Sentences with phrase «global campaign against»

The budget's clean technology section opens by saying that the «global campaign against climate change is an economic opportunity for Canada,» an opportunity where Canada «can be a true global leader.»

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This truth is important today, when global forces are constraining women's lives as never before, Amnesty International put it succinctly when it launched a 2004 global campaign to stop violence against women: «From the battlefield to the bedroom, women are at risk.»

Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Mr Georg Kell, that confirms its view that the corporate accountability initiative is «worse than useless and lacking in integrity».

The minister who was speaking at the opening of the 4th session of the Nigeria - Cameroon Trans - Border Security Committee in Abuja, also said, «In the same vein, we call on the international community to sustain their support in our fight against Boko haram, and to see this effort as part of the global campaign to defeat terrorism».

Jeff Gohringer, a Canastota native speaking for the League of Conservation Voters, said the new ads will continue the Flat Earth Five campaign against Buerkle and four other House members who have said global climate change is a myth.

The ongoing global campaign to end violence against women and children which was launched on Wednesday, has been greeted with impunity in the Ellembelle District of the Western Region, after a 28 - year - old Monica Kabenla and her husband, whose name was only given as Emma, whipped their 8 year - old niece with hot machete.

The national environmental group named Buerkle to its «Flat Earth Five» campaign against five House members who deny the existence of global climate change, which Buerkle has called a myth.

The National League of Conservation Voters said it would spend $ 1.5 million on its initial ad campaign against the «Flat Earth Five» aimed at defeating five House members who have raised doubt about global climate change.

The left - leaning Working Families Party, which has long championed bread - and - butter labor issues, has shifted focus and is now pressuring New York lawmakers to tackle global warming and support a campaign against Big Oil, The Post has learned.

Regardless of when China's emissions peak might come — the year of 2020, 2022 or 2025 — Yang said that falling Chinese emissions have already sent out a positive signal to the international campaign against global warming.

The ads on global warming in particular set out the history of the companies» campaign against both climate action and the science.

Five for the Fight is a global campaign encouraging people from around the world to join the fight against cancer.

Dustin wages a one - man campaign against Global while at the same time waging a (hokey) war with Steve for the affections of a local schoolteacher (Rosemarie DeWitt).

Partners are renown organisations like Global Campaign for Education, Global March Against Child Labour, Plan International, UNICEF and dozens of grassroots organisations in the Global South.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiGlobal Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on theiglobal North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

I first noticed it in 1979 when the United Nations International Year of the Child — a global campaign to end poverty and provide health and human rights to all children — was attacked by a number of groups, including Americans Against Abortion, which called it «an intense propaganda campaign to «liberate» children from their parents.»

LCV Capital Management and Raging Capital Management are running an activist campaign against ModusLink Global Solutions (TM) Inc (NASDAQ: MLNK) calling on MLNK to immediately implement a $ 50 to $ 75M...

LCV Capital Management and Raging Capital Management are running an activist campaign against ModusLink Global Solutions (TM) Inc (NASDAQ: MLNK) calling on MLNK to immediately implement a $ 50 to $ 75M share repurchase program and align executive compensation with performance.

BBDO Bangkok has been awarded Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)'s creative duty for its new global advertising campaign Amazing Thailand, to communicate to its international audience, after winning the pitch against four other bidders in 2017.

Through the five - hour campaign, Prophet will briefly interact with various members of the resistance group fighting against CELL's global military force, as well as Psycho who accompanies you throughout most of the game.

More on Overfishing and Sustainable Seafood Overfishing and Climate Change Threaten Global Fish Stocks World's First Sustainable Tuna Fishery Certified Top 10 Threats to Oceans and Coasts in South America WWF Launches Campaign Against Bycatch Wal - Mart to Sell «Sustainable Shrimp» 10 Solutions to Save the Oceans

Starting today, Energy Star's Change a Light, Change the World campaign is hitting the road, touring the country (see the full schedule here) by bus to spread the good word about the difference we all can make in the fight against global warming by

A front - page article and headline on April 24 reported that the Global Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisGlobal Climate Coalition, a group that throughout the 1990s represented industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, knew about the scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions could cause global warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emisglobal warming but ignored it in a lobbying and public relations campaign against efforts to curb emissions.

Gore's call to «make peace with the planet» requires an integrated awareness and action against both global warming and global warring, simultaneously — Gore describes the problem as huge, but in limiting it to civilian activities, not including military madness and mayhem, it is not huge enough — if a patient has both diabetes and severe trauma, both conditions must be treated now — militization trumps civilization in the headlines of today and tomorrow — if the truth is that both global warming everywhere and global warring anywhere are linked in the human biosphere, and if that truth is inconvenient to Mr Gore and the civilian scope of his campaign against global warming, lethal consequences for both humans and other species will continue — in cinematic terms, the great «An Inconvenient Truth» must be blended and coordinated with the great «Why We Fight»

These events coincide with the first international Day of the Girl on Thursday, and they remind us that the global struggle for gender equality is the paramount moral struggle of this century, equivalent to the campaigns against slavery in the 19th century and against totalitarianism in the 20th century.

