Sentences with phrase «increasing policy relevance»

Changes during in - person government session tend to focus on the comprehensiveness of examples provided and on increasing policy relevance.

Not exact matches

The need for public credibility and transparency has dramatically increased in recent years as the policy relevance of climate research has increased.

In the meantime, there is increasing recognition in the policy making community that the global dimension of the educational process is essential to its relevance and that issues of world development, interdependence and solidarity are inherent to any curriculum for citizenship education in a global society.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

The first is the increasing need for academics to prove their «relevance», which has long been drawing the academy closer to the policy - making process.

Lee, who beat out several candidates for the panel's top job, has said that he wants the IPCC to focus on «policy relevance and neutrality», to increase participation by experts from developing nations and to explore ways to involve business and industry in the IPCC process.

As Curry observes, an infinite number of statements could have been made, ranging from «it is extremely likely that the anthro pogenic increase in greenhouse gases has caused some warming» (not very informative, since an infinitesimally small warming is of no policy relevance) to «it is about as likely as not that greenhouse - gas - induced warming exceeds the total observed warming» (which indicates the size of the greenhouse signal, but understates our confidence in attribution).

The Policy Unit is responsible for coordinating the development of the State Sustainability Strategy, increasing awareness of sustainability issues, and researching international sustainability strategies that may have relevance in Western Australia.

Increasing the policy and program relevance of results from randomized trials of home visitation.