Sentences with phrase «direct local changes»

Municipalities can also direct local changes that reduce the trajectory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and create resilient communities that can adapt to the changes caused by climate -LSB-...]

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The Idea Village is committed to sustaining the local entrepreneurial movement by providing direct services to entrepreneurs, engaging the community, and supporting initiatives that leverage entrepreneurship to catalyze change.

Though the Big 6 framework has proposed to eliminate some tax breaks, like the state and local tax deduction, it has not thus far proposed direct changes to the mortgage interest deduction.

The retail sector in the Middle East is evolving fast, not least due to its overwhelmingly young population, and retailers face a major challenge in responding to the changing needs of consumers for fresh - cut and convenience products, for local produce, for organics, for online delivery options and for international brands, with many retailers taking on more control of the supply chain by importing direct from the source.

She is the Director of the Optimal Birth BC program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, which develops syntheses of evidence for clinicians, decision - aids and information packages for childbearing families, and uses local data to evaluate clinical practice and direct change to reduce rates of cesarean section in BC hospitals and health authorities.

«GNPC headquartered in the region will move a lot of investments here to change the status - quo of the down - stream direct economic impact of the industry, and a lot of our local people will directly and indirectly benefit from the relocation.

Inside Housing said only 36 out of 204 councils contacted reported any rent reductions following changes by the Department For Work And Pensions in April 2011 which allow direct payment of local housing allowances (LHA) to landlords.

What happened in those years is that the national Green Party structure was changed from a mass - membership party structure of dues - paying members organized in local chapters into a party structured like the Democrats and Republicans, as a federation of state parties with no direct national membership, dues, or structure of direct accountability to the rank - and - file members.

The fact that climate change is viewed through a local lens in Uganda has another important implication: there seems to be very little anger or resentment directed towards the nations that bear the historical responsibility for climate change.

These images depict how the photonic sensor translates finger movements into color changes, as the photonic crystal reacts to the change in local humidity caused by the approach of the finger without direct contact.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

In this presentation, I will explore concepts, methods and applications directed towards effectively engaging local communities in conservation planning in an era of rapid environmental change.

While student - achievement data run counter to rising public optimism, the change in public thinking corresponds with the new mood that emerged on Capitol Hill in 2015 when Congress passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which stripped the federal government of much of its authority to direct school reforms at the local level.

This change means that students who are harmed by state and local civil - rights violations will be far less likely to see those abuses remedied unless they, their parents, or someone else acting on their behalf files a direct and formal complaint.

They discovered a major change in how parents, educators, community and business leaders, and public officials come together to direct changes in local public schools.

Question: What is the process for changing a school's funding designation from local to direct?

Overall, the $ 9 billion in direct state aid to districts is unlikely to change much at this point, with the vast majority of local districts» budgets already adopted.

In addition, she works closely with local education agency (LEA) partners to provide direct support around the development, use, and refinement of student data review systems to drive changes in classroom instructional practice.

MIPFS organizes grassroots lobbying efforts and direct lobbying of state policymakers on education issues; it also works to help parents form local organizations to support their schools and to change the current public discourse about public schools through education efforts.

Committed to long - term, sustainable development in direct partnership with the Haitian people, the APJ model is simple: we believe in empowering local communities, fostering economic growth, and the power of education to change a nation.

Those changes are local, occuring on a different time scale, and if due to direct external forcing would require higher changes in solar radiance than claimed.

The IMF report looks at direct incentives, local pollution and public health effects, climate changes, and a host of other costs to arrive at its projected subsidy number.

Other examples involving both risks and opportunities include changes of investment flows to regions where future climate change impacts may be beneficial for productivity Finally, some impacts that are entirely local and may have little or no direct effect outside the regions in which they occur still threaten values of global significance, and thus trigger international concern.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

Irresponsible Chinese, Malaysian, and Japanese companies that log in Third World rainforests are responsible for climate change as well as the more direct and local damage due to deforestation.

Markus leads the effort at PCIC to quantify the direct and indirect effects of climate change and variability upon the various components of hydrologic cycle at the local and regional scale.

sea was converted to land and agriculture, heather fields to forests and since 1.5 century industrialization, increased population and transport... The local offset (~ 40 ppmv in Giessen, SW Germany) can be calibrated away by comparing the stomata data to direct measurements and ice cores in the previous century, but nobody knows the influence of land use changes in the main wind directions and of changes in the main wind directions themselves (MWP - LIA) in the course of the centuries.

The White House and U.S. Military have continued to raise alarms about the serious and direct risks of climate change - related impacts to local communities and military installations.

As science begins to understand more clearly how global warming creates local environmental effects, so we may begin to see the growth of direct climate change litigation.

Because a direct seller does not use local agents, a policyholder must deal directly with the company for quoting, purchasing a policy and for any changes that are needed to the policy.

- Managing your own sales activity to market Berry Recruitment and your own ability and knowledge of the local market - Securing face to face meetings with decision makers within business across the south west - Advertising opportunities across several job boards, searching CVs portals and managing direct applications - Interviewing candidates over the phone and face to face to asses suitability for positions - Managing interview and offer process with candidates and clients - Work as a team, sharing information with direct colleague and those across neighbouring Berry locations - Achieving monthly and quarterly revenue targets SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE: - An experienced sales professional with strong working knowledge of the local market - Self - motivated, able to perform without direct management input - Proven success of achieving revenue targets - Commercially aware, able to respond to market changes and identify opportunities - Transparent communicator and comfortable working within a small team - Fully flexible to adapt to all working requirements - Full driving licence required.

Parents are directed to contact their adoption assistance worker by phone to request changes or to mail requests to the local county office.