Sentences with phrase «for national governments»

«If we're waiting for the national government to signal it's time to do this, we're going to wait too long,» he says.

Moreover, since the global economy already affects most if not all of the regional economies, it will be difficult for national governments to do any long - term planning.

These staggering numbers have important policy implications for national governments.

It's different now that Alberta's been hit with recession, Kenney told Maclean's on Thursday: «I'm not running for the national government here; I'm running to be premier of Alberta.»

In the information revolution, the most immediate challenge for national governments and the international community is the insight that the use of Information - Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development will not be determined by technological developments but by political decisions.

In 1974, the United Nations named Spirulina «one of the best foods for the future» and a 2008 UN Food and Agriculture Organization report stated that «there is a need for both national governments and inter-governmental organizations to reevaluate the potential of Spirulina to fulfill both their own food security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.»

Rather, it is the expansion of trade negotiations from agreements that once focused primarily on tariff reductions to far broader regulatory documents that now mandate domestic legal reforms and establish dispute resolution systems that can be result in huge liability for national governments.

A report by UNCTAD notes that transnational companies encroach on areas over which sovereign responsibilities have traditionally been reserved for national governments.

The packaging industry is celebrating after EU negotiations ruled that packaging would retain its Internal Market legal base, making it harder for national governments to introduce unilateral bans for environmental reasons.

Secondly, and more importantly, it is not considered acceptable by the European Court of Justice for a national Government to inadequately implement a Directive, instead relying on domestic courts to resolve the difference.

Mr. de Blasio said the decision to include policies that might fall outside the city's control derived, in part, from a conversation with Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, whose long - term plans have «assumed a meaningful role for their national government.»

Since the benefits of large - scale investments in human talent accrue powerfully to society as a whole, and are not necessarily visible to individual parents, students, local or state officials, it is important for the national government to keep policy focused on this level of aggregation.

It would also violate the Constitution, which was written as it was because the Founders knew that education was no place for the national government.

Tocqueville believed that in non-aristocratic societies (like America), there is strong potential for the national government to become immense and influential, standing above the citizens, not just as a mighty and coercive power, but also as a guardian and tutor.

«When a Climate Emergency (Restructuring & Mobilisation) Declaration is made, this action switches on emergency mode for the national government by making climate emergency action equal top priority for all government departments and agencies.

Named the Talanoa dialogue after a tradition of non-confrontational storytelling from COP President Fiji, this exchange is intended to build confidence for national governments to move further and faster.

Severe weather events are becoming more frequent, creating major budget pressures for national governments, especially those in the developing world.

Over the past few years, Istanbul — by far the country's largest city, and the showpiece for the national government's ambitions — has begun to feel like one massive construction site.

While documenting the very real threats faced by environmental activists in some of the world's most dangerous countries for civic participation, the report also gives a set of recommendations for national governments, companies and investors.

The costs were prohibitive except for national governments.

It is indeed exciting to hear about the leadership mayors are taking, though given that most of them are leading cities as a previous step to running for national governments, let's just hope they remember all this when or if they become heads of State.

The most immediate challenge for national governments and the international community is the insight that the use of ICTs for sustainable development will not be determined by technological developments but by political decisions.

That's more or less what happened at the Climate Summit of the Americas with cities and other jurisdictions refusing to wait for national governments to get serious about climate action and moving ahead with their own solutions.

The Southampton team believes these new results support the case for national governments to fund universal newborn hearing screening programs that increase the rates of early confirmation of hearing difficulties in the many developed and developing countries where screening programs for deafness are currently under discussion, but not yet adopted as national policy.

And a 2008 UN Food and Agriculture Organization report stated that «there is a need for both national governments and inter-governmental organizations to reevaluate the potential of Spirulina to fulfill both their own food security needs as well as a tool for their overseas development emergency response efforts.»

But the NUA is created by and for national governments.

For national governments and agencies of the international community this implies the design of policies that leave the realisation of ICT - potential not exclusively to market interests, a substantial allocation of public funding for the costs of accessing and using ICTs, and a massive effort in human resource training for the mastery of ICT - related skills.

«For national governments, philanthropists, and even just your average person on the street who wants to make a difference in people's lives, then it's worth considering donating to rice research,» said Dr. Zeigler.