The United States» dual pledge to implement the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and to support legislation that would stop U.S. states from allowing secretive front companies to be set up represents an important step forward in the global fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global Wiglobal fight against corruption and corporate secrecy, said campaign group Global WiGlobal Witness.

It would appear that the vigorous conservative campaign against climate - change advocates (especially Al Gore) has contributed to leaders of the Republican Party adopting a highly skeptical view of global warming.

Report: UN warns of threat to human progress; Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations; Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics; Inaccurate news reports misrepresent AGU climate - science initiative; climate crisis is no crisis (media confusion); ClimateGate One Year Later; Energy & Environment Hearing; Philippines: Aquino calls for lifestyle change

Note: This an October 2014 blog post about an oil industry PR campaign against the implementation of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, part of California's global warming legislation.

Global Citizen campaigns against climate change in support of Global Goal No. 13.

Citing figures from the California secretary of state, Maplight.org reports that Bill Gates has donated $ 700,000 to the campaign against Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would repeal a California law related to reining in global warming.

Notorious for... A vitriolic campaign against the UK Government's chief scientist Sir David King for his alarmingly conventional views on the causes of global warming.

Rose's contribution claimed «for the past 15 years, global warming has stopped», drawing on an analysis handed to him by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the club for climate change «sceptics» that was set up by Lord Lawson in November 2009 to campaign against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emisglobal warming has stopped», drawing on an analysis handed to him by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, the club for climate change «sceptics» that was set up by Lord Lawson in November 2009 to campaign against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emisGlobal Warming Policy Foundation, the club for climate change «sceptics» that was set up by Lord Lawson in November 2009 to campaign against policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Caruba has no scientific credentials whatsoever, but in addition to signing the Oregon Petition he has editorialized on his own website against the science of global warming, calling it the «biggest hoax of the decade,» a «genocidal» campaign by environmentalists who believe that «humanity must be destroyed to «Save the Earth.»

After all, it was not Moscow that mounted a multi-decade economic warfare campaign against the energy infrastructure of the English - speaking world under the guise of Global Warming; no, that was our «allies» in Brussels.

The fact that we hear so much about the melting of the Arctic ice caps and hear virtually nothing about the growth of the Antarctic ice caps is telling - global warmers aren't interested in data that doesn't support their politicized campaign against pollution.

To recap: Ross Gelbspan accuses a prominent skeptic scientist of being involved in a global warming «misinformation campaign», and he claims a key «leaked memo» phrase he supposedly found is the smoking gun evidence for his overall accusation against skeptic scientists.

An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man - made global warming, environment experts.

Granted, there are companies lobbying against emission cuts because it could cost them money, but there's plenty of potential for profit in the campaign against global warming, and energy companies are already angling for their cut.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) is the leading global charity dedicated to the conservation and protection of whales and dolphins, defending them against the many threats they face through campaigns, lobbying, advising governments, conservation projects, field research and rescue.

I don't dismiss Al Gore's warnings just because his campaign against global warming has been so good for his career.

For more than a decade the Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat - trapping gases could lead to global waGlobal Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat - trapping gases could lead to global waglobal warming.

«The campaign against the 1997 Kyoto global warming treaty waged by right - wing think tanks has been another area where corporate America has heavily invested in right - wing policy groups that advance its interest» noted author David Callahan in 1999.»

Given that Kreider has long associations with Fenton Communications, and is self described as «a consultant to several global non-governmental organizations ``, one question to ask is whether she did any consulting on what the above LeftExposed topic was about, namely the «Campaign Against Rupert Murdoch's Climate Denialism» which in Wikileaks» DOC file closes out with the line «Submitted December 1, 2014 by David Fenton.»

Even the UN Environment Program has taken a strong stance against plastic pollution, and started a global campaign to reduce marine debris from microplastics and single use plastics by 2022.

Unlike in World War II, when the main enemy was unmistakably Germany, the anti - Western / anti - cosmopolitan campaigns were directed against abstract foreign foes on the one hand (e.g., global imperialism,) and against specific groups and nations within the USSR on the other.

Young, handsome, passionate, and skilled, he found a mentor in the legendary anti-poaching activist Captain Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd, the global anti-poaching armada known for its defense of whales and campaigns against illegal fishing worldwide.

deCOALonise.africa will help amplify regional campaigns, and highlight campaigns against coal on a continent - wide as well as global level.

«Suffice to say, the Manufactured Doubt campaign against global warming — funded by the richest corporations in world history — is probably the most extensive and expensive such effort ever.

The campaign will benefit one of Christy's favorite charities, CARE, which fights against global poverty.