Sentences with phrase «between national commitments»

In some countries (e.g., Australia), even when media coverage of INDCs considers justice, this coverage misleads citizens by comparing commitments to other nations without any analyses of how equity and justice considerations would allow differences between national commitments.

As a result there is a huge gap between national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions that have been made thus far under the UNFCCC and global ghg emissions reductions that are necessary to limit warming to 2 oC, a warming limit that has been agreed to by the international community as necessary to prevent very dangerous climate change.

Not exact matches

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

The G8 expressed their commitment to establish automatic exchange of information between different national tax authorities and their support to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to develop a multilateral system to implement it.

The Republican National Committee voted unanimously Friday to reaffirm the party's commitment to upholding the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, upending party efforts to grow support among younger voters.

Again, there seems to be a gap between the government's stated commitment to tackling gender - based violence and the Home Office's treatment of foreign nationals at risk of rape, FGM and domestic abuse.

«I appreciate your commitment to the work of this government, particularly highlighting the need to tackle the deficit, and the relationship between Britain's economic strength and our national security.»

According to the Denver - based National Conference of State Legislatures, 48 states revised public - employee plans between 2009 and 2012, often by raising contributions or the required age or service commitments, or by reducing benefits.

[81] While these contingent commitments are not an obligation and do not guarantee receipt of RRIF or TIFIA credit assistance, as applicable, they represent an agreement between the DOT and a project sponsor to provide credit assistance subject to the satisfaction of all of the terms and conditions for credit assistance set forth under the RRIF or TIFIA statutes, as applicable, including satisfaction of Federal eligibility requirements (such as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969) and the availability of budgetary authority for such credit assistance.

Importantly, the collaboration also demonstrates Tate's sincere commitment to fulfil its national role as well as strengthening the partnership between our two institutions,» he added.

This comes ahead of the latest round of climate talks in Bonn next week, when negotiators will work on ways to monitor, fund and ratchet up national commitments to cut CO2 so that temperatures can rise on a safer path of between 1.5 and 2C, which is the goal of the Paris agreement reached in 2015.

Those talks will take place between now and the U.N. climate conference in Paris at the end of next year, which is intended to deliver the legally binding national commitments that a similar event failed to deliver in Copenhagen in 2009.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

A «Skill - sharing session on monitoring of gender - responsive climate policy» brought forth research on possible synergies or tradeoffs between gender equality and other objectives for climate policy, while a panel discussion with the same partners looked at «Gender equality in climate policy: Translating global commitments to national policy».

For this reason, a joint research project between Widener University Commonwealth Law School and the University of Auckland recommended in Paris that national climate commitments be stated in tons of emissions over a specific period rather than percent reductions by a given date because waiting to the end of specific period to achieve percent reductions will cause the total tons of ghg emitted to be higher than if reductions are made earlier.

There is a 15 - 22 gigatonne gap between the current climate commitments nations made in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the respective emissions reductions needed to stay on track to limit the global temperature rise to 2C or 1.5 C. Subnational action can help bridge this gap and support national governments as they raise their climate commitments in the coming years.

During his first six months, he clearly articulated the link between environmental security, economic security and national security — making the case that a national commitment to renewable energy could simultaneously reduce unemployment, dependence on foreign oil and vulnerability to the disruption of oil markets dominated by the Persian Gulf reserves.

In particular, the AG seems to suggest a shift from a reading founded on the proof of a mere control exerted by the State over the resources engaged by the national measure concerned (transfer of State resources) and over the public undertaking (imputability) to an understanding requiring an actual commitment of public resources (transfer of State resources) and a causal link between alleged advantage and State budget (imputability).

It is notable that in the absence of a National Indigenous Representative Body, the commitments through COAG and bilateral agreements that set the basis for the relationship between governments and policy directions for Indigenous affairs, have been made without any Indigenous participation or consultation.

That the federal government coordinate the negotiation of framework agreements under the COAG National Commitment to improve coordination and standardisation of data collection between the federal, state and territory governments, ATSIC, Indigenous organisations and service delivery agencies.

Similar commitments have been made in the past, as demonstrated by the COAG National Commitment of 1992, and service delivery framework agreements on health, housing and infrastructure concluded variously between ATSIC, state, territory and federal governments.

This approach would require State and Commonwealth government commitment to capacity development within native title negotiations; adequately resourced NTRBs; flexible Federal Court timeframes to support capacity development and effective native title negotiations; co-operative relationships between State and Federal governments and NTRBs; and the support of the National Native Title Tribunal through its mediation role.

Making an unqualified national commitment to redressing Indigenous disadvantage; Facilitating the collection of sufficient data to support decision - making and reporting, and developing appropriate mechanisms for the independent monitoring and evaluation of progress towards redressing Indigenous disadvantage; Adopting appropriate benchmarks to redress Indigenous disadvantage, negotiated with Indigenous peoples, state and territory governments and other service delivery agencies, with clear timeframes for achievement of both longer term and short - term goals; Providing national leadership to facilitate increased coordination between governments, reduced duplication and overlap between services; and