Sentences with phrase «round of talks»

The Australian (paywalled) reported that Health Minister Sussan Ley has proposed a new round of talks with states and territories on hospital funding.

Regarding legal cases pending before the European Court of Justice, Davis said the second round of talks, in July, had looked at «the categories of cases in scope for discussion, including cases brought by the UK and cases brought against the UK, and clarified the intent and the rationale for each».

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Parisaimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

The draft conclusions from the Advanced Working Group on Long - Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) REDD - plus negotiating text are similar to the previous version from the last round of talks in Barcelona, the so - called «non-paper 39», but negotiators this time around have removed brackets (in UN speak this means consensus has been reached) from the principles (paragraph 1), scope (paragraph 3), sub-national approaches (paragraph 7 and 13) and social and environmental safeguards (paragraph 2).

Although a sense of urgency pervades the 19th annual round of talks on global warming, so does the realization that no binding international agreement to cut fossil fuel emissions is in sight.

With the addition of another round of talks scheduled for Bangkok in September, countries and all involved in the climate talks, including the non-state actors must focus to ensure that we are able to deliver a strong and effective Paris Rulebook at COP24 in December.

But progress toward implementing the agreement at last month's COP23 in Bonn, Germany, shows that the United Nations climate diplomacy framework remains resilient, several climate policy experts told Pacific Standard as the latest round of talks came to an end.

With a new round of talks set to begin next week in Doha, Qatar, Figueres sat down with Yale Environment 360 contributing writer Elizabeth Kolbert to assess the state of those negotiations.

By Friday, it swelled to 55 pages and negotiators started thinking about scheduling another round of talks before Paris.

She then provided a re-cap of her recent trip to the Bonn round of talks, and some views of how the next eight months will play out looking ahead to Copenhagen.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

Click here for my post, at the end of the 2009 round of talks in Copenhagen, stepping back to reflect on two decades of climate negotiations.

The last round of those talks took place in Bali last month, and set a two - year timetable for negotiating a new addendum to the existing, and ailing, 1992 Framework Convention on Climate.

As the final preparatory weeklong round of talks in Bonn wound to a close tonight, developing countries stood firm on calls for cash, not another I.O.U.

The United Nations office that manages negotiations aimed at generating a new global climate agreement this December in Copenhagen has released a basic 53 - page outline for 192 countries to supplement or whittle when the next round of talks begins in June in Bonn.

The third round of talks comes in Paris Thursday and Friday.

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.

One of the most significant signs that this round of talks was different than in previous years came when Climate Nexus, a climate communication initiative set up in 2011 by the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers, launched a website on the talks called TheRoadThroughParis.org.

I'll be going to Cancun for the next round of talks in December, but mainly to help train journalists from developing countries in ways to write about climate change — not on the expectation of reporting on any grand diplomatic developments.

«Now, construction work has stopped, and Amsterdam is launching into a new round of talks.

At the onset of the first round of talks March 21 - 23, King kicked off the session with a reminder to the committee of its primary responsibility — to uphold the civil rights legacy of No Child Left Behind, and for equity to be their «guiding light.»

May 4, 2018 • The latest round of talks between the U.S. and China ended with no agreement on how to cut the trade deficit between the two countries.

The agreement sets the scene for a new round of talks and more argument.

The two sides had a first round of talks about Horizon 2020 at the E.U. Delegation's Tel Aviv office on 14 August and will continue discussions in Brussels in September.

At the latest round of talks in Bonn, Germany, this week, tensions between old rivals were still apparent.

The agreement in Brussels was done after a marathon round of talks over two days, concluding shortly after 9 pm on Friday.

Finance ministers from the EU and the eight leading industrial nations are due to meet later this week, while the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is reconvening at the end of the month to try to reach a deal in the Doha round of talks, which began in 2001.

After the first round of talks, Mr Moon's spokesman has revealed that the two leaders have discussed denuclearisation and a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula.

In a summit already overloaded with symbolism, Kim Jong - un and President Moon Jae - in opted for a time - old favourite ahead of a second round of talks by jointly «planting» a tree, or at least throwing fresh soil at the roots of an existing pine, and freshening it with some water.

The second round of talks are underway in Panmunjom after a morning of handshakes and discussion.

Barnier expressed concern about Davis's commitment to the talks (he has been going to Brussels for the start and end of each round of talks, but has not been staying there for the duration).

[43] On 7 September 2017, the European commission published the minutes of a meeting in July [44] at which Michel Barnier, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, briefed the commission on the outcome of his first round of talks with Davis.

In June 1989, the fifth round of talks between their defence secretaries produced a breakthrough.

Beleaguered airline British Airways negotiators are returning to the negotiating table today for the latest round of talks with the Unite union.

West Ham have set up their first round of talks with Nice left back Timothée Kolodziejczak who will arrive for talks with David Sullivan in London this week.

Atletico Madrid star Antoine Griezmann has reportedly informed Manchester United that he's agreed a transfer to Barcelona in his latest round of talks with the club.

TCS ended an earlier round of talks with Dell to buy Perot in mid-December.

Next week, the United States, Canada, and Mexico will enter their sixth round of talks to renegotiate NAFTA.

The second round of talks between Sprint and T - Mobile ended in November over valuation disagreements.

The clock on a potential merger started ticking as soon as the last round of talks ended.

The 359 - page report was made public as U.S. officials were in Mexico City for the latest round of talks aimed at renegotiating the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.

«Not during this round of talks,» he said.

American, Canadian and Mexican officials are meeting in Montreal this week for a sixth round of talks aimed at renegotiating NAFTA.

Mexico will host the fifth round of talks in Mexico City from November 17 - 21, 2017.

Its response Wednesday, in a statement from Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland's spokesman Adam Austen was: «As we stated at the conclusion of the first round of talks, we are committed to upgrading NAFTA and establishing 21st century standards supporting middle class jobs to the benefit of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.»

The latest round of talks over Nafta concluded last week in Washington with Canada, the United States and Mexico still at an impasse over the future of the agreement.

Since the Doha round of talks were launched in Qatar seven years ago, trade ministers have met five times to work on an agreement.

Talks kick off Wednesday with a discussion of government procurement, already a thorny subject as U.S. negotiators suggested during the last round of talks in Ottawa they want to limit access to Canadians and Mexicans to U.S. projects.

The U.S. lawmakers had initially asked to meet Freeland during the previous round of talks to modernize NAFTA in Montreal in late January.