Sentence examples for global impasse from inspiring English sources

The report doesn't have a big plan for reforming the UN to deal with failed states, nor does it propose a groundbreaking strategy for breaking the global impasse on a climate change agreement.

The move is intended as the first step in a six-month process aimed at a permanent resolution to the decade-old global impasse over Iran's nuclear programme, and heading off the threat of a new war in the Middle East.

It is hard to see how such imbalance could lead to an equitable solution to the global trade impasse.

That the impasse on global climate change would be broken.

Washington and Brussels have warmed to the idea of a trade and investment partnership following the prolonged impasse in global free-trade talks, now into their 12th year.

WASHINGTON — For months the United States and China, by far the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been warily circling each other in hopes of breaking a long impasse on global warming policy.

Senior U.S. officials exhorted China on Monday to open its markets further, but also asked for its help in breaking an impasse in global trade talks, displaying a combination of demands and pleas that increasingly characterizes the relationship between the two countries.

Rouseff's intervention strikes at the core of the impasse in the global warming talks.

"Only EU leadership can break this impasse on a global agreement [post-Kyoto] to overcome climate change," Stavros Dimas, the EU's environment commissioner, told scientists from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change.

With the Doha round of global trade liberalization talks at an impasse, Brussels is increasingly looking to bilateral and regional trade agreements as a way forward to bolster commerce, especially with fast-growing Asian economies.

But he offered more tepid support for free trade, even as negotiators in Geneva, including Mr. Mandelson, try to break an impasse that has dogged global trade talks for seven years.