Sentences with phrase «building sector policies»

This activity report presents the results of a workshop on urbanization addressed practical, results - oriented approaches to increasing pre-2020 ambition through addressing sectors with high mitigation potential, including sustainable transport and building sector policies.

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In an uncertain health - care policy environment, a complementary focus on biotech and managed care sectors can help advisors build an exposure covering both defensive and growth opportunities.

It will recommend areas to target additional policy actions — such as the province's industrial, transportation, and built - environment sectors.

Building and sustaining confidence in the private sector will need real policy actions, not just words.

Sometimes, problems that have built up in the financial sector can have powerful effects on real economic outcomes that monetary policy might find impossible to offset.

While strengthening existing partnerships, we are building new partnerships with countries such as Brazil and China, which have developed their own agricultural sectors through technological and policy innovation and are increasingly important to agricultural growth in the regions where we work.

Enact paid family leave and workplace breastfeeding policies, building on the International Labour Organization's maternity protection guidelines as a minimum requirement, including provisions for the informal sector.

He assured that the his administration will continue to build on the policies put in place by the previous administration to enhance rapid development in the sector, adding that so far, the government has energized the Agriculture Land Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural development.

«The private housing sector is being driven by recovery in the wider economy and the impacts of policies including Help to Buy, which have driven both house prices and house building.

Mr. Speaker, the 2018 - 2021 Budget is informed by the President's Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies which aims at creating a conducive environment for the private sector to thrive, propel growth and create employment opportunies, especially for the youth.In this regard, Government's policy objectives for the medium term will aim at: • Stabilizing the economy and setting it on a path of sustained, diversified and resilient growth; • Optimizing the key sources of growth in the economy on sustainable basis; • Enhancing a competitive and enabling business environment for private sector - led growth; • Formalizing the informal sector; • Building a strong and resilient economy able to withstand internal and external shocks; • Promoting agro-industrial enterprises as the basis for the «One District, One Factory» initiative; and • Creating entrepreneurial and employment opportunities, especially for the youth.

Adetarami who described Osun education policy as one of the best in the world, said the impacts of the state in building solid foundation in education sector has been yielding positive results.

In the housing workshop I was really impressed by how much Jack Dromey's team are listening to party members and the wider community and are developing really promising policies on planning reform, building more homes and tackling the many challenges faced by tenants in the private rented sector.

Mr Dromey also called on the government to implement Labour's housing policy proposals, which include a bank bonus tax to fund 25,000 affordable homes in the hopes of jump starting the house building sector.

At 8:30 a.m., the New York League of Conservation Voters hosts the second installment of the Getting New York City to 80 × 50 Policy Forum Series on the building sector, New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette St., Manhattan.

«Our public and private sector policies and programmes have been robust and successful in building the foundation for the sustained prosperity that we promised our people.

It is a matter of concern, not just for the Building Society sector, but new entrants and other existing players that actions taken by policy makers and regulators are driving UK financial services inexorably down the path of sameness.

The party has built its success on occupying a range of formerly popular Labour policies such as free university tuition, free NHS prescription charges and maintaining a public sector health service.

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

For the 55 percent of its total emissions produced by the building, transportation and other dispersed sectors that are difficult to monitor, the E.U. and its member states have extended a wide array of existing policies.

The plan is «the first comprehensive plan of any city to address energy efficiency and greenhouse gases for the existing building sector,» said the Bloomberg policy adviser, Laurie Kerr.

The private sector is definitely leading the way in this regard and it might be time well spent if those advocating new build policy visited some of the many fine refurbishments to be seen the private sector.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Once a certain degree of policy adequacy is in place (reasonably smart laws around autonomy and authorizing, decent - enough funding), the difference between good sectors and great sectors boils down to the «ecosystem» built by the local reform community.

An accompanying report to be published in November from the UNFCCC secretariat — «Climate Action Now» a Summary for Policymakers — will underline the enormous emission reduction potential and multiple economic benefits possible from best practise climate policies across major sectors from energy to transport, from buildings to forests.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiatives.

