Sentences with phrase «policies at national scale»

There is an important need to change the focus of national debates on climate change policies at the national scale so that citizens understand the ethical problems with their country's national commitments.

Not exact matches

Joined - up policy at a national level is often difficult for us to comprehend due to the scale and variance of circumstance.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

Following the sixth goal of the SDGs for 2030, which seeks to ensure available and sustainable water management, the creation of a World Water Tribunal aims to control, evaluate, monitor, and implement water policies at the local, regional, and national scale.

«There's definitely a hope that the post-hurricane experience in New Orleans will show that public charter schools can work at scale, particularly for those students who have struggled historically,» says Todd Ziebarth, a policy analyst at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, in a Christian Science Monitor article.

And just as the Facebook debacle raises public concerns about the use of personal data, a new international test of ten and 15 - year - olds is to be introduced by the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-- a powerful influence on national education policies at a global scale.

Panelists offered an in - depth look at D.C.'s FCE policies and structures and their journey from trying out national best practices on a small scale to a more systemic approach actively involving over two - thirds of their schools.

Through these soft power strategies a nation can pursue ambitious international and domestic policy objectives, while at the same time their internal PR strategies capture the public imagination on a national scale.

Clearly, my first months will center on what a Trump administration might do at the national and international scale to climate and energy policies and relevant funding.

Through supporting the Energy Transition Platform, Stiftung Mercator has helped to build a global network of government peers, facilitate the adoption of emerging innovative policy models by states and regions and demonstrate the need for up - scaled action at the national and international level.

This analytical report provides information for national - policy makers and international negotiators on what the international climate change architecture needs to deliver to effectively mobilise private finance and investment for forests at the necessary scale.

«The trend of rotors and the swept area of rotors scaling faster than the nameplate capacity of the turbines themselves is an ongoing trend in both US and global markets,» says Ryan Wiser, senior scientist and group leader of the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

Fourth, international cooperation allows for linkages across policies at different scale, notably through harmonizing national and regional policies, as well as linkages across issues, and through enhanced cooperation may reduce mitigation costs, create opportunities for sharing the benefits of adaptation, increase credibility of price signals, and expand market size and liquidity.

Background In a warming world, it is increasingly important for policy development, decision - making and investments at the national and local scale to take into account changing patterns of extreme weather and climate - related events.

Several countries including Bolivia, Fiji, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have asserted that domestic justice issues need to be considered to reduce domestic poverty in setting national climate policies although they have not offered an equity framework to operationalize this idea at the global scale.

To fully realize the private sector's potential to deliver emissions reductions at scale, corporate ac - tion needs to be reinforced by sound national climate policies.

To fully realize the private sector's potential to deliver emissions reduc - tions at scale, corporate action will need to be reinforced by sound national climate policies.

«This finding can have major implications for the design of climate policy in the context of loss and damage from climate change at national and global scales,» they conclude.

«This finding can have major implications for the design of climate policy in the context of loss and damage from climate change at national and global scales»

Recognise best practice, policies and innovations that reduce short - lived climate pollutants at the local, national, regional or global scale

This past year, the Journal hosted an Environmental Law Symposium examining the growing need for law and policy addressing earthquake and natural disaster preparedness and response at various scales (local, regional, national, and global).

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

The Alliance is interested in: providing planning grants to cities or counties working on high - quality early learning advocacy and policies, supporting and brokering TA from our national network of experts to assist them, and connecting advocates, leaders, and policymakers at the local and state levels to plan for sustainability and scale.