Sentences with phrase «change by national governments»

In return, they demanded real policy change by national governments to cut greenhouse gas emissions [3].

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A government document seen by the Financial Times said that the country's amended National Transformation Plan, dubbed NTP 2.0, would «change existing initiatives and add new ones.»

Environmental commitments by national governments and international agreements needed to be taken into account, and there would certain changes in the structure of power generation worldwide, Likhachev explained.

The bill before us is a vast improvement on both the 2008 Bill (which was withdrawn) and the 2013 bill which followed the National Economic Development and Labour Council process (changes to this bill were negotiated by business, labour and government).

The legislative changes regarding VCs in Australia will be buttressed by the government's $ 1.1 billion (AUD) National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA).

One of the most high - profile resolutions — co-sponsored by nine chambers or boards of trade from across the country — called on the federal government to refrain from changing the current governance model of Canada's ports and major airports, given that they are economic drivers for our national economy and crucial pieces of transportation infrastructure.

Some of the risks of investing in real estate include changing laws, including environmental laws; floods, fires, and other Acts of God, some of which can be uninsurable; changes in national or local economic conditions; changes in government policies, including changes in interest rates established by the Federal Reserve; and international crises.

Part of the world population started to change its opinion starting during 1997 - 1998 following the setback of the policies imposed jointly by governments applying neo-liberal dogmas, by the owners of national and foreign capital and by multilateral financial institutions.

Such inducements may or may not, under the given circumstances, be successful in changing national fertility patterns, or in bringing birth trends more nearly into consonance with the numerical goals targeted by government planners.

Serlin Haley is a national public law firm that effects change by representing businesses before the Executive, Legislative, Regulatory, and Municipal areas of government.

... it [was] premature to bring forward legislative changes to food and beverage advertising while the [Labor Government «s] National Obesity Strategy is developed by the National Preventative Health Taskforce and before the industry's initiatives in relation to responsible advertising can be properly assessed.

Alongside national leadership by governments, as described above, the breastfeeding support charities, relevant royal colleges and other similar professional bodies, campaigning organisations and interested individuals can both amplify calls for change and help to bring it about by collaborating.

However, by ruling out changes to the rates of National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in relation to employment and self - employment, the Government are denying themselves many of the tools they need to tackle the issues Taylor identified around employment status.

By the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolutioBy the same token, the evidence of a national will to bring in proportional representation is one thing — but it will be more willingly accepted, especially by a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolutioby a Conservative government that shows little appetite for reform, if this change to the British Constitution comes through evolution rather than revolution.

Despite government assurances that «no grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy,» the National Grammar Schools Association has urged schools to «exercise extreme caution» before making the change.

«The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals — and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia's when it comes to human rights,»

Nana Akufo - Addo lamented that the year by year decline of the economy's growth figures over the course of President Mahama's National Democratic Congress (NDC) government is the reason his call for a change in leadership ahead of...

Unite national officer for health, Rachael Maskell, said: «The government is picking the pockets of health workers by an average of # 30 - a-month in order to pay for pension changes which will see people having to work longer to get less.

It must, however, be difficult for serving officers to understand how the most recent «significant» change, which included performance and role pay, supported by national and local Government and Chief Officers through the PNB, now appears to fail to find any support in those three bodies.

«The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia's when it comes to human rights.

But in a statement from the Nigerian Wailers signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr Fasipe Oluyemi, the group has called on the good people of Nigeria to come out en mass for a protest (#OccupyCBN) to stop this impunity of the Fraudulent Forex Trading, Round Tripping and racketeering going on in the Central Bank of Nigeria aided by its Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele and bring to an end the Manipulation of Forex, illegally funding Federal Government budget, short - changing the Money Deposit Bank's reserve ratio at the expense of the Masses as the abuse of internal process.

This is certainly very alarming and what NORPRA expects of government is to rededicate itself to the implementation of a very comprehensive national policy on climate change to minimize the threats posed by climate change.

Much of this stems from planning changes made by the last Administration, which is why we introduced the National Planning Policy Framework and abolished the last Government's top - down Regional Strategies through the Localism Act.

Not only has the trial of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver begun, but the trial of former Majority Leader Dean Skelos is set to begin next week; and, there was the recent release of a report by a state ethics review commission calling for changes as well as a national study assessing state government accountability and transparency giving New York a «D -» grade.

Not by force — as national government have so often tried to change local government — but by example and choice.

Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

The study applied «medium to high» future emissions estimates of heat - trapping gases, as assumed by the California state government, to models designed to assess what effect climate change would have on national parks like Yosemite, Death Valley, Redwood, Joshua Tree and Sequoia.

