Sentences with phrase «national environment protection»

We have National Environment Protection Act that covers climate change.

It is agreed between the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd, the representative body for signatories to the Covenant, and Commonwealth, state and territory governments, and endorsed by the National Environment Protection Council (NEPC).

It is agreed between the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd, the representative body for signatories to the Covenant, and Commonwealth, state and territory governments, and is endorsed by the National Environment Protection Council.

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation Ltd provides an annual report on the performance of the Plan to the National Environment Protection Council.

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Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

«As rightly observed in the article Overlapping International and European Laws: «Environmental protection has become a fertile source of laws, international, European and national, since the U.N. sponsored the Stockholm Conference of 1972 and its Declaration on, and Action Programme for the Human Environment.

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Plant Protection Act (PPA) provide a robust regulatory framework that ensures the protection of the environment and the vital economic interests of U.SProtection Act (PPA) provide a robust regulatory framework that ensures the protection of the environment and the vital economic interests of U.Sprotection of the environment and the vital economic interests of U.S. farmers.

Recent meetings have discussed work on environmental issues of national significance such as threatened species protection, improving the environment for human health, and climate change.

The Meeting of Environment Ministers operates concurrently with the National Environmental Protection Council (NEPC).

On 5 November 2009, Australia's environment ministers, through the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), released the National Waste Policy: Less waste, moreenvironment ministers, through the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), released the National Waste Policy: Less waste, moreEnvironment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC), released the National Waste Policy: Less waste, more resources.

The former Environment Protection and Heritage Council agreed to commence a Packaging Impacts Regulation Impacts Statement (RIS) process on 5 July 2010, to investigate a number of national approaches to managing packaging waste and litter reduction.

Unicef UK Baby Friendly Initiative's Call to Action spells out four key actions to create a supportive, enabling environment for women who want to breastfeed, ranging from national strategy and legal protection from harmful commercial practices to the local implementation of evidence - based practices, as described

The IET's technical briefing: the Resilience and Cyber Security of Technology in the Built Environment has been developed by industry experts with the support of the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI).

«It's about hope of decent working conditions across Europe, about hope and free movement of people, about hope on environmental protection across the whole continent - you can't protect the environment within national borders.»

BASC is among a group of official supporters for the film — including the Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Natural Resources Wales, the Scottish Government, the National Flood Forum, The Woodland Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust and the Angling Trust.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding the IOI Centre in the Islamic Republic of Iran will help to promote effective and wise management of ocean and coastal resources, eradicate poverty in coastal areas, organise efficient protection of the marine environment as a common heritage of mankind and facilitate exchange of knowledge and information, enhance the national scientific capabilities and carry out training and educational efforts, focusing its activities on the Persian Gulf area and cooperates with IOI Caspian Sea.

The bill would give U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more time to review and revise National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), ensuring a more certain regulatory environment for state air - quality agencies and businesses.

Pollinators are an essential part of both productive agriculture and a healthy environment and the White House's action places their protection squarely on the national stage.

The Energy and Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held a hearing on March 6, 2012 on the FY2013 budget requests for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Environmental Protection Agency.

protection and enhancement of the natural environment and communities affected by surface transportation, with particular emphasis on assisting State and local governments to achieve national environmental goals;

For the more comprehensive fuel economy and environment label that will be mandatory in the U.S. beginning in model year 2013, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued two separate fuel economy labels for plug - in hybrids because of their design complexity, as PHEVS can operate in two or three operating modes: all - electric, blended, and gasoline - only.

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, June 14, 2016 — American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, and the first to create historic protections for animals on farms and ranches, film and television, and other environments where animals live in human care, is announcing today the launch of a global program dedicated to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the remarkable, endangered and disappearing animals living in the world's zoos and aquariums.

From 2000 - 2006 Barry served as Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environmental Protection Service of Environment Canada where he led national programs to prevent and reduce pollution of air, water and soil.

