Sentences with phrase «environment minister»
An environment minister is a government official who is responsible for protecting and managing the environment. Full definition
«The situation is truly critical,» the French environment minister says.
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As environment minister he could also match the Conservative leader on green issues, while he is has the advantage of not being associated with the Conservative economic policies of the 1980s.
Having been an effective environment minister, he is likely to support emerging «green» industries.
The court dismissed claims by the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) that former federal environment minister Greg Hunt's 2014 approval of the Carmichael mine violated international obligations to protect the reef, a UNESCO world heritage site.
While the original did not discuss climate change, the addition of this in the fourth paragraph, plus the inclusion of a quote from former Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh now complete the story.
Groups such as Clean Up Australia have long campaigned for plastic bags to be banned «forever,» and in March last year hopes were buoyed when federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt said he was prepared to use the «bully pulpit» of government to «get rid of» plastic bags.
In Germany the EEG feed - in act was once viewed as a man - on - the - moon project, and was compared to the reunification of Germany — as German Environment Minister Peter Altmaier has stated time and again [1].
Carlo Ripa di Meana, European commissioner for the environment for the past four years, has resigned to take up the job of environment minister in Italy.
Q: Yesterday [24 January], the BASIC ministers [the group of environment ministers from Brazil, South Africa, India, and China] in New Delhi decided to give voluntary information to the United Nations on emissions intensity cuts.
Which places comments from Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh on subsidies in context.
Canadian Labour Congress President Hassan Yussuff and Conservation Council of New Brunswick Executive Director Lois Corbett will co-chair the just transition task force officially unveiled Wednesday by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, with a mandate to engage affected communities in the transition to new jobs before the country's coal phaseout takes effect in 2030.
AN IMPRESSIVE report on Australia's biodiversity was released last month by environment minister John Faulkner.
But Valli Moosa, a former environment minister in South Africa and the president of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN, told a packed auditorium of delegates at the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona on Sunday evening that poorer nations could no longer maintain that their emissions of planet - warming gases were insignificant compared to industrialized nations.
A key press release written and issued by Harris on Mills's behalf complained bitterly thet «skeptics» were being shut out of the Kyoto process by Liberal environment minister David Anderson:
German environment minister Peter Althaus said in February that the ban would not be lifted any time soon and that he doubted fracking would ever seen meaningful use in Germany.
The commission's scientifically derived proposals on sustainable catch levels are routinely revised upwards when EU environment ministers meet, traditionally in late December, to set quotas for the year following.
Even the counter charge from federal Environment Minister John Baird that the Harper government's approach would be stronger, while lacking in credibility, in its own way advances the day when a mandatory and effective carbon - pricing system will be put into place across Canada.
«There are gaps in our knowledge,» said B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman.
An email dated Dec. 29, 2008, has Freedlander detailing a conversation with Environment Minister Peter Kent, his former
In this Idea Exchange, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar sees an «agenda» in calling Indian cities among worst polluted, defends Modi government's stand on NGOs, questions Rahul Gandhi's aggression, and asserts RSS does not interfere in government.
Off among farmland in Mehrauli, just outside the city of Delhi proper but still within the city limits, on now - degraded land thousands of trees have been planted in an effort to reestablish forests, providing expanded wildlife habitat and ecosystem restoration — which as Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students attending the event) is keen to point out at every opportunity means improved livelihoods for people as well.
Whether or not the regulations B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman is proposing are constitutional is another matter, which can not be settled yet because no one (perhaps including Heyman) knows what those regulations might be.
A former environment minister for the Scottish National Party affirmed his support and recognised the importance of the sport to the Scottish economy.
As former Canadian environment minister Jim Prentice told an Enbridge shareholder meeting in May 2011: «The reality on the ground is that the constitutional and legal position of the First Nations is very strong.»
Today's announcement was made by Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips at CanWEA's Annual Conference and Exhibition in Calgary.
An alliance of Australia's top business associations have called for a COAG report, the Packaging Impacts Decision Regulation Impact Statement (DRIS), prepared for the nation's environment ministers on a proposed national container deposit scheme, to be made public.
Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner said Monday both charges will be dealt with during the same court hearing.
Canadian environment minister Catherine McKenna tells U.S. EPA head Canada will not change terms to bring U.S. on board
India's new environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, says India will not agree to mandatory reductions in carbon emissions.
The Swedish Environment Minister announced that he expected President Obama to arrive in Denmark with a new promise of emissions cuts — significantly deeper than the ones now proposed.
Indian delegates first formally complained about the IPCC's social cost analysis before the Climate Conference in Berlin in April, when environment minister Kamal Nath wrote to ministerial colleagues round the world claiming the calculations were «absurd and discriminatory», and called for them to be «purged from the process».
BC Liberal environment minister Terry Lake said Horgan's comments show Dix is not being clear with voters on the party's pipeline position.
At the New Scientist magazine last week, I was asked to provide an analysis of UK environment minister Owen Paterson's announcement that his government would seek to change the conversation about food biotech in Europe.
Shadow Environment minister Greg Barker wanted to know - perfectly reasonably - what the Prime Minister's team is doing about energy and climate issues:
This is the wind farm that became famous for being at first blocked by Liberal Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell because of a alleged threat to the endangered orange bellied parrot, and then OKed when it became apparent that the proposed wind farm posed no threat to the parrot.
«The current system for approving GM crops doesn't work, either for those who wish to cultivate GM crops or for those who don't,» said Rupert Ponsonby, U.K. parliamentary undersecretary of state for natural environment and science, at a meeting of the Council of the European Union environment ministers in Luxembourg today.
«Ninety percent of farmers have been operating illegally for 44 years, since the forest laws were created,» said Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc.
German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, a member of the center - right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is also upset about the incident.
«Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt «is declaring war on feral cats, and he's asked me to take charge of that program,» Andrews told the world via live radio broadcast.
In a letter to the beverage industry last month, NSW Premier Mike Baird and Environment Minister Rob Stokes said a far greater commitment and contribution from the industry was required.
With federal, provincial, and territorial environment ministers meeting in Montreal, Canada, to hammer out a national carbon reduction plan, Trudeau dropped a bombshell on their negotiations.
The junior environment minister Lord Strathclyde replied saying that the use of nematodes for such purposes is not covered by the Control of Pesticides Regulations Act.
The most heated criticism for the outcome of the climate talks was directed at US president Obama, delivered by Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc, who said:
But then the gears jammed as they always seem to, and they only got unjammed late last Thursday night, when REDD negotiators signed off on a new set of institutional arrangements that Polish Environment Minister Marcin Korolec, acting in his capacity as President of the Conference of the Parties (COP), had drawn up earlier in the week.
In 2004, Britain's environment minister called together supermarkets and grocery makers to reduce waste.
As environment minister Michael Falzon told the Maltese parliament in May, the water supply system can not keep up.
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Act requires federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq to approve the substitution request.
Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has just announced funding to remove feral cats from five islands: Christmas Island, Dirk Hartog Island and the French Islands in Western Australia; and Bruny and King Islands in Tasmania.
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