Sentences with phrase «meaningful agreement»

«What is particularly concerning is the uncontested fact that Alberta and AUPE had come to meaningful agreements on certain issues during collective bargaining, but rather than respecting those points of common ground Alberta has by legislation «wiped the slate clean» when it unilaterally imposed all terms from the 2011 Collective Agreement,» the judge said.

Here's how they can finally reach meaningful agreements

Today, following a multilateral meeting between President Obama, Premier Wen, Prime Minister Singh, and President Zuma a meaningful agreement was reached.

COPENHAGEN — The political and diplomatic pressure to produce a meaningful agreement on climate by the weekend is clearly having an effect in the final hours of talks.

Based on the president's work on climate change over the past 10 months — in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral discussions and multilateral consultations — and based on progress made in recent, constructive discussions with China and India's Leaders, the president believes it is possible to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen.

Says Elizabeth Kolbert, «Without the participation of the United States, no meaningful agreement can be drafted for the post-2012 period, and the world will have missed what may well be its last opportunity to alter course.»

«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the global long - term goal of limiting warming to at most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.

Prime Minister Rudd said that at this point he still wonders whether or not a meaningful agreement will emerge from the Copenhagen meeting.

[57] When the conference failed to reach a binding, meaningful agreement, Tuvalu's representative Ian Fry said, «It looks like we are being offered 30 pieces of silver to betray our people and our future... Our future is not for sale.

The challenge before negotiators is great, because there are significant obstacles to reaching a meaningful agreement, as I describe in an Op - Ed that appeared in The New York Times on Sunday, September 21st, «Climate Realities.»

AM: [As we saw in Paris], multilateral action on HFCs now has the support of an overwhelming majority of nations and this will be the year to translate that majority support into a meaningful agreement.

The conference simply accepted early on that there was no chance of reaching any meaningful agreement on the subject, leaving it out altogether and placing the planet in great jeopardy of overheating as a result.

Blocking any meaningful agreement, ignoring their mitigation obligations, advocating for market based approaches - which are all false solutions, just as having the private sector lead the charge against climate change -, and blackmailing other less vocal delegations are just some of the actions that clearly indicate their priorities and whose interests these governments represent.