Sentences with phrase «treaty talks over»

In this case, at least, there's really not much there there, considering how clear Saudi Arabia's position has been in treaty talks over the last 20 years.

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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.

When you're exercising power over others by enacting legislation, or ratifying treaties that have the same authority as Constitutional amendments, or the Justices who interpret the Constitution, we're not talking about your personal rights anymore.

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.

During 2005 talks over the climate treaty in Montreal, for example, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a group opposing emissions restrictions, tried to illustrate its view of carbon markets by handing out mock emissions credits.

But the issue is one that is rarely discussed in climate treaty talks or in debates over United States climate legislation.

President Obama's fruitless effort in Copenhagen to promote Chicago for the Olympics has provoked discussion over whether he will return for the global climate treaty talks there in December.

All of which brings back to mind my quandary over whether the best soundtrack for the treaty process comes from the Talking Heads («Same as it ever was....»)

World leaders, clearly trying to limit political damage given the lack of progress in climate - treaty talks, made it next to official over the weekend that no new binding accord would emerge in Copenhagen next month.

The climate beat has kind of exploded over the past two weeks, with the normally intense run - up to treaty talks, which begin in Copenhagen on Monday, compounded by the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages and documents suggesting a back story behind efforts to chart the planet's past temperatures.

The forum, organized to build pressure on rich countries just weeks ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen, is yet another strong indication that the biggest barrier to getting agreement on a new climate accord next month is the stark disagreement over the scale of what amounts to a climate debt.

8:00 p.m. Updated Today saw the official opening in Cancún, Mexico, of talks over a new treaty aimed, theoretically, at avoiding dangerous human interference with the climate system.

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.

Fault lines are opening up between developing countries led by China and India and richer nations including the U.S. in talks in Bonn over a new climate treaty.

In response to the growing threat, over 140 countries signed on to a legally - binding treaty that was agreed upon during UN-sponsored talks in Geneva.

Several times at the talks now going on in Milan over a global warming treaty, Bush administration officials have portrayed states» actions to curb heat - trapping gases as evidence of American resolve.