Sentences with phrase «international body»

No other international body has previously provided protection for devil rays.

... the leading international body for the assessment of climate change.

It's an area that is moving very fast and requires a quick response from international bodies.

Indeed Canadian expertise is much sought after when international bodies set up registers for property interests.

Ubik works with international bodies like the United Nations or the European Union, in developing tools and services based in geospatial technologies, a field that is experiencing exponential growth in recent years.

To support this, we, at the World Coal Association launched last year new partnerships with international bodies such as the ASEAN Centre for Energy, which resulted in co-publishing a report, ASEAN's Energy Equation.

It was widely understood that the WTO was meant to create a fair, legalistic trade dispute system overseen by international bodies of judges that would replace the need for unilateral tools like Section 301.

And because their policies in international bodies such as fisheries commissions, the whaling commission, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species are disruptive enough to have global consequences.

«The measures we have taken have been commended by international bodies such as the European Central Bank, the European Commission, the IMF and the OECD.

With respect to the intentionality requirement in the Convention Against Torture, the U.S interpretation of «severe pain or suffering» differs with that of international bodies charged with implementation and norm - setting, putting the U.S. at odds with its international treaty obligations.

The theory advanced by Soon that the sun is a contributor to recent climate change has been widely discredited by scientists worldwide as well as by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world's leading international body on climate science.

Many economists and international bodies say otherwise.

In a statement, they said that the airstrike constitutes a war crime: «Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, [Doctors Without Borders] demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted by an independent international body.»

«If international bodies such as the IAAF or Wada make any recommendations on the basis of the report by the Wada commission, we will certainly fulfil them,» he told the Interfax news agency.

Our local, highly skilled court reporters have decades of experience making the record under the auspices of various international bodies and rules.

Apple also faces investigations from several international bodies over how it disclosed the software update as well.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the leading international body for the assessment of climate change, is working toward a future release of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), due for finalization in 2014.

STFC enables UK researchers to access leading international science facilities by funding membership of international bodies including European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), the Institut Laue Langevin (ILL), European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Next week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the main international body tasked with studying climate change, is expected to release the first section of a four - part report that is expected to be the strongest statement yet by scientists that the burning of fossil fuels by humans over the past half century is warming the planet.

- The WCP... requires leadership and co-ordination among international bodies and close collaboration among nations».

The EU and others had been asked to spell out what limits they could accept on the amount of steel they export to the United States, how they would address the issue of excess production of steel and aluminum and how they would support the U.S. before international bodies like the World Trade Organization.

Indeed, one major international body (the Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme) requires a goal of no net loss as a component of its definition of offsetting.

The President failed to acknowledge the high growth projections for this year by the IMF, World Bank and a host of other international bodies based on the gains made by the immediate past NDC administration.

«WSET is one of the leading international bodies organizing education courses for wines and spirits.

It's pretty obvious that the oceans can only be restored if international bodies cooperate to prohibit or massively tax harvest of certain species, and limit the catches of others.

Leave dismissed warnings from economists and international bodies about the economic impact of Brexit as «scaremongering» by a self - serving elite.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the Geneva - based international body set up by the UN to disseminate «climate change» information — made public a report in Yokohama, Japan, on March 31 asserting that the impacts of global warming are likely to be «severe, pervasive, and irreversible.»

Britain is being subject to embarrassing criticism on the global stage, after international bodies reacted angrily to the nine - hour detention of David Miranda.

September 20 — The WSJ reports that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the latest of a host of international bodies look into 1MDB.

You might wonder why a distant international body has a say in US decisions on imports and exports.

An entire international body designed for restricting trade of nuclear materials was created in response to India's first test, and the US did impose sanctions on India for their tests in the 90's.

The Federal Government has seceded from 90 international bodies so as to be able to meet up with its obligations, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun has disclosed.

Yet every serious international body, including the IMF, the OECD, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research — as well as Nobel prize - winners — forecast we will be poorer outside the EU.

Should our governments and international bodies fail to act quickly and effectively, organised crime and corruption will continue to penetrate our sports industry, It will, as the Council of Europe Convention on the Manipulation of Sports Competitions» latest report puts it bluntly, «pose a threat to the future of sport».

Perhaps we can now expect Southern greens, fresh from their efforts to reform international bodies such as the Global Environmental Facility, to launch a campaign for «transparency» in the activities of international environment groups.

International Body Language Expert, Dr. Kevin Hogan, has been teaching me for over 24 months how to read a man's body language.

A transplant from Canada, Brownlee is an award - winning Canadian / American entertainment veteran with a diverse international body of work, spanning more than 20 years.

There's a complementary hike in international body exposure, from 2 % of long - dated portfolios up to 3 % and uneven but substantial increases in all of the shorter - date funds as well.

Public employees working for an ad hoc international body should have an obligation to be even more open and transparent with their work product than their counterparts working for elected representatives of national governments who write legislation.

And yet, we now have the UEA arguing in effect that public employees conducting research, collating data and writing position papers for a non-representative, un-elected international body (that seems answerable to no one) have the right to withhold documents and data from the public and investigative bodies who might have an interest in examining how these public employees conducted themselves in discharging their duties.

And taking a reading from the globe's thermometer is not simple - measuring stations are spread unevenly across the globe, and different international bodies have different ways of merging them.

If the purpose of Kyoto is to establish some kind of international body then taking ineffective action like implementing caps is an unneeded corrolary to Kyoto, and this body should switch to actions which would work.