Sentences with phrase «environmental ministers from»

Last Friday, the Obama administration ended another round of the Major Economies Forum with environmental ministers from 17 countries that have the world's largest volume of greenhouse gas emissions.

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«Removing these monies from classrooms, and redirecting them to private sector entities such as Encana, directly affects our ability to meet both our educational and environmental goals,» said McEvoy in a letter to the education minister.

Mr. Dion is well versed in environmental policy after serving as environment minister from 2004 to 2006 and spearheading the Green Shift policy while leading the Liberal opposition in the 2008 election.

In Budget 2013, the Minister of Finance revised down the forecast for the deficit in 2012 - 13 marginally, from $ 26 billion to $ 25.9 billion... However, the revised estimate includes $ 2.4 billion for AECL environmental liabilities.

Rather, the theological and scientific advisers to the section included a Canadian member of parliament, who is also a United Church minister, quoting William Stringfellow, Rachel Carson, and John Cobb; a theologian from Hong Kong who called for rejecting the «commander» image in Genesis of God giving shape and order to what he has made, in favor of the (female) «brooding spirit» image «which best addresses our current crisis»; and Larry Rasmussen of New York's Union Seminary, who linked the work of the Spirit with the growing environmental movement.

Today's launch included a Smoking Ceremony and addresses from the South Australian Minister for Water and the River Murray, the Hon. Ian Hunter MLC, Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps, and Chairperson of the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, Eunice Aston.

The decision made by Natural Resources Minister Carl Sargeant to extend the grant funding for thirty one projects registered with Environment Wales until the end of March 2017, came following a persistent campaign, led by the Environmental groups and with backing from William Powell, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Minister for the Environment.

The minister lured down the protesters from the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) with a promised meeting, and in an agreement signed on 20 January, she pledged to renew all threatened contracts for 1 year and to appoint new positions in the near future.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry — who was often the lone member of Congress to attend U.N. climate talks — will assume the chairmanship from Leona Aglukkaq, the Canadian environmental minister whose tenure at the council's helm has prioritized economic expansion (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

But seriously some of the best environmental ministers have come from the right not the left.

From 2000 - 2006 Barry served as Assistant Deputy Minister for the Environmental Protection Service of Environment Canada where he led national programs to prevent and reduce pollution of air, water and soil.

Today's «Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership» by President Obama and Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, contained lots of welcome environmental commitments, particularly on curbing emissions of methane leaking from existing oil and gas infrastructure.

Today's story is from Janet Silman of North Saanich, British Columbia, a retired minister who has been involved in environmental and eco-justice work for many years.

According to the Dutch solar energy association Holland Solar, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) has advised the country's Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Change, Eric Wiebes to create separate categories for PV projects up to 1 MW starting from the next «Autumn Round» of the program.

Jo Johnson, Minister for Universities and Science, said: «This new innovation centre will bring together great minds from a variety of disciplines to lead the international effort to tackle environmental change and demonstrate the value of research collaboration in solving some of the greatest challenges of our time.»

On Wednesday, Colombian Environmental Vice Minister Pablo Abba Vieira Samper outlined a program called «Amazon Vision» that's clearly designed to funnel REDD finance to the right agents, while Indonesian Deputy Minister Heru Prasetyo outlined Yudhoyono's impressive steps to restructure the economy along green lines, and Jagdeo made an impassioned plea to prevent the gains made to date from evaporating.

But according to a thoroughly researched, 89 - page report prepared by the London - based environmental group Global Witness, many members of the prime minister's own family were benefiting from the illegal logging trade as of 2017.

The good news is that the recent visitors — from Premiers Redford and Wall to federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver — now acknowledge that Canada's environmental record is crucial to the upcoming U.S. decision.

UNEP News Center: Climate change, chemicals and waste management, and biodiversity conservation are top of the agenda as ministers and high - level officials from 31 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean gather for major environmental forum aimed at strengthening regional cooperation.

President Braga thereafter participated in a panel with Ms Kyte from the World Bank, Mr Steiner from UNEP, Mr Jarraud from WMO, Ms Izabella Teixeira, Minister of Environment, Brazil, Ms Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Republic of South Africa and Mr Keke, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Nauru.

Even as EPA chief Scott Pruitt ditched the end of the G7 environmental ministers» summit and abstained from their climate communiqué, President Trump's desire to leave the Paris agreement was stalled by the terms of the accord, which bars any countries from exiting until 2020.

And yet everyone from Prime Minister Stephen Harper to this hapless PR professional is saying it's the Canadian environmental community that is somehow biased by its diversity of support.

The event, endorsed by the COP23 Presidency and presided by World Water Council Honorary President Loïc Fauchon and H.E. Charafat Afilal, Secretary of State for Water and Environment of Morocco, brought high level participants, such as international experts and political leaders at the forefront of the debate on climate change and water, as well as several environmental ministers, including, Istiaque Ahmad, Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests of Bangladesh and Sindra Sharma - Khushal, from the UNFCCC COP23 Presidency Team for Fiji.

ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW Minister for the Environment & Heritage: David Kemp Minister for Forestry & Conservation: Ian McDonald Total Energy Consumption (2000E): 4.89 quadrillion Btu * (1.2 % of world total energy consumption) Energy - Related Carbon Emissions (2000E): 96.87 million metric tons of carbon (1.5 % of world carbon emissions) Per Capita Energy Consumption (2000E): 255 million Btu (vs U.S. value of 351 million Btu) Per Capita Carbon Emissions (2000E): 5.1 metric tons of carbon (vs U.S. value of 5.6 metric tons of carbon) Energy Intensity (2000E): 10,804 Btu / U.S. $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 10,918 Btu / $ 1995) ** Carbon Intensity (2000E): 0.21 metric tons of carbon / thousand U.S. $ 1995 (vs U.S. value of 0.17 metric tons / thousand $ 1995) ** Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1999E): Transportation (42 %) Industrial (37 %), Residential (13.5 %), Commercial (7.5 %) Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (46.4 %), Transportation (26.5 %), Residential (15.2 %), Commercial (11.9 %) Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (2000E): Coal (44.2 %), Oil (34.8 %), Natural Gas (16.6 %) Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (1999E): Coal (55.4 %), Oil (32.6 %), Natural Gas (12.0 %) Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 396 trillion Btu * (0.9 % increase from 1997) Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 1.7 (vs U.S. value of 1.3) Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified December 30th, 1992).

ABOUT two months ago I received a «heads - up» from a mate who works in Canberra that Environment Minister Peter Garratt was considering listing prescribed burning as a threatening process under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Act.

The first week of the talks was marred by poor attendance from environmental ministers, who are expected to revise current ambitions and focus on contributions to the Kyoto agreement — as well as discuss new post-2020 climate commitments, expected to be agreed in Paris in 2015.

Today ministers from around the world gathered at the UN General Assembly to discuss climate change received an unprecedented statement by Friends of the Earth and social movements of climate - impacted communities from the global South as well as faith, labour, environmental, and anti-poverty groups representing tens of millions of people from around the world.

At the same time, the budget bill came freighted with legislation intended to «streamline» environmental review processes in the hope of fast - tracking oil pipelines and other large energy infrastructure projects, and it has handed the Canada Revenue Agency $ 7 million to intensify its scrutiny of environmental charities — especially the ones labelled «foreign radicals» by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in a fiery Globe and Mail op - ed calling for approval of Enbridge's $ 5 - billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oil sands to the coast of northern B.C.

Environmental activists suggest that Environment Minister Prentice was under pressure from industry.

We compiled UE names comprehensively from the following 12 lists: 1992 statement from the Science and Environmental Policy Project (46 names), 1995 Leipzig Declaration (80 names), 2002 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien (30 names), 2003 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin (46 names), 2006 letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (61 names), 2007 letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki - Moon (100 names), 2007 TV film The Great Global Warming Swindle interviewees (17 names), NIPCC: 2008 Heartland Institute document «Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate,» ed.

And we can't jave things like environmental assessments of the project slow it down, so Environment Minister John Baird just exempted it from the Canadian Environmental Asenvironmental assessments of the project slow it down, so Environment Minister John Baird just exempted it from the Canadian Environmental AsEnvironmental Assessment Act.

After a series of disputes with government officials and business leaders, who saw her as an impediment to development in the Amazon, Silva submitted her resignation from the position of Environmental Minister in 2008.

In Costa Rica, where local environmental groups and even some members of government are loudly calling for Watson's release, the Environment Minister René Castro is distancing himself from the proceedings saying «we can not interfere with the work of other government branches.»

Present at the workshop, aimed to teach Israel how create a system for greenhouse gas measuring and reporting, were Israel's Minister of Environmental Protection Gideon Ezra and a whole host of other officials from the governments of Germany and Mexico, plus some private firms and consultants from around the world.

Ian Hanna, a property owner from Prince Edward County, Ont., argues the rules don't comply with s. 11 of the Environmental Bill of Rights, which requires the minister of the environment to «take every reasonable step to ensure that the ministry statement of environmental values is considered whenever decisions that might significantly affect the environment are made in the minEnvironmental Bill of Rights, which requires the minister of the environment to «take every reasonable step to ensure that the ministry statement of environmental values is considered whenever decisions that might significantly affect the environment are made in the minenvironmental values is considered whenever decisions that might significantly affect the environment are made in the ministry.»

FoE's complaint considers that most environmental laws in with UK are derived from EU laws, so the bill gives ministers «unique and wide - ranging powers» to alter or outright remove environmental laws originating from the EU without consulting the public.

This proposal from the European Commission is the starting point for future negotiations and UK ministers will have a full opportunity to determine how environmental offences are penalised across the EU.