Sentences with phrase «past year of negotiations»

Even though the past year of negotiations was led by Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa.

Not exact matches

Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett has spent a lot of time talking to suppliers in the past year, after he was appointed to oversee negotiations between the Wesfarmers - owned Coles and its disgruntled suppliers.

Hebatallah Salem discussed the role of political jokes and satire during the past year in Egypt, drawing attention to the constant negotiation between subverting old regime figures and the new incumbents.

Once they demonstrate they can meet all these criteria they enter into a series of negotiations with the European Union, which can take several years judging by past standards.

For the past two years, the BOL has abandoned gridlock and lawsuits in favor of conciliation and negotiation.

The Rockland County PBA has been representing the officers in Orangetown during negotiations with the Town Board over the past two years, and appears to have won nearly all of its bargaining points, with the exception of a lower pay increase than the union had wanted.

There will certainly be a negotiation next year — and it may be as disruptive as this year's negotiations, spilling well past the start of the fiscal year — but odds would seem to favor Congress limiting the size of the spending drop, if not avoiding it altogether (even if the White House plays hardball).

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

As MLC chair for the past 10 years, she coordinates labor negotiations and bargains for benefits on behalf of the unions» 365,000 members.

Our partners» proven means of debt settlement negotiation have been tested and developed over years of experience and over the past six months alone have successfully dealt with 96 million dollars in debt.

Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations.

CERES has organised a low carbon investor's conference at the UN's HQ for the past six years, but this week's meeting has added significance given the political importance of 2014 to the climate negotiations.

World leaders converged at the United Nations in New York City this past week for Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon's much anticipated Climate Summit, a lead - up to global negotiations that will take place in Lima, Peru, in December of this year, and culminate a year later in Paris.

Frustration with the climate talks has grown in the past two years but progress in this year's conference of the parties (COP) has seen negotiations deadlocked in technical areas, and rich and poor countries at loggerheads over compensation and money.

Having been the totem of international climate negotiations for the past 40 years, it seems unlikely that the two degrees target will simply fade away post-2015.

For the past six years since publication of the AR4, the UN global climate negotiations were conducted on the basis that even without serious mitigation policies global sea - level would rise only between 18 and 59 cm, with perhaps 10 or 20 cm more due to ice dynamics.

The Paris Agreement provides an important new foundation for meaningful progress on climate change, and represents a dramatic departure from the past 20 years of international climate negotiations.

The lesson of these books, and all the other thinking about interest - based negotiation over the past 35 years, is the importance of clearly and resolutely looking for ways to satisfy the needs of the disputing parties, rather than getting hung up over their mutually - exclusive wants.

Peisley points out that the facilitative / evaluative divide has been almost an article of faith in mediation circles for the past 15 years (citing Professor Leonard Riskin's theory of mediator orientation as facilitative or evaluative and the problem definition as either «narrow» [position - based] or «broad» [interest - based]-- Riskin, «Understanding Mediator Orientations, Strategies and Techniques: A Grid for the Perplexed» (1996) 1 Harvard Negotiation law Review

As one of the Charter's architects — he was involved in the negotiations of the 1981 Kitchen Accord, which played a key role in the patriation of the Constitution — he reflected on how much politics have changed over the past 30 years.

On top of this, Steinbrecher goes into the expanded role he has in regards to commercial negotiations for the company: «I have been tasked in the past year to lead negotiations beyond my legal role.

CEO of the company for past 5 years, overseeing all aspects of company operations and reporting, including investor relations, financing, operational strategy, business development, safety, contract negotiations,, change management, treasury management, capitalization for projects, safety, and budgeting.

With 5 years of project management and supervisory experience in my past positions, which include major accomplishments in the following areas: productivity, sales, public relations, communications, negotiations, networking and workforce management.

The challenges of these situations have been demonstrated in the extensive media coverage over the past year on the process of negotiating an ILUA between the Goolarabooloo Jabirr Jabirr Peoples and Woodside Petroleum and the Western Australian Government over the proposed gas hub at James Price Point, north of Broome in Western Australia; and the negotiation meetings between the Yindjibarndi People and Fortescue Mining Group over the Solomon Gas Hub in the Pilbara region.

There has been a paradigm shift in Indigenous health research over the past 50 years, from researchers objectifying, to consulting, and, more recently, collaborating with Indigenous peoples.6 The focus is now on partnerships and Indigenous - directed research.4 In practice, consultation and negotiation with Aboriginal communities are continual, and should achieve mutual understanding about the proposed research.7 The community should be fully informed about the aims, methods, implications and potential outcomes of a research project, so that they can decide whether to accept or oppose it.7

With the goal of streamlining the lease negotiation process, Jones Lang LaSalle has been working over the past year to develop a new, more efficient lease form.