Sentences with phrase «week as negotiators»

With 10 months left until the Paris COP, several key issues bear watching this week as negotiators collaborate on a new climate agreement.

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The deal hatched by Canadian and US and negotiators this week might do much to ease the concerns of Canadian and US governments and corporations, although many observers agree that they might just as likely hate it once they fall under it.

Deadlines are looming and the stakes are high this week, as international negotiators in Bonn get to work on the implementation details that will give life to the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Canadians tentative about trade with China; more bullish on the EU, UK September 7, 2017 — As negotiators for Canada, the United States, and Mexico revealed this week they've made little progress on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement

Deadlines are looming and the stakes are high this week, as international negotiators in Bonn get to work on the implementation details that will give life to the 2015 Paris...

Negotiators this week will try to advance on the most contentious issues, including automotive rules, investment dispute settlement and procurement, while also attempting to finish work on less sensitive topics where there's more consensus, such as telecommunications, digital trade and energy, the people said.

Last week, the E.U.'s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, gave 10 Downing Street a two - week deadline to provide clarity on withdrawal issues, including its financial settlement as it leaves the E.U. Barnier also said that contingency plans exist should the Brexit talks with the E.U. collapse.

As negotiators stumbled toward an end - of - the - week deadline to fund the government or face a federal shutdown, House Speaker Paul Ryan dashed to the White House amid concerns Trump's support was wavering.

UK publishes Brexit positions After being criticized by European Union negotiators for months, the British government published several position papers this week, laying out detailed viewpoints on border issues between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as well as on the need for a transitional customs union following Brexit.

Brexit talks are going nowhere as negotiators in the UK and EU gear up for additional talks in Luxembourg and Brussels this week.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is famous for being a fierce negotiator but that extends further than just transfer dealings as he refuses to offer any player more than # 100,000 a week.

The website, La Voz de Galicia, which is based in the same region as Perez was born brought up, has today published an account of a meeting the striker held last week with Arsenal's transfer negotiator Dick Law.

Trump will come under increasing pressure from visiting French and German leaders this week not to scrap the three - year - old nuclear agreement with Iran next month as American and European negotiators make tentative progress toward a new deal to toughen the limits on Tehran.

Lawmakers hinted this week that they would be willing to support a short - term continuing resolution as long as its aim was to give negotiators more time to work out a larger agreement.

NAFTA, long a punching bag for Trump, is edging closer toward collapse as negotiators gather for a fourth round of contentious talks in Washington, D.C. this week.

«One of the reasons Shelly was able to hang on over the last week is that he is widely regarded as the best negotiator in the history of Albany,» said former Assemblyman Richard Brodsky, a Democrat from Westchester.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

In side - meetings throughout the week, the Bush administration's negotiators — as well as Minority staff from Congress — repeatedly and often quite savagely noted that no current legislation, not Warner - Lieberman, not any other bill, contemplated that level of near - term reductions, and they said flatly that they were not going to agree to something in text on which they saw no prospect of delivering.

As the summit moves into its final week, some 15,000 negotiators, environmental groups — and this week, ministers and heads of state — are under pressure to produce some sort of agreement.

Just this past week, as negotiators were closing in on the Paris agreement, four climate scientists held an off - site session insisting that the only way we can solve the coupled climate / energy problem is with a massive and immediate expansion of nuclear power.

That's been the question looming over the the UN climate summit in Lima, Peru, the last two weeks, as negotiators from 195 countries have tried to hammer out a draft climate change agreement.

Wealthy nations - including Germany, France and now the United States - have all signalled support for including references to the lower target in the final text, as negotiators reach the end of the first week of negotiations.

So we see his role as focused on bringing together the world's leading economies to signal that they're going to do their part while also elevating a sense of urgency in Paris, including through his meeting with the island states, and then having key Cabinet officials and, of course, our negotiator, Todd Stern, work through the whole two weeks, hopefully to achieve a successful framework.

But as a travel writer, I couldn't help feeling a pang of guilt by association when I thought of all those hundreds of right - minded scientists, activists and negotiators jetting home at the end of the week.

The halls are filled with drama as governments once more for the 19th try to decide the future of our planet and humans in general, but there are concerns that this COP might just be another two week vacation for most negotiators, like it has been in the past.

When negotiators from almost 200 countries arrived in Marrakech two weeks ago for the latest annual climate change conference, COP22, it was being touted as an opportunity to showcase progress and start the important process of turning the UN's Paris Agreement into a detailed blueprint for action.

Over the past weekend, China convened a high level meeting with climate negotiators of Brazil, South Africa and India (together with China, dubbed the BASIC countries) to align around a document outlining a list non-negotiable positions as we head into Copenhagen climate conference next week.

But, there should be renewed interest in these allegations since, as Jaymi reported a couple of weeks ago, Japan's top fisheries negotiator has stated that his country would not comply with an international trade ban on bluefin tuna.

The G8 meeting last week — the last get - together of the leaders of the world's major industrialized nations before the United Nations climate summit in December — was loaded with expectations as to what Obama & Co might give climate negotiators to take with them to Copenhagen.