My colleague Felicity Barringer, who covers the environment for our National desk, has been tracking developments related to the White House fight with some Environmental Protection Agency officials over the need to restrict carbon dioxide.

Earth sciences and their applications have growing implications for public health and safety, economic development, protection of the environment and ecosystems, and national security.

In December last year, he dropped «climate change» as an item in the US national security strategy, and during that year he told the Environment Protection Agency to concentrate on clear air and clean water, not on the supposed threats from carbon dioxide.

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175 allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center for Disease Control, 174 Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37

Bob Keefe of the National Resources Defense Council described it as an assault, «With Washington and the world focused on the debt ceiling drama, hard - right House Republicans have launched the biggest congressional assault on the environment in history, attacking our fundamental environmental and public health protections in order to appease Tea Party ideologues and big business donors.»

C P Weaver (Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, NC), R H Moss (Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD), K L Ebi (Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA), P H Gleick (Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA), P C Stern (Social and Environmental Research Institute, Northampton, MA), C Tebaldi (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO), R S Wilson (School of Environment and Natural Resources, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH) and J L Arvai (School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

(1) Science and the scientific process must inform and guide decisions of my Administration on a wide range of issues, including improvement of public health, protection of the environment, increased efficiency in the use of energy and other resources, mitigation of the threat of climate change, and protection of national security.

Socio (s): Climate Change Center of the Kyrgyz Republic, National Agency for Hydrometeorology, State Agency on the Environment al Protection and Forestry, Tian Shan Policy Center of the American University of Central Asia

The US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Ranking Minority Member strongly criticized Environmental Protection Agency Administrator E. Scott Pruitt's plans to adopt a «back to basics» process for reviewing the federal Clean Air Act's National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

The Australian Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC) in their National Wind Farm Development Guidelines draft of July 2010 stated that:

Although there is not yet a comprehensive Climate Change Bill in China, Congressman Wang Guangtao (Chair of the Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee of the National People's Congress) made the announcement, on 7 November 2010 at the GLOBE International legislators» forum in Tianjin, that China would begin work on a comprehensive climate change law.

Colloquium «The Environment in Court — Environmental Protection in National and International Courts, Tribunals, and Compliance Mechanisms»

During her time in judicial office Judge Macken presided over or was a member of the formation in many seminal cases involving a wide range of legal issue, at European and national level, including in the areas of the environment (waste, water, special areas of conservation), free movement, intellectual property, regulatory control, telecommunications, privacy and data protection, the European Arrest Warrant, and in a broad range of constitutional and EU Treaty matters.

Contrary to all the participants in the proceedings, the national court had suggested that EU law was applicable to the case because landscape protection could not be seen to «stand alone as a concept separate from the protection of the environment», as a number of EU rules based on the environmental competence of the Union would show (para 10).

Some examples of public goods include national defense, the protection of the environment and basic infrastructures.

This model of privacy protection is also consistent with the recent recommendations of both the Institute of Medicine in their report entitled, «Protecting Data Privacy in Health Services Research,» and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the National Committee for Quality Assurance in their report entitled, «Protecting Personal Health Information: A Framework for Meeting the Challenges in a Managed Care Environment.»

We represent a wide variety of clients including a world - class semiconductor foundry company, several multinational corporations and many major national and international players in hi - tech and information industry involved in patent, copyright, trademark and trade secrete license or infringement, telecommunication, depositary receipt or convertible bond issuance, joint venture, merger and acquisition, trade practices, syndicated loan arrangement and environment protection.

Our mission is to provide quality, reliable and cost effective meteorological services to stakeholders» expectations thereby contributing to the protection of life and property, environment and national poverty eradication goal.

The Advisory Council of Jurists of the Asia - Pacific Forum on National Human Rights Institutions endorsed the idea that the protection of the environment is «a vital part of contemporary human rights doctrine and a sine qua non for numerous human rights, such as the right to health and the right to life».

The Ramsar Convention is directly linked to the Convention on Biological Diversity and Ramsar wetlands are recognised as a matter of national environmental significance under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.