Sentences with phrase «global regime for»

Mao and Stalin, in their wildest dreams, could not have imagined a global regime for measuring CO2 and regulating every breath, every cooking fire, every watt of electricity, virtually every activity of every person on Earth.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tried to ease concerns the U.S. was gearing for war with North Korea, a day after President Donald Trump rattled global markets with his warning that he could unleash «fire and fury» against Kim Jong Un's regime.

Global companies, including Facebook, have spent the last two years preparing for a new privacy regime scheduled to arrive in Europe on May 25.

But survival — for a regime or a nation — is not a static goal as global circumstances constantly shift.

If you've been on the site for awhile, you have a head start because we've already discussed the importance of a discipline known as asset allocation, which involves selecting among different asset classes to build a well - balanced portfolio that can weather different economic environments, tax regimes, global conditions, inflation or deflation, and a host of other variables that history has shown will fluctuate over time.

Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

LONDON (Reuters)- The world's top 30 banks face a higher minimum requirement for their broadest measure of capital, global regulators said on Monday as they flagged a two - tier leverage ratio regime for the first time.

«Clearly, the current regime is not fit for the government's purpose of gaining a social licence to frack,» Michael Bradshaw, professor of global energy at Warwich Business School, wrote in an email.

Steady - above trend global growth is supportive of low - vol regimes, yet we see the potential for greater macroeconomic uncertainty — and volatility.

The TJN has long called for a more equitable, socially just and sustainable model for global trade; and so, in the context of NAFTA, the TJN is continuing to work to present alternatives to the current global trade regime.

Here are some existing proposals for developing alternatives to the current global trade regime:

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He offers a five - stage history of post-World War II American foreign policy, explaining the rationale for U.S. support of repressive military regimes, the shift toward advancing empire through globalized capitalist expansion, and the current drive for global military supremacy.

Global leaders are calling on both Russia and Syria to cease airstrikes and bombing in order to provide an opportunity for relief to the quarter of a million civilians still trapped between the rebels and the regime.

He asks why «no word of condemnation comes from any Arab regime regarding the murder of innocent Iraqis on a daily basis» and points out that «so - called Muslim community leaders... have also failed to condemn these killings of fellow Muslims, while finding every «contextual» excuse for global Islamic violence.»

Such a system provides a new option for spacecraft to autonomously determine their locations outside the currently used Earth - based global navigation networks because pulsars are accessible in virtually every conceivable fight regime, from low - Earth to deepest space.

But E.U. leaders hope the single patent will be more attractive for inventors than the existing regime, which could help Europe catch up on its global competitors.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

South African Astronomical Observatory — A list of Virtual Observatory - compatible applications, tools and data archives to do science — online data archives, data discovery, analysis, and plotting tools Mitaka 4 - dimensional digital universe — Software to visualize the known Universe with up - to - date observational data and theoretical models, by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)[With Mutiple Language Support] SAO / NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)-- A Digital Library portal for researchers in Astronomy and Physics Virtual Astronomical Observatory (VAO)-- electronic integration of astronomy data, tools, and services to the global community SkyView — A Virtual Observatory on the Net generating images of any part of the sky at wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma - Ray.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

This has profound implications for conservation, considering the ubiquity of feral cats and global trends of intensified fire regimes.

Explicitly «not a trade fair», this global survey promises to be nothing if not eclectic: France will be showing designer Benjamin Loyauté's film made in a Syrian refugee camp, while Chile plans to reconstruct the Cybersyn Operations Room, a hi - tech tool for managing the economy developed by Salvador Allende's regime in the 1970s.

The document — which administration officials have neither acknowledged or rejected as authentic — has elements guaranteed to inflame folks ranging from Rush Limbaugh (the mention of efforts to «produce a global regime to combat climate change») to environmental groups pushing for concrete commitments on restricting greenhouse gases (a phrase implying that increasing perception of United States engagement is the goal).

Smaller cars are more expensive if equipped with hybrids, plus under a global warming regime, you would have to pay more money for the same size car.»

In return for being part of a global climate change regime, developing countries want support from developed countries in the form of finance, technology and capacity building to be able to grow with lower energy and carbon intensity.

... China insists in the position to make the framework [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] the political and legal basis for the global regime and we do not see the necessity or need to rewrite or interpret the convention.

This leads to the need for technological assistance, financial assistance, and also the need for innovation for technology for the global regime.

European Union policy makers for the past decade have emphasized the need to implement a regulatory regime to put a global cap on emissions and to enable wealthy countries to finance ways of cutting carbon in the developing world.

Global Witness welcomes the UN Security Council's decision to extend the current sanctions regime on Liberia for its threat to international peace and security, and applauds the inclusion of an embargo on Liberian timber (1).

Admittedly, that was before a science qualification was required, but nonetheless I have been a weather and climate enthusiast for over 60 years and have observed the differing global weather patterns across three so called «climate regimes».

Global rainfall and flood records likewise show evidence for abrupt shifts and regimes that persist for decades.

A team of masters students and I (call us «Team China» if you will), have carefully reviewed the negotiating texts (non-papers in policy - speak) and developed a series of policy scenarios and strategic recommendations for how China can act as a leader in this talks to achieve an outcome that is optimal for both themselves and the global climate regime.

