Sentences with phrase «based policy mechanism»

REDD, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, is a controversial market - based policy mechanism that proposes to protect tropical forests in order to capture and store carbon dioxide pollution.

Not exact matches

The estimated funds rate equation that is part of the VAR - based expectations mechanism has more inertia than the Taylor - type policy rule used in FRB / US itself for these simulations.

With almost 100 waste plants, and over 200 farm plants, the UK has a strong base — the conference is a chance for operators, developers and their suppliers to discuss changes to the RHI mechanisms, farming and waste policy and developments in the water sector.

«We argued leading up to the 2010 bill that this common - sense provision would have marked an important step toward establishing a science - based, decision - making mechanism,» says Neuberger of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

It also identified performance - based governance with the setting up of appropriate mechanisms and frameworks to track performance in Millennium Development Agencies and government policies as benefit of the new initiatives.

The policy group highlighted North Carolina's state community college system as having established a new mechanism to place students in courses based in part on high school performance, rather than just through testing.

It will, however, exclude you from interest - based advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by their policies and choice mechanisms.

In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar for his project, The Long - Run Influence of School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college preparation.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.

«However, existing forest policies largely neglect collectively - owned lands and provide no mechanism for restoring native forests on them,» said Fangyuan Hua, of the Kunming Institute of Botany in Yunnan, who is also based at Cambridge University in the UK.

This policy brief is developed based on 5 key messages: 1) A fresh start for international climate policy, 2) Not words only but action, 3) Continued CDM reform, 4) Create post-2020 public CER demand and investment certainty, and 5) The SDM should primarily work as a market mechanism, but also serve as a tool for results - based mitigation finance.

Blue Moon Fund grant for «To support climate change in China by implementing low - emission, market - based transportation policies by introducing California's zev credits mechanism to China»

In particular, it addresses the critical question of what policy options, and what type of REDD + funding mechanism, are most conducive towards effectively financing forest - based climate change mitigation (with a focus on Phase 3 of REDD + implementation).

We are committed to keep on fighting for what we believe in the light of this vision and to make sure that any mechanism for reducing deforestation is based on a comprehensive set of public policies and public and voluntary funds that can ensure our rights and life in the Amazon and on the planet.

Applying ad hoc filtering mechanisms to reduce the solution space may «look» scientific, but without some basis for applying the solution space reduction the argument is that the policy makers should be presented with the full range of uncertainty.

Charles Feinstein EAP Sector Manager, Energy and Water PSLO Seminar November 6, 2013 Agenda Focal areas Institutional capacity building and policy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supportingpolicy advice Introducing new financing mechanisms and market - based approaches including trade in energy saving certificates Energy efficient cities and green infrastructure Policy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) SupportingPolicy and regulatory framework (feed - in - tariff) Resource assessment and pre-investment activities Financing RE (hydropower, wind, geothermal, solar PV) Supporting T&D /

Add to that lingering questions about whether the final REDD mechanism should be national or sub-national, fund - based or market - based, and how to define a forest, then throw in the ways that different answers to these questions would impact different nations, and it's not hard to see how tall the order was on SBSTA to evaluate methodologies in light of policy guidelines it could only guess at.

A price mechanism would help to make the trade - offs transparent and make evidence - based policy more likely to develop.

Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);

Our report proposes several leveraging mechanisms, such as loan guarantees, subordinated equity investments, and policy insurance, which together could be the basis of this partnership.

(vii) Any expulsion decision shall: be communicated by HMS to the NOAMS in writing; be written in a such a way that the recipient is likely to understand its importance and apprehend its significance; inform the NOAMS precisely and in full, of the public policy, public security or public health grounds on which the decision taken in their case is based, unless this is contrary to the interests of HMS security; and specify the time limits and appeal mechanisms the NOAMS can operate to challenge the decision.

Develop a mechanism for monitoring and evaluating the teaching of sexuality education in schools, and for assessing the gaps between policies and classroom realities on a yearly basis.

formal mechanisms, where the national body draws its members from national, state / territory or regional representative bodies, holds regular state - wide policy forums or develops other regional - level mechanisms based on boundaries used by the previous ATSIC Regional Councils or based on Indigenous geographic regions

failures in the past have emphasised the importance of policy that is evidence based and incorporates ongoing mechanisms for evaluation and review.

The efforts in the United Kingdom are part of a broader endeavor across developed nations, including the United States, to increase the evidence base and sharpen the focus of parenting programs and to develop specific public policies targeting improved parenting beyond the traditional mechanisms of child welfare services and income support programs.92

It should be noted that community consultations primarily with Indigenous women in April 2003 led the Commission to conclude that legislative approaches to facilitate community justice mechanisms based in the recognition of customary law (such as the establishment of a system of Indigenous tribunals) should not be pursued without adequate modeling at a policy level or without extensive consultation and local level participation of Aboriginal communities.