Sentences with phrase «through multilateral»

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In this interview on CNBC, the Chinese Ambassador to the US explains that these sort of issues are usually best resolved through multilateral discussions and that any unilateral action will need to be met with equal or greater countermeasures.

The United States and China specifically agreed to «work together and with other countries through multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs, while continuing to include HFCs within the scope of UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol provisions for accounting and reporting of emissions.»

In 2013 President Obama signed an historic agreement with the President of China, stating that the two countries would work together and «through multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs.»

• According to the agreement, the United States and China agreed to «work together and with other countries through multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs, while continuing to include HFCs within the scope of UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol provisions for accounting and reporting of emissions.

In the vast middle of the network, a third leg of security could be provided through multilateral patrols organised out of the Indonesian Island of Natuna and / or Singapore.

An example of the third architecture, decentralized approaches and coordinated national policies, would be linkage among domestic cap - and - trade systems, driven not through a multilateral agreement but largely by bilateral arrangements.

Iceland's increased commercial whaling and recent trade in whale products diminish the effectiveness of the IWC's conservation program because: (1) Iceland's commercial harvest of whales undermines the moratorium on commercial whaling put in place by the IWC to protect plummeting whale stocks; (2) the fin whale harvest greatly exceeds catch levels that the IWC's scientific body advised would be sustainable if the moratorium were removed; and (3) Iceland's harvests are not likely to be brought under IWC management and control at sustainable levels through multilateral efforts at the IWC.

The UK gave two thirds of its overall FSF funding through multilateral channels, especially the World Bank administered Climate Investment Funds (CIFs).

A Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure would use fiscal policy (through carbon pricing and eliminating fossil fuel subsidies) to fund ocordinated infrastructure investment (through multilateral cooperation) resulting in more open markets (through increased cross-border energy trade) resulting in lower prices (through heightened competition).

Regarding HFCs, the United States and China agreed to work together and with other countries through multilateral approaches that include using the expertise and institutions of the Montreal Protocol to phase down the production and consumption of HFCs, while continuing to include HFCs within the scope of UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol provisions for accounting and reporting of emissions.

Result - oriented concrete actions taken by the two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will also set an example for other countries encouraging unilateral action and leading to sustainable transportation initiatives, as well as cooperative initiatives with other countries through multilateral fora.

But the best way for the United States to engage with foreign nations on bolstering safe spent fuel management is through multilateral organizations such as the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency, he argues.

The idea was that it is easier to reach ambitious agreements through multilateral trade negotiations dealing with many issues at once than through piecemeal bilateral agreements.

It is because of this lack of multilateral coordination that international rules governing foreign investment have been established through a myriad of international investment agreements (IIAs) negotiated and concluded either as bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between two countries, or through multilateral negotiations.

Even countries such as Germany, where fiscal constraints have been less severe, faced increasing pressure on the visibility of national aid spending and have become more suspicious of channelling aid through multilateral channels, especially the EU.

They can speed up trade liberalisation by delivering gains faster than through multilateral or regional processes.

«We are concerned that the strategy has more to do with the fact that it is easier to spend through multilaterals than go through the process of assessing value for money of bilateral programmes,» Ms Hodge said.

Not exact matches

They also want the pact to protect multilateral funding for international coal projects through bodies like the World Bank.

Abe will seek to secure that exemption, and urge Trump to ensure the stability of the global economy through clear policies and more multilateral agreements.

«It's a clear sentiment among a pretty diverse group of countries: We would like to mobilize more capital for infrastructure through MDBs (multilateral development banks),» said Morris, now with the Washington - based Center for Global Development.

Through bilateral trade and investments relationships and multilateral platforms such as the 16 +1 framework, Beijing is asserting itself in the region.

At the official level, Track 1, we will meet North Korean participants through meetings of the ASEAN Regional Forum, on the sidelines of multilateral meetings, and occasional, ad hoc Track 2 meetings.

«Our work at the outset was primarily with multilateral development banks, and we're increasingly seeing more activity through European corporate issuance and American municipalities,» says Navindu Katugampola, Executive Director in the Sovereign, Supranational & Agency Group.

