Sentences with phrase «action on a national level»

The per person emissions are roughly the same, and there has been some action on a local level (for example British Columbia's successful carbon tax), but there has been far too little action on a national level.

As for action on national level, the letter calls for a climate change act that uses binding climate and energy targets of the Energiewende as a framework for innovation.

Not exact matches

It deserves concerted action on the part of local groups to help fund their local NPR stations, and by national groups to insist that Congress increase the level of federal funding.

One must simultaneously think and act locally, nationally and globally, realizing that a local action will have effect not only on the local level, but also on the national, global and cosmic levels.

Decisions were adopted on the target to achieve LDN, how to align the UNCCD's goals and parties» action programmes with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on effective implementation of the Convention at national, subregional and regional levels and linking scientific knowledge with decision making.

We call on governments at all levels to come together as a matter of urgency to develop in collaboration with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and communities, health and community sector peak bodies and other key stakeholders, a policy framework, funding commitments and national action plan for food sovereignty and food security.

The action continues on Sunday, with the three upper levels of the national divisions navigating the show jumping course and the two lower levels navigating the cross-country course, from 8:00 a.m. until approximately 2:00 p.m.

In Denmark, the Government is right now developing an action plan for our follow up at the national and international levels on all 17 SDGs.

The former 1860 Munich man has netted nine goals in Bundesliga action alone and is on the fringes of the German national team set - up having impressed at Under 21 level.

The action kicks off on Saturday, December 20th with five low - level bowl games and wraps up on Monday, January 12th when the winner of Florida State / Oregon faces the winner of Ohio State / Alabama in the National Championship.

At the level of the Joint Action Fund, Immediately, we got a copy of the statement credited to the Minister of State on Petroleum; we have already issued a statement to the effect that the JAF National will be meeting today by 2:30 pm at our office in Ilupeju, Lagos.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

Christopher Tilley from the Home Office who designed a cross-governmental strategy to tackle illegal working and exploitation in the construction industry; coordinate enforcement action at the national level; and advise senior government officials on exploitation and illegal working matters will be giving a keynote address to the International Inspiring Construction Conference.

He said: «after receiving the minutes of the Ward C meeting, concerned and committed members of our great party, APC in Mushin Local Government deliberated on the resolutions of the ward meeting and having carefully considered the decision of Ward C EXCO, we decided to adopt the resolution for further necessary action at the State and National level.

He also challenged government to expedite action on the national climate change policy to ensure its implementation at the regional and district level, to address issues of climate change in the region, since the region is most at risk of climate change.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

I could discuss similar films that played at this year's Berlinale — but these two examples must suffice to demonstrate the dilemma German cinema faces: these genre films suffer on the level of craft, while also facing the problem that the socio - cultural context might simply not lend itself to the kind of genre filmmaking (at least with regard to the thriller and action film genres) that seems to come so organically to filmmakers working in different national contexts.

b create sound policy frameworks, at national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender - sensitive development strategies to support accelerated investments in poverty eradication actions

In their 2004 action brief on the parent - involvement provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Public Education Network and the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education cite several reasons for the low level of parental involvement in many schools, including a less - than - welcoming atmosphere, language and cultural barriers, insufficient training for teachers, and lack of parent education or parenting skills.

«It is clear from our findings that action is needed on a national and local level to address these variations and to ensure the weakest places learn from the best.

Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

The intent of the series was to spark debate and encourage action on the part of local school districts to take the major problems facing education facilities to the national level.

This report relies on the most recent federal chronic absence data for the 2013 - 14 school year, provides a national and state analysis of how many schools face high levels of chronic absence and discusses the implications for state and local action.

This facet of Global Digital Citizenship encourages exploring how we can manage our use of Earth's resources — taking responsibility and action on personal, local, regional, national, and international levels.

In 2010, president Randi Weingarten created the AFT Ad Hoc Committee on Standards Rollout to initiate an action plan so that all levels of the union — and our partners at the local, state and national levels — can ensure that the CCSS are implemented as part of a comprehensive standards - based system.

3) action steps at local, state and federal levels to overcome the problems and win the goals, such as building on the national Resolution on High - Stakes Testing.

