Sentences with phrase «calling on countries»

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is calling on all countries to participate in next week's Fifth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Outfitted with scuba gear and using hand signals to conduct the meeting, they signed a document calling on all countries to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.

But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.

Local groups are now calling on countries in Lima to establish monitoring and verification provisions...

The Associated Press reported: «As bubbles floated up from their face masks, the president, vice president, Cabinet secretary and 11 ministers signed a document calling on all countries to cut their carbon dioxide emissions.]

They noted that in addition to calling on all countries to «phase down» emissions, the document puts responsibility on islands» shoulders, as well.

In response, the companies decided to call on the country's banking association, Asociación de Bancos -LSB-...]

UNEP welcomes the new FLW Standard and calls on countries and companies to use it to start measuring and reporting food loss and waste, in parallel to taking action to deliver on SDG Target 12.3: Halve food waste by 2030.»

The document calls on countries to change rules allowing companies to «shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes» and demands that companies report to tax authorities what tax they pay where.

Fittingly, the comment has been discovered just after the UN's leading health agency, the World Health Organisation (WHO), effectively called on countries to end the criminalisation of narcotics.

Speaking from No 10, Gordon Brown urged Sudan to cooperate with the ICC and called on the country's authorities to stop hindering efforts to deploy a full - strength UN / African Union peacekeeping force to the region.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has called on the country's remaining white farmers to cede land to black people.

The Paris deal does call on countries to reconsider their 2015 commitments, starting with a «facilitate dialogue» at a summit in Poland at the end of next year, with a view toward tightening those commitments by 2020.

The nonbinding International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities calls on countries to maintain the area around our planet as a peaceful global commons, and it sets out practical guidelines for avoiding collisions in space and for minimizing and removing debris.

However, it did call on countries on the Arabian Peninsula to improve their hospital hygiene and help in carrying out much - needed studies on how MERS spreads.

Misol says that a board member from Burkina Faso called on countries to uphold «UNESCO's values.»

She also called on countries that receive help to do more, both in funding and leadership, to address their epidemics.

As part of the celebrations on September 8, UNESCO will also launch the Global Report on Adult Learning and Education (GRALE III), which calls on all countries to invest in lifelong learning.

Subsidy reform has been an important international policy agenda, especially ever since the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change that called on countries to reduce emissions.

Air pollution is also on the agenda of UNEA, and the meeting is expected to call on countries to act swiftly and request UNEP to support them in their actions.

But the fact that almost every nation, 195 plus the European Union, agreed to tackle the problem — and that most of them, including the two largest emitters, China and the U.S., have now formally ratified the Paris Agreement — offers hope, especially because the agreement calls on countries to regularly review and strengthen emissions - reduction targets.

This is «the first time that a major international body has called on every country in the world to close its legal markets for elephant ivory,» said Andrew Wetzler, deputy chief program officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

The report calls on countries to take urgent action to train workers in the skills needed for the transition to a greener economy, and provide them with social protection that facilitates the transition to new jobs, contributes to preventing poverty and reduces the vulnerability of households and communities.

She appealed for the world to take up the Bonn Challenge 2011, which calls on countries to restore 150 million hectares of lost forests and degraded lands worldwide by 2020.

In its latest World Energy Perspective report, the World Energy Council calls on countries to begin planning for a next phase of trade negotiations in order to carry forward the momentum from a plurilateral tariff agreement.

These findings directly contradict the goals espoused in the Paris agreement — touted by these same governments — which specifically calls on countries to align financial flows with low - emissions development.

The Pew Environment Group calls on all countries, territories, and entities to improve shark conservation and management by acting now to end unmanaged and unsustainable shark fishing and to regulate trade in threatened sharks.

The People's Daily, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, has published an article calling on the country's authorities to regulate the blockchain technology more rigorously.

In response, the companies decided to call on the country's banking association, Asociación de Bancos e Instituciones Financeras (ABIF), to clarify its stance on the cryptocurrency industry.

Two cryptocurrency exchanges from Chile have called on the country's baking association (Asociación de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras or ABIF) to issue a clear position regarding...

Addressed to the central bank, as well as to the Prime Minister of India, the petition calls on the country to adopt a framework which will allow cryptocurrency innovation to flourish instead of trying to stifle it.

In response, the exchanges issued a public statement calling on the country's banking association, ABIF, to clarify its stance on the cryptocurrency industry.

Last month these two cryptocurrency exchanges called on the country's banking association to issue a clear position regarding the matter.

Two cryptocurrency exchanges from Chile have called on the country's baking association (Asociación de Bancos e Instituciones Financieras or ABIF) to issue a clear position regarding the new industry.

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We can call out lots of reasons why this nation suffers from a record of gun tragedies that no other country on earth experiences — and we can conjure up other theories until we forget the urgency of Parkland and Las Vegas and Newtown and move on to something else.

China is the leading member of a group of 16 Asian countries that is working on something called the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.

«The Vice President will call on all members to increase pressure on the Maduro regime to restore the country's democracy and address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Venezuela,» Pence's spokeswoman, Alyssa Farah, said Monday in a statement.

In what's described as the biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II, Maurer called on European and Gulf countries to step up their efforts to support the region.

The Financial Stability Board, a global watchdog that runs financial regulation for G - 20 economies, took a cautious tone in responding to calls from some countries to crack down on digital currencies.

But in reality it's a high - tech delivery robot called Starship and potentially the next mega-profitable invention to spring from this snowy, miniature country on the northern edge of Europe — one of the more unexpected launching pads on the planet.

On Sunday, the British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson called his U.S. counterparts to clarify that the ban only applied to people from the seven listed countries and did not impact individuals with dual citizenship.

On Friday, a group called «Student Walkout Against Gun Violence,» which appears to have been launched in response to the Florida shooting, said it is planning a nationwide walkout sometime next week in schools across the country to demand action.

West expanded on that comment by calling Trump a «genius» because the billionaire won the election, reportedly adding: «Neither candidate would fix racism in this country.»

Dalio explained that a so - called capital war, when a country uses its asset holdings such as bonds to inflict pain on its adversary, could be even worse than a trade war.

Anti-doping agencies from 37 different countries, including the U.S., have called for a total ban on Russian participation in the 2018 Olympics.

In presenting the photographs, Jones said Syrian President Bashar Assad's government «has sunk to a new level of depravity» with the support of Russia and Iran and called on the two countries to use their influence with Syria to establish a credible cease - fire and begin political talks.

She has her finger on the pulse of what's going on behind closed doors at the country's biggest corporations and calls herself «the female James Bond for innovation.»

Trump calls Cohen «a good man» and derides Mueller's investigation as «an attack on our country.»

The new chief executive of Uber Technologies appealed to Brazilian lawmakers in the country's capital on Tuesday to block elements of a bill he said threatened the ride - hailing app's business model, calling for more dialogue and sensible regulation.

In checks on the financial strength of the country's four main banks - National Bank of Greece, Piraeus, Alpha Bank and Eurobank - the ECB determined that even if the economy performs as forecast, the banks would need almost 4.4 billion euros ($ 4.8 billion) and more than 14 billion if it performs worse than expected, in a so - called «adverse scenario».