Sentences with phrase «economic zone passed»

Significantly, although outside the scope of this study, in October 2012 Shenzhen Special Economic Zone passed local legislation to restrict emissions of GHGs, the first such legislation in China.

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In June 2016, the Qatar government passed a law to establish three private economic zones that allow 100 % foreign ownership and repatriation of capital and revenues.

But while NOAA supports the legislation's intent, Hunt said it is concerned about provisions requiring NOAA's parent, the Commerce Department, to identify countries whose shark conservation plans do not pass U.S. muster, either in international waters or within their own exclusive economic zones.

Passed in 1972, the Coastal Zone Management Act [3](CZMA) sought to balance economic development with environmental conservation, mainly by avoiding the scenario described above.

Some countries have passed laws or put in place regulations that prohibit commercial fishing of all sharks throughout their exclusive economic zone, creating a shark sanctuary.

However, with every passing month that the Chinese government simply sits around and does nothing, even while the central bank of Thailand, a longtime political ally of China, recommends that Bitcoin be banned, that hypothesis gets slightly less likely, and an alternative possibility comes into play: Bitcoin might be becoming China's newest special economic zone.