Sentences with phrase «action by national governments»

A senior scientist at the Mauritius Academy of Science and Technology, who is in New Delhi for a meeting of science academies, says that IPCC reports, in general, are «not radical enough» to force real action by national governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Keeping the world on track to meet climate goals to support global prosperity — through the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals — requires more than just action by national governments.

Not exact matches

But if such reshaping of national fertility patterns is to be set in motion by government action, there would obviously have to be direct, far - reaching, and even forcible state interventions into the daily lives of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of these two countries — as well as others with similar «targets.»

I know I'm ranting on my own here, but it is deeply depressing that football is being degraded by actions ranging from players diving (cheating) right up to national governments using their wealth to effect outcomes — what hope is there for the game?

In ongoing correspondence with Baby Milk Action, executives say, «Nestlé has always done its utmost to comply with the WHO Code as implemented by national governments».

Culminating months of controversy and scientific debate, Wednesday's decision by the 12 advisers of the Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction — part of the National Institutes of Health — is the first official, government action related to the plastics chemical.

Unicef UK has launched a Call to Action, for all UK Governments to provide leadership on improving breastfeeding rates by creating a National Infant Feeding Strategy Board.

On Tuesday 9 February, health visitors, midwives, paediatricians, GPs, lactation consultants, breastfeeding counsellors, peer supporters, university researchers, professional organisations and charities signed a letter calling for action by the UK Government and National Assemblies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to support mothers to breastfeed.

Conference commits the National Executive to working with the TUC to challenge, using all appropriate means, including industrial action, any attempt by the Government, in response to and as a remedy for economic difficulties or recession, to worsen pension provisions for teachers or other public sector workers.

The traditional good government groups like the League of Women Voters and NYPIRG are joined by a number of unions, and for first time a national group, the Public Campaign Action Fund.

Apparently referring to the deadlock between the Federal Government and the states at the Federation Allocation Committee (FAC), Aliyu said most of the steps, actions and decisions taken on some national issues by the governors were to correct the anomalies in the system.

Known as the National Red Friday, the day was declared by the coalition to demonstrate their anger against the illegal activities and thereby draw public attention and sensitise them to the government's action to clamp down on galamsey activities throughout the country.

National Energy Action (NEA) welcomed the Government's statement to Parliament today which will save the poorest households # 1 billion a year on their fuel bills by setting legal targets to make their homes more energy efficient but calls on the Government to move more quickly to achieve their targets.

The lawmakers said their resolutions, which were later conveyed to President Muhammadu Buhari by the leadership of the National Assembly, were «wake - up call» to the President and the Federal Government who «must» take urgent action on the crisis before it escalates.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is holding the one - day industrial action in protest against the three - year pay package agreed by the government in January this year.

He added, «The national leadership of our party, therefore, demand an urgent action by the Buhari - led Federal Government to restore peace and end the violence in the land, even as we urge the security agencies to ensure a thorough investigation into the killing of Zadock.»

Speaking on government's strategy to take the economy to the path of development, the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, said the first step was for the government to focus on its priorities, adding that this would be followed by establishment of detailed action plans.

«To the best of my knowledge, information and belief, the Plaintiff [Dominic Ayine] brought this action in his name fronting for the immediate past Government to set at naught the popular wishes of the majority of the Ghanaian electorate who see the President's acceptance of the nomination of the 2nd Defendant [Martin Amidu] as Special Prosecutor, as being in the national interest to attack the canker of corruption in the body politic,» Martin Amidu indicated in his affidavit verification sighted by Citi News.

Participants in the Day of Action — organized by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), a national organization representing over 60 colleges and universities and 400,000 students — asked the federal government to boost aid to students already overburdened by debts.

Now is the time for action, they say, for a rational and well - funded national agenda for healthcare IT spearheaded by the federal government.

In a decision that could affect the immigration plan President Barack Obama announced on 20 November, a federal judge decided on 21 November that the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), an organization based in Bellevue, Washington, and affiliated with the national Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, can bring a lawsuit challenging the federal government's right to extend by executive action the authorization for foreign students to work in the United States under the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.

The report's recommendations are focused, supportive and highly practical; it fully endorses the vision and ambitions behind the 100,000 Genomes Project and the National Genomic Medicine Service, but where it does propose actions by the Government it is unambiguous in reasoning and urgency.

### The research has been mainly funded by individual fellowship grants of the European Union Marie Sklodowsca - Curie Actions and the pre-doctoral research grants program of the Basque and Spanish Governments, as well as by the National Science Foundation (USA), and has been carried out in line with nanoGUNEs projects within the EU's Graphene Flagship.

Four of his overseas» benchmark» examples have national education systems, run by the central government, and he seems at ease with America moving in that direction, not just via voluntary comings - together of states (e.g. the Common Core) but also through forceful actions by Uncle Sam.

