Sentences with phrase «week of talks»

Eventually I ended up going out on dates with two guys from an online dating site, after weeks of talking both online and via phone.

Weeks of talks between the parties may now lie ahead.

This dogged optimism apart, the organisers, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), alarmed at Bonn's lack of progress, are arranging an unusual extra week of talks in Bangkok in September to help the world leaders who will meet in Katowice in Poland in December to agree how to prevent the world from dangerously overheating.

Original post As world leaders meet in Paris on Monday to kick off two weeks of talks aimed at shaping safe targets for emissions of greenhouse gases, Bill Gates will be in town, as well, to announce a modest first step toward bolstering the basic energy research and technology development that will be needed to meet those targets affordably.

After weeks of talks with NYC Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, Goldman Sachs agreed not to spend any money on political ads this year.

ALBANY — There will be no special session of the legislature next week, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan said late Friday, announcing the end of weeks of talks about government reform, ride - hailing and a salary increase for state lawmakers.

But State Department negotiator Andrew Rakestraw in the first week of talks came out strongly against the adoption of a resolution calling for any absolute emissions cuts, implementing a strategy left to him by former White House energy adviser George David Banks.

An extra week of talks in September has been scheduled to try and get the process back on track.

Negotiators added an extra week of talks for September in Bangkok, Thailand to develop a negotiating text for COP 24.

CANCÚN, Mexico — China and the United States, thanks to some innovative proposals from India, have inched toward agreement on ways to measure and verify countries» actions under a new climate agreement, should the outline of one start to emerge as formal negotiations crest here as two weeks of talks end Friday.

The 31 - page deal came after two fraught weeks of talks at the U.N.'s mammoth climate conference outside Paris.

If the final result is a hung parliament then weeks of talks between the parties could lie ahead.

It was a sign of unity after weeks of talk by a Florida pastor who threatened to burn the Muslim holy book on 9 - 11 but who ultimately cancelled the event.

He sums up what I've been trying to say for several weeks of talks in one little phrase.

Arsenal have tried to sign the attacking midfielder this summer, but after weeks of talks failed to lodge an acceptable offer, and they never got above # 50million.

Despite weeks and weeks of talks getting nowhere, the politicians» deal on the regulation of online journalism had next to no foundations at all.

During two weeks of talks nobody upped their promises to curb emissions.

The world's biggest photography festival gets under way in Arles with an opening week of talks, projections in the Roman amphitheatre, events, book signings and exhibitions.

The 27 - nation bloc is pushing for acceptance of its position at the UN climate summit in Doha, where negotiators from more than 190 countries are due to conclude two weeks of talks today.

The second week of the talks needs to draw up a robust mechanism to compensate those communities and countries that will suffer irreversible loses due to climate breakdown, in the form of financial assistance to developing countries, so they can adapt to the impacts of climate change, tackle urgent development needs, and compensate for irreversible losses as a result of climate breakdown.

The last week of the talks had been dominated by financing issues on one hand, and the treatment of an estimated 13 billion of surplus credits that remained from the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, and which threaten to offset all the gains from the second period, and could yet dilute a future treaty.

UN Climate Change News 10 May, 2018 — Against the backdrop of a record hot April in the host country of Germany, governments are concluding two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual climate conference to be held in Katowice, Poland in December.

After weeks of talking with and reading experts in matters of self - publishing and distribution, I realized, to my horror and surprise, that I had lost sight of my goals for this book.

I'll leave it to Fader to wind up what became two weeks of talking about Sex on the blog, with a very personal revision of a post she first wrote last week

Through the first week of talks, I'll be doing a mix of tweeting, blogging, writing print articles and more along with Tom Zeller, the editor of the Green Inc. blog, and James Kanter of the International Herald Tribune.

Dec. 10, 4:59 p.m. Updated * Two weeks of talks in Cancún, Mexico, aimed at building the foundation for a new international climate agreement are scheduled to end within hours.

A similar attempt last summer to link the rent laws, 421 - a and other housing issues in one package of bills collapsed after weeks of talks, sources said.

The companies came close to a merger agreement in November, before SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son pulled out after weeks of talks.

Meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco, for two weeks of talks to work out ways to implement pledges for action in the Paris Agreement, many countries have reaffirmed support for the 195 - nation accord since Trump's election victory on Tuesday.

The announcements followed a week of talks between the National Farmers Union (NFU) and processors and protests by Farmers for Action (FFA).

The ECHO says that after weeks of talks, Everton is in the process of walking away from negotiations completely.

After a week of talking quite a bit about synthetic food dyes (namely, the FDA's decision not to require food dye warning labels, even though dyes exacerbate hyperactivity in some kids), I was happy to stumble on this story.

Olenghankoy said that any deal resulting from the weeks of talks between the ruling coalition and the opposition mediated by the Catholic Church would come as a shock.

So, after two weeks of talking about it, I finally caught Steven Soderbergh «s Haywire.

We had the awesome pleasure this week of talking to Halloween star and movie icon P.J. Soles, who confirmed exclusively to

After weeks of talking, playing, sunbathing and skirting the issue, the two connect.

An anonymous Eden member has told Gamasutra that the studio decided yesterday to strike after making no progress in two weeks of talks with Atari, and that the layoffs are expected to occur «around June.»

Updated, Dec. 11, 11:41 p.m. Agence France - Presse is reporting that a deal has been struck on final text for a climate agreement after two weeks of talks, with the draft to be presented to ministers late morning on Saturday.

[UPDATE, 8/17: Yvo de Boer, who runs the office administering climate negotiations, says a week of talks in Bonn did little to reduce the thickets of brackets still clogging negotiating texts.]

Unlike the Copenhagen talks, however, at which world leaders turned up at the last minute of the two weeks of talks to find their negotiating teams in chaos and without a clear agreement for them to sign, this time the leaders will arrive at the beginning of the conference, give their negotiating teams clear instructions, and expect a fully formed agreement at the end of it.

Many environmental activists and policymakers say two weeks of talking have watered down the draft.

Here is her summary of the two weeks of talks that just wrapped up in Bonn.

The first week of the talks was marred by poor attendance from environmental ministers, who are expected to revise current ambitions and focus on contributions to the Kyoto agreement — as well as discuss new post-2020 climate commitments, expected to be agreed in Paris in 2015.

The Cancun global warming and wealth redistribution summit concluded last week, with little to show for two weeks of talking in 5 - star hotels and restaurants, other than vague promises that countries will try to do something meaningful about the «threat» of «dangerous» climate change.

BONN, Germany, May 11, 2018 (ENS)-- It was a record - hot April in Germany, where governments Thursday concluded two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual United...

BONN, Germany, May 11, 2018 (ENS)-- It was a record - hot April in Germany, where governments Thursday concluded two weeks of talks aimed at preparing the Paris Agreement's operational guidelines for adoption at the annual United Nations climate conference set for Katowice, Poland in December.

A dispute about the future of the Kyoto Protocol, which set out the world's first program of emissions limits, marred the two weeks of talks.