Sentences with phrase «hold their environment minister»

Now a well - disciplined and organised group are determined to hold their Environment Minister accountable for his contemptible indifference to their situation.

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Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, holds a meeting in her office with members of the NAFTA Advisory Council on the Environment on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017.

Environment minister Phil Woolas held talks with the Agricultural Biotechnology Council last night, a group which encourages the use of biotechnology in agriculture and spearheaded by controversial company Monsanto, one of the main GM businesses.

More than 120 MPs have signed an early day motion put by former environment minister Michael Meacher saying that no decision on Trident should be taken until «the fullest possible debate» had taken place «and a deciding vote held in parliament».

Shadow environment secretary Peter Ainsworth said the leaked briefing «blows a massive hold in the government's previous rhetoric on climate change» and shows the prime minister «neither understands nor cares about the need to tackle climate change».

Former environment minister Jairam Ramesh held a countrywide series of public hearings and in February 2010 imposed an indefinite moratorium on the release of Bt brinjal.

She visited the school on Thursday, February 1 to answer sixth formers» questions about her education and career path, which has seen her hold the roles of schools minister, environment secretary, and justice secretary, as well as becoming the first ever female Lord Chancellor in 2016.

Prime Minister Turnbull and Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg hold a press conference after ratifying the Paris Agreement in November 2016.

In a press conference held on Tuesday, environment minister José Sarney Filho said the reduction showed Brazil had regained control over deforestation in the Amazon as a result of more effective enforcement of the law.

While the election of Barack Obama as US president brings renewed energy and hope to the UN process, President Bush will be holding court when environment ministers from some 192 nations meet next week in Poznan.

, an attack on Environment Minister Stéphane Dion's solicitation of videotaped messages from international celebrities in connection with the 11th Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hosted by Canada and held in Montreal in December, 2005.

Japanese Minister of Environment, Masaharu Nakagawa, announced on August 29th that the ministry is launching a campaign to promote the registration of privately - held ivory tusks.

Ben Nickell posted High profile experts debate climate change Ben Nickell comments on the recent climate change debate held at the Royal Geographical Society and including experts Professor David Bellamy OBE, Greg Barker MP (Shadow Environment Minister), Peter Mather (UK CEO of BP), Professor Mark Maslin and BBC Newsnight's «ethical man» Justin Rowlatt.

With water particularly scarce in many Muslim countries, Islamic environment ministers agreed at a recent conference that «finding a solution was one of the «most important duties of our time»» — something that Arwa Aburawa of Green Prophet says could be achieved by reconnecting to Islamic water - management principles that hold that «every human has a right to clean water to quench their thirst and also that water is precious resource which must not be wasted even during abundance.»

BBC News and other outlets are reporting that the start of GM brinjal (eggplant or aubergine, call it what you like...) has been suspended, with environment minister Jairam Ramesh calling for more testing and essentially putting on indefinite hold the introduction of any GM food crops: Ramesh said that due to negative public sentiment it was his «duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary, principle - based approach.»

The planning came out of the AGGG's 1987 Bellagio workshop with an assist from Gro Bruntdland, the dynamic Prime Minister of Norway (the only woman to hold that post) and a few other environment - minded world leaders.

«Similarly, his Climate Change Secretariat would not allow Kyoto science skeptics such as Professor Tim Patterson, a leading paleo - climatoligist, into the Kyoto public consultations sessions held in June... How can we possibly make good decisions on Kyoto when the Minister of the Environment hides the full scope of the climate change debate from Canadians?»

The freshly chosen Labor government is yet to announce their environment minister, and one wonders if it will be Peter Garrett, who held the position whilst in opposition.

Peter Kent has already done something as Environment Minister that few others who have held the same position over the last 10 years have had the courage to do.