Sentences with phrase «concrete targets»

However, the declaration has been criticised for lacking concrete targets.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

15 September 2017 — Ordos, China — By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

Mathieu Lucot, marketing manager of Epi Ingredients, said that «Passion du Lait» is a step toward a more unified approach to form the basis of the group's sustainable and corporate responsibility development, which will also set concrete targets for the next few years.

We've yet to have concrete targets attached to the suspiciously timed «warchest» story, and he's only been too eager to provide them (whether his source is Ivan Gazidis holding a gun to his head while he types is another question).

He gave people concrete targets, and it was a way of sparking anger and mobilizing support.

At Hauser and Wirth, Rashid Johnson's Public Enemy referencing bulls - eye sculpture Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos was situated across the booth from Paul McCarthy's disturbing portrait of George Bush, giving a darkly violent twist to both works, while taking Public Enemy's original symbol of power against racism, and turning it back outwards on a more concrete target.

The ad, designed like a poster for the movie «Titanic,» complains that the United States, Japan and Canada, particularly, have held back efforts to settle on concrete targets for limiting emissions of greenhouse gases.

This new partnership on closing the gap will set concrete targets for the future: within a decade to halve the widening gap in literacy, numeracy and employment outcomes and opportunities for Indigenous children, within a decade to halve the appalling gap in infant mortality rates between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and, within a generation, to close the equally appalling 17 - year life gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous when it comes to overall life expectancy.

To date, more than 110 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

The change, Ramaswamy said, is based on new observations casting doubt on earlier model simulations and reflects a slight increase in uncertainty, rather than a new, concrete target for warming.

The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) environment meeting in London is expected to set a concrete target for shipping emissions in the coming decades.

Many of the pledges are contingent: The United States, for example, refuses to set a concrete target until Congress passes a climate bill, and Canada's pledge is linked to that of the U.S.