Sentences with phrase «summit last»

At the close of the summit last Thurs...

The Technical Preview is a close cousin to the version of Windows 10 for phones that Microsoft previewed at its big consumer - oriented summit last month.

It is noteworthy that this is also the mistaken fear that many came to after the Copenhagen climate summit last year ended in the creation of a political accord which does not bind parties to reducing emissions but only asks them to inscribe their voluntary measures in a pledge under the accord.

In contrast, Hideki Minamikawa, vice minister for global environment in the Japanese environment ministry, noted that the parties aligned to the Copenhagen Accord — the non-binding political agreement delivered in the 11th hour at the U.N. climate summit last year in Denmark — represented 80 percent of global emissions.

At the U.N. summit last week, climate economists tackled the role of innovation in fixing the world's climate

Such higher levels of warming would make it much more difficult for countries to keep the global temperature rise to below 2C, as they agreed to do at the landmark Paris climate summit last year, to avoid dangerous extreme weather and negative effects on food security.

Witness how major corporations consuming agricultural commodities signed up at the U.N. climate summit last week to a New York Declaration on Forests — an initiative that the World Resources Institute said «could result in more emissions reductions than removing every car, bus and plane from the U.S., China and India combined.»

I would like to think that this is a tangible and direct result of President Obama's diplomacy with China over the course of the year, culiminating in the presidential summit last week).

At a Paris summit last December, governments agreed the most comprehensive plan yet to shift away from fossil fuels, setting a goal of limiting the rise in temperatures to «well below» two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times, ideally 1.5 Celsius.

Certainly, China's declarations out of the China - U.S. presidential summit last week on «full transparency» and a resolve to «stand by these actions» push them in that direction (see previous post «Announcements of U.S. - China Cooperation Create a Path to Copenhagen Success «-RRB- are encouraging, but those declarations are not the same as promises for MRV under a legal treaty.

At the Paris climate summit last December, even our politicians could no longer put up with that 2C nonsense.

At the United Nations Rio +20 Earth summit last year, 192 countries agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals.

If you haven't guessed it by now, the Tianmen Road ascent is the latest challenge completed by the Range Rover Sport after the PHEV model climbed the 999 steps to the Heaven's Gate natural rock arch at the road's summit last month.

DALLAS The Texas Organizing Project held a press conference and summit last week to showcase the impact of their community school initiative at Billy Earl Dade Middle School in Dallas and to build support for the model as a way to win the schools all children deserve.

Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Director Keron Blair was at the summit last weekend and you can watch some highlights from his terrific speech here.

The National Standards Review Team accomplished, at least in large part, what the nation's governors and many business leaders called for at an education summit last...

I learned so much listening to the last summit last year and I am really looking forward to all of the great information in this year's program!

Schwarzenegger was at the Copenhagen climate change summit last year, and has recently returned from China, after speaking out about its advances in clean technology.

At the U.N. summit last week, climate economists tackled the role of innovation in fixing the world's climate

Kicking off their summit last week with an exchange of insults, Mayor Shayne Gallo and County Executive Mike Hein then

David Cameron was confronted by Kirchner on the fringes of a G20 summit last year, in what was viewed as an excellent photo call for the Argentinean president.

Kofi Amankwah was not happy the moment he got to the venue for the summit last Thursday.

Each of the 125 leaders attending the New York climate summit last week has been given four minutes to speak to the world.

As The Korey Stringer Institute and University of Connecticut's Doug Casa argued during his presentation at MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety's Smart Teams Play Safe summit last year, youth sports safety policies should be developed and implemented by sports medicine professionals.

The two - week Paris climate change summit last November legally - bound countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius, with 1.5 degrees as a preferable target.

China supports and congratulates on the successful completion of the inter-Korean summit last month, which has brought beneficial opportunities for a...

At a summit last May, Xi pledged $ 126 billion for the plan, but has failed to overcome suspicion in Western capitals, where officials suspect the professed desire to spread prosperity in the region is foremost an attempt to assert Chinese influence.

Following his summit last weekend with the stalemated premiers of Alberta and BC (Insight Apr. 14), Justin Trudeau resumed his international junket, with stops in France and England.

«I accompany with prayer the positive success of the Inter-Korean summit last Friday and the courageous commitment assumed by the leaders of the two parts to carry out a path of sincere dialogue for a Korean Peninsula free of nuclear weapons,» the Catholic Church leader told pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

Though US - China summits tend typically to be fraught with geopolitical tensions, the Xi - Obama summit last week provided one clear signal of solidarity on a seemingly minor topic, but one that might have eventual wide - reaching impact.

Kim reportedly told Chinese President Xi Jinping during their summit last month that the issue of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved if South Korea and the United States create a peaceful and stable atmosphere.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Invest New York summit last week, the 73 - year - old Gross said markets are now at their highest risk levels since before the 2008 financial crisis.

Flaherty and Harper even exported their focus on restraint, successfully pushing at the G20's Toronto summit last year for a declaration that industrialized countries would slash their deficits in half within three years.

China supports and congratulates on the successful completion of the inter-Korean summit last month, which has brought beneficial opportunities for a political solution to the Korean Peninsula issue, visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday.

At the summit last year, Romney, then a «Never Trump» Republican, told the crowd that Trump's nomination as the Republican candidate «is breaking my heart for the party.»

For more on how the corporate sector views inversions, watch Mylan CEO Heather Bresch defend the practise last month at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit last month (and read more here).

He first made the prediction at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit last fall.

The man tasked by the EU to lead the bloc's discussions with the U.K. over «Brexit» has been rehearsing his Grinch imitation, pouring cold water over the brief uptick in optimism that followed a summit last week that formally blessed the advance of talks to a new, second stage.

After attending a number of these online summits last year, I decided to start sharing my favorites here on Backcountry Paleo.

Not exact matches

But a dramatic improvement in relations between Pyongyang and China, with a secretive Beijing visit by the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in late March, followed by last week's historic inter-Korean summit and an upcoming meeting between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump, has caught the notice of some opportunistic investors.

Things quickly escalated last night as entrepreneur Paul Biggar published a Medium post that described the Jurvetson party as «organized by the firm staff» and «the official afterparty of their big annual summit.»

«WTO 2.0,» he said in a speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Manila last week.

The arguments for participating in such off - the - record briefings are fairly obvious, just as they were for technology titans like Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Apple CEO Tim Cook, who got roped into a tech summit with Trump at the Trump Tower last week.

Objections from Germany caused a potential invitation to Montenegro to be removed from the agenda of a NATO summit in Wales last year.

Moniz said the idea to come up with a bold R&D plan has been «bubbling now in the last few months» but accelerated in the weeks before the Paris summit.

But again last month at the NATO summit, Trump failed to publicly reaffirm Article 5 of the alliance's treaty, which states that an attack on one ally is an attack on all.

I had the opportunity to moderate a panel on improving efficiency at a customer service summit hosted by the Incite Group here in New York last week.

He made a second appeal on the sidelines of the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in November last year.

Modi's previously unannounced Wuhan trip is even more unusual in that he will visit China again in June for a summit in Qingdao of the China and Russia - led security grouping, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which India joined last year.

Modi's previously unannounced Wuhan trip is even more unusual in that he will visit China again in June for a summit of the China and Russia - led security grouping, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, which India joined last year.