Sentences with phrase «of treaty talks»

But while webcasting is out of the treaty talks for now, the EFF notes, the bigger question is for how long.

The forum, organized to build pressure on rich countries just weeks ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen, is yet another strong indication that the biggest barrier to getting agreement on a new climate accord next month is the stark disagreement over the scale of what amounts to a climate debt.

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

McKibben expressed a very dim view of the role of the United States in the many years of treaty talks (6:30):

Just a few years earlier, in another round of treaty talks, the chief Bush administration negotiator, Harlan Watson, gave a speech holding out state actions as evidence of American initiative on climate.

Not exact matches

On the eve of this week's NAFTA talks, the fifth of seven scheduled rounds, the uncompromising U.S. stance now risks scuppering a 23 - year - old treaty that helped knit together a colossal continental economy, business groups said.

Because muslims were being oppressed or a treaty was broken by an attack of some sort, and once an Islamic state was established, they could talk as 1 and decide if they broke the treaty how should they handle it?

Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: «The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.

The present volume is the outcome of the conviction that most of our talk about post-war reconstruction misses the point in that the treaties, political organizations, and economic arrangements, about which we speak and write so voluminously, are only surface phenomena.

You must allocate at least one half hour for the post trick - or - treating sibling candy swap, which rivals the SALT II treaty talks in intensity of negotiations.

The treaty would prohibit assistance with the use, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions, but the US, Israel, Russia, China, India and Pakistan are not taking part in the talks.

With talk of divisions on the subject of the Lisbon treaty dominating the conference, Tory HQ will be hoping the famously pro-European former chancellor does not make life any harder for David Cameron as he tries to prevent infighting.

Kim Jong - un and and Moon Jae - in have sealed their talks with a joint declaration, and a hug, reaffirming their commitment to the realisation of complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and pledging to turn their armistice into a peace treaty this year.

The problem is Cameron and other senior ministers have been talking up the importance of treaty change in order to prevent proposals like tightening migrants» access to benefits from being challenged in the courts.

David Pollock, President of the European Humanist Federation, talked about the Catholic Church's influence at European level as a result of the Lisbon treaty.

Going into the talks, the prime minister spoke of the EU treaty, transportation links in Northern Ireland and concerns of drug smuggling along the Irish coast.

All but one set of adjusted figures show that we will have already passed 1 °C before the next round of UN talks on a global climate treaty get under way in December (see graph).

As United Nations delegates end their mercury treaty talks today, scientists warn that ongoing emissions are more of a threat to food webs than the mercury already in the environment.

, who had planned to lead a House delegation to the Paris talks until votes interfered, penned an op - ed in The Washington Examiner a week after the deal was finalized, minimizing it as a «signal» of Obama administration preferences rather than a treaty.

But with prospects of the United States» being in a political position to ratify any new treaty dimming, there is starting to be talk in European quarters about once again leaving the United States to sort out its domestic politics and in the meantime extending the Kyoto Protocol.

Chinese leaders have resisted binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and a major issue ahead of the talks is what steps developing countries with rising emissions would agree to take under the treaty.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Peace talks in 1921 led to the signing of a treaty the following year that gave Southern Ireland independence.

Talk of Frieze Masters has been the story of a fake Frans Hals, following Sotheby's revelation that a portrait by the Dutch artist that was sold to a US buyer by private treaty for # 8.4 million in 2011 has been reassessed as a fake (as reported in the Financial Times).

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied during climate - treaty talks in Copenhagen in December 2009.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

Ahead of the Paris climate treaty talks, he helped line up parallel multi-billion-dollar pledges by government leaders and some of the world's wealthiest investors to accelerate clean - energy science and innovation.

The ethical dimensions of global warming, and the deep divisions between rich and poor, are likely to shape discussions next month at the next round of international climate - treaty talks in Indonesia.

Climate Action Network's Fossil of the Day Award, a longstanding tradition at the talks, provides a way to track hypocritical stances among the nearly 200 treaty parties.

Last month, he attended the climate - treaty talks in Bali as part of a small delegation representing 200 scientists who signed a declaration pressing negotiators to commit to preventing the global temperature from rising more than 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit above where it is now (roughly 59 degrees).

Many experts on the talks see little likelihood of a full - blown, completed treaty a year from now in Copenhagen, in part because the incoming Obama administration must shape its approach around the concerns of the Senate (where a two - thirds vote must consent to United States treaty participation).

It is not about the details of the outcome of climate treaty talks that concluded yesterday in Lima, Peru.

He also implied that he was turning down requests from environmental campaigners that he attend next month's round of talks over a new climate treaty, in Poland, saying he has asked members of Congress who are attending to report back to him.

John Broder has written an update on the climate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emissions.

Throughout his run for the White House and after his election, President Obama pledged to restore the United States to a position of leadership in global talks aimed at a new treaty cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

During last year's round of climate treaty talks, in Lima, Peru, a statement issued by the Global Fire Monitoring Center underscored the need to address global vegetation fires in the context of climate change, referring to the work of 58 scientists who evaluated the global state of fire between 1993 and 2014.

In the early stages of climate - treaty talks in Bali, conference leaders scurried among delegations and came up with a document called «Non-Paper by the Co-Facilitators.»

Another round of climate - treaty talks just ended in Bonn, Germany, with another private round of climate discussions coming in South Korea next week (among «major economies» recruited by the Bush administration).

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

The article focuses on a fresh promise from Brazil's president to cut the rate of destruction 72 percent by 2017, in a move seen by many to be related to efforts by some developing countries to get potentially valuable credit for avoided deforestation in whatever climate treaty results from talks next year.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

Parallel talks would continue on a new climate treaty, to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

-- A look at how Poland, the country hosting the next round of climate - treaty talks, is fighting European Union efforts to reform restrictions on greenhouse - gas emissions.

After two weeks of steadily intensifying talks, briefings, speeches and «nonpaper» drafts, the world's major countries early Saturday morning in Bali apparently agreed on a formal two - year schedule for trying to fix a faltering 1992 climate treaty.

First, we talked about revived interest in mass transportation, about the different roles and responsibilities of local communities and the federal government, and about what opportunities and hurdles face the next president, even as both candidates have pledged to cap carbon dioxide and pursue an effective climate treaty.

In such talks, Mr. Obama is essentially shackled by the need for congressional approval, particularly for the consent of the Senate on any participation by the United States in a treaty.

Australia is said to working behind - the - scenes on the legal framework for a new climate treaty and on methods to finance developing countries» efforts to adapt to climate change and the technology to develop in a low carbon way.Rudd is working on getting U.S. and China, the leading emitters of greenhouse gases, to agree on a deal before talks begin in Copenhagen.

In a news conference in Washington on Monday, Todd Stern, the Obama administration's lead negotiator in talks aimed at a new climate treaty, provided some insights into issues and (limited) opportunities that will shape the next round of negotiations, which begins in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the month.

One strategy with implications for climate - treaty talks, he writes, is using controlled fires to cut chances of more intense blazes that emit far more short - term greenhouse gases and degrade ecosystems.