This comes up every time some NGO claims they have a bzillion signatures from scientists that are for or against climate disruption
driven policy change.
Family Equality Council does this work through building community, changing hearts and minds, and
driving policy change.
It also highlights a key tension for DeVos, who praised the budget but has been sharply critical of past federally
driven policy changes.
This lesson plan for science teachers, humanities teachers, and university professors examines the role that visuals can play in
driving policy change by inspiring readers to «do something».
As a highly credible talented and savvy Washington insider with significant contacts on the «hill» that can be leveraged, I have had the opportunity to plan, develop, accomplish, and showcase major initiatives that
drove policy change and represented significant role in supporting climate change war activities that involved national and international participants.
2020 Mom is Closing Gaps We understand the health care system and deliver the MMH message and solutions to stakeholders and thought leaders to
drive policy change.
Not exact matches
This fundamental shift will reshape urban transportation, and is being
driven by
changes in the regulation, pricing, and workforce
policies of ride - hailing services.
On Nov. 20, the city planning committee agreed to
change the official plan so that additional
drive - thrus could not be located in «special
policy areas,» like the historic downtown, unless the company submits an urban design study that satisfies the overall plan.
While each travel and expense
policy must reflect the specific goals and culture of an organization, the most effective ones are sturdy enough to help
drive the objectives of the organization while remaining sufficiently flexible to encompass industry
changes and technological developments.
Just as the events of the 1970s and emergence of stagflation throughout the industrial world, led to new
policy paradigms, I believe that recent events will force us to develop new approaches to thinking about economic fluctuations and inflation which will, in turn,
drive major
changes in thinking about fiscal and monetary
policy.
To the extent that
changes are
driven by temporary supply disturbances, most countries would expect not to respond to these with monetary
policy, since it is likely that by the time any
policy response has its effect the problem will have gone away.
However, when the
changes are
driven by persistent demand factors,
policy - makers will need to give consideration to whether monetary
policy needs to be adjusted.
In Canada, a group of men and women, largely from the west coast, who were watching the
changes across the Pacific believed that if Canada was to adjust to the new Asia, it must understand something of the cultures and
policies driving the transformation.
Dozens of tech companies, including Apple, Google's Waymo and Tesla, have expressed their desire to see some
changes in the California Department of Motor Vehicles» self -
driving car
policies.
There has been no
change in our capital allocation
policy and over the next few years our first priority is to continue to invest in our business, as we have a compelling opportunity to
drive sustainable growth and value creation, and we're putting our capital against this opportunity.
«Both stock and bond values have been
driven up by monetary
policy, and as we approach an inflection point where that
policy changes, they both have the same reason to sell off,» Mr. Knight said.
But economists and professors cast doubt on whether tax
policy changes were the
driving force behind the move by a retailing giant that for years has stood as a lightning rod for criticism over low worker pay.
Knee - jerk loyalty to American regime
change projects
drove both, but they were nevertheless strange
policies to be taken up by a country that has its own challenges with national unity.
Policy changes with the winds of fashion, and now the First Nations, as native Canadians are called, are
driving home the truth that no good deed goes unpunished.
We should advocate domestic
policies that penalize those who hire undocumented immigrants — a
policy change that would decrease illegal immigration far more naturally and quickly than deportation
drives.
Seattle, WA About Blog Healthy Food America acts on scientific evidence to
drive change in food
policy and industry practice, giving people greater control over their health and reducing diet - related illnesses, such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.
This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to
drive forward legislative and
policy change and shape practice across the state.
Until we
change our game style, formation, players that are not good enough, spending
policy so that we buy in all the positions we need, not just one, buy players with characters,
driven by success with lots of titles behind them,
change our ambition to titles, not fourth, reduce immense ticket prices, stop being a business rather than a football club, introduce younger members to the board or unbelievably somehow
change the manager, I will not be convinced.
The webinar will also address the legal implications of the position statements and how these statements can be used to
drive policy,
change and education.
B Lab
drives systemic
change through three interrelated initiatives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations to make it easier for all of us to tell the difference between «good companies» and just good marketing; 2) accelerating the growth of the impact investing asset class through use of B Lab's GIIRS impact rating system by institutional investors; and 3) promoting supportive public
policies, including creation of a new corporate form and tax, procurement, and investment incentives for sustainable business.
