Sentences with phrase «future public policy decisions»

Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

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The public policy proposals put forth by Birch and Cobb are consonant with ones we have discussed in a previous chapter: «steady state» economics, simplified life styles, participation by all in the decisions that shape their futures, and the development of «appropriate» and ecologically sound technologies.

Why should our leaders be exempt from real - time accountability when so much more is at stake - big decisions about public policy, the use of your money, the course of our future?

Such efforts to take the public's pulse on geoengineering may be crucial for understanding how to involve citizens in future policy making, says David Goldston, director of government affairs for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, D.C. «This is something that is going to require a lot of public engagement before decisions are made,» he says.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Afpolicy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AfPolicy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«These findings have implications for public health, perhaps in designing future wastewater treatment plants and in making policy decisions about whether antibiotics should be available without a prescription.»

At 1.5 / 2 °C temperature warming level, how the global and regional climate will change, is a matter of public concern and relates to the decisions of policies, guidelines and measures on mitigation and adaption of future climate change.

This hypothetical future convention would guarantee the participation of NGOs without discrimination in dialogue and consultation on public policy objectives and decisions both in foreign countries and international organisations.

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects...

The decisions of this new leader will impact the future of more than half a million children every year, with massive public policy and social justice ripple effects reverberating far beyond the district's attendance boundary.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present climate variability and change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of climate change; improve our capability to model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and anticipated impacts of climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to climate change by providing climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»

Strategies to curtail noxious emissions before and during the Games presented an opportunity to study emissions reduction physics and provide policy makers a basis of information to make future public health decisions.

With the CCC being responsible for informing decisions with consequences for policy decades into the future, it reflects very badly on the CCC that its Chair routinely makes such uncompromising, and unfounded claims in public, which can not be supported with evidence, apparently to defend the CCC's advice to Parliament from criticism.

As defined by the FAO, a forest policy is «a set of orientations and principles of actions adopted by public authorities... to guide future decisions in relation to the management, use and conservation of forest and tree resources for the benefit of society.»

At the same time, Rose says there is plenty that we don't know, such as whether or not it is safer for employers to use fewer words in a termination clause and avoid all - inclusive language, and whether, for public policy reasons, future court decisions will put an onus on employers to make clear to employees the differences between ESA entitlements and the common law before they sign ESA - only contracts.

The decision does not provide additional guidance to determine in future cases whether bylaws requiring unit owner consent to pursue litigation are also against public policy.

JSER has priority areas and we make decisions based on whether papers are likely to directly and substantially affect clinical practice or public health policy, or have implications of broad general interest for the direction of future, directly clinically relevant research.