This means «regulations, legislative comments or proposed legislation, and other policy statements or actions that have substantial direct effects on the States, on the relationship between the national government and the States, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities among the various levels of government.»

Panelists will discuss and assess the current political landscape on global, national and regional levels and share «tools» regarding art production, political action and sustaining our communities and ourselves.

[M] anagement action to address overfishing at the national and local levels can have a direct positive impact on reef health now and for the future.

And much of what is being pledged, despite Yvo de Boer's hope for legally - binding actions at the national level, is still much more like putty than steel, as Jack Goldsmith of Harvard Law School noted (in the context of United States law) on his Lawfare blog earlier this year.

It aligns positive action with economic gain and encourages enforcement by peers within the region, rather than relying on national level policies that are difficult and expensive to monitor and enforce.

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.

In an interview with Reuters, Jennifer Granholm, the departing governor of Michigan, said that action on the local and state level was useful, but that national energy policy was needed for truly substantial change.

My point in mentioning this is that these types of actions fall somewhere in the long tail of actions to fight climate change - a program that can affect a lot of people while falling far short of the headline - generating action on a state or national level.

The strategy identifies three priority areas that match calls for international guidance, the urgent need for action at a national level on climate change and the organization's skill set, experience and mandate.

• characterize national emissions • explore alternative emission reduction scenarios • calculate country - level health, agriculture and global climate benefits • compare results across alternative scenarios • inform nationally appropriate action on SLCPs

This focus on urban energy systems in ETP 2016 provides policymakers at both national and local levels the tools and analysis necessary to set realistic targets to encourage immediate action.

Collectively, these contributions will provide a window into the scope and depth of American climate action, and help determine where opportunity gaps exist on the local and national level.

This activity report synthesizes consultations held at the regional, national and community levels throughout the Asia - Pacific region on the Post-2015 Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action or HFA2).

The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

The FAO workshop brought together high - level staff of Ministries of Agriculture or National Statistical Agencies, and Bureaus responsible for national GHG reporting under international climate policy processes, to help further the conversation on how to improve agricultural / forestry statistics to prepare and submit the Biennial Update Reports (BUR) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation ActionNational Statistical Agencies, and Bureaus responsible for national GHG reporting under international climate policy processes, to help further the conversation on how to improve agricultural / forestry statistics to prepare and submit the Biennial Update Reports (BUR) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actionnational GHG reporting under international climate policy processes, to help further the conversation on how to improve agricultural / forestry statistics to prepare and submit the Biennial Update Reports (BUR) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA).

The methods they use are public information campaigns, mobilising action and influencing decision - makers on a wide range of topics on all levels — from daily household decisions to national and international policies.

It elaborates on issues for further consideration, including possible follow - up actions to increase the number of beneficiaries of the training programme and to address specific training needs at the subregional and national level.

A key component will be a National Campus Day of Action on October 2, which will help focus and leverage existing millennial support for climate action at the state level with the Clean Power Plan, and internationally in the lead up to the COP21 climate negotiations in Action on October 2, which will help focus and leverage existing millennial support for climate action at the state level with the Clean Power Plan, and internationally in the lead up to the COP21 climate negotiations in action at the state level with the Clean Power Plan, and internationally in the lead up to the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris.

The 2015 Paris climate agreement specifies a clear goal to limit global warming by 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels (UNFCCC 2015), and the recent publication of a roadmap for rapid decarbonization offers guidance on actions required at the national level to effectively limit carbon emissions in order to meet the goal (Rockström et al. 2017).

Carbon Development Strategy is a ten year action plan that includes the energy sector: National Energy Efficiency Program Geothermal & Renewable Energy Program Offshore Hydrocarbon Program The Government launched a public sector energy conservation program in early 2010 and has accumulated baseline data on energy consumption at the Ministry level.

The Cancun agreements call on developing countries planning to undertake such efforts to develop: a national strategy or action plan; a national forest or forest emission reference level; and a transparent national system for monitoring and reporting of conservation and emission - reduction efforts.

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

The next step is for countries to move into monitoring soil organic carbon levels using their national soil information systems to make evidence - based decisions on how to manage their soils and monitor the impact of those actions.

The focus is on national action delivered through Joint Programmes, reinforced by supporting measures at regional and global levels.