M.T.B. was supported by NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, J.A.B. acknowledges support from the ARCCSS (CE110001028), E.C.J.O. by ARC grants FS110200029 and CE110001028, N.J.H. acknowledges funding support from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023) and the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Earth Systems and Climate Change (ESCC) Hub Project 2.3 (grant B0024391), P.J.M. by Marie Curie CIG PCIG10 - GA -2011-303685 and NERC grant NE / J024082 / 1, S.C.S. by an Australian Government RTP Scholarshipin, M.F. by a CAS - CSIRO collaborative project on Marine Science and the Blue Economy and the Western Australia Marine Science Institution.

«The significant victories we have gained in technology research and development innovation should further inspire renewed commitments by national governments to strengthen global and regional partnerships in creating better options for resource - poor and climate change - vulnerable rice farmers in the region.»

I think you and others could do more to change attitudes in the U.S. on global warming by joining forces in putting pressure on NOAA administrators and NWS supervisors to educate the 5,500 meteorologists in 120 National Weather Service offices so the NWS scientists can help other government people and other meteorologists who enter people's private living rooms better understand climate change.

Moreover, both government and the private sector are making investment decisions today — whether in property, long - term infrastructure or regional and national supply chains — that will be directly affected by climate change in decades to come.

Despite the changing role of NCTL, the government's commitment to ensuring that the role of school business managers remains as a critical element of effective school leadership and school improvement has been signalled by the launch of the school business management national scholarship scheme.

In response to Morgan's plans, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «The workload challenge can be solved by more intelligent accountability, better planning and fewer changes from government — constant short - notice disruption is not conducive to the focus required for good quality teaching.

Background information World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is co-initiated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), Missions Publiques (MP), and the French National Commission for Public Debate (CNDP), with the support of the French Government host of COP21.

Critics charge that school - to - work programs displace basic skills and academic instruction, are impractical and wasteful, invade family privacy, narrow student options, promote societal change (by reducing ability grouping, integrating reshaping traditional gender roles, etc.), and allow the national government to shape school curricula and children's futures.

«I see you when you're bearing the brunt of the regulatory burden that local, state, and federal governments - including the U.S. Department of Education, though I'm working to change that - put on you,» DeVos said at the 2017 Principal of the Year Institute, which was hosted in Washington by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

«The opportunity area — working through the partnership board — is a promise, made by national and local government, education leaders and teachers, voluntary organisations and employers, to make change happen.»

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

A powerful, national online force driven by over one million members, Color Of Change moves decision - makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people in America.

Such prices are influenced by numerous factors that affect the markets, including, but not limited to: changing supply and demand relationships; government programs and policies; national and international political and economic events, changes in interest rates, inflation and deflation and changes in supply and demand relationships.

In light of what it considers national security risks posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

In reference to Michael Glantz's program and the funding by the government - controlled National Science Foundation, the action to terminate the program smacks of the kind of silencing tactics used by the government on James Hansen of NASA who also spoke out on climate change.

Loosely relevant, but the UK government has been reported to be giving higher priority to get the UK off oil dependency for its energy needs as a matter of national urgency, not provoked by climate change but by ongoing events in the Middle East.

In light of what it considers a national security risk posed by climate change, the government of Nicaragua has formed the Ecological Battalion, a first - of - its - kind team of soldiers dedicated to combating against environmental threats.

Current attempts by national governments worldwide to control industrial CO2 emissions following the recommendations of the IPCC could be viewed within the scientific paradigm as the projection of a large scale experiment on the earth's climate system to validate the hypothesis that anthropogenic CO2 emissions through the burning of fossil fuels and land use changes (inter alia) are a major factor driving climate change.

Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2017 — Current pledges by national governments are not enough to reach the goal set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but hope remains in the leading role being taken by subnational and non-state actors like cities, companies and organizations, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón told participants on the closing day of the Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) in Mexico City.

And national officials are increasingly aware that climate change is on the way to achieving that, says Pasquale Capizzi, from the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, a European Union funded project that is implemented by U.N. agencies in partnership with the Myanmar goverchange is on the way to achieving that, says Pasquale Capizzi, from the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, a European Union funded project that is implemented by U.N. agencies in partnership with the Myanmar goverChange Alliance, a European Union funded project that is implemented by U.N. agencies in partnership with the Myanmar government.

HERE is one Ceres investor statement by 190 real - money investors with more than US$ 13 trillion of assets: «On 14 January 2010 the world's largest investors released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to quickly adopt strong national climate policies that will establish a stable investment climate and thus spur low - carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change.»

These reports are then used by inter-governmental treaties, bodies, conferences, and national governments, as the basis for international and national policies on climate change.

The objectives of the campaign are to increase understanding and encourage commitment by local and national governments to make disaster risk reduction and resilience and climate change a policy priority and to bring the global Hyogo Framework closer to local needs.