Sentences with phrase «lead negotiator if»

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Last week, Steve Verheul, the lead Canadian CETA negotiator, appeared before another House of Commons committee and was asked if the department has done any analysis on the financial impact of the extended patent protection.

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.

As we've heard repeatedly throughout the Copenhagen talks, the China wants U.S. action and it seems as if Senator Kerry was suggesting Congress is looking to see what China commits to here before it is willing to enact climate legislation in the U.S.. However, in a press briefing this afternoon that was delayed by 90 minutes due to consultations between China and the G - 77, lead Chinese negotiator Su Wei revealed that China is ready to wait.

As you can see, led by the collapse of the former communist economies and the shuttering of inefficient Soviet industries, in addition to the substitution of British gas for coal, the European negotiators knew they had tremendous CO2 reductions already in their pocket, IF 1990 was chosen as a base year.