Sentences with phrase «countries commit to action»

Unlike earlier attempts to forge a climate deal, this agreement called for countries commit to action well before they reached Paris, which they did in their national climate plans.

Not exact matches

Nearly every country in the world has committed to take action under the Paris Agreement to slow global warming.

Countries are not however forced to commit to responding to genocide with any specific actions.

«We also want to see the UK committing to further leadership at the global level to ensure stronger global coordination and action to ensure that the poorest, most vulnerable, countries do not continue to be hit the hardest by tax avoidance.»

If you truly do not recognize the Const!tution as being the Supreme Law that governs your physical life here in this country, then you have some options, like giving up your Citizenship and moving to a different country, or staying here and refusing to follow the law — in which case we can bring a tort action or other civil suit against you, file criminal charges against you, or have you committed to a psychiatric hospital.

The Industry's National Recycling Action Plan would have no cost to taxpayers with beverage, food and retail industries committing to generate $ 285 million of programs and initiatives across the country to increase the recycling of packaging and to reduce littler.

Other post-USSR countries, on the other hand, were founded on nationalist ideals, and their governments were quite committed to distancing themselves as far from their past as possible, so destroying statues was an important action to them and their electorate, and expenses were more justified in their eyes.

It's therefore extra important that all the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea are committed to the Baltic Sea action plan they joined, and that they comply with the necessary efforts to reduce the release of nutrients into the Baltic,» emphasises Professor Carstensen, who is also director of the Baltic Nest Institute in Denmark.

The more likely outcome is that countries will agree to adopt the declaration with few changes, but with the proviso that they are not committed to any action that does not conform to their own laws.

Professor David Goldberg, lead of the team implementing Scotland's hepatitis C Action Plan (2008 - 2011), said: «This study demonstrates that, in a country like Scotland which has a Government seriously committed to the improvement of hepatitis C services, increasing patient access to antiviral therapy could potentially have a major impact in the prevention of transmission of infection.»

«You corroborate and prove and substantiate a fraud of this caliber that spanned for decades, and then essentially give the country that committed that fraud a slap on the wrist, allow 160 of their athletes to compete in those games, two of them found doping, and then immediately after the games are over — without that country ever accepting responsibility, apologizing for any of their actions or accepting that any of this was truth while they continue to hunt Dr. Rodchenkov — you lift the ban on that country.

«In My Country,» directed by John Boorman, dramatizes the actions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was formed by President Nelson Mandela to offer amnesty to those who had committed human rights abuses under apartheid, provided they told the whole truth and could prove they followed orders.

Private sector groups from across the country are committing to the following actions today to increase access to high - quality early STEM education:

issued a call - to - action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers, by committing to dedicate a space, designate a champion, and showcase student work.

Building a better world for all of us begins with a few simple actions and American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, is challenging people to commit to protecting and improving the lives of millions of animals during this year's «Be Kind to Animals Week ®» (May 6 - 12), the oldest commemorative week in U.S. history, and the nation's longest - running humane education campaign.

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2018 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — Building a better world for all of us begins with a few simple actions and American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, is challenging people to commit to protecting and improving the lives of millions of animals during this year's «Be Kind to Animals Week ®» (May 6 - 12), the oldest commemorative week in U.S. history, and the nation's longest - running humane education campaign.

In stating the need for China to commit to concrete actions, Stern noted that the fast - industrializing country's per - capita greenhouse gas emissions now exceeded those of France.

To address this issue, we commit to support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policieTo address this issue, we commit to support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policieto support urgent actions to mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policieto mainstream adaptation into broader development strategies and encourage developing countries themselves to integrate adaptation into their development policieto integrate adaptation into their development policies.

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

«The size of the financial contribution in this context, as decided in the convention, is that the developed countries committed themlves to cover the full incremental costs of developing countries actions to adapt or mitigate against climate change,» is how he put it.

ERIA's study acknowledges that world leaders have taken action to mitigate climate change as committed to at the 21st Conference of Parties or COP21, whereby each country pledged to implement Nationally Determined Contributions to track the progress of climate change abatement.

Securing Senate support for climate agreements is difficult under any circumstances, but unless all major countries are seen as committing to real action, it will be hopeless.

Yet, the Copenhagen Accord marks the first time where major developing countries such as China and India promise to commit to mitigation actions.

Like other developed countries, it has not committed to action beyond this in areas such as adaptation and finance.

This administration is abdicating its leadership and taking a backseat to other countries in the global fight against climate change, New York State is committed to meeting the standards set forth in the Paris Accord regardless of Washington's irresponsible actions.

