"It's time for a global creative and influential alliance to tackle the climate crisis," said program manager Lucia Grenna.
At Cancún, an influential alliance of developing nations and major agricultural exporters -- including Brazil, Thailand, India, Australia and South Africa -- will be pressing, and holding out, for a meaningful liberalization of agricultural trade.
At the weekend, an influential alliance of businesses and trade unions warned Cameron not to bow to threats of a Conservative cabinet revolt over the approval of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.
An influential alliance of businesses and trade unions has warned David Cameron not to bow to threats of a Conservative cabinet revolt over the approval of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport.
An effective and influential alliance of secular, moderate Islamist rebels never emerged.
Meanwhile, other cracks in the Turkish elite are growing, especially between Mr Erdoğan and Turkey's most influential Muslim alliance, led by a Pennsylvania-based imam called Fethullah Gülen.
But it was a "phoney war", according to Matthew Spencer, director of the influential Green Alliance thinktank, as the levies set to be added to future bills to drive the green transformation remain firmly on an upward curve and are expected to more than double to £187 a year by 2020 (though the overall bill may fall if energy efficiency measures bite).
"This issue is not a winner for anybody," said Charles Francis, a Bush family friend and the co-chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition, an influential gay-straight political alliance.
Working with Doug Wead, an Assemblies of God pastor and a longtime Bush associate, he forged personal alliances with influential ministers, broadcasters, and activists.
