Sentences with word «multilateral»

As a background, it is observed that this past year has seen the rise of populist nationalism, including skepticism of multilateral trade agreements and immigration.

He outlined the legal and practical issues that arise from negotiating new trade agreements and examined the UK's position in multilateral agreements (including the Unified Patent Court Agreement).

The two former presidents sought to consolidate and extend the World Trade Organisation - led system of multilateral trade.

Benjamin has also successfully defended numerous clients in multilateral development bank (MDB) sanctions proceedings such as where corruption, fraud or other misconduct in MDB - financed projects is suspected.

Finally, if a party seeking enforcement prefers to base its request for enforcement on the court's domestic law on enforcement of foreign awards or bilateral or other multilateral treaties in force in the country where it seeks enforcement, it is allowed to do so by virtue of the so - called more - favourable - right provision of Article VII (1).

In 2010 and 2011, the majority of Norway's fast - start finance (FSF) was channeled through multilateral institutions and supported mitigation activities in developing countries, with a...

Most members agree that what is needed is a new multilateral system of export controls which extends a helping hand to the former communist countries while strengthening agreements designed to stop the proliferation of technologies related to nuclear weapons.

The new hope for multilateral climate cooperation under the 2015 Paris agreement received a blow with the election of a climate denier to the White House.

Most are also being co-financed with other multilateral development institutions, so the governing law for the financing agreements is public international law given the treaty obligations involved.

To tackle this tremendous challenge, the international community is looking to the newly established United Nations Green Climate Fund to be the primary channel for multilateral climate finance for the poor and the vulnerable in developing countries.

The proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the dramatic increase in the invocation of multilateral investment treaties (MITs) and the growing inter-play between investment and international commercial arbitration in recent years all mean that it is imperative for practitioners of international arbitration to have a clear understanding of the fundamental elements of a BIT and the issues that arise with BIT claims.

The CCW meeting of experts is the first multilateral meeting on the matter, but it is unlikely to be the last.

Western governments and Western - funded multilateral organizations are currently spending over $ 1 billion a year on population programs in Third World countries.

This is their National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA); «a set of actions complementary to national goals and objectives of other multilateral environmental agreements to which Bangladesh is one of the signatories» (Ministry of Environment and Forest, 36).

Result - oriented concrete actions taken by the two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will also set an example for other countries encouraging unilateral action and leading to sustainable transportation initiatives, as well as cooperative initiatives with other countries through multilateral fora.

The idea was that it is easier to reach ambitious agreements through multilateral trade negotiations dealing with many issues at once than through piecemeal bilateral agreements.

The sessions will also cover the current multilateral framework for energy cooperation, the Energy Charter Treaty, and whether there is a need to clarify its investment protection standard.

It would reduce the inconsistency and promote coherence between the multiple sets of requirements from the various multilateral funding initiatives for REDD +, thereby reducing the consequent and unnecessary costs and inconveniences of implementing and reporting on safeguards;

As multilateral cooperation increases, and consequently so do the tasks assigned to the EU to regulate such cooperation, they will have to be matched with appropriate resources.

She is a regular speaker at global conferences and seminars by multilateral agencies, market participants, and leading academic institutions.

In fact, the actions of many rich countries here in Warsaw are directly undermining the UNFCCC itself, which is an important multilateral process that must succeed if we are to fix the global climate crisis.

We support renewal of Trident along with a renewed focus on multilateral disarmament.

Alignment should not be pursued with the Common Principles for Climate Mitigation Finance Tracking, adopted by multilateral development banks and the International Development Finance Club.

I had just returned from a trip to Washington, DC, where, together with other members of the Bitcoin Foundation, we had the first multilateral meetings with the federal government on cryptocurrency.

This behaviour did not improve after the Paris agreement either, as multilateral development banks (MDB) approved over $ 5 billion in fossil fuel finance in 2016.

A report from the Commons» international development committee encouraged ministers to offer the prospect of a return to funding, rather than ruling out spending on the worst multilateral organisations for good.

Government delegates attending next week's annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations in Geneva will decide whether to continue in 2015 with multilateral talks on questions relating to «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Lia represents the country at multilateral environmental events, in particular negotiating on climate change under the UN.

The first is between congressional Republicans who support free trade and the hawks advising the President to withdraw from multilateral trade agreements and instill tariffs.

The report also warned that the government should do more to monitor multilateral aid organisations.

With the presidencies of G8 and the EU in 2005, the UK will be uniquely positioned to leverage support for multilateral action on climate change just when the next stage of negotiations is set to begin.

Former Conservative defence secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said he was a «strong believer in multilateral nuclear disarmament» and was presently involved in a campaign to try to get all the nuclear powers to reduce their dependency on such weaponry.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry on Saturday urged the U.S. to «exercise restraint in using trade protection tools, and observe multilateral rules,» according to the Xinhua report.

By withdrawing from multilateral mechanisms, such as the 2015 Paris Agreement, and taking anti-globalization measures, the U.S. is destabilizing global free trade and the world order.

Re-engagement with the Commonwealth «will pressure Mnangagwa to implement reforms, which in turn will help to convince potential funders, such as the Paris Club donors and multilateral lenders such as the IMF, to approve new financing,» William Attwell, practice leader for sub-Saharan Africa at research firm Frontier Strategy Group, told CNBC via email.

The problem is that NAFTA, the largest regional multilateral free trade agreement, originally negotiated 25 years ago, hasn't been updated to reflect these modern realities.

From the mid-nineteenth century through to the 1970s this coordination was governed by a stable and robust multilateral accord.

It took a combined multilateral deal between Russia and OPEC, and a lot of meetings in American energy company boardrooms, to limit supply.

ECAs have even greatly exceeded financing for these types of projects by multilateral finance institutions like the World Bank.

Our cooperation programs are not only bilateral; many are multilateral partnerships with international S&T organizations and institutions.