The National Education Union (NEU) is marking International Women's Day and the TUC's Women's Pay Day by challenging the government to take action to make teaching a genuinely equal profession for women teachers.

Part of the frustration from school leaders is that their costs have been rising because of actions taken by the government — rising national insurance contributions, increasing pension costs, the national living wage and, from April, the apprenticeship levy.

The National Education Union is marking International Women's Day and the TUC's Women's Pay Day by challenging the Government to take action to make teaching a genuinely equal profession for women teachers.

A delay caused by a strike or by picketing which constitutes an unfair labor practice is not excusable unless the Contractor takes all reasonable and appropriate action to end such a strike or picketing, such as the filing of a charge with the National Labor Relations Board, the use of other available Government procedures, and the use of private boards or organizations for the settlement of disputes.

In reference to Michael Glantz's program and the funding by the government - controlled National Science Foundation, the action to terminate the program smacks of the kind of silencing tactics used by the government on James Hansen of NASA who also spoke out on climate change.

Indeed, I had thought at first that the individual commitments by governments were a positive announcement and I still think those are great, but generating a massive event like this to announce internal actions that seem to have been premeditated before even setting a foot in Rio and which could have been delivered on a national level makes no sense.

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.

A successful outcome of Paris would be a treaty with five - year reviews — ensuring countries consistently revisit and raise ambition; strong national contributions supported by realistic financing; and an action agenda, not only from governments but also from players outside of government, such as business, city governments and civil society.

The checklist is intended to be used by governments to guide national conversations around the topic of NDC implementation, moving from planning to action.

«Cities are becoming the powerhouse of action, more than national governments,» she said, describing the decision by Dún Laoghaire - Rathdown County Council in Dublin to make the passive house standard mandatory for new buildings as «fantastic».

Backed by seven national governments and drawing on information from more than 100 organisations, the report sets out an action plan out to 2030.

RUAF contributes by enhancing the capacities of local authorities and other stakeholders and facilitating the integration of (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture and city - region food measures in the policies and action programmes of local, regional and national governments, civic society organisations and private enterprises, with active involvement of the urban producers and other relevant stakeholders.

The opponents of climate change policies have largely succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

«To judge by actions rather than words, however, few people and almost no national governments actually believe in the infinite rewards of exorcising carbon from economic life.

The opponents of climate change policies have succeeded in opposing proposed climate change law and policy by claiming that government action on climate change should be opposed because: (1) it will impose unacceptable costs on national economics or specific industries and destroy jobs, (2) there is too much scientific uncertainty to warrant government action, or (3) it would be unfair and ineffective for nations like the United States to adopt expensive climate policies as long as China or India fail to adopt serious greenhouse gas emissions reductions policies.

Some state governments are concerned that certain line departments are duplicating work on climate change by directly responding to central ministry requests to implement specific national missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climatnational missions under the National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climatNational Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC), bypassing nodal agencies that have prepared the climate plans.

«When a Climate Emergency (Restructuring & Mobilisation) Declaration is made, this action switches on emergency mode for the national government by making climate emergency action equal top priority for all government departments and agencies.

We need communities, cities, regions, governments, businesses, institutions, and places of worship, to significantly increase their ambitions — and go beyond the Paris agreement, to close the gap left by slow national action.

Plan of action - CO2 emissions tax, deregulate low polluting technology and remove current barriers of new technology per usual pick and choose government interference, facilitate standards to coordinate national and international energy development, subsidize ultra low polluting power generators and fuel to poor countries, investment dollars awarded to highest rate of return for CO2 emission reduction upon global market, rate tax expenditures and promising technology by independent accounting agency bonded to ensure loss of political and personal cronyism influence.

«Government actions have corrupted science, which has been flooded by money to produce politically correct results,» said Dr. William Happer, professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Instead, the public should look more to individual governments and organizations and national climate assessments (such as the one released by the Obama administration May 6) for more concrete action on controversial topics like emissions caps and geoengineering.

We also can't dismiss arguments by Frank Ackerman and others that the «fat tail» of climate worst - cases demands national mobilization on a scale that only government action can generate.

That means the Paris process has entered a potentially perilous moment when the urgency of the climate crisis is mounting by the day, public expectations are (quite rightly) high, the commitment to action extends far beyond national governments — yet negotiators have to focus on nuts - and - bolts issues that are numbingly technical for the large majority of us, but will still determine the success or failure of a crucially important global deal.

Climate change was first officially referred to in legislation or regulations by the Chinese government in China's National Climate Change Programme of 2007, and repeated in China's Policies and Actions for Addressing Climate Change 2008.

To make Rottmann work in this way we would have to deny the legitimacy of the national process, so that if the UK government gave notice of withdrawal under Article 50, this would be regarded as merely an action by the 52 % on the 48 %, a Rottmann situation multiplied many times, instead of as a legitimate democratic choice.