speaker after the 2018 elections, are the Legislature's lead negotiators for an expected conference committee to hammer out legislation this Session.

Since taking office — Heastie became one of the lead negotiators for the construction of a new K - 8 school in...

Senator Stewart - Cousins says that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Governor Cuomo.

Since taking office — Heastie became one of the lead negotiators for the construction of a new K - 8 school in his district.

I also want to thank and commend our lead negotiators Todd Snyder and Joe Bress for their tireless work on behalf of the people of the state.»

Biden, who has been the lead negotiator for the budget talks, sat down earlier this month with Republican and Democratic leaders, White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Budget Director Jack Lew to hammer out a deal which would reduce spending and fund the government.

«It was a productive meeting,» said Nathaniel J. Kuzma, deputy general counsel and lead negotiator for the district.

O'Mara was special counsel to former Gov. George Pataki and the lead negotiator during all the talks with the Senecas that led to the 2002 casino compact.

But despite the optimism engendered by her démarche, Britain's lead negotiator, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband, warned that the talks may still founder: «It's a race against the clock,» he said.

«It's not the 100 % that I hoped for,» says Gerard Meijer, the president of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the lead negotiator on the Dutch side.