Sentences with phrase «international body tasked»
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.
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The report - from CGIAR, the international body tasked with research into sustainable agriculture - cites Brazil's joined - up efforts as showing the way forward for developing forested nations.
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British spy agencies have collected and shared huge databases of personal and social media information on millions of individuals, and effectively circumvented the investigatory body tasked with surveillance oversight, according to documents newly obtained by Privacy International, a London - based consumer advocacy...
The Financial Stability Board, an international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, recently announced the appointment of experts in responsible investment, sustainable finance, risk management and climate change to head its new task force on climate - change - related disclosures.
The result of the task force was the development of two practical tools: The Guide for Assessing Equivalence of Standards and Technical Regulations (EquiTool) and the International Requirements for Organic Certification Bodies (IROCB) which can be used by any government or private sector organic label scheme for recognizing other organic standards and certification performance requirements as equivalent to their own.
The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is an interdisciplinary body of scientists and humanists working under the umbrella of the International Commission on Stratigraphy and tasked with developing a proposal for the formal ratification of the Anthropocene as an official unit amending the Geological Time Scale.
Kirkland & Ellis litigation and internal investigations partner Michael Garcia has been appointed as co-chairman of an ethics committee tasked with investigating allegations of corruption at football's international governing body FIFA, reports The Am Law Daily.