Sentences with phrase «environment ministry»

The plans reach across the whole government, not just an isolated environment ministry.

The plans reach across the whole government, not just an isolated environment ministry.

«The Chaparrastique volcano is still producing gases combined with small emissions of ash, which is normal after an eruption,» El Salvador's environment ministry said on its Twitter page.

CANCÚN, Mexico — In the early days of climate diplomacy, when the original 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and enacted, most senior officials at treaty talks came from environment ministries and agencies.

Nevertheless, the French environment ministry decided to bring in bears from Slovenia because transporting them would be easier.

Last week Jochen Flasbarth, state secretary at Germany's federal environment ministry, told New Scientist that buried CO2 is seen as almost as bad as nuclear waste.

The erroneous prediction of a precipitous end for the Himalayan glaciers was already revealed in November, when a glaciologist working for the Indian environment ministry presented a study on Himalayan glaciers that arrived at completely different conclusions than the IPCC report.

According to sources, the Japanese environment ministry has already taken some action in restoring the region's coral reef ecosystem by instituting a panel in 2007 to work on the task.

Canadian taxpayers already fund environment ministries at two other levels of government.

A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere.

U.S. - based miner Freeport - McMoRan said on April 24 that new environmental standards imposed by the Indonesian environment ministry could delay a deal for its Grasberg copper mine.

And for those in the room representing environment ministries, we will call on you to collaborate to pursue the SDG target on food loss and waste.

EPA and USDA also provide input into global initiatives, such as the Food Loss and Waste Standard and Protocol, and collaborate with environment ministry partners in Mexico and Canada to support reducing food waste through the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

The operation was successfully completed in the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro, the Italian environment ministry said, after a series of delays in the internationally - backed plan to destroy the Damascus government's stock of chemical arms.

ETH appealed the decision and finally got the go - ahead from the Swiss environment ministry last February.

In a project funded by the German environment ministry, he has attempted to model the environmental impact of a series of flights from Frankfurt to New York, following the fate of emissions for ten days.

Germany's top four utilities owned just 7 percent of the 71 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity installed at the end of 2011, environment ministry data shows.

We work with a wide network of specialized partners and maintain excellent relationships with the national environment ministries in several countries.

The second study in question was conducted by the G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development (GBPIHED), a key environment ministry research institution.

Jakubec provided a 2013 report on a health hazard investigation of a transformer station in Fergus, Ont., conducted by Wellington - Dufferin - Guelph Public Health, after assistance was requested by the Ontario environment ministry.

The country, home to nine million people, currently has 779 biogas buses and more than 4,500 cars that run on a mixture of petrol and either biogas or natural gas, according to the Swedish environment ministry.

In March, Germany's environment ministry decided to ban all meat products from official functions, while at the beginning of April, after a very popular trial run, Japan's Cabinet Office and Cabinet Secretariat made a regular meat free menu a staple of their office canteen.

According to Eckhardt Viehl of Germany's Radiation Protection Authority, which will run the dump for the federal environment ministry, more than # 230 million has been spent on the project so far.

Tip: When contacted by the Times of India last November, IPCC chairman Dr. Pachauri said that a discussion paper released by the Indian environment ministry was not considered legitimate research according to IPCC standards:

In contrast, Hideki Minamikawa, vice minister for global environment in the Japanese environment ministry, noted that the parties aligned to the Copenhagen Accord — the non-binding political agreement delivered in the 11th hour at the U.N. climate summit last year in Denmark — represented 80 percent of global emissions.

On Tuesday, the company said the environment ministry wants it to change the way it manages the disposal of mine waste, or tailings, at the world's second - biggest copper mine.

BEIJING, April 19 - China's war on pollution is at risk of reaching a «stalemate», with poor weather conditions undermining the country's efforts to reduce smog, an environment ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

China will ban the imports of 16 more scrap metal and chemical waste products from the end of this year, the environment ministry said on Thursday.

CHINA BAN: China will ban the import of 16 more scrap metal and chemical waste products from the end of this year, the environment ministry said.

Chief Executive Richard Adkerson described the environment ministry's demands as «shocking» and «disappointing», but said he was confident a resolution would be found.

At one point, the province was left with just one geotechnical engineer and emails released through freedom of information requests showed that staff within the environment ministry had raised warnings that low staffing levels were leading to increased risks, citing tailings pond inspections as a particular area of concern.

China is reorganizing its environment ministry to create separate departments focused on water, air, and soil.

Following a 30 - day comment period, the environment ministry's Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee will pass judgment on whether GM mustard is safe for planting and human consumption.

In a safety review released yesterday, the environment ministry finds that GM mustard «does not raise any public health or safety concerns for human beings and animals.»

As a sign of the increasing recognition of the role of local people in conservation success in Brazil, when the country's environment ministry was reorganized in 2007, the park agency was christened the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).

In 2010, the environment ministry put on hold the commercial planting of GM brinjal, an eggplant variety, equipped with a bacterial gene that thwarts insect pests.

After the environment ministry tripled the logging quota in March 2016, eight nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) accused it of breaking EU nature protection laws by not assessing the potential ecological impact of the additional logging and not sparing trees more than a century old.

WWF recently produced a video outlining its ongoing basinwide assessment and is working with Brazil's environment ministry to determine which rivers in the Amazon Basin should be left untouched.

Berlin, however, holds a trump card: FRM - II must receive a final permit from the environment ministry before it goes on line.

According to the environment ministry, some pollution black spots have been cleaned up but water quality overall has worsened.

Particularly critical, Fernandez said, are provisions that establish a high - level climate change commission and a national emissions registry, as well as give the National Institute of Ecology — sort of an in - house think tank to the environment ministry — expanded powers.

China will raise standards for the production of cement, batteries, leather and heavy metals as part of its efforts to cut air, water and soil pollution, the environment ministry said on Friday.

Chaparrastique is considered one of the most active, with 26 eruptions in the last 500 years, the environment ministry said.

But the dump's opponents and Lower Saxony's environment ministry, which is ultimately responsible for licensing and safety monitoring at Konrad, claim that the consultants» work is inadequate.

Yesterday, to widespread surprise, the court ordered a halt to the trial for a completely different reason, ruling that the environment ministry had violated protocol by failing to formally consider the concerns of those opposing the trials.