Sentences with phrase «impact trade schemes»

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In a further decline of the credibility of the diamond industry's way of ensuring «conflict free» diamonds, the non-governmental organization IMPACT, based in Canada, announced its departure from the Kimberley Process certification scheme the diamond industry has much touted to eradicate the trade in conflict diamonds.

Despite this consideration, the report, in the same chapter, recognizes the clear advantage of organic schemes in the educational role that they have played: «millions of consumers have been made aware of the way food markets work, and of the environmental impacts of food production, processing and distribution, and of the quality of the foods we eat» and it concludes that organic as well as fair trade and «short - chain strategies» are legitimate and valid options for both farmers and consumers and that policy can support these approaches by helping farmers to achieve higher yields.

This report: presents an overview of the market trends for coffee certified as «sustainable» over most of the past decade; highlights the importance of certification in traditional and emerging markets; outlines the main sustainability certification and verification schemes such as Fairtrade, FLO, Organic, Utz Certified, Rainforest Alliance and 4C, and provides volumes of traded coffee for each; and considers the impact of these standards on coffee producers and the industry.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

below 1990 levels by 2010, taking into account the impact of credits surrendered through the EU emissions trading scheme.

I oppose «cap and trade» and other big government schemes because they will destroy jobs while likely having minimal impact on the climate.»

To discourage for - profit piggybacking schemes in which authorized user trade lines are «sold» to strangers looking to repair their credit, the latest versions of the FICO scoring formula, beginning with the FICO 8 model, provide less of an incentive for exploitation by reducing the positive scoring impact from an authorized user account than for one held as the primary account holder, either individually or jointly.

A new report has found failing to tackle climate change will have a greater impact on supermarket prices than an emissions trading scheme (ETS).

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Although the EU Parliament voted to strengthen European Commission plans to bring air travel into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)[2], they failed to back tougher amendments that could have led to the scheme having a significant impact on aviation's rising emissions.

Following up on my last comment, at 199 million tons of C02 per year, what would be the impact on the coal export schemes if there were a Carbon price, be it through a cap and trade system or direct tax?

We also develop a 2020 reform scenario which models the potential impact of power market reforms and a national emission trading scheme (ETS) on the gross profitability of each operating coal plant in China.

The Institute added that while concerns have been expressed about the trading scheme's impact on European business, trading was devised in response to businesses's desire for flexibility in achieving compliance and the scheme «should be judged in light of other options for emission reduction, not the status quo».

the Garnaut Review on Climate Change - Garnaut's work may contribute significantly to the design of an emissions trading scheme but does not consider the impacts on or the level of engagement required by Indigenous people

On my reading of the Garnaut Review, I have found limited reference to Indigenous peoples, and no factoring in the impact a national trading scheme might have on Indigenous land tenure.