Sentences with phrase «reach agreement on changes»

During those years, the Congress could not reach agreement on changing the law, and thus it languished despite pleas from educators that it was unworkable.

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Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, who resigned over tariffs earlier this month, reached a tentative agreement with Trump to become his CIA director — but lost out on the role after Trump abruptly changed his mind.

An agreement reached earlier this week in Albany means a change to the way sexual assault is dealt with on New York's college campuses.

This may change in the future, should agreement be reached on further powers being devolved from Government.»

Klein on Monday moved away from forming a new coalition with the mainline conference of Democrats, declaring that «things have changed» since an agreement to do so was reached back in June (that includes primary challengers continuing to press on despite a ceasefire).

The schedule called for the New York State Legislature to be home for the summer by this week, but lawmakers are still in Albany as legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo try to reach agreement on a number of major issues, including making the 2 percent tax cap permanent, and changes to the charter school limit.

DeFrancisco, a Republican from Syracuse, says if no agreement is reached on some of the unrelated topics by the budget deadline, lawmakers will likely oppose any attempt by the governor to force through the policy changes in the form of extender bills to keep the government running.

ALBANY — Senate Republicans are drafting language on changes to state ethics laws, including a proposal to disclose some law clients, indicating they are close to reaching agreement with Democrats.

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

As time ran out on the latest international climate change negotiations, an agreement was reached that includes all significant countries in the effort to reduce greenhouse gases.

President Barack Obama knew the clock was ticking on reaching a climate - change agreement when he barged into a meeting with the leaders of China, Brazil, India, and South Africa on the last day of the deadlocked U.N. convention in Copenhagen.

Results of a new study by researchers at the Northeast Climate Science Center (NECSC) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggest that temperatures across the northeastern United States will increase much faster than the global average, so that the 2 - degrees Celsius warming target adopted in the recent Paris Agreement on climate change will be reached about 20 years earlier for this part of the U.S. compared to the world as a whole.

For the world to reach the necessary ambition to achieve our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, which would keep average global temperature rises well below 2 °C and even 1.5 °C, the EU, led by the European Commission, must start supporting efforts to tackle vested interests within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

As for the NEA's position, Beck said changing a salary structure is a difficult issue for teachers to discuss and on which to reach agreement.

The nations of the world gathered on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long - term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders reached agreement on a budget plan Monday that will usher in sweeping changes to school funding that give local officials far more control over spending decisions.

Generally speaking, loan repricings involve issuers reaching out to market participants via an arranger to lower the interest rate on an existing facility, with no other changes to the loan agreement.

The IRS will help you reach a new agreement based on the cause of your financial change and your current type of tax debt payment plan.

With all the difficulties in reaching a meaningful diplomatic agreement on climate change, people have started looking at other ways to get leverage on climate.

Based on the president's work on climate change over the past 10 months — in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral discussions and multilateral consultations — and based on progress made in recent, constructive discussions with China and India's Leaders, the president believes it is possible to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen.

«COP 24 in Katowice, Poland will be the most critical meeting on climate change since the Paris Agreement was adopted, with the world watching to see if countries are serious about implementing and strengthening the historic agreement they reached three yAgreement was adopted, with the world watching to see if countries are serious about implementing and strengthening the historic agreement they reached three yagreement they reached three years ago.

News Anchor: It's been 12 years since the last global attempt to reach a comprehensive agreement on climate change.

Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2017 — Current pledges by national governments are not enough to reach the goal set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but hope remains in the leading role being taken by subnational and non-state actors like cities, companies and organizations, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón told participants on the closing day of the Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) in Mexico City.

Those who argue that Kyoto should be ditched to be replaced by some other scheme (usually the pet scheme of the advocate) implicitly dismiss the extraordinary complexity and difficulty of reaching an agreement among some 200 highly diverse countries, each with its own definition of fairness, on the climate change issue.

SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar energy projects, is proud to announce its landmark partnership agreement with COP21, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which delegations representing over 150 countries will attend in Paris for 12 days with the objective of reaching a universal agreement on how to slow the rise of global temperatures.

For the world to reach the necessary ambition to achieve our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, which would keep average global temperature rises well below 2 °C and even 1.5 °C, the EU, led by the European Commission, must start supporting efforts to tackle vested interests within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

It is framed in the context of agreements reached on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7) on energy and the Paris Agreement on climate change.

In tandem with the Paris agreement, the Conference of Parties (COP) invited the IPCC to provide a special assessment on the impacts of climate change when global temperature reaches 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.

