Sentences with phrase «treaty talks with»

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.

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The South Korean government will begin talks to sign a bilateral investment treaty with Canada to help Korean and Canadian firms form strategic alliances in the telecommunications and Software industry.

After marathon talks to secure third bailout, Greek prime minister prepares for showdown with MPs opposed to deal described as harsher than Versailles treaty

Hitler wrote a speech in which he talks about this alliance, this is an excerpt: «The fact that the Vatican is concluding a treaty with the new Germany means the acknowledgement of the National Socialist state by the Catholic Church.

The treaty would prohibit assistance with the use, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions, but the US, Israel, Russia, China, India and Pakistan are not taking part in the talks.

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.

Kim Jong - un and and Moon Jae - in have sealed their talks with a joint declaration, and a hug, reaffirming their commitment to the realisation of complete denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula and pledging to turn their armistice into a peace treaty this year.

The historic summit also agreed to push for three or four - way talks involving the US and China to replace the Korean armistice with a peace treaty.

The Obama administration also must gear up for U.N. - led negotiations on a global warming treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol — with talks resuming next month in Bonn, Germany, and concluding in December in Denmark.

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.

(The United States was an observer at the talks because it still hasn't ratified the 1992 treaty, but wielded considerable influence because it was allied with five other countries and treaty issues must be decided by consensus).

Chinese leaders have resisted binding limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and a major issue ahead of the talks is what steps developing countries with rising emissions would agree to take under the treaty.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

You should probably talk to an accountant who's familiar with the US tax law, your home country tax law, and the tax treaty between the US and your home country.

Climate talks ended in Copenhagen one year ago in raucous, then deflated, division, with the resulting accord noted, but not formally embraced, by the nearly 200 countries aiming to make good on an 18 - year - old pledge under the first climate treaty to limit dangerous human - driven warming.

John Broder has written an update on the climate - treaty talks and I have a story in The Times summarizing the sixth meeting of the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate, through which the Obama administration has sought to facilitate efforts to create a new global climate treaty by seeking common ground among a smaller set of countries with the biggest emissions.

I have a story in Science Times looking at the latest round of climate - treaty talks, one month ago in Bali, from the vantage point of Kevin Conrad, the young man who represented Papua New Guinea and shook things up with a strong rebuke of the United States in the final tumultuous session.

In the early stages of climate - treaty talks in Bali, conference leaders scurried among delegations and came up with a document called «Non-Paper by the Co-Facilitators.»

Another round of climate - treaty talks just ended in Bonn, Germany, with another private round of climate discussions coming in South Korea next week (among «major economies» recruited by the Bush administration).

WASHINGTON — With discussions about climate change intensifying ahead of treaty talks in Copenhagen in December, African and United States officials and experts on forests and climate met in Washington this week to discuss United States involvement in a decade - old international program aimed at preserving the tropical rain forests of Central Africa's Congo Basin.

One strategy with implications for climate - treaty talks, he writes, is using controlled fires to cut chances of more intense blazes that emit far more short - term greenhouse gases and degrade ecosystems.

COPENHAGEN — Yvo de Boer, the chief United Nations functionary managing talks on a new climate treaty, signaled the state of affairs on Tuesday by carrying an orange - and - white life ring with him into the midday news conference.

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:

At the same time, China, India and other economic competitors are not likely to be in an agreeable mood at treaty talks in Copenhagen in December if faced with protectionist steps in the United States.

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.

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.

President Obama ended speculation on whether he would visit Copenhagen to help in talks on a new climate treaty with an announcement describing his plan to stop at the talks on Dec. 9 with a pledged near - term reduction in emissions, the day before he receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

Climate change talks are poised at a critical stage before the Conference of Parties meets in Paris in 2015 to finalise a new treaty, and India's alliances with developing countries assume significance at this point.

Campaigners from Greenpeace, the environmental group, scaled the mountain in November 2002 and held a news conference via satellite with reporters at climate - treaty talks in Morocco.

In examining the ultimate transdisciplinary issue, humanity's evolving two - way relationship with the climate, I've had the rare privilege of studying the whole picture, from the climate models running on supercomputers in Boulder in 1985 to the burning rain forests of the western Amazon in 1989 to the shifting sea ice around the North Pole in 2003 to the contentious climate treaty talks in one city after another.

Today, as the 17th round of climate change talks open in Durban, South Africa, my fat cat country is banding together with other rich nations to ensure that no significant global treaty on climate -LSB-...]

The talk of treaty has been a part of the broader political lexicon since Bob Hawke was presented with the Barunga Statement, which called for a treaty with the Commonwealth of Australia.