Sentences with phrase «lead negotiators on»

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.

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

«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.

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Part spokesperson, part negotiator, Ivanka has led the White House's effort to promote the effort, using the small but important piece of tax reform as an opportunity to translate her campaign promises, which centered on helping women and working families, into policy.

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.

The former envoy praised the Republican president's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt for meeting a cross-section of Israelis and Palestinians during a visit last week that has led to U.S. - Israeli discussions on limiting settlement building.

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.

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.

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.»

Physicist Ernest Moniz, the US energy secretary who is the nation's lead scientific negotiator on the agreement, has mentioned the possibility of installing a particle accelerator there.

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Representative John Kline, the chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee and a lead Republican negotiator, argued that the restrictions on federal authority — and specifically the secretary — were significant.

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.

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.

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.

The signals came on Monday from Xie Zhenhua, China's lead climate treaty negotiator, speaking at a German climate conference.

Denis Sassou - Nguesso, president of Congo and the lead negotiator for the African Union on climate change, said that domestic pressures on forests have to be countered with other kinds of economic opportunity.

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.

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.

Pablo Solon, ex-head Bolivian climate negotiator and now leading Focus on the Global South, was

Pablo Solon, ex-head Bolivian climate negotiator and now leading Focus on the Global South, was clear about what needs to happen:

With the talks due to end on Friday night, the lead negotiator for the Philippines could stand it no longer.

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.

The letter calls on developed countries to urgently scale up the ambition of their emission reduction targets and reminds negotiators that current emission reduction pledges will lead us to a world that is 5 °C warmer.

Having failed to move a national climate policy through the U.S. Senate before the meeting, Obama's negotiators arrived unprepared and unwilling to sign on for serious international action, let alone to lead.

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.

Lead negotiator Jonathan Pershing did seem confident that - despite a number of problems with the current text from a U.S. perspective - the stage is set for great progress on Monday and that we will soon have «more clarity on the very core question of how we will have an operational agreement coming out of this meeting.»

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.

The practice is led by Richard Palmer, a «great negotiator» who is «very good technically, has unmatched pragmatism and is always on top of the details».

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.

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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.

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Notable mandates: Successfully overturned a $ 100 - million pension obligations judgment against MTS Allstream on appeal; represented the City of Winnipeg in interest arbitration with paramedics; lead negotiator for the University of Brandon in talks with its faculty association; acted for the Puratone Corp. in its CCAA proceedings and purchase by Maple Leaf Foods; negotiated first labour agreement for the Canadian Human Rights Museum; Manitoba counsel on a number of P3 deals, including the Pan / Parapan American Games Athletes» Village Project.