Sentences with phrase «for voluntary actions»

In contrast, efforts to reduce vehicle oil consumption were put in the deep freeze from the Reagan administration until the end of the George W. Bush administration and the approach to CO2 was limited to calls for voluntary actions — calls that went unneeded by the auto industry.

We thank the emerging economies for their voluntary actions and especially appreciate the work and leadership of the europeans in this effort.

Moreover, all of this common knowledge of the so - called primary properties is based on measurements in terms of units: centimeter, gram, second, with operational definitions which are recipes for voluntary actions.

As long as responsibility was primarily for voluntary actions, man must be seen as able, in a quite simple and direct sense, to do what he ought.

WHO has repeatedly advocated for voluntary action over stronger, regulatory measures.

You will see both regulatory actions, as well as some significant opportunities for voluntary action.»

Not exact matches

Anyway, they added, there is no way that voluntary action could substitute for massively funded government programs.

I, for one, feel that the recent court actions upholding a ban on student - conducted, voluntary religious meetings on school property before or after regular class hours serve unnecessarily to arouse animosity and motivate people to tamper with the Constitution by pushing for a prayer amendment.

In other words a conscious voluntary action should be associated with a tendency for the potentials in the field to lead the potentials in the neurons.

Yet his dismissal of the «common apprehension» that active powers play a role «in our complex ideas of natural substance» as they do in voluntary action «they being not, perhaps, so truly active powers as our hasty thoughts are apt to represent them,» is conspicuously hesitant, For what is the force (that is to say, the weakness) of «perhaps»?

Any time you voluntarily ask others close to you and that you trust that you want to be held accountable for your thoughts, words and actions — as long as it is voluntary — that can be a good thing.

The New Testament concerns itself exclusively with individual voluntary actions, not governmental requirements for the redistribution of wealth.

Open to all California wineries and vineyards as a voluntary option, CSWA's new program, Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing, requires applicants to meet 58 prerequisite criteria to be eligible for the program, assess winery and / or vineyard operations, create and implement an annual action plan and show improvement over time.

Open to all California wineries and vineyards as a voluntary option, CSWA's new program requires applicants to meet 58 prerequisite criteria that are among the 227 best management practices in the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices Self - Assessment Workbook to be eligible for the program, assess winery and / or vineyard operations, create and implement an annual action plan and show improvement over time.

Although the pact's framework for action is voluntary, it provides strategic opt ions to those cities aiming to achieve more sustainable food systems.

The complaint submitted by Baby Milk Action was presented in the publication Nestlé's UN Global Compact cover up: How Nestlé's Shared Value reports cover up malpractice and bring the UN voluntary initiative for corporate responsibility into disrepute (NESTLÉ CRITICS, 2009) which included information from various civil society organisations (note 3) alleging violations in the areas of:

Such action potentials from the motor cortex of the brain, for example, are the signals sent to muscles to initiate voluntary movement, such as pointing a finger.

Somatic Nervous System: The somatic system transmits sensory communications and is responsible for voluntary movement and action.

The NAS and Annenberg group identified several ways to change incentives for quality and correction, including rewarding researchers for publishing high - quality work rather than publishing work more often; mentoring young peer - reviewers to increase clarity and quality of editorial responses during the journal publishing process; and using «voluntary withdrawal» and «withdrawal for cause» instead of the blanket «retraction» term, which has negative connotations that can prevent some researchers from taking action when a paper is wrong, but not as a result of fraud or misconduct.

I blog about health, taking medication, research, and pharmacy services for people with M.E. I also write about the projects I work on and my voluntary work as Pharmacist & Research Officer for Action for M.E. Read on to find out more about my M.E. story.

The confusion also occurs when people assume that voluntary work does not entail any obligation in being responsible for tasks and actions that are assigned; no contractual and financial consequences are at stake here.

«Businesses» engagement in voluntary actions to reduce their impact on Earth's ecosystems can be an engine of positive change in two ways: it can be a source of new opportunities for business, and a means of preserving our natural assets for future generations,» states Jonathan Lash, President of World Resources Institute.

Durham Public Schools eventually entered into a voluntary resolution agreement with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights outlining a plan of action to create a school environment that nurtured every child, regardless of English language ability.

ACT For TCTA is the political action committee (PAC) of the Texas Classroom Teachers Association and is funded through voluntary donations made by TCTA members.

This means that we must raise money for political campaigns through separate voluntary contributions to PACE (UTLA's political action wing).»

