Sentences with phrase «treaty talks do»

The initiative is aimed at pressing Congress and the Obama administration to ensure that global climate - treaty talks don't weaken protections on who can profit from new technologies that provide abundant energy without abundant pollution.

Not exact matches

With talk of divisions on the subject of the Lisbon treaty dominating the conference, Tory HQ will be hoping the famously pro-European former chancellor does not make life any harder for David Cameron as he tries to prevent infighting.

Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

Withdrawing from the treaty is pretty easy under Article 58 and May has already talked about doing exactly that.

«If it becomes clearer this treaty will be ratified, we'll have to talk about what we're going to do about that,» Mr Cameron said.

In doing my reporting for the story in The New York Times today on Saudi Arabia's latest maneuvers in climate treaty talks (they are reviving longstanding demands for compensation for lost oil revenue), I found an interesting paper on the oil kingdom's involvement in climate talks by Joanna Depledge, a research fellow at Cambridge University focusing on climate negotiations.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

Did you say last night that one thing you'll be pushing for [at upcoming climate - treaty talks] in Bali is a component for doing a lot more on R&D?

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

Their leaders absolutely do, and that's why, even though they will be the dominant source of warming gases in coming decades, the climate treaty talks have remained stuck in «you first» mode.

One person I see doing this is Billy Parish, who in 2005 was protesting in the halls at the climate treaty talks in Montreal and now has co-founded Mosaic, a company offering investors a way to reap a steady return by providing up - front costs for solar - energy installations.

New talks over reviving the first climate treaty, the 1992 framework convention, and the Kyoto Protocol — a 1997 addendum that doesn't constrain the world's biggest gas emitters, the United States and China — remain focused on committing countries to limits on emissions, but not on advancing the technology needed to meet those limits, these critics say.

Tillerson said the company does not want the matter to become a «distraction» as talks on a global climate treaty are about to conclude.

Yet, after twenty years of international talks and treaties, the world is now in gridlock about how best to do this.