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VB Dems (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
In an effort to better educate Virginians about the upcoming General Assembly session, the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club is presenting a series of live blog interviews with various Delegates and State Senators throughout December. We are specifically inviting legislators who are introducing bills of special interest to Virginia's environmental community. Kicking off our "live blog" series...
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Raising Kaine (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
In an effort to better educate Virginians about the upcoming General Assembly session, the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club is presenting a series of live blog interviews with various Delegates and State Senators throughout December. We are specifically inviting legislators who are introducing bills of special interest to Virginia's environmental community. Kicking off our "live blog" series...
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ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
POZNAN, Poland (Reuters) - The economic slowdown is "no excuse" to neglect a fight against global warming that could widen water shortages to half of humanity by 2050, delegates told the opening of U.N. climate talks in Poland on Monday. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama also won praise at the December 1-12 talks of 10,700 delegates from 187 nations for setting "ambitious" U.S. goals...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Delegates from about 190 countries opened a two-week conference in Poznan, Poland, which is aimed at nailing down the details of a climate change treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
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InformedTrades (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Countries hope to make some progress during negotiations over Kyoto Protocol successor. Go to Full Article...
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Labour Party delegates head to Kilkenny this weekend for their special delegate Conference.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As many as 1,500 delegates are scheduled to participate in a three-day international seminar on ‘Democratic and Secular Education – Kerala Experience’ scheduled to begin at the Kariavattom campus of the ...
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Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
Members of the Labour Party are in Kilkenny this weekend for their special delegate conference.
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Countries hope to make some progress during negotiations over Kyoto Protocol successor.
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Waldo Jaquith (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Under new rules of the House of Delegates, effect come January’s session, they’ve limited their members to introducing 15 bills per person, 10 pre-filed and 5 after the session begins. Assuming that delegates remain within their self-enforced rules, compare last year’s 2,234 bills to a maximum of 1,500 this time around. That’s a 33% drop [...]
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Over 9,000 delegates from 186 countries have arrived in the Polish city of Poznan for the start of a two week conference aimed at agreeing on a new global climate change pact. Climate officials are hopeful that US President-Elect Barack Obama will bring the US into the fold after George W Bush abandoned the Kyoto Treaty in 2001. However both the US and the European Union are facing increased...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
DELEGATES SHARPLY criticised the abolition of the Combat Poverty Agency.
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kellya | 01/12/2008
There are two sorts of Whitehall summits, according to one seasoned observer: those that are staged to provide good publicity for the politicians; and those that are held to reach real decisions. This week will see the latest attempt by the Treasury to persuade the banking industry to lend more to small businesses, with a summit bringing together banks and small business organisations.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
KILDARE DELEGATE Adrian Kane warned that nobody could predict how bad the recession might be during the debate on enterprise, trade and employment. “If you look at the economic forecasts of the ESRI, the Department of Finance and the Bank of Ireland, they predict an unemployment rate of between 7.3 per cent and 8 per cent for 2009.
