Sentences with phrase «special envoy»

The longstanding entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of the Bloomberg media company was awarded the title of Special Envoy on Climate Action at a ceremony in New York yesterday.

Perttu Pohjonen, Special Envoy of Deputy Mayor Pekka Sauri, City of Helsinki, presented the city's objectives to reach 100 % Sustainable Public Procurement by 2020, to reduce emission by 30 % from the 1990 by 2020 and to be carbon neutral be 2050.

«About 30 is the number that we're anticipating, more or less,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Jonathan Pershing last week.

Sasanelli commenced his service as special envoy for higher education and trade to Europe in January this year.

Bloomberg, who was named UN special envoy for cities and climate change last week, told a conference call he sees his next mission as getting leaders on side for a global climate deal.

As we are now only 3 weeks away from crucial climate change negotiations in Bangkok (which will set the stage for this years 18th Conference of the Parties, in Doha), US Special Envoy on climate change — Todd Stern — has dropped a bit of a bomb during a speech at Dartmouth.

On January 5, Jonathan Pershing, the U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change, told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the framework established by the Cancun Agreements signals a busy year for implementation of climate... Continue reading →

State Department Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern insisted that Republicans will have a difficult time reversing Obama's efforts.

Davis was appointed Special Envoy for Women and Girls in ICT for the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Former British prime minister Gordon Brown, who now works as a U.N. special envoy on global education, said, «Nobody will believe a word the Taliban say about the right of girls like Malala to go to school until they stop burning down schools and stop massacring pupils»...

She currently serves as UNESCO Special Envoy for Haiti, Chancellor of the University of Ottawa, President of the Institut québécois des hautes études internationales of the University of Laval as well as a Board member of the Toronto Luminato Festival.

Zaelke credited Obama and his team — including Kerry, U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy and former Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern — with working to till the ground for an HFC amendment even as they worked toward other objectives, like the Paris deal.

Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, one of U.N. Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon's three new special envoys on climate change, also headed up the 1987 U.N. World Commission on Environment and Development where the concept of sustainable development was first floated.

But Tory Sir Eric Pickles, the UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues, branded it a «terrible decision».

China's top special envoy Xie yesterday noted China's willingness to partner with other countries or alliances, including the European Union.

«America's Pledge» is a separate initiative spearheaded by Former New York Mayor and UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown, working in parallel with We Are Still In to compile and tally the climate actions of states, cities, colleges, businesses, and other local actors across the entire U.S. economy.

C - Learn is the more accessible, online version of the C - ROADS simulation, which was recently seen in US State Department Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing's -LSB-...]

Led by Trade Minister Steven Ciobo, Trade Special Envoy Andrew Robb and Tourism and International Education Minister Richard Colbeck, this year's edition will see more than 1000 delegates, mostly small - to - medium business owners, attend events spread over nine cities on the mainland as well as Hong Kong.

He served as Australian Special Envoy for Cyprus from 2000 to 2007.

It is notable that unlike Hu Jintao, Xi has quickly consolidated his power base and demonstrated resolve on the North Korean nuclear crisis, stating to a South Korean special envoy earlier this year on 23rd January that China «could not tolerate North Korea possessing nuclear weapons».

UN special envoy Ray Chambers on how the UK's investment in the world's efforts against malaria is yielding better «value for money»

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D - Maine) spoke to aspiring litigators at the Albany Law School this month where he discussed his time on Capitol Hill and his role serving the country as special envoy overseas.

The U.S. special envoy admits that a global treaty may not be ready in time for Copenhagen in December thanks to a lack of final legislation in the U.S.

Who would have guessed that 50 Shades of Grey would be more feminist than the latest film from the UN's most glamorous special envoy?

July 30, 2015 • NPR's Melissa Block speaks with United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura about creating a peace process in Syria.

By Benjamin Flowers Special Envoy for Women and Children, Kim Simplis - Barrow, has condemned the manner in which the San Pedro Police handled the brutal home invasion involving Carrie Tripodi and her ex-boyfriend Russel Casimiro on the night of April 1.

Todd Stern, the newly created special envoy on climate change for the United States, will be with Mrs. Clinton in China.

Fielding the question again as to what his reaction to US special envoy Todd Stern said with regards to no financing money for China, Vice Minister He was «shocked» by Stern's statement and called it «lacking common sense or completely irresponsible,» reiterating what Vice Minister Yu Qingtai said the other day: absolutely, financing should first go to the small island states.

While the 2 degree is a compromise, PM's special envoy Shyam Saran told journalists in Italy, «We do not regard this as an arithmetical target; we regard this as a political decision because there is a great deal of uncertainty with respect to what would be the actual rise in temperature, what would be the consequences of that rise of temperature.»

Buhari who played host to Special Envoy of President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, Thursday in Abuja said that since terrorism no longer respects national borders, the international community must urgently evolve and implement more effective collaborative measures to enhance global security.

In March, Kim met with Moon's special envoys in Pyongyang and held a surprise summit with Xi in Beijing later in the month during his first foreign trip since becoming North Korea's leader following the death of his father Kim Jong Il in 2011.

The move is part of a bold attempt to «eliminate redundancies» and «create a more efficient State Department,» wrote Tillerson, who plans to cut the number of US special envoys and representatives from 66 to 30.

COPENHAGEN — Jonathan Pershing, the State Department deputy special envoy on climate change, represented the United States as climate talks opened in Copenhagen on Monday.

United Nations Special Envoy for HIV / AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

C - Learn is the more accessible, online version of the C - ROADS simulation, which was recently seen in US State Department Special Envoy Jonathan Pershing's plenary address in Bonn Germany to the UNFCCC.

Before the summit, Secretary - General Ban inaugurated Gujarat's first 10 MW solar power plant and announced he would be sending former New York Mayor and now U.N. Special Envoy for Climate Change Michael Bloomberg to a major renewable energy summit in New Delhi next month.

UNESCO Director - General Irina Bokova, and President of the Republic of Korea, Park Geun - hye, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo - Ngcuka, UNESCO Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser, and Laureate of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize Kailash Satyarthi, also spoke at the opening of WEF 2015.

'' is a separate initiative spearheaded by Former New York Mayor and UN Special Envoy Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown, working in parallel with We Are Still In to compile and tally the climate actions of states, cities, colleges, businesses, and other local actors across the entire U.S. economy.

Thursday, November 16th 12:00 - 13:00 Fiji Dome A conversation with Todd Stern, former Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Obama Administration and Sue Biniaz, the former principal legal advisor on the climate negotiations for the United States, who will discuss the future of the Paris Agreement.

This is the issue that is probably, historically, the most contentious in these negotiations,» said U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern.

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UK special envoy on post-Holocaust issues slams «terrible decision» as crisis grows in Jeremy Corbyn's party

Xie Zhenhua, China's top special envoy, reiterated yesterday that his country's stance on the climate deal will «remain the same and unchanged,» no matter what the world's other economic superpower chooses to do.

When asked, local advocates tend to name California as the most progressive state in both environment and clean energy standards; its governor, Jerry Brown, was named special envoy to the states for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in mid-June.