Sentences with phrase «changing national priorities»

The level of importance assigned to these various missions, and the role of federal R&D in serving them, has varied over the years, reflecting changing national priorities.

Not exact matches

He started by affirming his belief Australia needs a «national day», and suggested changing the date was not a priority for Indigenous leaders.

No Kid Hungry aims to build partnerships that enlist influential individuals to act as catalysts to advocate the policy changes needed to achieve its end goal of engaging the public to make ending child hunger a national priority.

With the imminent closure of the National Programme for Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAIs) and the radical reform of NHS services, it is vital that during the period of change patient safety remains at the forefront of everyone's priorities.

To that end, de Blasio said taking back the U.S. House of Representatives is his top national priority, a change that would have monumental implications for the city and state and the resources they receive from the federal government.

New priorities will mean fewer jobs and a change of focus for Australia's national laboratories.

The Democratic National Convention elevated climate change on the party's list of electoral priorities, a move that's meant to energize progressive voters while casting shadows on Trump's judgment related to science and the environment.

This approach, he stresses, is different from total abandonment because tiered defences «should be designed to be reversible should national priorities change».

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

To keep pace with the rapidly changing mental health research landscape, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) recently released its second annual update of the Strategic Research Priorities.

Research priorities in the IRRI - China collaboration include China's national program on breeding super hybrid rice, improving the grain quality of inbred rice lines, and addressing the challenges of climate change effects in farming through climate - smart technologies.

This, in turn, needs massive changes in the international and national political priority list and agenda.

Of course, some priorities may be externally imposed, such as changes to national curriculum requirements.

As a result, changing the ways in which teachers are recruited, trained, and paid was one of the National Commission on Excellence in Education's chief priorities.

SCBC will focus on national priorities, changing mindsets, and making strategic TA investments that lead to innovation and results for children and families, especially infants and toddlers.

Thanks to their persistent grassroots efforts — abetted by a confluence of factors, including changing priorities in the National Park Service, the decommissioning of military sites across the U.S., and a continuing debate over the future of Alcatraz Island — the Golden Gate National Recreation Area was established on October 27, 1972.

«Price Plus» is the way we can create the necessary national consensus that climate change mitigation is one of the major priorities for the U.S..

I've always thought that the way to make progress on climate change, especially in «reluctant» countries like China and even the U.S., is to start by focusing on places where climate goals overlap with other national priorities — like clearing the air or making energy supplies more reliable.

It supports efforts at NASA, recommended as a priority by the National Research Council, to develop new space - based capabilities to help us better understand our changing climate.

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.

Integrate climate change with other priorities: Better integrating climate solutions into cross-cutting challenges, including women's empowerment, urbanization, conflict and national security, and our own management and operations.

Also, as climate finance becomes increasingly available at the global level, it would be essential to enact appropriate assimilative national capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thinational capacity in Pakistan to direct this finance towards nationally identified priorities as well as channelize it transparently and efficiently through consolidated financial mechanisms like a National Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through thiNational Climate Change Fund which has been proposed through this study.

The strategy identifies three priority areas that match calls for international guidance, the urgent need for action at a national level on climate change and the organization's skill set, experience and mandate.

To avert negative impact of climate change, accelerated adoption of climate - smart agriculture would be necessary which would require dynamic national policies and investment priorities that will positively influence local institutions and interventions to adapt 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.

Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future global and regional climate change research and assessment.

«Climate Change: Improvements Needed to Clarify National Priorities and Better Align Them with Federal Funding Decisions,» US Government Accountability Office, May 2011, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-317 5.

Climate change has been identified by Jonathan Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service, as a high priority for the service because implications for management and resource protection are unprecedented.

According to the U.S. National Assessment on the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, determining the role of weather in the incidence of waterborne disease outbreaks is a priority...

It stresses that main challenges and priorities related to climate change have provoked a national shift, which will require the creation of new green jobs, re-training or greening of existing ones in order to meet specific environmental goals.

Policy makers should remember that long lead times are frequently required to implement changes and that priorities in each country will vary according to national circumstances.

From climate change to infrastructure, mayors are increasingly listing issues that were once national and state priorities as amongst their top local concerns, according to a new national survey.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabChange establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerabchange adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

The Bank supports country - led development strategies and priorities aimed at integrating climate - and disaster - resilience in national development planning, while helping countries take advantage of new economic, capacity building, and financing opportunities that climate change presents.

These questions are organized according to the most frequent arguments made against climate change policies which are claims that climate change policies: (a) will impose unacceptable costs on a national economy or specific industries or prevent nations from pursuing other national priorities, (b) should not be adopted because of scientific uncertainty about climate change impacts, or (c) are both unfair and ineffective as long as high emitting nations such as China or India do not adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction policies.

The Summit report identifies seven priorities for near - term action, starting with the need to develop «an overarching national strategy to guide federal climate climate change adaptation programs.

Geothermal Seonaid Vass Director, Renewable Energy Low Carbon Technologies Legislative and policy drivers EU Priorities - EU Energy Efficiency Directive - Obligation on each Member State to set an indicative national energy efficiency target Scottish Government Targets - Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 — Reduce energy / 2014 — Sheraton Hotel, Edinburgh B2B matchmaking (pre-arranged networking) Exhibition Seminars Drinks reception International delegations — Sweden, Denmark Site visits, 19 Nov 2014 — /

As a concrete follow - up to the launch of the national climate change learning strategy, a number of concrete priority actions will be implemented.

Nevertheless, President Obama and the new Congress, beginning January 21, need to figure out a way to put funding for climate change, being cast as a national priority, on an even keel with funding for other national priorities such as health care and economic recovery.

As you note, it has failed to make fighting climate change a high priority of most Americans (i.e., ranked vs. the many other national public policy needs).

The agency announced late last month that it was creating a Center on Climate Change and National Security to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities.

This Strategy translates FAO's mandate into strategic choices and action priorities at global, regional, national and local levels with the central goal of supporting its Member Nations in achieving their commitments to face climate change.

An INDC should also articulate how the country is integrating climate change into other national priorities, such as sustainable development and poverty reduction, and send signals to the private sector to contribute to these efforts.

Keep reading to find out.The CIA official Center for Climate Change and National Security is (will be) established, «to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations, and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities.»

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The COAG adopted National Climate Change Adaptation Framework identifies the lack of information and knowledge gaps as integral to the two priority areas for potential action.

Turnbull expressed strong support for the 10 year National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan but gave no details of the funding it will get in the May budget and said there would be no policy direction change from «the key priorities of health, education, employment, economic empowerment».

The NIS - 4: What It All Means (and Doesn't Mean)(PDF - 170 KB) National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges & Permanency Planning for Children Department (2011) Offers guidance on understanding the meaning of the Fourth National Incidence Study (NIS - 4) findings in a broader context and in terms of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges» Courts Catalyzing Change: Achieving Equity and Fairness in Foster Care initiative's priorities, goals, and opportunities.

Meanwhile, the Change the Record Coalition has released its election priorities, calling on all parties to make it a national priority to address over-imprisonment and the disproportionate rates of violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children.