Sentences with phrase «ambitious than the government»

In essence, our agenda is more ambitious than the government's vision.

And so the Climate Change Authority's recommendations are simultaneously more ambitious than the government will be prepared to accept, and not so ambitious by way of assuming that international emissions trading may mean no deep emissions cuts domestically.

Not exact matches

Last November, groups representing more than a thousand B.C. organizations, companies, and local governments called for an ambitious climate plan.

In August 1972, more than a year before the military coup, the CIA funded a 300 - page economic blueprint which it supplied to the country's military and some of the most ambitious business families in an effort to hasten the overthrow of Salvador Allende's socialist government, which had been elected by a small plurality in 1970.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

But in fact the Government's plans are far more ambitious than that.

In 2015 the Government pitched an ambitious # 25m project to build a 1,500 bed prison in Jamaica, with the aim of sending more than 300 Jamaican inmates with sentences of more than four years there.

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

And we can not imagine a better leader than Betsy Gotbaum to help us achieve our ambitious agenda to deliver for all New Yorkers the good government they deserve.»

We hope this process will support rather than hinder your work in developing a clear and ambitious agenda for a future Labour government.»

The Tories were hubristic and ambitious, like Hillary Clinton who chased a blow out win, which made even less sense in a presidential system than it did in a parliamentary system where governments are stronger with larger majorities.

So ambitious ministers will think more than twice before deciding to oppose the government line this time.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

The final target submitted to the United Nations at the end of September ultimately was less ambitious than some of the draft options that the Chilean government had circulated.

A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that

Rather than a global target for zero deforestation, «governments, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations should instead set separate, ambitious targets for reductions in gross deforestation and for reforestation,» write Brown and Zarin.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

Mr Balls also said the Tory plan to tackle the 100 worst schools was «less ambitious» than plans already outlined by the government.

It's an ambitious enterprise, but through partnerships with government, business, and grassroots supporters, the library system receives more than $ 21 per capita income in a state where average local government spends only $ 8.75 per person on libraries.

«Expanding other airports in south - east England is more popular than building a new airport which suggests that our overseas colleagues think the UK Government should steer clear from an ambitious if expensive solution when there are better options available.»

Climate change experts said the data set was the most ambitious effort so far to hold individual carbon producers, rather than governments, to account.

NCE's Global Commissioners delivered this narrative — which was important in getting buy - in from national governments and companies for an ambitious agreement — to more than 45 global decision - makers, including Heads of Government and Finance Ministers.

This is a more ambitious target than the government's target of 80 % reduction by 2050, but it reflects Britain's historical emissions and gives space for developing countries to become carbon - neutral more slowly.

When Passive House Plus told Prof Ürge - Vorsatz about a comment Passive House Institute director Prof Wolfgang Feist made in these pages a few years ago — that the most ambitious action on climate change was coming from city governments and the European Union, rather than from national governments — she agreed.

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

More than ever, governments, companies and civil society organizations are committing to ambitious goals to protect the world's remaining forests and combat emissions from deforestation.

The scientists argue that civil society should turn the screws on government to reduce carbon emissions and push for even more ambitious climate action than what the Paris Agreement calls for.

The talks are aimed at getting governments to be far more ambitious than their current national plans for greenhouse gas emissions cuts.

Reporting from Toronto — In a last - minute turn in global climate talks, international negotiators agreed over the weekend to adopt more ambitious plans than expected to trim government subsidies to oil companies worldwide, part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions.

The government responded by setting new, ambitious annual installation targets and putting the projection to 213GW in 2020, 5 times larger than the current renewable energy capacity of the United States.

Governments need the active engagement of the private sector in order to meet and raise ambitious mitigation targets and provide private finance flows far greater than those from public sources.

A new book's ambitious plan to spot and stop global epidemics is easier said than done unless governments show willing and fund a real scheme to do just that