Even more strangely, Noll and Nystrom ignore the doctrinal work done in multilateral dialogue through the World Council of Churches, and particularly its Commission on Faith and Order.

«It is our firm belief that the best way to achieve this is through verified, step - by - step, gradual multilateral disarmament.»

Implementation of an agricultural programme, he added, with the help of multilateral partners, will potentially also bring about 1,732 hectares of land under irrigation through solar pumping from rivers, sinking of boreholes, rehabilitation of existing irrigation schemes, and construction of new ones.

The report recommends foreign policy follows five guiding principles: to actively work to protect civilians; to challenge abuses of humanitarian law and human rights; to deliver on policies like the Arms Trade Treaty which save lives through international agreement; to meet the challenges of the modern world, including new threats like terrorism; and strengthening multilateral institutions, with the UK taking the lead to reunite the UN.

He stated, «The balance of the 2017 external borrowing, in the sum of $ 3.2 bn, is planned to be partially sourced from issuances in the ICM of $ 2.5 bn through Eurobonds or a combination of Eurobonds and Diaspora Bonds, while $ 700m is proposed to be raised from multilateral sources.

More so, Onwukeme confirms that Jammeh is not only weak in military strength but even more vulnerable financially because Gambia is one of the poorest countries in the world without any significant natural resources and its institutions are micro managed through technical assistance from multilateral and bilateral donors (World BANK).

The Obama administration has taken steps to reduce these emissions through bilateral and multilateral agreements with major polluters, including China, the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, and India.

One approach is for governments and multilateral organizations to push research and development by subsidizing part of the huge costs, either directly or through tax breaks.

In recent decades, quite a few astronomy projects have become international collaborations through bilateral or multilateral agreements.

Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.

Meanwhile, low cost financing for hybrid projects may be made available through the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) and other financial institutions including multilateral banks.

The most promising way to address CBDRRC could be through provisions involving revenues and / or handling of allowances from a global multilateral approach.

The money needed can be catalyzed — at least initially — through existing multilateral financial instittions liked the Asian Development Bank (ADB), China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the World Bank and others.

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

Financing from the CIF is channeled through the Bank and other multilateral development banks, with approximately 25 percent of its financing allocated to the private sector to stimulate markets, increase investment potential, and enable financial gain in climate - friendly enterprises and businesses.

A number of other multilateral forums have emerged as potentially valuable in advancing the international process through an «exclusive» approach.

Although there are numerous bilateral and multilateral agreements on which EPA might rely, the strongest evidence may be found in the procedural rights provided and the substantive commitments made through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the international efforts to address climate change which recently coalesced in Paris in December 2015.

Through Sweden's Special Climate Change Initiative, 1.2 billion USD has been made available for climate change activities through both bilateral and multilateral chThrough Sweden's Special Climate Change Initiative, 1.2 billion USD has been made available for climate change activities through both bilateral and multilateral chthrough both bilateral and multilateral channels.

(a) i) Increase in the number of United Nations agencies and multilateral environmental agreements using data on environmental trends, identified through UN Environment Programme, to influence their policy

This would help reduce territorial tensions through deepening multilateral cooperation.

The multilateral development banks are supposed to be eliminating poverty, but instead they're exacerbating it by driving climate change through big spending on fossil fuel infrastructure.»

That means, just as our colleagues argued in Climate Pragmatism, that there are numerous opportunities to cost - effectively tackle these «no regrets» pollutants «through traditional air pollution regulations, the spread of best practices, and multilateral cooperation.»

Dr Birol also held meetings at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry of Environment and with New Zealand's Climate Change Ambassador, where the IEA and New Zealand agreed on the need to support global policy advice and quantitative analysis for the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies and the energy transition, both through bilateral collaboration and multilateral fora, such as APEC, the WTO and the G20.

«If we are successful, we will establish the right kind of multilateral framework that will impose constraint on countries and help create standards through taxation, quotas and the price of carbon,» said Lapouge.

This policy document has been prepared by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), through its High - level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), and states that the United Nations (UN) provides the appropriate multilateral framework for action concerning climate change.

Funding for climate change actvities is also available through bilateral, regional and multilateral channels.