This
change in diplomacy is part of the emergence of a new paradigm
driving the US Foreign
Policy post «9/11».
It's good that the Regulatory
Policy Committee is there to clamp down on this sort of bad regulation, and we welcome the Government's progress so far on this issue, but the RPC needs real powers if it is to
drive change and challenge Whitehall culture.
A 2004 court decision limited the legislature's ability to make
changes in the governor's spending plan, and the current governor has increasingly put more
policy language into the state's spending plan, including raising the minimum wage in 2013 and increasing penalties for texting while
driving in 2014.
The
driving focus of the shadow defence team is to develop a defence
policy fit for modern times, responsive to a dramatically
changing world which enables us to maintain a position of global influence.
Public anger over cuts to tax credits, disability benefits, and
changes to national insurance contributions for self - employed workers have
driven the most significant government welfare
policy U-turns in recent years.
A new study shows economic and
policy changes that limit parking have significantly reduced miles
driven in 10 European cities
Among the anticipated outcomes of the summit meeting was the hope that the participants could compile
policy recommendations that might
drive a communal prescription for
change.
In theory, if a city or region has
policies that encourage biking instead of
driving, the researchers should be able to see the
change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.
«The fact that it was unexpected means that the
changes we're looking at, before and after, are really due to the
policy and not some other development that would also affect how much people would want to
drive,» Kreindler says.
McDowell foresees two groups working in the organization: «one that is effecting advocacy and communication between junior scientists and the rest of the community; and another that is working with data about the system and
driving evidence - based
policy changes.»
Trudeau has also said his party will embrace «evidence based
policy» and «data -
driven decision - making,» do more to address climate
change, protect endangered species, and review the environmental impact of major energy and development projects.»
According to their analysis, groundwater extraction and
changes in aquifer management
policies,
driven largely by subsidizes and new technology, reduced the state's total wealth held in groundwater by $ 110 million per year between 1996 and 2005.
Formerly secret records suggest a tobacco company
drove changes to how European
policy is made, claim Katherine Smith and her colleagues at Bath University in the UK.
The supplement examines the issues surrounding distracted
driving by teens, exploring developmental states and
changes that are associated with adolescents» distractibility and their relation to
driving, examining patterns of distraction among newly licensed adolescents as well as brain function, considering the potential role played by parental modeling of distracted behavior while
driving, accounting for the role of technology and the influence of peer passengers and society norms, and investigating
policy, legislation, and intervention.
Our core strengths in green chemistry and engineering research, combined with our role as a trusted third - party facilitator of stakeholder collaborations
drives meaningful
change toward solutions that 1) preserve natural capital, 2) are safe and sustainable across the product life cycle, 3) align and leverage different types of
policy instruments, and 4) actively engage stakeholders to ensure equity.
«There are lots of reasons why parents are eager to
change from the rear - facing to forward - facing seat: the perception their children are too large, the desire to see their children when
driving, and a greater ease of removing their children from a forward facing seat,» says Macy, who also is a member of the U-M Injury Center and the Institute for Healthcare
Policy and Innovation.
The goals of the meeting will be to discuss the status quo that has allowed harassment and discrimination to continue and to
drive new
policies that will encourage
change.
That causes some real problems for school reform, since advocacy, research, and
policy are the tools that reformers use to try to
drive systemic
change.
Crucially, eLearning can help you keep your staff up to date with any
changes to company
policies, procedures, or approaches
driven by GDPR.
Policies intended to «protect» districts weaken the incentives that should
drive change and adaptation as enrollments fluctuate.
Mehta studies the political forces
driving changes in American education
policy and the consequences of these
changes for practice.
Policies intended to protect districts from the effects of shifting enrollments «weaken the incentives that should
drive change and adaptation as enrollments fluctuate,» observe Roza and Fullerton.
Haney and others have concluded that this
policy change artificially
drove up 4th - grade test scores, because it removed from the cohort of students tested those who were retained in 3rd grade, the very students most likely to score the lowest on standardized tests.
Addressing statewide inequities would require
policies like
changing school funding formulas to
drive more money to poorer schools.
Driving these
changes is a belief that seniority - based layoff
policies may have negative consequences for student achievement.