For more information, please contact Corinna Gilfillan at Global Witness: [phone], or [phone] Ian Smillie at Partnership Africa Canada: 1 [phone], or Susan Isaac at 1 [phone] ActionAid - U.K. www.actionaid.org Amnesty International - Canada Amnesty International - London Fatal Transactions - Netherlands www.niza.nl/fataltransactions Global Witness - U.K. www.globalwitness.org Network Movement for Justice and Development - Sierra Leone One Sky - Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living - Canada Oxfam International Partnership Africa Canada www.pacweb.org Physicians for Human Rights - U.S.A. World Vision U.S.A. Editor Notes: The KPCS, launched in January 2003, requires governments and the diamond industry to implement import / export control regimes in rough diamonds to prevent conflict diamonds from fuelling war and human rights abuFor more information, please contact Corinna Gilfillan at Global Witness: [phone], or [phone] Ian Smillie at Partnership Africa Canada: 1 [phone], or Susan Isaac at 1 [phone] ActionAid - U.K. www.actionaid.org Amnesty International - Canada Amnesty International - London Fatal Transactions - Netherlands www.niza.nl/fataltransactions Global Witness - U.K. www.globalwitness.org Network Movement for Justice and Development - Sierra Leone One Sky - Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living - Canada Oxfam International Partnership Africa Canada www.pacweb.org Physicians for Human Rights - U.S.A. World Vision U.S.A. Editor Notes: The KPCS, launched in January 2003, requires governments and the diamond industry to implement import / export control regimes in rough diamonds to prevent conflict diamonds from fuelling war and human rights abufor Justice and Development - Sierra Leone One Sky - Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living - Canada Oxfam International Partnership Africa Canada www.pacweb.org Physicians for Human Rights - U.S.A. World Vision U.S.A. Editor Notes: The KPCS, launched in January 2003, requires governments and the diamond industry to implement import / export control regimes in rough diamonds to prevent conflict diamonds from fuelling war and human rights abufor Human Rights - U.S.A. World Vision U.S.A. Editor Notes: The KPCS, launched in January 2003, requires governments and the diamond industry to implement import / export control regimes in rough diamonds to prevent conflict diamonds from fuelling war and human rights abuse.

Governments adopted a comprehensive package of decisions — including an agreement to initiate a second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol and the «Durban Platform» to negotiate a long - term, all inclusive future mitigation regime that includes a process to address the «ambition gap» for stabilizing average global temperature increases at 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels.

Delegates will also discuss issues related to implementation of commitments (under the SBI - Subsidiary Body for Implementation) as well as more technical details of the global climate regime (under SBSTA - Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice).

Predictably, the automakers, through the powerful Auto Alliance and Global Automakers trade groups, are calling for one national regime, which could result from a grand bargain like the one that Pruitt just scrapped, or could be delivered by Pruitt stripping California of its waiver.

• The EPA could only justify their climate regulations if — for the very first time, in any regulatory regime — they included assumed global impacts.

Global rainfall, ecological and flood records likewise show evidence for abrupt shifts and regimes that persist for decades.

Rather than advancing the interests of polluters through a weaker climate policy regime this agreement must recognize the historical responsibility of the Global North, provide justice for the Global South and catalyze the rapid transition away from dirty energy.

Were it not for the East Anglian emails, the big Copenhagen confab of 2009 might have gotten away with plans to impose a global climate regime across the western world.

In a November 21 report prepping readers for Doha, entitled, «Warming up: What to Expect From the Next Big Report on Climate Change,» The Economist puts great stock in the UN's thoroughly discredited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that our failure to secure a global climate regime is tantamount to «playing Russian roulette with the planet.»

For it implies that current populations may not be motivated to establish a fully adequate global regime, since, given the temporal dispersion of effects — and especially backloading and deferral — such a regime is probably not in their interests.

For 20 years, evidence about global warming has been directly and explicitly linked to a set of policy responses demanding international governance regimes, large - scale social engineering, and the redistribution of wealth.

These are: Implement a «carbon tax» (or make polluters pay); impose really tough emission standards; create a secure global trade regime in low carbon fuels; develop ways of financing the transfer of the best available technology for creating and, more importantly, saving energy; and require governments to invest in research and early - stage innovation.

During the first Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction held in June 2007, the Working Group agreed on three priority areas: gathering and sharing good practices in climate risk - reduction; providing policy guidance to UNFCCC processes on the post-2012 climate change regime; and developing methods for reducing the carbon footprint of disaster risk reduction activities.

`... over the 100 years since 1870 the successive five year values of average temperatures in England have been highly significantly correlated with the best estimates of the averages for the whole Northern Hemisphere and for the whole earth» (In this last comment he is no doubt referring to his work at CRU where global surface records back to 1860 or so were eventually gathered) he continued; «they probably mean that over the last three centuries the CET temperatures provide a reasonable indication of the tendency of the global climatic regime.»

We argued that with Kyoto's ratification carbon would actually be priced, that new principles for the protection of the global commons would be established, and that the structures necessary to eventually strengthen the climate regime would be put into place.

Problem # 1: Because the coupling between, say, global mean surface temperature and ice cover is state - dependent (for example, at high enough temperatures ice cover is identically zero), this only works when the coupling regime doesn't change.

2007/04/19: PlanetArk: No US Emissions Curbs Without China, India - Envoy The United States will not join an international regime curbing emissions blamed for global warming until it also applied to China and India, the US ambassador to the European Union said on Wednesday.