Sentences with phrase «many subnational»

«Ontario is the largest subnational debtor in the world,» Oliver proclaimed from the comment pages of the Financial Post at the end of December, as if that (unsupported) fact carried profound meaning.

However, over time subnational debt levels will increase in an unsustainable manner.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rules, mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act, requiring resource companies to disclose certain payments made to the U.S. government or foreign governments (including subnational governments).

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the prestigious event transpired late in the afternoon when one attendee asked, «How core is solving identity to expanding digital currency or solving some of the frictions in our existing system, and how do you foresee an identity world that's based on a national or — in the US's case — subnational system working or integrating in a global financial system?»

A study conducted by the Department of Finance in 2001 examined fiscal rules in a number of countries at the national and subnational level and concluded that legislative fiscal rules are not necessary for achieving a balanced budget.

«Subnational leaders have a critical role to play in expanding trade, increasing competitiveness and supporting our highly - integrated supply chains,» said Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.

The World Trade Organization is the outcome of these negotiations; and nations, including the United States, have granted extensive sovereignty to this organization to overrule national laws, and laws of subnational political units, deemed in restraint of global trade.

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

Creation of subnational and national - scale regulations on legal palm fruit harvesting, improving fire management in coffee and cocoa production landscapes, and visitor management plans to promote sustainable tourism.

Governments (at national and subnational levels) and companies should quantify and report on their food loss and waste in order to develop a base - year inventory and then monitor progress over time through 2030.

Depending on the issue agencies, private network or subnational entities should guide integration.

The commendation was however attributed to their reforms at the subnational level, adding that there is a 69 % success in Public Expenditure Reforms being implemented by governments at the subnational level.

This subnational allegiance turns policy making into a vertical coordination game between the governor and the President.

«In conclusion, the NGF Economist regretted that the picture is not all rosy for governance at the subnational level.

The development of legitimate state institutions at both national and subnational levels is critical, but often leaders of fragile states and international donors lack information about what the public want from those institutions.

A new paper from the U.S. Institute of Peace, which builds upon fieldwork from the past three years, argues that 2014 marks an important opportunity for donors to recalibrate three central tenets of their subnational governance and development strategy.

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

Her research interests include donor stabilisation programs, community - driven development, subnational governance, statebuilding, and countering violent extremism.

Aid budgets are contracting, and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and other subnational civil - military installations — long key international platforms to distribute aid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing down.

If you specify that subnational units — like States in the USA, or the four nations (and, formerly, the counties) of the UK — must each have an integer number of representatives, you face a non-trivial rounding - off problem, called the «apportionment» problem.

China is one of the most prominent cases where the central and subnational governments still intervene in nearly all economic sectors and processes.

Subnational governments, usually states, may be structured as presidential systems.

Some countries without a presidential system at the national level use a form of this system at a subnational or local level.

Council tax is one of very few subnational revenue streams over which councils have any discretion — and even then accounts for barely a fifth of income in any council.

Though their functions are largely ceremonial, their titles are often centuries old and are usually vested in the members of historically prominent families in the various subnational kingdoms of the country.

Brown and the governors of New York and Washington said they would establish a coalition of states committed to upholding the Paris accord, while 27 California state senators sent a letter to Brown, urging him to convene a climate summit with «like - minded states and subnationals from around the world, to ensure that we continue to charge ahead without forfeiting all of our historic progress to date.»

These ranged from greater reliance on subnational government action to a sharp pivot to wind and solar energy and electric cars.

Subnationals, particularly cities, have long been among the more proactive leaders on climate change.

Agreements like the Under2 Coalition help expand the influence of these subnational groups.

California is the undeniable star of the subnationals.

Now Trump's presidency has galvanized subnational leaders, who want to uphold the U.S.» Paris pledge to cut its emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

By the time the Paris meeting came around in late 2015, nearly 80 other subnational governments had signed on.

Stymied by the slow pace of the negotiations — which they are not even allowed to participate in — these so - called «subnationals» have worked on the sidelines for years, using political will, economic leverage and the celebrity status of prominent politicians to advance their climate goals.

From the panels, speeches and joint agreements to the massive star - spangled pavilion, subnational leaders are loudly proclaiming their commitments.

DEQ staff are beginning the study now and said Friday that they plan to start with the assumption that they would be linking markets with California, Quebec and other members of the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S. - Canadian subnational carbon - trading alliance.

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

Although the U.S. government has stepped away from climate leadership, many subnational leaders — governors, mayors, tribal statesmen, CEOs and university heads — have formed a coalition to uphold the U.S.'s Paris accord promise.

«The role of subnational governments is more important than ever, and California has shown that state and regional governments can institute policies that will grow the green economy, create jobs and clean our environment.»

Making science policy explicit at the subnational level can also aid in leveraging federal support for science.

Subnational governments often support science centres, museums, and other forms of public science outreach.

For anyone who's has the time, there's the full report (Science Policy: Considerations for Subnational Governments report) and its recommendations on gender and diversity, researcher mobility, alignment with federal support and programmes, science advice and evidence - based policy, and more.

Workshop participants suggested that subnational governments have a role to play in supporting a strong science culture through education, public science outreach, engagement, and communication.

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Instead, they endorse a concept of postnational (global) citizenship and seek to shift authority to an institutional network of international organizations and subnational political actors not bound by any clear democratic, constitutional framework.

Building on the New York Declaration on Forests launched during the Climate Summit in September 2014, it will showcase transformational examples at national and subnational level to make forests and their protection a core element of -LSB-...]

A U.S. subnational delegation committed to keeping America's Paris Climate Goals.

While US federal cooperation on regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely in the short term, there are quite a few opportunities for subnational US and Canadian governments as well as the Mexican government to explore harmonization.

«What California's resolve shows is that even if progress on climate change and clean energy is stymied at the level of global governance or the nation - state, the subnationals can still move ahead to build a critical mass from below,» he wrote.

Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2017 — Current pledges by national governments are not enough to reach the goal set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but hope remains in the leading role being taken by subnational and non-state actors like cities, companies and organizations, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón told participants on the closing day of the Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) in Mexico City.