Sentences with phrase «meaningful agreements on»

«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.

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.

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On or about September 9, 2013, the Board was given a draft of the Geller Consulting Agreement, but Shkreli did not explain to the Board that Geller was a defrauded MSMB investor, or that the purpose of the Geller Consulting Agreement was to resolve Geller's complaints about his MSMB investment, or that Geller was not expected to perform meaningful or sustained consulting services for Retrophin.

Agreement on common terms is necessary for meaningful discourse to take place.

By its stress on event and on patterning and integration, by its insistence that relationships constitute an entity, by its concern for an awareness of the depths of human experience (motivations, desires, drives, and «emotional intensity,» for example), as well as by its recognition that we are part of the world and continuous with what has gone before us and even now surrounds and affects us, process thought not only has been in agreement with the newer scientific emphasis on «wholeness,» but has also contributed a perspective which can give that emphasis a meaningful setting and a context in the structure of things in a dynamic universe.

Genuine power devolution and resource control is a crucial factor in addressing the concerns of the Baloch population and there was overwhelming agreement on bringing them back into the mainstream through meaningful political dialogue.

It has been commonly described as an amendment designed to ensure that parliament would get a meaningful vote on the withdrawal agreement.

Assemblyman Bill Nojay (R - Livingston County) said one way for Flanagan — who voted for the gun control measure — to prove he is serious is to refuse to pass any extension of the rent regulation laws without agreement on «meaningful» SAFE Act changes.

This webinar will describe possible avenues for expanding collaborations with community partners by showcasing two examples of afterschool systems that have developed meaningful connections to other systems with a focus on data sharing agreements.

On Obama and Climate: Asked about prospects for a meaningful climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, Mr. Branson noted both the importance of United States leadership and the constraints on President ObamOn Obama and Climate: Asked about prospects for a meaningful climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, Mr. Branson noted both the importance of United States leadership and the constraints on President Obamon President Obama.

With all the difficulties in reaching a meaningful diplomatic agreement on climate change, people have started looking at other ways to get leverage on climate.

My hope is that the interactions here will be a little bit like the scientific process, whittling away at unsupported arguments, building on areas of agreement and creating a trajectory toward understanding and meaningful action.

Given scant signs that diplomacy will produce a meaningful treaty, why does he keep focusing his movement on a global agreement as the necessary goal (2:23)?

The goal five years ago was to build momentum to «seal the deal» on a binding climate treaty — a fruitless task given the divisions among the world's nations — while this conclave was centered on a more modest, but more concrete, achievement — «to raise political momentum for a meaningful universal climate agreement [notice there's no mention of the word «binding»] in Paris in 2015 and to galvanize transformative action in all countries to reduce emissions and build resilience to the adverse impacts of climate change.»

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.

That made their comment on the agreement with the Mann's reconstruction meaningful.

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

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.»

To unlock the ambition cycle, which is at the heart of the Paris Agreement, we need to see meaningful progress and clear commitments on finance.

The Cancun agreements incorporate the finance goals set out in the Copenhagen Accord — a collective commitment by developed countries to provide $ 30 billion in fast - start finance for developing countries in 2010 - 12; and to mobilize $ 100 billion a year in public and private finance by 2020 «in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation.»

Commenting on the developments, Carbon Market Watch Director Eva Filzmoser said, «We applaud the bold move by the UNFCCC Secretariat to draw up detailed recommendations for implementing the Cancun Agreements to protect human rights despite the CDM Board's continued resistance to adopt meaningful solutions to well documented shortcomings of the CDM.»

It says: «developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation; prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries».

Susann Scherbarth, climate campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe, said: «G7 countries have signalled their agreement on the importance of tackling climate change eventually, but haven't announced any meaningful action.

Now here's a thought: if our leaders were able to leave the politics and vested interests aside for just seven days, we could come out of this week's meetings in Bonn and Brussels with across - the - board support for an international deal on HFCs and a meaningful EU emissions target, inspiring other countries around the world to raise their game and opening the way for an ambitious global climate agreement in 2015.

At COP 21, it was also decided that developed countries intend to continue their existing collective mobilization goal through 2025 in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation, and that prior to 2025 the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties (CMA) to the Paris Agreement shall set a new collective quantified goal from a floor of USD 100 billion per year, taking into account the needs and priorities of developing countries.

At The Climate Reality Project we believe COP21 is our best chance yet to secure a strong international agreement that includes meaningful emissions reductions commitments based on national circumstances, a system of periodic review for these commitments and a long - term goal of net zero carbon emissions.

The summit is in danger of ending without a strong agreement to fight climate change, mainly because the United States has attempted to abolish any meaningful language on climate change from the German President Angela Merkel's proposed text.

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.

The controversy associated with our chapter on international climate agreements resulted in that entire section of the SPM being eviscerated of all meaningful substance at the Government Approval Sessions for Working Group III (WG III) in Berlin in April, 2014.

Since that time, DOJ has provided additional guidance on a case - by - case basis as FCPA matters are made public — providing meaningful examples by incorporating factual details and identifying more factors material to the government's decision - making in the particular charging documents, plea agreements, deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements used to resolve FCPA matters.

In North Sea Continental Shelf (Germany v. Denmark), the ICJ held that international law on the delimitation of continental shelf boundaries required the two states to negotiate sincerely and to make real efforts to equitably accommodate one another's interests («to enter into negotiations with a view to arriving at an agreement... [and] so to conduct themselves that the negotiations are meaningful, which will not be the case when either of them insists upon its own position without contemplating any modification of it...»).

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Governments and Indigenous peoples must exploit this window of opportunity to build on native title agreement making processes and policies to ensure that sustainable and meaningful improvements and advancements for Indigenous Australians are realised within this generation.

Specifically, we illustrate the potential value of this new approach by identifying a taxonomy of dyad - level subtypes that differ in how their emotions (i.e., multiple within - day ratings of happiness — chosen here as an exemplar variable with variance properties useful for methods development) vary through normal daily life, and examine how that taxonomy is related to a set of theoretically meaningful variables — subjective health, dyadic adjustment (agreement on amount of time spent with partner), and relationship satisfaction, all of which constitute important characteristics of older couples» well - being (Hoppmann & Gerstorf, 2016).