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But if these meetings are ever to be really effective, we need a change in format to spice things up.
He attributes, debatably, the entire problem to higher carbon emissions from cars, power plants, etc.Gore’s film would give the Europeans, always in danger of being marginalized at these meetings, the chance to boast about how they, unlike the Americans and Russians, are already doing their part by heavily taxing gas consumption.
They come to mark the start of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, to give speeches that tend to receive more attention at home than they do in the hall, and – in the diplomatic equivalent of speed dating – to pack as many meetings as is humanly possible into their schedules.
With the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings coming up later this month in Washington, DC, leading central bankers and finance ministers will have ringside seats at Ground Zero.
It’s worth it to them to spend their time at ICANN meetings (or to send staffers), whereas domain names are just a small part of customers’ and user’ lives.
Global oversight of resource extraction is a perfect economic-development issue for the G-20, not least because the theatrical pledges of aid to poor countries that were the stuff of G-8 meetings have now been recognized as empty rhetoric.
Joint cabinet meetings were scheduled to take place.
As the UN General Assembly convenes for its annual meetings in New York this week, global leaders must recommit to that pledge.
The spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund represent a pivotal moment for shifting the debate toward a second phase of post-crisis reform efforts – one that focuses on ensuring a healthy flow of financing to the real economy.
The World Bank and IMF have completed their annual meetings, which were greeted by street demonstrations and a paucity of innovative ideas.
The IMF/World Bank meetings in Tokyo on October 12-13 thus might be the ideal opportunity to begin broadening the international monetary agenda – by giving the green light to coordinated regulation of cross-border capital flows, and launching a discussion about the future of the international monetary system.
In addition to their annual summits – which have produced joint declarations covering every major global issue, from questions of peace and security to United Nations reform – the BRICS have conducted foreign ministers’ meetings and engaged in think-tank consultations.
Most business is not conducted in courts but in meetings where trust and reputation are essential.
Modest steps in that direction were taken during the IMF meetings in Singapore last September.
Advertisers cannot get enough of it; companies are altering production lines to cater to it; and politicians are postponing all but their most essential meetings until after the final.
Pruitt’s selection was announced soon after Trump’s transition team delivered a questionnaire to employees of the Department of Energy, asking whether they had attended meetings where climate change was discussed.
Indeed, they should agree on a common policy stance at one of the myriad formal and informal meetings of eurozone heads of state and finance ministers.
White House staff working for the National Security Council call meetings at which officials from the State Department, Defense Department, Treasury, Justice Department, and other key agencies hash out their views on a given policy.
I was recently invited to speak at science-related meetings on two consecutive days in different places in Europe.
Revisiting the Fed’s CrisisBERKELEY – Reading through the just-released transcripts of the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee meetings in 2008, I found myself asking the same overarching question: What accounted for the FOMC’s blinkered mindset as crisis erupted all around it?
Beware of FDI ProtectionismNEW YORK – During their most recent meetings, the G-8 took a strong stance against protectionist measures in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI), echoing calls for a moratorium in such measures issued earlier by the G-20.
In September, the United Nations General Assembly convened two high-level meetings – one on ending tuberculosis (TB), and the other on fighting noncommunicable diseases (NCDs).
But neither his tweets, his image as a sportsman, his government’s televised ministerial meetings, nor the articles in which he lashes out at the opposition have been able to stem a growing perception that his illness has launched an uncertain transition.
But Zardari retained the mantle of the PPP’s co-chairman that he acquired following the assassination of his wife, Benazir Bhutto, in December 2007, and even held all formal and informal party meetings in presidential properties.
This now occurs to some extent in the framework of the"Quad", as meetings of senior officials from America, France, Germany, and the UK are known.
The FARC is unlikely to stage a media spectacle at the meetings in Norway and Cuba.
Some of Obama’s closest advisers have just resigned, opening an awkward gap on national security and the economy – the focus of his meetings with India’s government.
Government ministers use international meetings to mouth platitudes, while ordinary citizens’ voices are muted.
The outcomes of these meetings will shape this generation’s legacy for both the natural environment and economic growth and development.
I must confess to having enjoyed these talks more than most meetings I have in Washington, DC and other democratic capitals.
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