Sentences with phrase «reached global agreement»

All but eight of 195 countries submitted their own climate plans to the UN before negotiators reached global agreement in Paris, a development many Republicans oppose.

There is a good chance of reaching a global agreement since, instead of cuts being imposed from the top down, countries will decide their own contributions, with each offering what they think is fair.

THE 20th round of climate talks in Peru's capital city Lima this month are seen as a crucial step towards reaching a global agreement in Paris in 2015.

A Drive towards Sustainable Business Trends As the world's leaders met at 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris to reach a global agreement to reduce climate change, time has also come when entrepreneurial leaders of the world have to think about most sustainable ways to conduct business.

The US is trying to reach a global agreement on binding emissions targets in which developing countries would abide by specific requirements on emissions.

Recently the world took two giant steps toward reaching a global agreement to fight climate change in 2015: a landmark U.S. - China accord and a $ 4.5 billion pledge to the Green Climate Fund by the United States and Japan.

With world leaders from 195 countries negotiating to reach a global agreement to reduce carbon emissions, expansive news and media coverage is guaranteed.

The ongoing lassitude of the international community in reaching a global agreement on curbing carbon emissions impedes progress towards sustainable development.

The Directive does not give the Commission the authority, either through delegation or through comitology, to suspend the application of the Directive (especially the obligation of the part of Member State authorities to issue fines in cases of non-compliance) in order to reach a global agreement on combating climate change in the air transport sector.

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The White House said the agreements reflect administration efforts «to reach fair outcomes with allies to protect our national security and address global challenges to the steel and aluminum industries.»

These agreements underscore the Trump Administration's successful strategy to reach fair outcomes with allies to protect our national security and address global challenges to the steel and aluminum industries.

«These agreements underscore the Trump administration's successful strategy to reach fair outcomes with allies to protect our national security and address global challenges to the steel and aluminum industries.»

To consolidate its foothold in domestic or even the global market, the music group has just reached an equity swap agreement Spotify ahead of the rumored IPO.

It may be inevitable that impersonal forces of technology and changing global economic circumstances have profound effects, but it adds insult to injury when governments reach agreements that further cede control to international tribunals.

The Economic Times reported that Walmart has reached agreements with Tiger Global Management, the New York investment firm; Naspers, the South African media conglomerate; Accel, the venture capital firm and Tencent Holdings, the Chinese company, to purchase their stakes in Flipkart.

This is a «prepackaged» bankruptcy filing where the company has reached an agreement with its creditors — which include PE firms Elliott Management, Monarch Alternative Capital LP, and Apollo Global Management — to restructure its debt, meaning that ownership will be transferred to creditors in exchange for some of the debt.

Ingenico Group announced today it has reached an agreement in principle to acquire 100 % of TechProcess Payment Services Ltd («TechProcess»), a leading Indian electronic payments services provider from its current shareholders (major global and Indian investors).

Marfrig Global Foods, one of the world's largest animal protein producers, has reached an agreement for the acquisition of 51 per cent of the membership interests in National Beef Packing Company, LLC, the fourth - largest beef processor in the United States.

SACRAMENTO, CA, April 6, 2017 - RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(«RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that it reached an agreement on Friday, March 31, 2017, with Alothon Group, LLC («Alothon»), its minority co-investor in Nutra SA, that terminated Alothon's roll - up rights, a process that would have allowed Alothon to swap its equity position in Nutra SA for an equivalent value of RiceBran Technologies common stock.

SACRAMENTO, CA, April 6, 2017 — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(«RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value added products derived from rice bran, today announced that it reached an agreement on Friday, March 31, 2017, with Alothon Group, LLC («Alothon»), its minority co-investor in Nutra SA, that terminated Alothon's roll - up rights, a process that would have allowed Alothon to swap its equity position in Nutra SA for an equivalent value of RiceBran Technologies common stock.

With a clear agenda and concrete proposals on a global growth deal - opening up trade, tackling tax evasion and boosting infrastructure - Britain should have been leading efforts at the G20 to reach an agreement that would transform African and low - income countries into genuine, much - needed dynamos for the largest prize: the return to global growth.

He launched his manifesto today about the role of the UK at Copenhagen and what needed to be achieved at the conference to reach a new global climate agreement.

Heastie said he would meet again on Monday with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and leaders of the state Senate, and that there «hopefully will just turn out to be a few days of delay» before a global budget agreement is reached.

«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.

Regarding climate change, the U.S. and Brazil are important players in the global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reach a successful agreement in Paris this December.»

Even a potentially groundbreaking decision reached in Durban, South Africa, in December to begin negotiating a new global agreement that could see all major emitters cutting carbon won't take effect until 2020.

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.

Scientists consider that level of global warming dangerous, and the goal of the Paris Climate Agreement is to stop global warming before that limit is reached.

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 world leaders and policymakers try to reach an agreement on global warming limits at the climate summit in Paris, there is one number they can't ignore.

The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.

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Despite all the attention given to Amazon and Barnes and Noble, even the «empire» and the «mainstay» don't have the global reach that Kobo has, with a market presence in nearly 200 countries, as well as an agreement with the American Booksellers Association to allow independent booksellers sell e-reader devices and ebooks.

The agreement significantly expands the global footprint of the Smashwords ebook distribution network, enabling Smashwords authors and publishers to reach hundreds of online retailers, public libraries and academic libraries... http://bit.ly/1XfXi6c

Amadeus has reached an agreement with LATAM Airlines Group for global distribution services.

Delta Air Lines and Travelport have reached agreement to sell Economy Comfort, Delta's premium Economy product offering more leg room, through Travelport's global distribution system.

Bigben Interactive has reached an agreement to exclusively produce, under global licence, TT Isle Of Man — Ride on the Edge.

As scientists, we urge the negotiators to reach an agreement that takes these targets as a minimum requirement for a fair and effective global climate agreement.

Peter Baker reports from L'Aquila, Italy, where the Group of 8 industrial powers is holding its annual summit meeting, that no agreement was reached on a concrete global commitment for big cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions.

Representatives applauded at the approval of an agreement reached in Lima, Peru, on Sunday to reduce the global rate of greenhouse gas emissions.

There was a top - down approach with the notion that an international agreement could be reached that would drive global action within a single framework.

My answer is: Yes we can reach a strong, comprehensive and global agreement next month.

Nearly 200 countries will try to reach a new climate agreement that limits global temperature increases to below 2 degrees Celsius.

There have been global climate agreements before, but nothing with this extraordinary reach, ambition, and international backing.

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

Concentrations of heat trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reached a record global average in March, underscoring the crucial importance of reaching an effective universal climate change agreement in Paris at the end of... Read more

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.

We recognize the urgent need to act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global community's economic prosperity and public health and are optimistic that world leaders will reach an agreement to secure a transition to a low carbon future.

[1] The goal of the conference was for the various countries attending to reach an agreement to limit CO2 emissions in order to reduce global temperatures.

Yohe: What needs to happen is for a global agreement to be reached that includes the United States from the get - go as an active participant, with agreement on the next round of emissions targets so that they will be taken a lot more seriously than Kyoto was and be a lot more effective.