Therefore, it is important for the US to stay committed to efforts under the UNFCCC framework, which will of course entail the US to not only have a greater domestic policy action, but also a long - term vision that sees «the pursuit of equity [not] as an obstacle, [but] as an opportunity to ensure all countries take on greater efforts.»

Wendel Trio, Director of Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, said: «The roadmap agreed today should help countries to bridge the gap between what they have committed to do and what is needed to keep temperature rise to safe levels.

This guidance document provides information and suggestions concerning a partnership between countries interested in and committed to greening their economy and the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE).

«(6) under the Bali Action Plan, developed country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the United States, committed to «enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation,» including, inter alia, consideration of «improved access to adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources and financial and technical support, and the provision of new and additional resources, including official and concessional funding for developing country parties&rAction Plan, developed country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including the United States, committed to «enhanced action on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation,» including, inter alia, consideration of «improved access to adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources and financial and technical support, and the provision of new and additional resources, including official and concessional funding for developing country parties&raction on the provision of financial resources and investment to support action on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation,» including, inter alia, consideration of «improved access to adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources and financial and technical support, and the provision of new and additional resources, including official and concessional funding for developing country parties&raction on mitigation and adaptation and technology cooperation,» including, inter alia, consideration of «improved access to adequate, predictable, and sustainable financial resources and financial and technical support, and the provision of new and additional resources, including official and concessional funding for developing country parties».

Mayors across the country are taking action to address these real climate change threats by committing to reduce carbon emissions.

The idea to list every single financed action with information on title, recipient country, committed amount, climate component of amount, sector, mitigation / adaptation, grants / / loans (also stating grant equivalent) and so forth seems pretty reasonable to ECO.

«The European Union has come here claiming to be committed to very ambitious action, but the truth is that Europe and other industrialised countries are at the root of climate injustice.

Developing countries also committed to bi-annual reporting of their actions to reduce emissions.

Earlier this year the Europe Union committed itself to a binding obligation to cut its emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, with the option of increasing this to 30 per cent if other countries take comparable action.

The first is that by 2018 all countries are committed to making improvements to their existing pledges to cut carbon, which still gives sufficient time to adopt the necessary policies to take effective action.

Ditching the Bali Action Plan in favour of something new would simply be a way for A1 countries to be let off the hook while appearing to be committed to emission reduction aAction Plan in favour of something new would simply be a way for A1 countries to be let off the hook while appearing to be committed to emission reduction actionaction.

Real action with developing countries later requires buyers to commit now to purchase in future and sellers to build institutions — trade requires mutual confidence.

Over 100 countries that have signed the Paris Agreement have committed to pursuing actions in the land - use sector that contribute to the ultimate objective of the Convention, which is to avoid dangerous climate change.

First, the national pledges of action that countries — northern and southern, large and small — have committed to deliver to the UN Secretariat, the pledges in which they lay out their emission - reduction action plans, have to get a whole lot easier to read and compare and interpret.

And while cities, states and businesses have committed to taking climate action in the United States, federal leadership is non-existent, with the Trump administration rolling back climate policies and announcing its intent to pull the country out of the international Paris Agreement on climate change.

International climate talks have stalled since, with countries waiting to see whether the US and China would commit to taking action to curb emissions.

In fact, notwithstanding that it is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and one of the top five per - capita polluters, Canada says it won't lift a finger against climate change unless the big emitters in the developing world first commit to taking action.

This scenario is only possible if countries commit to ambitious actions that cap and steeply reduce global emissions.

More recently, as the Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner, she persuaded many of the most powerful men in the country to publicly commit to being part of a program — the Male Champions of Change — to take action on gender inequality.

From the legal perspective, some people define economic - based crime to be an act of abstention from pursuing an action that will result in harm to the economic policy or the economic security of the country, committed by a person eligible for taking the criminal responsibility; such an act is prohibited by law and for which the law has prescribed a penalty or precautionary measures.

«When it comes to the knowledge of any one that a crime has been committed, a duty is laid on that person, as a citizen of the country, to state to the authorities what he knows respecting the commission of the crime, and if he states only what he knows and honestly believes he can not be subjected to an action of damages merely because it turns out that the person as to whom we has given the information is, after all, no guilty of the crime.

At Parents as Teachers, we stand with the Dreamers and our partner agencies across the country who are committed to diversity and inclusion and demand legislative action to ensure a pathway to citizenship for these individuals.