Sentences with phrase «new un»

A new UN working paper providing an overview of bitcoin has criticised the attitudes of some in the bitcoin community towards the developing world.

Guterres began his term on 1 January 2017, while Nakamitsu became the new UN disarmament chief on 1 May after working for the UN in humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping.

The campaign wrote to the new UN Secretary - General António Guterres, who began his term on 1 January 2017, urging him to take a strong and unequivocal stance against lethal autonomous weapons systems by endorsing the call for a ban.

Documents are also available via a new UN «Rule of Law» page.

Legalists say International Crimes Court unlikely to purse war crimes allegations made by new UN report into Gaza offensive; warn individual lawsuits in countries which allow them still possible

Binnie also continues to serve as chairman of the United Nations Internal Justice Council, where he is responsible for advising the UN General Assembly in its implementation of the new UN Dispute Tribunal and Appeals Tribunal systems.

Then in 2009 Canada went through a new UN human rights review process, known as Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

When world leaders gather in Paris from November 30 to December 12/13 to negotiate a new UN climate treaty the urgency of that matter is very likely to create its own headlines across the globe, if you'd connect the brown... Continue reading →

It is a divergence that could scupper, mortally weaken or seriously delay the bill - and with it, potentially, remove any chance of agreeing a new UN climate treaty by the end of the year.

Developing countries have demanded that a new UN institution be set up to oversee compensation but rich countries have been dismissive, blocking calls for a full debate in the climate talks.

Contrary to what their name suggests, a comprehensive new UN report on marine plastics confirms that most plastics labeled as biodegradable don't break down in the ocean.

Worldwatch Institute is relaying the gist of a new UN Food and Agriculture Organization report which paints a not so good picture just how degraded the world's agricultural lands have become.Nearly One Quarter of World's Farmlands Degraded Prior data indicated that of the world's 1.5 billion hectares of farmland, between 10 - 20 % suffered from degradation.

«The bad news is that it plants the seeds of a new UN climate regime that left unchecked will swell into a bureaucratic behemoth»

Not long before some new UN moot, a prominent fearmonger like James Hansen or Michael Mann will make a tremulous statement about the accelerating tempo of the warming crisis.

It is also intended to improve the prospect of a strong new UN global agreement to cut climate emissions.

Mr Bloomberg commented on Twitter that: «As the new UN Special Envoy for Climate Action, I'll work with state and non-state actors to help implement policies that reduce emissions & build resilience».

Blogger: «Climate Depot's [Marc] Morano Statement on new UN IPCC report,» ClimateDepot.com, March 31, 2014, online here; S. Fred Singer, «The end of the IPCC,» americanthinker.com, Feb. 10, 2010, online here.

In Japan today, representatives from 186 governments signed a new UN framework on disaster risk reduction.

The new UN deal to be negotiated by 2015, will see all nations rich and poor, sign - up to a pledge.

Emission reduction policies announced by President Barack Obama last week could indicate the extent to which the US will commit to the new UN global climate treaty, according to experts tracking the talks.

Anthony Hobley, global head, sustainability & climate change at the Norton Rose Fulbright law firm, told RTCC the speech offered some clues to how the US may seek to engage with a new UN climate deal.

Even with the admission of major uncertainty, however, countless critics assailed the new UN report from all angles, using a mixture of serious discrediting and comical ridicule.

CB: In the new UN Environment emissions gap report, it only looks at a 50 % chance of 1.5 C, arguing that there were not enough models available to give it a viable path to 66 %.

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As the World Bank - International Monetary Fund annual Spring Meetings get underway, 117 organizations from around the world today urged government funders of the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds to pivot away from financing the CIFs and to redirect funds to the new UN Green Climate Fund.

«Independent summary shows new UN climate change report refutes alarmism and reveals major uncertainties in the science,» CNW.

concentrations, urgent global emission reductions are needed [see this graph] over the time frame of the new UN climate treaty, to be established at COP21, the Paris climate summit in December this year.

over the time frame of the new UN climate treaty, to be established at COP21, the Paris climate summit in December this year.

And, will the new UN Secretary - General Antonio Guterres make climate change as high a priority as his predecessor Ban Ki - moon did?

A New UN IPCC - Like Panel!?

But despite the warnings of Margaret Thatcher in the late 1980s, a hefty report from the UN's science panel in 1990 and a new UN climate treaty in 1992, climate change was not explicitly included in a State of the Union address until 1997, when it was brought up by Democratic president Bill Clinton.

As their «science» continues to be exposed and discredited by genuine scientists and astute researchers, we can expect their noisy chorus to get even noisier, in a desperate attempt to push through a new UN climate regime in Paris — before taxpayers completely pull the plug on their global - warming gravy train.

4) A new UN climate treaty would limit fossil fuel use by developed countries, place no binding limits or timetables on developing nations, and redistribute hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries that claim they have been harmed by emissions and warming due to rich country hydrocarbon use.

Poland's drive for more concessions contrasts sharply with its role as host of the Poznan conference, at which it is supposed to muster support for a new UN climate treaty.

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When world leaders gather in Paris from November 30 to December 12/13 to negotiate a new UN climate treaty the urgency of that matter is very likely to create its own headlines across the globe, if you'd connect the brown and the blue dots on the map below:

Governments have approved plans for a new UN report to explore the impacts of warming of 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels at a meeting in Bangkok, Thailand.

The global boom in biofuels is laden with environmental and social risks, even as it presents strong new prospects for mitigating human - caused global warming, a new UN study says.

The new UN food envoy, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, has called for United States and European Union biofuel targets to be abandoned, and said the world food crisis is «a silent tsunami affecting 100 million people.»

A new UN report says that a 1 % tax levies on the world's 1,225 billionaires would more than make up for the shortfall in development aid from governments.

Okay, reading what the new UN report says... as reported by the Times tonight, I still don't get why Gingrich is in the center and not these scientists... and look the scientists are being even more alarming than before.

His own reaction at the time to the appointment was characteristically enthusiastic: «Just when I heard I'd got it, news came through that Kofi Annan was the new UN Secretary General.

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But tinkering is exactly what is being recommended for the oceans, as the Panel has failed to address the fact that there are simply too many big boats chasing too few fish, and that without a new UN agreement to conserve and manage biodiversity in the high seas it will be impossible to implement the necessary reforms to ensure a sustainable marine future.

On this, see the seminal study by ALSTON, P.: «Out of the Abyss: The Challenges Confronting the New UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights», Human Rights Quarterly, Vol.

Much more needs to be done to reach new UN targets of ending the epidemic by 2030

Even «less critical» actions, like admitting new UN members, went through adoption of a certain Resolution.

Even China and Russia did agree to the new UN embargo, they were the last countries that either had understanding for these things.

That is why I have encouraged Antonio Guterres, the new UN Secretary General, to pursue an ambitious reform programme, focusing the United Nations on its core functions of peacekeeping, conflict prevention and resolution.

BeSafe have always included side impact testing as part of their safety processes, but the new UN R 129 - 02 states it as a necessity.