Sentences with phrase «environment of their advisory»

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The PwC report highlighted how the small Swiss municipality has emerged as a «hotbed for blockchain - based companies and advisory services,» and the country's growing «reputation of being a welcoming environment for companies and tech firms.»

But in a meeting last week, scientists warned the advisory committee that oversees the plan that the goal of improving the reef environment is unrealistic after back - to - back bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, contributing to the worst coral die - off ever recorded.

The current regulatory environment, they say, also allows fund sponsors and advisory firms «to create incentives for their advisors to recommend excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets and to steer savers into higher cost products with financial payoffs for the advisor.»

Ottawa (11 Sept. 2017)-- There is great concern, apprehension, and suspicion from labour and environment groups following a recent announcement by the federal environment minister, Catherine McKenna, on the creation of a 10 - person advisory council on NAFTA and the environment.

MaRS and other organizations have established an enabling environment to support the growing number of startups and budding entrepreneurs by providing resources, access to advisory and capital services for greater chances of success.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

She has been on the faculty for the Institute for Sustainable Environment at the University of Oregon, was the first Executive Director of the Sustainable Food Trade Association and currently serves on numerous organic advisory boards.

2009 N.M. House Memorial 58 requests the governor's women's health advisory council to convene a task force to study the needs of breastfeeding student - mothers and make recommendations for breastfeeding accommodations in school environments.

The Erie County Environmental Management Council (EMC) is an advisory board to Erie County Department of Environment & Planning

«We believe that fish consumption is an environmental justice issue that stems from inadequate risk communication through fish consumption advisories,» wrote Michelle Martinez and Alexandria Teague of the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the Environment in a 2008 study.

Scientific American's editorial and advisory boards have chosen projects in five general categories — Energy, Transportation, Environment, Electronics and Robotics, and Health and Medicine — that highlight the power of science and technology to improve the world.

The position of principal scientific adviser (PSA) has taken on greater prominence under Modi, who has disbanded other science advisory bodies and has tended to rely on the science adviser and science and environment minister for technical advice.

To help him spend the # 6 million made available for the new Darwin Initiative on global biodiversity over the next three years, Britain's environment secretary Michael Howard this week announced the formation of an advisory committee.

The Integrated Nitrogen Committee of the EPA's science advisory board, which held a June public teleconference on the issue of reactive nitrogen in the environment, has generated a draft report that lays out the details, including management options for nitric acid rain.

«The steps the advisory board identifies are a good start, but the consequences of nitrogen pollution for the environment and human well - being are too great to wait 10 to 20 years for a modest reduction.

Related sites Food and Drug Administration advisory on mercury in fish Experiment on the effects of atmospheric mercury on freshwater environments Information about mercury cycling Mercury Q&A from the U.S. Tuna Foundation

The Breakthrough Starshot initiative, announced in April 2016 (and whose advisory committee I chair) aims to send lightweight (gram scale) probes to the nearest stars at a fifth of the speed of light, so as to inform us of nearby life - hosting environments within our generation.

From a climate policy perspective, the bill can be seen as part of the Conservative ongoing effort to 1) gut environmental assessments and scientific research; 2) attack ENGOs that disagree with government policy to promote unfettered development of the oil sands; and 3) to sideline and even eliminate inconvenient advisory bodies like the National Roundtable on Energy and the Environment.

Plankton and larval ecology, bio-physical interactions, development and use of optical imaging tools for plankton and benthic habitat mapping, development of data products for ecosystems approaches to management, ocean observing systems in polar, temperate and tropical environments, chair ORION - OOI sensors advisory committee

As an advisory body to the Vice President for Research, the University Research Council (URC) is charged to recommend initiatives and mechanisms to develop, promote and administer a dynamic and innovative research environment at MUSC with the goal of nurturing discovery and knowledge application for the benefit of society.

Our schools have engaging learning environments that provide for pre-adolescent and adolescent needs; autonomy through personal inquiry and choice; belongingness through full - time advisories; and mastery goal (competency - based) orientation through projects of choice and authentic assessment.

2018 - 19 English Teacher Objective Our English Teacher position will instruct students and lead an advisory of 9th graders in a personalized learning and blended learning environment.

