Sentences with phrase «meaningful negotiation about»

The decision not to extend the right to negotiate offshore has denied Indigenous people the possibility of any meaningful negotiation about future offshore petroleum developments.

Discovery is not about gamesmanship, and parties are expected to engage in meaningful negotiation about the terms of discovery agreements.

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«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.

As has been the case for recent COPs, commentators about achievements at COP - 17 are split on whether these negotiations accomplished some important positive steps toward an eventual meaningful global solution to climate change or whether Durban must be understood as another tragic international failure to come up with an adequate solution to the immense threat of human - induced warming.

Even where the customer anticipates that it will be able to use other mechanisms to encourage or compel the service provider to have discussions about pricing, e.g. the threat of re-sourcing, in - sourcing or terminating services, the customer will frequently be hamstrung in any resulting negotiations by the lack of meaningful information about the components of the service provider's pricing.