Sentences with phrase «begin major efforts»

All key sectors — energy generation, road transport, buildings, industry, forestry and land use, and commercial agriculture — have to begin major efforts to cut emissions by, latest, 2020.

In order to help struggling farmers, international donors, including USAID, began a major effort to rejuvenate Haiti's coffee industry and help it enter the specialty coffee market with the development of the Haitian Bleu brand, conceived in the mid-1990s.

But the feral cats were preying on the island's native birds, and in the 1980s conservationists began a major effort to kill all the cats.

The federal government should begin a major effort to measure greenhouse gas emissions tied to the nation's booming natural gas industry, a Department of Energy advisory panel said today in a series of proposals on air and water quality issues.

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Since that time a major effort began in Congress to amend the FLSA to liberalize comp time rules for private sector hourly workers.

As a major partner in the local recovery effort, Habitat for Humanity of Highlands County reached out to the people on that list and has begun working with families interested in becoming future homeowners.

In addition to Niebuhr, figures such as John Bennett, Francis P. Miller, Georgia Harkness, and Henry P. Van Dusen played major parts in the development of a «Christian realism» that also shaped the beginnings of the World Council of Churches and - she indicates but does not argue - continues, mutatis mutandis, to mark the efforts of groups such as the Christian Coalition today.

Unless major players in the main universities begin to favor our efforts during the next decade or so, we won't be able to honestly claim to be making a much of a dent against the current trends.

Today, the introduction of Nestlé ® Pure Life ® rPET bottles to consumers nationwide, complements our efforts to inspire and make it easier for consumers to recycle, building on last year's move to begin adding How2Recycle information on the labels of our major U.S. bottled water brands.

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

The corruption trials for prominent upstate developers and the former SUNY Polytechnic president related to major economic development efforts will also begin next year.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has notched another win in her efforts to get the city's major nonprofits to begin chipping in for the city services they use.

While New York City has become a major player in the tech startup scene, upstate cities are also beginning to see more startup efforts pay off.

Onondaga Lake has seen major improvement in water quality since remediation efforts began, but some remain dissatisfied and blame corporate influence for preventing a full restoration.

Next year, the mathematics division will begin a $ 2 million program to make the undergraduate math curriculum an entry point rather than a bottleneck for science majors, whereas the physics division is planning a $ 1 million effort to help established scientists move into new fields.

As societies began to rely on bread as a major foodstuff, they were also forced to expend more effort on agriculture (and vice versa).

The US National Institutes of Health has begun to fund a major effort, the Human Connectome Project, to generate a comprehensive map of large - scale brain connections in humans.

The improvement effort began more than 20 years ago when state legislators passed a major reform law that put rigorous academic goals and well - designed assessments front and center.

What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

(L to R) Beth Schueler, Lisa Utzinger, Janine de Novais, and Liz Hale Rozas What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

And so, beginning with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, the federal government embarked on a series of major efforts to improve education for disadvantaged children that culminated in 2002 with the No Child Left Behind Act.

The news story began with «State Board of Education members angrily criticized lawmakers» attempts to scale back a major education reform bill, saying Wednesday that the watered - down bill could stall the effort to fix the state's worst schools.»

Nearly a year after Audubon Charter students moved out of their Broadway Street campus in preparation for a major renovation and expansion project there, major construction efforts will begin there Monday and end in time for students to return in the fall of 2014, officials say.

Here are major milestones in the life and times of this popular VW: 1934: Hitler orders development of «people's car»: the Volkswagen.1938: Ferdinand Porsche sets the Beetle's final form.1939: Construction of factory begins in Wolfsburg, 100 miles west of Berlin.1941: First Beetle production vehicles come off the line.1941 - 44: Only 1,000 Beetles are produced during World War II because most resources are devoted to war effort.

Major efforts began with the case of Mary Ellen McCormack, also known as Mary Ellen Wilson.

Now, or beginning at some point between now and June 30, Amazon will be making a major effort to organize the vast majority of Kindle store prices so that they fall in the $ 2.99 to $ 9.99 range.

Barnes & Noble has finally begun to spin off their Nook brand into its own subsidiary company and Microsoft has jumped at the opportunity to be a major part of that effort.

The Redwood Creek watershed is quiet before major restoration efforts begin.

Slowly but surely, however, the combined efforts of groups like Tiga, the ELSPA and major publishers is beginning to make a difference to how both the public and politicians view the industry and give it the support and credit it deserves.

Beginning humbly as a Kickstarter campaign, Austin's next major game effort was Stoic Studio's The Banner Saga, a unique and mature turn - based strategy / RPG hybrid with a dazzling art direction.

On August 17, 2003, HAL Labs began undergoing major internal changes and restructuring efforts.

On the industry side, a connected collaborative effort, Change the Education, has begun and already gained some major supporters.

The end of summer means the beginning of the art season, and September is kicking off the fall with a calvacade of major shows spotlighting efforts by some of the most significant artists of our tim — as well as by their feisty rising challengers.

This exhibition focuses exclusively on her pioneering efforts in metal beginning with her debut at the famed Spoleto exhibition in 1962 through major recent efforts.

The forum appears to be President Obama's effort to build on exchanges and partnerships that began under the Bush administration as the Major Economies Meetings on Energy Security and Climate Change.

With less than two weeks to go until the beginning of the Copenhagen conference, it is essential that the countries of the world, led by the major economies, do what it takes to produce a strong, operational agreement that will both launch us on a concerted effort to combat climate change and serve as a stepping stone to a legally binding treaty.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Beginning in 1998 I have been involved in a major collaborative effort with researchers at Lamont, SUNY, CUNY and IES to map the Hudson River estuary.

The major advance in knowledge was the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957, while scientific efforts to assess Antarctic climate began as recently as the third IPY in 2007.

Officials at the firm said the new recruits mark the beginning of a major diversity effort.»

What this all means for Canadian taxpayers is that countries around the world are beginning to take note of the success that anti-tax evasion legislation is having, and both the tax authorities and major banks are starting to increase transparency in an effort to prevent taxpayers from hiding offshore assets through jurisdictions that are were traditionally known for their secrecy.

Regulation Bangladesh — one of the few countries presently attempting to enforce a ban on cryptocurrency trading and use — has announced that several major state institutions will begin ramping up efforts to crack...

Four years ago, the firm began franchising its operations and underwent a major restructuring effort.