Areas of specialty: Advisories, project - based learning, online learning, authentic assessments, flexible learning environment, technology - rich environment; in order to graduate, students must be enrolled in a post-secondary institution or the military

Areas of specialty: Multi-age, flexible schedule, technology - rich environment, mentor (advisory) meetings three times a day, real - world projects

DREAM offers a small learning environment of no more than 150 students in multi-age advisories.

Areas of specialty: Personalized learning, project - based learning, self - directed learning, flexible learning environment, restorative justice, small learning community, advisories; students study off - campus one day a week

Laurayne has a wide range of teaching, leadership, advisory and evaluation experiences in educational contexts situated in rural and urban Māori and Pasifika environments.

Our gallery and advisory are guided by our commitment to promoting contemporary art, serving clients art needs with the highest level of ethics and professionalism, making contemporary art accessible to the public through exhibitions and educational events, and fostering an environment where arts flourish and enhance the experience within residences and public spaces.

Other posts: member, visual arts advisory committee of the British Council 1976 - 98, chairman 1992 - 98; trustee, Architecture Foundation 1991 - 99; Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has said it will be sending an advisory bulletin to owners and operators of underground natural gas storage facilities with recommendations to protect the public and workers and the environment and plans to release a natural gas transmission rule for existing pipelines.

An advisory panel of nutritionists and researchers are advising in a new report that Americans eat less meat in order to save the environment.

She currently serves on the board of Stockholm Environment Institute - US and the advisory board of the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington.

The China Council of International Cooperation on Environment and Development, or CCICED, an advisory body of 200 international experts formed in 1992 that provides environmental policy advice to the Chinese central government, are the first to formerly propose some numbers.

e. Confidence of the elected in the designers and their program, in the users and their data, in the experts and their judgement, and the data and the product and the academic environment and the current «political environment» within and without the «buro», and all the other «buros» and departments and advisory boards and committees, and what the press thinks, and what the bankers think, and what investors think, and the UN, and Soros, and the lobbyists, and — oh yea — the Voters back home.

The establishment of Nature Code — Centre of Environment & Development is the result of an initiative by former advisory board members of Carbon Market Watch (formerly CDM Watch), to advocate for policy solutions which promote genuine sustainable development, environmental integrity and good governance.

Peiser is director of the Global Warming Policy Foundation, was the founder of the Cambridge Conference Network, and is a member of the editorial advisory board of Energy and Environment.

All the others are on the advisory board of the nascent International Court for the Environment.

Laura Dzelzyte, director of the advisory firm CF Partners and a former advisor to Lithuania's Environment Minister at the UN climate talks told RTCC the issue had become over-sized.

She serves on the executive committee of the Luskin Center for Innovation and on the advisory boards of Women in Green, the Southern CA Green Business Council, the Built Environment for the LA Cleantech Incubator, as well as the steering committee for the USGBC Resilience LA Initiative and the leadership team for Path to Positive LA.

«You have to look at issues in a much more comprehensive way,» he says, noting that the Big Four environment is «agile» and it is all about delivering a range of advisory services and adapting to meet future needs.

Our lawyers routinely provide regulatory guidance to banks, broker - dealers, funds, insurance companies, and other financial institutions worldwide; advise on the acquisition and disposition of financial institutions; assist underwriters of securities offerings; counsel financial advisory firms on mergers and acquisitions; represent financial institutions in structured finance transactions and commercial lending; handle complex litigation and international disputes; and efficiently and effectively resolve government investigations and enforcement actions which result from the ever - expanding regulatory environment in the sector.

Employers seek candidates who have proven skills in HSE advisory services and your resume should also reflect ample knowledge regarding maintenance of a safe and healthy workplace environment.

Drove the release strategy, which included overarching design, plan, and approach for deployment of a change into production in collaboration with the change advisory board and ensured that all changes were deployed successfully into the production environment in the least disruptive manner and minimal downtime.

The NSW Government also has a number of consultative and advisory forums on specific issues, for example the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee provides advice to the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment.

While activity is still nowhere near the peak levels of 2006 and 2007, when compared to the past few years, the leasing environment today is like «night and day,» according to Alvin Williams, of Excess Space Retail Services Inc., a consulting and advisory firm.