Sentences with phrase «global agencies taking»

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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that an average of 800,000 barrels per day in production were taken offline last month, contributing greatly to May's having the highest monthly level of unplanned global oil supply disruptions since the agency began tracking such data in 2011.

In August this year he took on a new global role for the agency.

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy demand.

This research took place within the Indonesia - Japan Collaborative Research Center for Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases, Institute of Tropical Diseases, Airlangga University, supported by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J - GRID).

Scientists denounced the Republican - controlled U.S. House of Representatives» NASA budget proposal that would take money away from Earth studies, including those of climate change, and funnel it toward space exploration, a move critics say could hinder the space agency's ability to better understand global - warming trends.

Kent Pekel is taking a break from teaching global studies at a Minnesota high school to spend some time with experts on the subject: high - ranking officials of the Central Intelligence Agency.

When they have the agency to plan and execute a project that addresses a real local or global issue, students can take responsibility for their education and gain confidence in their ability to make a difference in the world.

But state education agencies have been steadily drained of staff for years and do not have the capacity or the authority to redesign the education systems of their states to meet the challenges posed by the fundamental changes that have taken place in the global economy over the past two decades.

The person who grows up to be an empowered global citizen benefited from educational experiences which helped them understand the world and discover their own capacity to improve it, from experiences that gradually built the mindsets and dispositions that produce agency, was taught to reason ethically and to have compassion for others in ways which lead to taking responsibility to advancing not just their individual interests, but the common good.

With the web pulling dollars away from billboard advertising, some in the advertising industry see it as a move to get millions of Americans to «take your head out of your phone,» explained Rob Schwartz, the global creative president of TBWA, the worldwide advertising agency.

I think the distortion of science is greater in global climate change articles because there is no government agency taking responsiblity for providing essential information and education for the media and public, in the U.S..

In the US, Republican members of Congress are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to forestall any effort to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act until a full, transparent investigation has taken place on allegations that fudged data played a role in establishing the link between industrial CO2 emissions and global warming.

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As a result of major transformations in the global energy system that take place over the next decades, renewables and natural gas are the big winners in the race to meet energy demand growth until 2040, according to the latest edition of the World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency's flagship publication.

In essence, these two climate research agencies have purposefully cooled the past; and then warmed the modern temperatures in an effort to make global warming seem more severe than actually has taken place since the Little Ice Age.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the Kochs supported have taken the lead in opposing US Environmental Protection Agency efforts to reduce global warming emissions.

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Indeed, a portion of that small linear trend difference might be due to human CO2 emissions; or, then again, it might be due to the vast urbanization effect over the last 60 + years; or due to the large deforestation that's taken place; or, maybe it's entirely due to the serial fabrication of global warming by the world's climate agencies; or it's even possible that the post-1950 warming was entirely a natural phenomenon - the same as the prior 64 - year period experience.

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We are hopeful that the Court will ultimately uphold this key pillar of the Obama Administration's commitments that it took to the COP21 Climate Conference in Paris, as it earlier upheld the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s authority to regulate global warming pollution under the federal Clean Air Act.

WEO - 2017, the International Energy Agency's flagship publication, finds that over the next two decades the global energy system is being reshaped by four major forces: the United States is set to become the undisputed global oil and gas leader; renewables are being deployed rapidly thanks to falling costs; the share of electricity in the energy mix is growing; and China's new economic strategy takes it on a cleaner growth mode, with implications for global energy markets.

As he points out, Mann has been cleared of all wrongdoing multiple times by multiple independent agencies (like here, and here, and here, and here, and of course here), despite the efforts of the global warming deniers to do whatever they can to take him down.

The Commission took the view that jointly switching the sale of e-books from a wholesale model to an agency model, with the same key pricing terms on a global basis, amounted to a concerted practice, with the object of either raising the retail prices of e-books, or preventing the emergence of lower prices of e-books, in the EEA (in other words, a hardcore restriction).

According to a report Monday by South Korea's Yonhap News Agency, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) was taking steps to curb the «speculative transactions of cryptocurrencies, amid global worries about a bubble.»

The world has now become a global village, where it only takes a couple of minutes to connect with employers, hiring managers and recruiting agencies.

Climate - related litigation is a reality, particularly in the United States where action has been taken against private companies, administrative decisions and government agencies... In relation to the impacts on Indigenous peoples, in February 2008 the Alaskan native village of Kivalina filed a lawsuit against a number of oil, coal and power companies for their contribution to global warming and the impacts on homes and country disappearing into the Chukchi Sea.

Most notably, it has helped me to understand just what it may take to fulfill the promise of that October day when global agencies committed to bringing critical early childhood programs to scale around the world.