News tagged with negotiations

Europeans protest controversial Internet pact

Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities Saturday against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Nokia Siemens Networks in Finland, Germany lay-off talks

Finnish-German telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Tuesday a previously announced restructuring plan would entail 2,900 job cuts in Germany and 1,200 in Finland.

Technology / Business

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers outline food security-climate change road map in Science

While last month's climate negotiations in Durban made incremental progress toward helping farmers adapt to climate change and reduce agriculture's climate footprint, a group of international agriculture experts, writing ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proposals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions must balance with development needs

Efforts to combat climate change should take into account the development levels of different countries when negotiating agreements, according to a study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

UN: Canada still obliged to fight climate change

The UN climate chief on Tuesday voiced regret over Canada's withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and said that the country still had legal obligations to work against global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Conference in overtime on future of climate talks

(AP) -- Deep into overtime, negotiators from 194 nations worked straight through a second night, parsing drafts and seeking compromises to map out the future pathway to fight global warming.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

UN climate talks on edge heading into final hours

(AP) -- The United States, China and India could scuttle attempts to save the only treaty governing global warming, Europe's top negotiator said Friday hours before a 194-nation U.N. climate conference was ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 5

National interests hinder climate accord attempt

(AP) -- Delegates attending a 194-nation climate conference agree the world needs to send less carbon into the atmosphere, but national interests and economic worries have so far hindered attempts to reach an agreement that ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

China court rejects Apple lawsuit over iPad name

A court in southern China has rejected a claim by Apple Inc. that a Hong Kong-headquartered tech company has violated its iPad trademark, in the latest development in a case that could affect the U.S. company's financial ...

Technology / Business

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Back-room negotiations begin on climate intentions

(AP) -- Back-room negotiations began in earnest Monday on a deal to rescue the only treaty governing greenhouse gas reductions and to launch talks on a broader agreement to include the world's largest polluters: ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 13

Understanding the psychological science behind the debt negotiations

(Medical Xpress) -- This week, the deficit reduction supercommittee failed to reach a consensus in creating a plan to reduce the national deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. Psychological science can provide some insights ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Shadow over Kyoto Protocol threatens UN climate talks

A new round of UN climate talks opens in South Africa next Monday, testing global resolve to tackle what scientists warn is a time bomb with an ever-shorter fuse.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

DR Congo, S. Africa to work on mega-hydroelectric project

The Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa on Saturday opened the way to develop a mega- hydroelectric plant on the Congo river to address their nations' growing energy needs.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Dispute erupts on timing of global climate pact

(AP) -- Small developing countries are protesting calls by Russia and Japan to delay a global climate change agreement.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Germany warns Facebook over face-recognition app

Facebook has until November 7 to bring its facial recognition software into conformity with privacy laws in Germany and the European Union or face legal action, a government lawyer told AFP Friday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Negotiation

Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties, intended to reach an understanding, resolve point of difference, or gain advantage in outcome of dialogue, to produce an agreement upon courses of action, to bargain for individual or collective advantage, to craft outcomes to satisfy various interests of two people/parties involved in negotiation process. Negotiation is a process where each party involved in negotiating tries to gain an advantage for themselves by the end of the process. Negotiation is intended to aim at compromise.

Negotiation occurs in business, non-profit organizations, government branches, legal proceedings, among nations and in personal situations such as marriage, divorce, parenting, and everyday life. The study of the subject is called negotiation theory. Professional negotiators are often specialized, such as union negotiators, leverage buyout negotiators, peace negotiators, hostage negotiators, or may work under other titles, such as diplomats, legislators or brokers.

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