Sentences with phrase «effect real policy changes»

While major protests in the U.S. against the Keystone XL tarsands pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline have targeted specific infrastructure projects that would lock us into decades of continued fossil - fuel use, they have also shown the power of a united climate movement to effect real policy changes.

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We believe that your new government has provided Canada with the opportunity to effect real change in public policy, including as it involves crowdfunding.

From this vantage point, stability is really just a way of describing or qualifying «expectations,» which are a formal part of the way the Bank thinks about monetary policy and the transmission mechanism (i.e., how a change in the target for the overnight rate has an effect on the real economy).

Writing letters to editors or attending rallies to urge lawmakers to pass climate - friendly policies can not only fend off the anxiety and depression that comes with feeling helpless, but also effect real change.

This strikes me as a far better analogy than the earlier elections you cite — Like Wilson, Cameron could have cannily used every day to illustrate that while he was doing his best to govern with a minority, the radical changes the economic crisis demanded were being blocked at every turn and that he deserved to be given a real chance to put his policies into effect.

In its first Open Government Plan, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recognized that the Open Government initiative is about more than adopting new tools and emerging technologies — it is about effecting real policy and internal culture change to ensure that our Department truly becomes even more transparent, participatory, and collaborative, both internally and externally.

This has impacted her desire to be a part of a solution, believing that the only way to effect real and lasting change is to tackle the root cause - that is, to challenge the existing structure of animal welfare through policy and legislation.

Given the sea change in the political landscape in the U.S., and the fact that it seems likely to continue its shift toward conservatism, this latter sort of bridge seems like it might actually have an effect in the real world, where policy will actually be made.

Think of it this way — if there is no chance of observing the effects of changes in PDI in the global impacts record for 50 years (Emanuel's estimate) and over that same time period we expect damage to increase in real terms by up to a factor of 32 (a real doubling in damages every 10 - 15 years), then I think that it is safe (and also responsible) to assert that over that time period the only policies that can have a discernable effect on tropical cyclone damage around the world will necessarily be adaptive.

What I mean by this question is that climate change poses a real challenge to social change movements because it is gradual, delayed in its effects, and uneven in its impacts.The message that is coming from climate scientists at present, along with climate - hawkish public figures, is that we still have time to change — that international conferences, evolving public policies, steady but small annual emissions reductions, could still prove sufficient to keep us within the «safe zone».

Furthermore, the so - called «ripple effect» where a minor change to one policy causes a vulnerability in another area of the corporate network is a very real danger.

However, provincial governments would have to make corresponding legislative and policy changes with respect to cannabis use and retail sales to give real effect to the Cannabis Act.

In other words, the President could try to propose that Congress pass such a law, or they could try to order INS to change their policy to make it difficult / impossible for certain people to enter the United States, but either direction would require the cooperation of the legislative branch and / or the judicial branch in order to have any real effect.