Sentences with phrase «global moratorium»

Today, Japan sustained its biggest strike since the 1982 global moratorium on commercial whaling with a ruling by the International Court of Justice that its current southern ocean whaling activities are in breach of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling.

New drive to end genetically modified Terminator seed ban could succeed, making Brazil the first nation to defy global moratorium on crops with built - in sterility.

World governments at a United Nations biodiversity meeting this week rejected calls for a global moratorium on gene drives, a technology that can rapidly spread modified genes through populations and could be used to engineer entire species.

I wish we could all just call a global moratorium on killing and establish a truce.

Today, while addressing the U.N. General Assembly, he planned to announce a ban on all commercial shark fishing in Palau's 242,858 - square - mile exclusive economic zone, while also calling for a global moratorium on catching sharks only for their fins.

across those 20 years... eg Today thru Yr 1 — Global Moratorium on opening new coal mines and new gas fields.

It would not seem to be that difficult to establish a global moratorium on new coal power plants.

There is currently a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and a ban on international trade in fin whale meat.

Since the global moratorium on commercial whaling was introduced in 1986, Japan has defied the ban and killed more than 15,000 whales in the name of scientific research.

The global moratorium on commercial whaling that was passed in 1986 by the International Whaling Commission led to Sea Shepherd sinking two illegal whaling ships in Iceland in 1986 and two again, in Norway between 1992 and 1994.

Under an objection to the global moratorium on commercial whaling and a reservation to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) ban on international trade in minke whales, Norway is able to legally hunt and trade minke whales.

It also means a global moratorium on prospecting, not just in deep water, but everywhere.

Hopefully there will be a global moratorium on further construction, at least on mountaintops, where wind turbines are the most disrespectful.

Jim Anderton, New Zealand Fisheries Minister, says that the country would support a global moratorium on bottom - trawling, but only if the international community followed suit.

We need a global moratorium on coal, then we need to phase out all dirty coal plants.

Thousands of minke whales were taken annually until the global moratorium on whaling in 1986, after which Japan continued to hunt minkes for what they claim are scientific reasons.

The United Nations (UN) report calling for a global moratorium on lethal autonomous robotics, weapons systems that can select and kill targets without a human being directly issuing a command, will be considered this week in Geneva.