Sentences with phrase «treaty talks there»

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.

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But with prospects of the United States» being in a political position to ratify any new treaty dimming, there is starting to be talk in European quarters about once again leaving the United States to sort out its domestic politics and in the meantime extending the Kyoto Protocol.

A few months back, there was a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting talking about an international treaty on exceptions to copyright for the visually impaired.

There's a lot of mostly wishful talk about the potential impact of the E.P.A. power plant rules on international treaty talks this year and next.

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.

[UPDATE, 8/6: China's lead envoy in climate - treaty talks expressed optimism that a new international agreement on climate will be negotiated this year, but stressed that there is no chance his country will accept hard targets for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases.]

There's sufficient merit in engaging the north and south, rich and poor, precautionary and libertarian, environmental and industrial factions in discussions every year that the talks under the original climate treaty — the Framework Convention on Climate Change — remain worthwhile.