Sentences with phrase «environmental agenda for»

Call me naive, but I have constantly amazed by the sums available to the environmental agenda for little more than PR.

Babbitt May Face Protesters Santa Barbara News - Press By Melinda Burns October 5, 2001 Politics: Former Secretary of Interior to speak at UCSB on environmental agenda for 21st Century

Legislators of all parties and political persuasions have supported a progressive environmental agenda for years.

The governor vowed to release new standards back in January when he laid out his environmental agenda for the year.

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The Liberals have been pushing their right - wing agenda for the past twelve years: privatizing and contracting out, slashing corporate taxes so they're now the lowest in Canada, dismantling the social safety net and environmental standards regulations in BC, and attacking public sector workers.

the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as the overarching framework that guides our actions towards sustainable development from a social, environmental, economic and health perspective;

Bacardi actively participates, with other member companies, to drive the environmental sustainability agenda for the beverage sector.

At the Second Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 2) in May 2016, she sought to deliver on the ambitious environmental goals set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

It has an environmental agenda, but blames most climatic disasters (for instance fukushima) on the capitalist gestion of the production.

It's the latest push for Nixon's environmental agenda in her campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo that is staking out an opposition to fossil - fuel infrastructure construction in New York.

The two - day event expected to come off between Wednesday 16th August and Thursday 17th August 2017 is on the theme «setting the agenda for sustainable environmental and infrastructural management in Ghana»

Also at noon, a coalition of groups opposed to Trump's agenda, including Food & Water Watch, Sierra Club, 350 NYC, 350 Brooklyn, WE ACT for Environmental Justice urge Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer to join their effort, 780 Third Ave., (Schumer's NYC office), Manhattan.

«In addition to the environmental and safety benefits of reduced congestion, such a plan also stands to generate funding for much - needed investment in our roads and transit system,» the agenda reads.

Cuomo pushed an environmental agenda that included demanding the EPA pursue further dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River and environs, rejection of the Constitution Pipeline to transport fracked gas from Pennsylvania, and subsidies for Upstate nuclear power plants.

The Adirondack Council appeared pleased at the environmental agenda, including continued funds for water infrastructure and efforts to squash Iowa Pacific Holdings from storing rail cars in the Adirondacks.

ALBANY, NY (10/03/2012)(readMedia)-- Documenting what was a largely unremarkable legislative session, EPL / Environmental Advocates has released its 2012 Voters» Guide demonstrating that this year was one of the least productive — and potentially most damaging — for our state's environmental agenda in more tEnvironmental Advocates has released its 2012 Voters» Guide demonstrating that this year was one of the least productive — and potentially most damaging — for our state's environmental agenda in more tenvironmental agenda in more than a decade.

Although she is not chair of the committee, as Speaker, Mark - Viverito can set the agenda and force a vote on the bill, Peggy Shepard, executive director of WE ACT for Environmental Justice, said.

«President Trump said on the campaign trail that he would stand up for the people and industries that have been left behind by his predecessor's environmental agenda,» said Chrissy Harbin, vice president of external affairs for Americans for Prosperity.

Environmental groups have hailed the agenda, but some observers warn against too lofty expectations for what it might mean for policy changes among the «Arctic 8.»

As soil erosion has huge impacts on ecosystems, food production, drinking water, carbon stocks and biodiversity, the EU has called for quantitative assessments of soil rates at EU level, and put soil protection at the heart of its environmental agenda.

The American Lung Association and other public health and environmental organizations recommend these steps as the core of a clean air agenda for the nation:

The congress, which wrapped up Saturday, is a place for the group to set its agenda and debate environmental policy.

Leaked TTIP Documents Expose Chemical Industry's Toxic Agenda A report published Monday by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and ClientEarth shows how a leaked proposal from chemical lobbying groups could damage future protective legislation on toxic chemicals.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

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At the moment we have so many different branches of education working for their own agendas: development education, human rights education, environmental education, citizenship education, gender education, interfaith education, etc..

The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

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Park City Manager Diane Foster and Environmental Sustainability Manager Luke Cartin discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting and review the Climate Reality Project's Leadership training they attended last week.

Then Park City Manager Diane Foster and Transportation Planning Manager Alfred Knotts will be in to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting followed by Kara Cody with the Sundance Institute and Park City Environmental Sustainability Manager Luke Cartin.

A paper laying the foundation for such an agenda has just been published online in Global Environmental Change, with some very modest input from me: Read more...

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

What the Rio +20 agreement recognizes, for the first time on such an intergovernmental scale, is that sustainable development is not simply «code» for an environmental action agenda.

A paper laying the foundation for such an agenda has just been published online in Global Environmental Change, with some very modest input from me:

Strong's persistent calls for an international mobilization to combat environmental calamities, even when they are exaggerated (population growth) or scientifically unproven (global warming), have set the world's environmental agenda.»

«The forum further concluded on the importance of transparency in ensuring environmental integrity and enhancing countries» abilities to plan effective and efficient climate action towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,» said Ms. Hinostroza.

The perception that high legislative standards for the green performance of organisations and companies is bad for the economy is one which has dogged the environmental agenda.

Steve de Gruchy: An Olive Agenda: First thoughts on a metaphorical theology of development This paper proposes a theological engagement with a metaphor that could transcend the duality between the «green» environmental agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty Agenda: First thoughts on a metaphorical theology of development This paper proposes a theological engagement with a metaphor that could transcend the duality between the «green» environmental agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty agenda and the «brown» poverty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty agenda that has disabled development discourse for the past twenty years.

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The Environmental Protection Agency's carbon regulations for power plants are the cornerstone of Obama's climate agenda, and they certainly draw the most criticism.

Environmentalists have used environmentalism and environmental science for a political agenda.

The United States understood that it had no binding obligations under Agenda 21 to develop any new programs and that the body of US law was for the most part equal to or more demanding than recommendations in the Agenda 21's environmental chapters.

The promotion of green jobs with stimulus money — a marriage of the Obama administration's environmental and economic agendas — has been a top priority for the White House since day one.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

The chief value of Agenda 21 for the Clinton administration was that it provided guidance for developing countries on how to upgrade clearly inadequate laws and policies relating to environmental protection and economic development controversies.

Instead, Martha Rudolph, who is one of the leading health and environmental regulators in the state as director of environmental programs for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, recommended «taking baby steps» on pushing climate action and cautioned that the City of Boulder's potential climate lawsuit against oil and gas developers might not be the best approach in pushing an environmental agenda.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

This brief highlights that the ILO Decent Work Agenda is critical for mitigating the specific social, economic and environmental vulnerabilities of indigenous and tribal peoples, and ensuring that they can be partners in combating climate change and achieving sustainable development.

It notices that in the space of three years, capacity building and training efforts have transformed REDD + from a little - known concept to one which is recognized, discussed and on the agenda of the Government of Viet Nam and that alongside awareness raising at a national level, substantial progress has been made in capacity building for policy development and environmental safeguards.