MashGet » Pacific Economic Cooperation http://www.mashget.com Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:19:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Copenhagen talks unlikely to yield climate accord, leaders told http://www.mashget.com/2009/11/14/copenhagen-talks-unlikely-to-yield-climate-accord-leaders-told/ http://www.mashget.com/2009/11/14/copenhagen-talks-unlikely-to-yield-climate-accord-leaders-told/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:34:48 +0000 MashGet http://www.mashget.com/2009/11/14/copenhagen-talks-unlikely-to-yield-climate-accord-leaders-told/ Washington Post

SINGAPORE -- President Obama and other leaders were told on Sunday morning that climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month are unlikely to yield a breakthrough, an administration official said.

With the leaders gathered here for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen flew in overnight to brief the heads of state on climate change.

He said talks have not proceeded enough to anticipate a new accord on reducing greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen talks. He recommended adopting a strategy that would treat Copenhagen as merely the first of two steps forward, in order to actually achieve something at that meeting.

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SINGAPORE -- President Obama and other leaders were told on Sunday morning that climate-change talks in Copenhagen next month are unlikely to yield a breakthrough, an administration official said.

With the leaders gathered here for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen flew in overnight to brief the heads of state on climate change.

He said talks have not proceeded enough to anticipate a new accord on reducing greenhouse gases at the Copenhagen talks. He recommended adopting a strategy that would treat Copenhagen as merely the first of two steps forward, in order to actually achieve something at that meeting.

]]> http://www.mashget.com/2009/11/14/copenhagen-talks-unlikely-to-yield-climate-accord-leaders-told/feed/ 0 Bush signs jobless benefits extension http://www.mashget.com/2008/11/21/bush-signs-jobless-benefits-extension/ http://www.mashget.com/2008/11/21/bush-signs-jobless-benefits-extension/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:53:46 +0000 MashGet http://www.mashget.com/2008/11/21/bush-signs-jobless-benefits-extension/ Paulson asked when will economy 'hit bottom?'A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008.WASHINGTON – With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.

Bush signed an extension of jobless benefits into law just before 8 a.m., as he was preparing to leave the White House for a morning flight to Lima, Peru, to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Congressional leadership rushed the bill to the White House after it was approved Thursday to make the unusually quick bill signing possible before Bush left the country.

Earlier in the year, Bush expressed doubts about further benefit extensions, but he came to support the legislation as new figures showed new claims for jobless aid had reached a 16-year high.

In what could be its last vote of the year, the Senate approved a measure Thursday that would provide up to three months of extra benefits for those whose unemployment benefits have run out or are about to expire. The House passed the bill in October. Read more...

]]> Paulson asked when will economy 'hit bottom?'A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, November 20, 2008.WASHINGTON – With no end in sight to economic bad news, President George W. Bush on Friday ensured that millions of laid-off workers will keep getting their unemployment checks as the year-end holidays approach.

Bush signed an extension of jobless benefits into law just before 8 a.m., as he was preparing to leave the White House for a morning flight to Lima, Peru, to attend the 21-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Congressional leadership rushed the bill to the White House after it was approved Thursday to make the unusually quick bill signing possible before Bush left the country.

Earlier in the year, Bush expressed doubts about further benefit extensions, but he came to support the legislation as new figures showed new claims for jobless aid had reached a 16-year high.

In what could be its last vote of the year, the Senate approved a measure Thursday that would provide up to three months of extra benefits for those whose unemployment benefits have run out or are about to expire. The House passed the bill in October. Read more...

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