Sentences with phrase «environmental nongovernmental organization»

It no longer recognizes Greenpeace India as an environmental nongovernmental organization.

My background — a bachelor's degree in political economy of natural resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology — led to positions first in government and then at an environmental nongovernmental organization.

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Orora distributes its products through partnerships with nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits, and hires and trains women for sales and service, providing economic, educational, and environmental impact in each community it serves.»

Investor Environmental Health Network is a collaborative partnership of investment managers and nongovernmental organizations concerned about the financial and public health risks associated with corporate toxic chemicals policies.

Radha Muthiah will provide the perspective of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a nongovernmental organization that addresses both public health and environmental impact in its mission.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - making.

Other nongovernmental organizations say pulse trawling has promise to reduce environmental impacts and that ending it now would penalize the fishing industry for innovating.

These nongovernmental organizations — along with others that militate on environmental, public health and legal issues — have begun to serve as a vital counterpoint to the government's otherwise unchecked push to propel the nation's blisteringly fast - paced economic development.

«We're a nice little selfish country of petroholics, and that has made us lazy,» said Frederic Hauge, president of Bellona, Norway's largest nongovernmental environmental organization.

The scholarly reports produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international network of climate scientists sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), and The Heartland Institute.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, then Secretary General of NATO, told reporters in 2014, «Russia, as part of their sophisticated information and disinformation operations, engaged actively with so - called nongovernmental organizations — environmental organizations working against shale gas — to maintain dependence on imported Russian gas.»

This volume is the fifth in a series of scholarly reports produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international network of climate scientists sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), and The Heartland Institute.

GEF unites 176 member governments — in partnership with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector — to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives.