Sentences with phrase «more international negotiations»

Given that context, the right mode for organizing isn't to stop Google from working with the Pentagon, it is to encourage Google, which is among the most effective lobbying forces in Washington, to push for more international negotiations to ban these sorts of offensive weapons in the first place.

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«I expect protracted negotiations as the international organizations will ask for more than amending the central bank law,» Daniel Bebesy, who helps oversee $ 1.5 billion mostly in Hungarian government bonds at Budapest Fund Management, said by phone today.

He told us that the states with the biggest roles to play are heavily influenced by corporate lobbying, but that this can be countered by citizens» efforts to call for more transparency and democracy in international negotiations.

«With the breakdown of Friday's ceasefire and the prospects of peace seemingly distant, it is now more important than ever that the international community acts to get the two sides to agree to a renewed ceasefire, and thereafter to reestablish meaningful negotiations to achieve a two - state solution,» he said.

The current administration is working on new, more stringent targets for international negotiations to combat climate change

No news yet on the body's name or spending power, but it has long been argued that a single body managing the U.K. space effort would bring more coherence to research efforts and give the United Kingdom more clout in negotiations with international partners.

With its unique position as a developing country under the United Nations and as one of the more advanced economies in the world, climate activists say, Singapore in recent years has become a bridge between the developing and developed world in the international negotiations.

Yet, more than a decade of inaction — and the collapse of international negotiations as well as domestic efforts to cap carbon — has proven the perils of the business.

«A lot of people feel like it's been a lot of years of talking and negotiations at the international level, and we don't need any more grand negotiations right now; we need to implement what has been agreed upon,» he said.

Nowhere has the debate over the power and perquisites of schools» building engineers been more heated than in New York City, where the board of education is now engaged in contract negotiations with Local 891 of the International Union of Operating Engineers.

We report on international negotiations and disseminate knowledge gained through collaborative projects, resulting in more rigorous research, capacity building in developing countries, better networks spanning the North and the South, and better global connections among researchers, practitioners, citizens and policy - makers.

He has more than 20 years experience in international management, negotiation, and communication.

In just three days of intensive pre-scheduled business appointments, more than 1,000 U.S. travel organizations from every region of the USA (representing all industry category components), and more than 1,300 international and domestic buyers from more than 70 countries conduct business negotiations that result in the generation of more than $ 4.7 billion in future Visit USA travel.

The second module will provide a grounding in the essential logistics of exhibition management, including public relations and marketing, understanding audiences, international import and export, budgeting, conservation, loan negotiation, legal responsibilities and much more.

It also requires a more realistic approach to international climate negotiations.

Yet despite the all the kvetching, the 2 °C limit has maintained its dominant position for more than a decade — in part because it created an easy focal point for international negotiations.

The international negotiation was already dead when they passed Byrd - Hagel, and more local efforts have been killed by the economic downturn.

Should the outcome of the negotiations warrant a more ambitious target, then the EU should be open to the use of international credits to complement domestic commitments.»

All this leads Stephen Tindale, former director of Greenpeace UK, to argue in a recent report that international climate negotiations should be focused less on setting national emissions targets and more on fixing these perverse financial incentives against a low - carbon economy.

«International leadership on climate is more diffuse than ever before, and other countries, large and small, are stepping up to lead within and outside the negotiations,» says Caballero of WRI.

Scientists can predict regional climate - change risks much more reliably than they could 20 years ago, for instance, and those predictions are being incorporated into the international scientific assessments that inform United Nations climate - change negotiations.

The rules, many experts predict, can have a substantial impact on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and provide more persuasive leverage in negotiations with China, India, and other countries to agree to binding international emissions targets.24

The ECBI aims to promote a more level playing field between government delegations to the international climate change negotiations, and to facilitate mutual understanding and trust — both between European and developing countries and among the developing countries.

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

From spurring energy conservation to waste reduction and more, these tactics may yield meaningful opportunities to respond to climate change, especially as international negotiations to reduce atmospheric greenhouse - gas levels betray many people's hopes for a better future.

Much more importantly, the accord marks a sea change in that for the first time in the almost two - decades long history of climate negotiations, non-Annex I countries have agreed to reflect their mitigation actions in an international agreement (in Appendix II, in this case), rather than merely national communications.

«Much more is said about working with other countries directly than is said about the international negotiations.

It will also confirm the accelerated rate of change for impacts such as sea - level rise, the steady retreat of Arctic sea ice and quickened melting of ice sheets and glaciers, as well as offer more detail on scenarios that will shape international negotiations over both short - term and long - term greenhouse gas emissions, including how long «business as usual» can be sustained without dangerous risk.

RTCC's news platform, Climate Home (www.climatechangenews.com), is currently the leading source of climate change news in the world and is an indispensable resource for people who are involved in the climate change negotiating process as well as engaging ordinary people who are concerned about climate change issues and who want to understand more about the international negotiations.

If NDCs are to become the long - term instrument for international cooperation, negotiation, and ratcheting up of ambitions to address climate change, then they need to become more transparent and comparable, both with respect to mitigation goals, and to issues such as adaptation, finance, and the way in which NDCs are aligned with national policies.

The lessons to be learned from previous international negotiations formed the focus of the early part of the dialogue, followed by a broader and more wide - ranging discussion of the panoply of topics which must enter into consideration of alternative negotiation strategies.

Whatever one may think of the progress of international climate change negotiations, the enthusiasm of the people who came out to support Franke demonstrated that at the individual and community level there continues to be intelligent and inspirational work being done to create more sustainable living options for Canadians.

And no country has done more than India to stall progress on international climate negotiations during the past two months.

The current political position of India in international climate negotiation is non-commitment... Read more

More precisely, we're going to have to actually work out a coherent way of assigning responsibility for the fundamental deadlock in the international climate negotiations.

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The reasons for this approach can be plentiful: states might want to export their norms, stronger parties might want to impose pre-existing templates on weaker parties, states might want to replace existing international economic agreements, or it might be more cost effective to conclude one set of negotiations, covering a vast array of fields, instead of having a sector - based approach.

Understanding that international franchising includes significantly more negotiations than domestic franchising, we create a negotiating box that defines the elements of the offering that are not negotiable.

Negotiations with Russia on international child abduction cases could become more complicated.

The opinion is however more nuanced than the maelstrom of headlines (and political reactions) would suggest and it recognizes that this is an area where ad hoc negotiations and political cooperation, rather than international law, may prove determinative

Has written and published more than 300 articles and seminars on international and domestic construction contracts; construction contract administration; arbitration and mediation rules and techniques; negotiation; construction, government contracts, and engineering law.

The Pepperdine University School of Law in California was recently chosen by the American Arbitration Association to «take over its prestigious Library and Information Center, consisting of more than 24,000 titles on arbitration, mediation, negotiation, fact - finding, and other international and domestic dispute resolution procedures».

Top Manager and senior professional with more than 15 years of experience working for Fortune 500 companies, pursuing challenging opportunities in international business / law, contracts and negotiations, commercial law, marketing and program management, and / or business development.