Sentences with phrase «aggressive policy changes»

However, aggressive policy changes could prevent deforestation on 1.3 million km2 of the threatened area, scientists report in the March 23 Nature.

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As far back as 2002, while vice minister, Kuroda used an opinion column in the Financial Times, co-written with his deputy at the finance ministry, to call for «aggressive monetary policy» from the central bank, including an inflation target, aimed at «drastically changing price expectations.»

The first: Japan has made aggressive, but legitimate, policy changes to repair an economy that can better serve the world in strength.

The Cold War and very aggressive policy of the Soviet Union gave on chance for significant changes.

The members seeking a change in leadership argued that Iannuzzi wasn't aggressive enough in fighting the policies of Governor Andrew Cuomo and education commissioner John King, such as a teacher - evaluation system that includes student scores on state exams.

The Bratton - led department ushered in novel changes in tactics and policies as well as raising the level of aggressive policing in the rank and file.

That decision gave Clinton credibility on climate change as she faced Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, both of whom were promoting more aggressive policies than Clinton to reduce greenhouse gases.

The de Blasio administration's stance on charter schools has gone from aggressive to defensive to nonexistent over the last two years, with the mayor's public defiance changing to an unofficial policy of avoiding the sector altogether after he suffered a decisive political loss last year.

The waiver application state officials submitted in November reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education, and like a game plan for big changes to state education policy that are still to come, including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

The document reads both like a primer on Indiana's efforts to overhaul education in recent years, and like a game plan for big changes to the state's education policy that are still to come — including a more aggressive timeline for state intervention in failing schools.

In a 1998 book, edited by Bill Nordhaus (Economics and Policy Issues in Climate Change), Dick Schmalensee wrote about «Greenhouse Policy Architectures and Institutions,» and lamented that the Kyoto Protocol exhibited narrow scope (covering only the Annex I countries) but aggressive ambition for that small set of nations.

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

(Aggressive policies aimed at coercing an even faster decrease in energy intensiveness may be imposed, in which case the standard of living will be less than it otherwise would be, but unless these policies are truly draconian the contours and structure of the economy will not be greatly changed.)

While the report urges urgent policy changes, it also concludes that such changes may have a limited effect, regardless: «Aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions,» it says, «may substantially reduce but do not eliminate the risk to California of extreme sea - level rise from Antarctic ice loss.»

«New York has adopted one of the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction policies in the nation, and these continued investments in infrastructure supporting zero emission vehicles is one more way to help reach these goals, reduce our carbon footprint and combat climate change,» Governor Cuomo said.

«Alarmism» encourages the idea that the case for relatively aggressive climate policy rests on the claim that climate change is more likely than not to produce catastrophic outcomes.

The primary change has been in the CAGW movement becoming more desperate and aggressive as they see western electorates rejecting their policy demands.

And so, one can not escape the conclusion that the basis for the US commitments on climate change include alleged unacceptable costs of more aggressive climate change policies to the US economy, matters of economic self - interest rather than global responsibility.

«Im somewhat skeptical, given the history of some of the companies involved in this, that it represents a dramatic change in their resistance to aggressive federal and state policy action on the issue,» said Alden M. Meyer, director of government relations for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

We need to change the game or we risk implementing very aggressive climate policies to accomplish what the world sees as modest goals.

ICN's eight - month investigation assembled details of Exxon's early understanding of the emerging science of climate change, casting a new light on the company's subsequent campaign to postpone aggressive climate policies by sowing public doubt about the science.

Her appointment makes additional strides toward an aggressive approach because she will coordinate agency climate change policies while balancing economic and national security considerations.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

As Martin Weitzman has demonstrated in many papers, fat - tails in the damage functions for climate change favor more aggressive and urgent policies to lower GHGs.

WASHINGTON — President Obama made addressing climate change the most prominent policy vow of his second Inaugural Address, setting in motion what Democrats say will be a deliberately paced but aggressive campaign built around the use of his executive powers to sidestep Congressional opposition.

It must always be repeated that the clean energy revolution can't prevent catastrophic climate change without far more aggressive government policies to speed the transition off fossil fuels.

The world will face a 50 per cent increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 without aggressive and effective policy changes, said an OECD expert on Wednesday.

We must start making the transition away from fossil fuels and pursue aggressive energy security policies that are both sustainable, make sense economically, create green jobs at home while fighting climate change.»

There appear to be two drivers for the aggressive change in policy towards the people in Tibet, as well as the other cultural minorities.

CONCLUSIONS: Interventions developed to minimize violence in the ED must focus on modifiable risk factors and address what is in the department's control including staff education in recognizing escalating anxious or aggressive behavior, policy development and implementation, and environmental changes.