AEJ brings grassroots groups together to bring about changes in federal education policy, build a infrastructure for the education justice sector, and build the capacity of organizations and youth leaders.

Since its launch, NCSECS has been actively reviewing and commenting on policy, writing papers, building key partnerships linking the special education and charter school communities and engaging in targeted assistance in the charter sector in select regions.

WMI operates like a «finishing school» for university students, researchers, policy makers, the private sector, community leaders and groups interested in good practices in environmental management and peace building.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

Decarbonisation of transport remains a major policy challenge, it says, while the next chapter in the rise of renewables will also require more work on multiplying their applications in buildings and the industrial sector.

It enables users to build a comprehensive picture of the policies that impact their operations and value chains based on the sector and countries they operate in.

It is designed to reduce emissions in six provinces, working with provincial, district and commune authorities, local communities and the private sector, with the objective to «enhance Viet Nam's ability to benefit from future results - based payments for REDD + and undertake transformational changes in the forestry sector», with a focus on «the implementation of national policies, measures and national strategies or action plans that could involve further capacity - building, technology development and transfer and results - based demonstration activities».

In this session, speakers will discuss how enabling policy and financial environments can be established to drive resilience - building investments and business practices in the energy sector.

Cutting - edge sectors like building design and IT are critical allies in our vision of a clean energy economy,» said Anne Kelly, Policy Director at Ceres and Director of BICEP.

Developing a green economy requires Governments to refocus their policies, investments and spending in high - impact sectors, such as energy, buildings, manufacturing, transportation, water services and waste management, while ensuring such others as agriculture, fisheries and forests are more sustainable.

The damage being done to 3rd World countries lies in food costs not insignificantly contributed to by green / UN policies of burning of food grain for fuel, by withholding funds (World Bank, EU, etc.) for building of cheap fossil fueled power to these countries, and other ways denying this vulnerable sector the potential to industrialize.

As presented in Figure 4, policymakers can integrate building energy codes under broader building sector clean energy strategies and policy packages to ensure opportunities and synergies are captured (EPA 2015; BPIE 2011).

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

and 2) What business and policy environment is needed to better engage the private sector in building sustainable city region food systems?

HERON aims at facilitating policy makers of multi-level governance in EU, to develop and monitor energy efficiency policies in building and transport sectors, through forward - looking socio - economic research in seven EU and one candidate countries.

This policy brief (2018) reports on a recent study, implemented by RUAF Foundation and supported by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program (WLE / IWMI), on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.

Based on country interviews it considers identified priority areas like capacity building for policy makers, training, HFC alternatives technology, energy efficiency, public private partnerships, and gender balance and inclusion of women and youth in the growing refrigeration and air conditioning sector.

The Accelerator will help to: advocate for changes in public and private - sector policy to support and empower women to engage in all levels of energy services delivery; connect women working in energy services delivery with others who can help build their capacity, mentor them, or serve as role models; and connect businesses with best practices in organizational policy and female representation across both management and workforce to each other, and to those who seek to improve performance.

Building on a World Energy Outlook Special Briefing on the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), Director of Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology Kamel Ben Naceur detailed the pledges» impacts on the energy sector as well as global warming.

For some time now, real and measurable progress has been made at the state and local levels, and in the private sector where building design and planning, innovation, equity, policy, business, and climate change intersect.

It calls for greater emission cuts in sectors including transport, agriculture, waste and buildings, if the EU's largest climate policy is to be coherent with the goal to limit global...

This policy document presents UNEP's past, present and future activities in the area of climate change and shows how the Programme is building partnerships with governments, civil society organizations, the private sector and other United Nations entities to foster a Green Economy.

Joint statement from Carbon Market Watch and Transport & Environment (T&E) on publication of EU climate policy designed to reduce emissions across sectors agriculture / transport / building / waste EC proposal includes potential loopholes — endangers real - world delivery of EU 2030 climate target Brussels 20 July 2016.

In January 2018, UNDP Seoul Policy Centre helped organize an energy audit training provided by five Korea Energy Agency audit experts to build capacity among 32 Bangladeshi practitioners from the public and private sector with support from SREDA and UNDP Bangladesh.