«(F) the reduction otherwise satisfies and is consistent with any relevant requirements established by an agreement reached under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

NETs will «almost certainly be needed» to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, one of the researchers tells Carbon Brief.

But the focus of negotiators here is still on reaching agreement on two separate — and substantive — tracks; one is the Kyoto Protocol text, which excludes the US, and the other is the text of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the US is party to.

A detailed analysis of the pledges made for the Paris Agreement on climate change finds that the era of fossil fuels appears far from over and underscores the challenge of reaching more ambitious climate goals.

Under these conditions, in regions, states, and cities it will not only be easier to gain public support from across the political and cultural spectrum, but it will also give members of Congress and future presidents, if they can be pressured into returning to the business of governing, more options by which to reach agreement on actions that address climate change.27

Global leaders convened in Paris for the United Nations climate summit, where they reached a historic international agreement to act on climate change.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 201On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 201on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

In accordance with an agreement reached with the US in late 2014, and in line with pledges made at the recent Paris summit on climate change, China aims to radically cut back on coal use in future.

United Nations members have reached an agreement on how countries should tackle climate change.

And a poll conducted by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication in September and October found that 71 percent of Americans said it was at least somewhat «important» for the world to reach an agreement on climate change in Paris, with 43 percent of respondents saying it was «very» or «extremely» important (percentage of respondents saying it was «important» are rounded up when added togeChange Communication in September and October found that 71 percent of Americans said it was at least somewhat «important» for the world to reach an agreement on climate change in Paris, with 43 percent of respondents saying it was «very» or «extremely» important (percentage of respondents saying it was «important» are rounded up when added togechange in Paris, with 43 percent of respondents saying it was «very» or «extremely» important (percentage of respondents saying it was «important» are rounded up when added together):

(See for example, Brown, 2010a) This is so because climate change must be understood as a civilization challenging ethical and moral problem and the failure to acknowledge and act on this has been responsible for an inadequate global response to climate change's immense threat during the twenty years of international negotiations that have sought to reach agreement on a global solution.

Leaders from China and the US reached an agreement on climate change at the end of 2014, which paved the way for the signing of the Paris Agreement the nagreement on climate change at the end of 2014, which paved the way for the signing of the Paris Agreement the nAgreement the next year.

The December United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Bali conference, will focus on reaching international agreement on concrete steps to be taken in view of a framework to follow the end of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period in 2012.

Recognizing strategies that actually work is especially important now, coming off of the climate change talks last December in Lima, Peru, and looking ahead to the next Conference of the Parties (COP) in Paris, at the end of 2015, negotiations characterized by the Guardian as the «world's last best chance to reach an agreement on cutting carbon emissions.»

We are also showing international leadership on climate change, reaching historic agreements to set emission limits in unison with all major developed and developing nations.

HARRABIN: They're haggard with lack of sleep, but beaming that they've reached an agreement on an unequivocal message to politicians that climate change is real, dangerous, but manageable if steps are taken now.

Here's the latest thinking on how to reach an international agreement that would really work to stop climate change.

We've had two decades to reach some effective agreement on climate change and we're really not far from where we started save for the increasing GHG emissions over this time.

Talks here will shape the Copenhagen negotiations, where agreement must be reached on carbon emission reduction targets needed to avoid dangerous climate change.

Following today's plenary session on climate change, the US State Department released the US - China Climate Change Working Group Fact Sheet, stating the two countries will work to implement the agreement on HFCs reached by President Obama and President Xi at their meeting in Sunnylands, California last change, the US State Department released the US - China Climate Change Working Group Fact Sheet, stating the two countries will work to implement the agreement on HFCs reached by President Obama and President Xi at their meeting in Sunnylands, California last Change Working Group Fact Sheet, stating the two countries will work to implement the agreement on HFCs reached by President Obama and President Xi at their meeting in Sunnylands, California last month.

This technical document aims to inform African carbon sink experts and the African forestry sector about climate change, the agreements reached, particularly the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and of the Kyoto Protocol, the current state of the Clean Development Mechanism, other opportunities for forest conservation, adaptation and mitigation, and about prerequisites for implementchange, the agreements reached, particularly the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and of the Kyoto Protocol, the current state of the Clean Development Mechanism, other opportunities for forest conservation, adaptation and mitigation, and about prerequisites for implementChange (UNFCCC) and of the Kyoto Protocol, the current state of the Clean Development Mechanism, other opportunities for forest conservation, adaptation and mitigation, and about prerequisites for implementation.

There is certainly a lot of work on the part of developing country negotiators, to fight to strike a just climate deal before it is too late, because everybody knows that climate change is not going to wait on the UNFCCC to reach an agreement.