Sentences with phrase «change policies on»

Just like banking regulations after the Great Recession; just like tobacco regulations after decades of the industry lying; just like decades of the asbestos industry lying; just like the soda industry continues to lie about fructose today; just like the airline industry didn't change policies on protecting the cabin until after 9/11 (the first US hijacking was in the 1960's); just like the gun industry through the lobbyists like the NRA continues to drag their feet... The force for change will have to be from the BOTTOM UP.

In the United States, because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.

If nations fail to base their climate change policies on what equity, ethics, and justice require of them on mitigation of their greenhouse gas emissions and funding for adaptation, losses, and damages, then the global response to climate change will not likely be ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate impacts while deepening existing injustices in the world.

While in Delhi, he spoke to Financial Chronicle about the impact of climate change policies on the liv...

Because stronger laws have been successfully blocked by opponents of strong climate change policies on the basis that stronger laws will harm the US economy, destroy specific industries, and destroy jobs, the actual US climate change policies are based upon US economic interests, a fact not clear from examining the statements of the US federal government alone.

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of economic cost alone, whether they deny that, in addition to economic interests, nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

Mr Ziegler called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to change its policies on agricultural subsidies and to stop supporting only programs aimed at debt reduction.

Fourth some arguments against climate change policies on the basis of scientific uncertainty often rest on the ethically dubious notion that nothing should be done to reduce a threat that some are imposing on others until all uncertainties are resolved.

Later entries in this series will identify questions that should be asked to counter arguments made against national climate change policies on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unfairness or ineffectiveness if China or another large ghg emitter nation do not act.

This video identifies questions that should be asked of those who oppose climate change policies on the basis of cost or adverse economic impacts to expose the ethical and moral problems with these arguments.

If climate change is a moral problem, the US may not base its climate change policies on US interests alone, it must respond to its obligations to not harm others outside the United States.

If you argue that the United States should not adopt climate change policies on the basis that economic competitors such as China have not adopted climate change policies, are you claiming that no nation has a duty to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions until all other nations reduce their ghg emissions accordingly?

The evidence for this widespread failure to understand the practical significance of seeing climate change as a moral issue includes the almost universal failure of the press or advocates of climate change policies to ask those governments, businesses, organizations, or individuals who oppose national climate change policies on the grounds of national economic cost alone whether they deny that in addition to national economic interest nations must comply with their obligations, duties, and responsibilities to prevent harm to millions of poor, vulnerable people around the world.

More specifically, when opponents of climate change policies make self - interest based arguments against the adoption of policies such as cost to the United States, there are no follow - up questions asked by the press about whether those who argue against climate change policies on grounds of cost to the United States are denying that the United States has duties or responsibilities to those outside the United States to prevent harm to them.

Many are concerned about the effect of climate change policies on our economy.

Fortunately, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau pushed lenders to change their policies on new and existing loans so that co-signer deaths no longer trigger such defaults.

However, schools are starting to change their policies on homework.

So far, climate change policies on the tropics have effectively been focusing on reducing carbon emissions from deforestation only, not accounting for emissions coming from forest degradation.

The news comes as scores of UK hospitality firms are beginning to change their policies on plastic waste, while some environmental campaigners are attempting to tax single - use plastic products in an effort to discourage their use.

Many are now talking about whether the central banks will change their policies on quantitative easing.

But this is exactly what Canada has done by giving the European Union a deadline of Feb. 11 to change its policies on genetically modified foods.

United Airlines said on Friday it is changing its policy on booking its own flight crews onto its planes.

Here are all the retailers that have changed their policies on gun sales following the Parkland, Florida shooting:

And while Japanese society is homogenous and relatively unfriendly to outsiders, desperate circumstances could call for desperate measures and necessitate changing policies on immigration.

Uber is changing its policy on bug bounties, payments to people who expose data security problems, Reuters reported on Thursday (April 26)...

The airline has since changed its policy on uniforms to allow employees to wear religious or charity symbols.

Have you changed your policy on guest articles?

What we need to now match up with MU, MC and Chelsea is to start to spend well on quality players... change the policy on «hangling» and protracted players negotiations during transfer windows,,,.

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

The petition, titled «Tell U.S.D.A. to stop using pink slime in school food,» garnered more than 200,000 signatures within nine days and prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to change its policy on using Lean Finely Textured Beef in the ground beef served in schools.

A few potted things the boycott and campaign has achieved: The International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes (despite what Nestlé told the bloggers, it opposed the Code - scans of documents from the time are on our site), the Code's implementation in 70 countries to greater or lesser degrees, breastfeeding rates in countries taking action to stop malpractice increasing (Brazil from median duration 3 months in the 1980s to 10 months today), Nestlé changing its policy on milk nurses and baby pictures on formula, stopping specific cases of malpractice such as Nestlé promoting formula in Botswana as preventing diarrhoea etc. etc..

Changing policies on vaginal birth after cesarean: impact on access.

UNICEF wrote to Nestlé's then Chief Executive Officer (now Chairman), Peter Brabeck - Letmathé, defending Cracking the Code as supporting its own findings and set out several areas where Nestlé policies needed to change (it took years of campaigning to pressure Nestlé to change its policy on complementary foods, criticised in the UNICEF letter — see boycott successes).

-LSB-...] FDA has yet to change their policy on the chemical in food contact materials.

The FDA has yet to change their policy on the chemical in food contact materials.

Its members and activists feel that they have influence: for instance, last year, they overturned the leadership's attemptto change its policy on airport runways.

New Labour changed its policy on the immigration rights of ex-Gurkha soldiers because of the advocacy of the actress Joanna Lumley.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mail reported that talks between Nick Clegg and City lobbyists have prompted calls for financial sector representatives to lobby the government to change its policy on the European fiscal initiative.

Earlier Shadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer hinted Labour could change its policy on another Brexit vote by saying the party was «not calling for a referendum at this stage».

Cameron changed his policy on spending three times in a day (he's referring to the marriage tax cut gaffe).

At least one species to lose protection after NOAA accepts ruling changing policy on counting hatchery salmon

In April, US Preventive Services Task Force changed its policy on routine prostate cancer screening.

But, still, I went into my boss and told her that she would need to change the policy on visible tattoos because I refused to wear pants ever again in my entire life.

Facebook is already at the center of a firestorm over privacy issues, thanks in part to the site's changing policies on sharing user data with external sites including Pandora, Yelp and Microsoft Docs.

She added: «I realise there has been significant interest in the outcome of this case, including from MPs, but I would like to take this opportunity to confirm that the government has no plans to change our policy on grammar schools.»

35 councils in England have changed their policy on fining parents for term - time holidays, according to a BBC investigation

The DOT has just changed the policy on that, and people are excited.

I stopped reviewing on Amazon a while back after they changed their policy on reviewing friends» books, etc..

After writing to them several times with no response, I decided to change my policy on holding pre-designed covers.

After writing to them several times with no response, I decided to change my policy on holding covers.