(d) In the case of an alleged act or practice prohibited by this title which occurs in a State, or political subdivision of a State, which has no State or local law prohibiting such act or practice, a civil action may be brought under subsection (a): Provided, That the court may refer the matter to the Community Relations Service established by title X of this Act for as long as the court believes there is a reasonable possibility of obtaining voluntary compliance, but for not more than sixty days: Provided further, That upon expiration of such sixty - day period, the court may extend such period for an additional period, not to exceed a cumulative total of one hundred and twenty days, if it believes there then exists a reasonable possibility of securing voluntary compliance.

We'll contact you about voluntary corporate actions for securities you own in your Vanguard Brokerage Account.

I blog about health, taking medication, research, and pharmacy services for people with M.E. I also write about the projects I work on and my voluntary work as Pharmacist & Research Officer for Action for M.E. Read on to find out more about my M.E. story.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

Andrew Parker of the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told the New York Times that George's actions had apparently violated an international convention on ocean dumping and a U.N. convention on ocean fertilization for geoengineering purposes, along with a set of voluntary principles on geoengineering developed at Oxford.

Whereas in Copenhagen there was an effort to browbeat countries into accepting targets for reducing carbon emissions, Paris is about collecting voluntary plans for action drafted by individual countries.

To ensure voluntary reductions receive appropriate credit and to help create an initial supply of offset credits for California's Cap - and - Trade Program, the Compliance Offset Program allows for Early Action Offset Credits (EAOCs).

Parties also decided to accelerate activities under the workplan on enhancing mitigation ambition in accordance with decision 1 / CP.17, paragraphs 7 and 8, by, inter alia, intensifying, as from 2014, the technical examination of opportunities for actions with high mitigation potential, including those with adaptation and sustainable development co-benefits, with a focus on the implementation of policies, practices and technologies that are substantial, scalable and replicable, with a view to promoting voluntary cooperation on concrete actions in relation to identified mitigation opportunities in accordance with nationally defined development priorities.

Paul, in my personal life and as a voluntary worker, I've been taking «action related to creating a society where we cared about each other more (warmth),» for 40 years, and in my professional life since 1964 I've worked mainly on promoting economic development — my broad focus has been drivers of economic growth.

The good news is that by taking voluntary action now to measure, manage and reduce their impacts, there are huge opportunities for brands to stand out from the crowd.»

The suggested 5 % per year decline can be used as a guideline for responsible action on a voluntary basis.

The projects all mark important milestones in broadening the opportunities for farmers and landowners to participate in carbon markets, incentivizing adoption of voluntary actions to reduce emissions.

Non-state actors, including international corporations, continued to make voluntary commitments to reduce their climate impact as part of the Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA).

Article 6 establishes two new provisions for voluntary cooperation and carbon trading, recognizing that such approaches «allow for higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation actions» and «promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.»

Additional voluntary quantification methodologies eligible for early action may be added to the list by ARB upon adoption of new compliance offset protocols.

Boulder's Climate Action Plan tax is an excise tax upon electricity consumption for residential, commercial, or industrial customers that provides an exemption for voluntary purchases of utility provided wind power.

Parties highlighted this growing awareness of the economic and social value of carbon in the Paris decision, which recognized the value of voluntary mitigation actions and their co-benefits for adaptation, health and sustainable development.

The time is right for companies around the world to demonstrate leadership on climate action by aligning corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reduction targets with climate science.

The list includes «Better Alternatives Now» (that's where the BAN acronym comes in)-- ways in which consumers, industry, and government can take voluntary action without waiting for technological fixes.

One of the recommendations intended to speed things up is for the food industry to «take broad, common, and urgent voluntary action to make substantial improvements» to marketing aimed at kids.

The reasonable worry about Japan's actions however is that moving away from a second commitment period for the protocol would signal a move from developed countries altogether away from a system of binding emissions cuts to one of voluntary measures only.

As some groups push for additional EPA and Bureau of Land Management methane rules, claiming that voluntary efforts to reduce emissions haven't worked, it's clear that a combination of industry actions in concert with existing regulation have worked — and that additional regulation isn't needed.

The regulation also cites ACR's voluntary offset methodology for Emissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainage timing.

The focus has been on voluntary, individual action — fly less, buy solar, turn off the a / c, drive less etc, and if you don't do these things, then you are a hypocrite (this is the argument given my people such as Andrew Bolt e.g. when he criticises Al Gore for flying about).

In this series, we'll explore the voluntary carbon market, how to participate and why now is the time for action.