Sentences with phrase «lead negotiator in»

In a news conference in Washington on Monday, Todd Stern, the Obama administration's lead negotiator in talks aimed at a new climate treaty, provided some insights into issues and (limited) opportunities that will shape the next round of negotiations, which begins in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the month.

[UPDATE 12/24: I've added a note that came in from Mohammad Al Sabban, the lead negotiator in climate talks for Saudi Arabia.

Yu Qingtai, China's lead negotiator in climate talks from 2007 through the tumultuous conference in Copenhagen last December, recently gave a blunt speech at the Bejing University School of International Studies on climate, diplomacy and the balance of national and global interests in limiting global warming.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

A tech - savvy and surefooted negotiator, Cohn has since led more than 30 shareholder campaigns against the likes of Compuware, BMC Software, and lately EMC, becoming one of the most powerful and effective activists in the finance industry.

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.

Delegations were led by the chief negotiators for the three countries, who indicated that progress was made in the areas of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules, customs, trade facilitation, telecommunications, good regulatory practices, anti-corruption, market access for goods, technical barriers to trade (TBT), digital trade, and some sectoral annexes.

Wage bargaining generally may not be very responsive to unemployment; wage bargains in a particular leading sector may reflect conditions in that sector, but then be transmitted, through concerns about relativities, into other sector s which experience quite different conditions; wage negotiator s may have unduly high expectations of future inflation in mind when striking their bargains.

Don Fehr, the leading sports labor representative, has constant access to Marvin Miller, who wrote the book, who's the finest labor negotiator there has ever been in sport.

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.

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.

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.

A well - spring of indictments against legislators, a session in which experienced negotiators were missing from the table and an increasing willingness by traditional Democrats, now led by de Blasio, to call Cuomo out have all contributed to a slide in the governor's approval rating.

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

«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.

Chief climate negotiator Nazhat Shameem Khan, who is playing a leading role in this year's COP, told E&E News recently that the government is not making villagers leave.

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).

As the talks in Warsaw wrapped up late last year, China's lead climate negotiator, Su Wei, told ClimateWire that China has already «launched consultations for actions that would be very important to fight climate change.»

In the lead - up to the summit, this was acknowledged and stressed by many involved in the process, including UN chief negotiator Christiana FiguereIn the lead - up to the summit, this was acknowledged and stressed by many involved in the process, including UN chief negotiator Christiana Figuerein the process, including UN chief negotiator Christiana Figueres.

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

My 37 year career in California public schools, included 10 years of service as a teacher, during which I served proudly as union president and lead negotiator for my local CTA chapter for nearly 8 years.

On Friday, Todd Stern, the lead United States negotiator in climate talks, prodded China sharply in a speech at the University of Michigan Law School, criticizing its negotiators for backtracking from commitments that he said were clear cut under the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the chaotic talks last December.

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.

Mohammad Al - Sabban, who has for many years been the lead negotiator for Saudi Arabia in treaty talks on climate and is that country's liaison to the intergovernmental climate panel, appears unsatisfied.

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.

The protests didn't prove to be too much of a distraction, however, as lead Chinese climate negotiator Su Wei said during a press briefing on Saturday (Day 6) that he wasn't aware of them and was rather ambivalent about their role in the negotiation process.

In the nearly two years since the process began, despite seemingly intractable differences, the work of the negotiators at Bangkok and all the waypoints leading to it will hopefully have closed the gap enough so that the international community can meet in Copenhagen and cross that final divide, arriving at an agreement leading the world past Kyoto and into a sustainable futurIn the nearly two years since the process began, despite seemingly intractable differences, the work of the negotiators at Bangkok and all the waypoints leading to it will hopefully have closed the gap enough so that the international community can meet in Copenhagen and cross that final divide, arriving at an agreement leading the world past Kyoto and into a sustainable futurin Copenhagen and cross that final divide, arriving at an agreement leading the world past Kyoto and into a sustainable future.

In a deal that could be reached this fall, climate negotiators are amending the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that led governments to phase out ozone - destroying...

He was President Obama's chief climate negotiator, leading the U.S. effort in negotiating the Paris Agreement and in all bilateral and multilateral climate negotiations in the seven years leading up to Paris.

Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global - warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.

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.

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.

Although it might seem that there was little to be risked in the non-binding discussions, the lead negotiator for the United States, one Harlan Watson, spent nearly his entire two weeks in Montreal attempting to undermine their very premise.

So we see his role as focused on bringing together the world's leading economies to signal that they're going to do their part while also elevating a sense of urgency in Paris, including through his meeting with the island states, and then having key Cabinet officials and, of course, our negotiator, Todd Stern, work through the whole two weeks, hopefully to achieve a successful framework.

We're a bit disoriented from all the hoops we've had to jump through, but then again so is Su Wei (lead negotiator of the Chinese delegation), who seemed to be in a similar mood during this evening's press briefing, where he revealed a much more jocular, tongue - in - cheek side of himself that was nowhere to be found during Tuesday's briefing.

After a couple of days spent digging in their heels on the legal form of a potential deal, and then making headlines again yesterday with the release of the AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States) draft text, Tuvalu open this morning's plenary meeting of the resumed COP with an impassioned plea, which many observers immediately called the signature moment of the talks thus far.In an earnest, emotional address, lead negotiator Ian Fry called out the United States Senate and President Obama directly.

The lead Chinese negotiator, singling out the United States, reiterated his call for dramatic action from developed countries — a decrease in emissions, over the next 10 years, to at least 25 percent below 1990 levels.

As the prospect of paralysis in Peru mounted, lead US climate negotiator Todd Stern met his Chinese counterpart on the Saturday afternoon Xie Zhenhua to thrash out a deal.

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.

In addition to acting as lead negotiator, Christopher established and manages a network of over 200 selected co-counsel located throughout North America and beyond.

He is also known as a leading negotiator and trial attorney in the area, achieving consistent results for his clients.

Other key figures in the Bristol office include Emily Settle, a «strong deal negotiator and clear communicator» who was part of a team led by Plymouth - based Chris Worrell acting for Centrica on a # 145m acquisition of ENER - G Cogen International.

Our attorneys have assisted employers in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, whether as lead negotiator or in an advisory capacity.

She is also recognized as a leading practitioner, litigator and highly skilled negotiator in matrimonial law.

In addition, Frédéric has extensive experience with respect to collective labour relations between producers and artists and in collective bargaining negotiations, having served as both lead negotiator and external counsel in connection with numerous collective bargaining negotiations in a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levelIn addition, Frédéric has extensive experience with respect to collective labour relations between producers and artists and in collective bargaining negotiations, having served as both lead negotiator and external counsel in connection with numerous collective bargaining negotiations in a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levelin collective bargaining negotiations, having served as both lead negotiator and external counsel in connection with numerous collective bargaining negotiations in a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levelin connection with numerous collective bargaining negotiations in a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levelin a variety of industries, from film and television production, to the private education and industrial manufacturing sectors, at both the provincial and federal levels.

Gonzalez, who has experience of EU and WTO trade negotiations (having acted as lead EU negotiator on the WTO Basic Agreement on Telecommunications), also has extensive expertise in export controls and EU internal market regulations, among other areas.