Sentences with phrase «environment minister says»

From the Vancouver Sun: «As world leaders gather in South Africa to discuss climate change this week and next, Canada's environment minister says he plans to defend Alberta's oilsands... Continue Reading»

«The situation is truly critical,» the French environment minister says.

Varad Pande, Officer on Special Duty to Jairam Ramesh, the rural development minister and former environment minister says more work is needed to break through the deadlocks.

Environment minister says President Trump's «heated rhetoric» won't stop Canada from promoting its interests

NEW DELHI (Reuters)- India will not sign up to targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions but will instead focus on fighting poverty and boosting economic growth, the environment minister said Tuesday.

In September, the country's environment minister said India would not offer a plan to cut carbon emissions ahead of the Paris summit in 2015.

Disputes over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline should be settled in court, B.C.'s environment minister said Tuesday.

The Dutch environment minister said she will no longer tolerate climate researchers» errors.

Hasan Mahmud, a member of parliament and Bangladesh's former environment minister said adaptation projects costing less than $ 25 million will suffer the most if Bangladesh's adaptation trust fund has no resources.

Not exact matches

«The government stands ready through ARENA and the CEFC to work with companies with serious proposals to support the deployment of more storage,» Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg said in an email to Reuters.

Environment Minister Donna Faragher has released an integrated conservation strategy for the Greater Western Woodlands in the state's south east, saying the area will be protected but benefits from mining, pastoralism, tourism, and forestry will continue

Premier Alan Carpenter abandoned the economic tigers of India for leopards incapable of changing their spots when he returned home last Friday to deal with CCC findings against his Environment Minister of only a few months, who discussed his need for fundraising with lobbyist Julian Grill while saying he was considering overturning a decision detrimental to one of Mr Grill's clients.

However, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in January that a complete overhaul of the NEB is still years away.

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English said the fire and fury remarks were «not helpful» in the current «very tense» environment, while Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull also expressed concern with Trump's discourse.

Ola Elvestuen, Norway's minister of climate and environment, says the International Maritime Organization's agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the shipping industry represents a «great step forward.»

An agreement by the International Maritime Organization to cut the shipping industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent — from 2008 levels — by 2050 will not be easy, but it can be done, Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment said.

«The U.S. has obviously been clear about where it stands with the Paris Agreement, but it is heartening that 19 other countries reaffirmed their commitment to the agreement,» said Thoriq Ibrahim, minister of energy and environment for the Maldives and Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, a group of countries vulnerable to the effects of global warming.

Environment Minister Iain Rankin said Friday that regulations are being developed that would make participation mandatory for about 20 large industrial emitters including Nova Scotia Power, Northern Pulp, Lafarge, and large oil and gasoline companies such as ExxonMobil, Imperial and Irving.

Environment Minister George Heyman said the province believes it has the right to protect B.C.'s environment and economy from an oil prodEnvironment Minister George Heyman said the province believes it has the right to protect B.C.'s environment and economy from an oil prodenvironment and economy from an oil products spill.

And now we have a situation where we really have to start with developing green shipping that we need for the future,» Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment Ola Elvestuen said.

«We are committed to making sure that it is done properly or it won't be done at all,» Quebec Environment Minister Pierre Arcand said in calling a halt to new exploration.

The 90 - Mt saving «is like taking every car off the road in Canada or closing 20 to 23 coal plants in a year,» said Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna.

«It's obviously a rapidly changing economic environment we're finding ourselves in,» said Jock Finlayson, vice-president of the Business Council of B.C. and an advisor to the finance minister through the B.C. Economic Forecast Council.

«My job as a prime minister and our job as a government is to bring everyone together and say we're all getting what we want — in that we are moving forward to protect the environment and grow the economy at the same time, and that doesn't have to be divisive,» he said.

Environment Minister George Heyman said there are gaps in the knowledge about how bitumen spilled in water behaves in different weather and geographic conditions and that those gaps need to be filled.

Asked about the investigation's findings Thursday, environment minister Catherine McKenna said, «We need to do better and we're certainly committed to doing that.

«Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Scottish Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said the ban should be extended «indefinitely» and that «the Scottish government will not support the development of unconventional oil and gas in Scotland.»

John Baird said the Liberal cap - and - trade plan was «unCanadian» and Stephen Harper said the NDP cap - and - trade plan would «wreak enormous havoc on the Canadian economy,» but Environment Minister Peter Kent apparently thinks cap - and - trade could still be pursued at some point.

Now, after stints as environment minister and government House leader, Baird has the job his friends say he long coveted: foreign minister for a Prime Minister who increasingly sees foreign affairs as an area where this government can makeminister and government House leader, Baird has the job his friends say he long coveted: foreign minister for a Prime Minister who increasingly sees foreign affairs as an area where this government can makeminister for a Prime Minister who increasingly sees foreign affairs as an area where this government can makeMinister who increasingly sees foreign affairs as an area where this government can make a mark.

BC Liberal environment minister Terry Lake said Horgan's comments show Dix is not being clear with voters on the party's pipeline position.

T >:: UK BUSINESS MINISTER CLARK SAYS UK CAR INDUSTRY ONE OF THE MOST PRODUCTIVE IN WORLD, GOVERNMENT WILL CONTINUE WORK TO CREATE THE BEST POSSIBLE ENVIRONMENT TO MAINTAIN THIS RELATIONSHIP.

When the Alberta government released its Climate Leadership plan in November 2015, I said that Premier Rachel Notley and Environment and Parks Minister Shannon Phillips had made pigs fly by uniting a coalition of industry leaders and environmental leaders in our province.

New Democrat environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert noted that on Sept. 25, the B.C. Liberal's own deputy minister of the environment said, «I have to be entirely honest in saying, you know, spills unfortunately are going to happen.»

Earlier this year, then - Environment Minister Peter Kent said that, «significant work remains (to meet our targets),» and that, «(the Conservative Government) intends to continue to develop performance standards for other major sectors of the economy.»

As Jose Lutzenberger when Minister of Environment in Brazil, said: «If development is to be the continuation of the present mode and we must help the developing countries to reach our level of affluence, while the developed countries must still continue developing to even higher levels of consumption, then what we are doing is suicidal» (1991, p. 11).

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.

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.

Environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg said that eight out of Australia's 12 most emission intensive power stations closed in the last five years.

said Eva Kjer Hansen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark, «Food loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individEnvironment and Food, Denmark, «Food loss and waste is a huge challenge for global food security, human livelihoods and the conservation of the environment that calls for global responses and individenvironment that calls for global responses and individual action.

«We have immediately taken action on bisphenol A because we believe it is our responsibility to ensure families, Canadians and our environment are not exposed to a potentially harmful chemical,» Tony Clement, the minister of health, said in a statement.

«Our environment is deteriorating when it should be improving,» Labour shadow environment minister Barry Gardiner said today.

A spokesman for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) refused to confirm what would be in the Queen's speech - which sets out legislation for the coming year - but said ministers were looking at «all the options» on climate change.

The siting of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) in Somanya has nothing to do with politics, Deputy Minister of Education Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said in response to claims to the contrary by Akyem Abuakwa South MP Samuel Atta Akyea.

The climate change bill positions the UK as a world leader in tackling climate change, environment minister David Miliband said today.

Deputy prime minister Clegg said Liberal Democrats keen to protect the environment would welcome the increased emphasis on rail.

The Deputy Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Dr. Edward Omane - Boamah says the New Patriotic Party's [NPP's] dissolution of the Ministry for Environment, Science and Technology when it came into power has hindered the progress of science and technology in the country.

The Deputy Minister for Aviation, Kwabena Darko - Mensah said government is working hard to create a favourable aviation operating environment.

In a speech read on his behalf by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo during the CEOs Summit in Accra on Monday May 22, he said: «My government is accordingly asked to ensure the creation of the needed congenial environment for businesses to flourish and thrive for the common prosperity of all.»

A former Minister of Environment, Science and Technology, Mahama Ayariga, has said that the newly launched digital addressing system is not the...

It's very humbling to have received the support of so many people,» said Ms McIntosh, who was environment minister in the last parliament.