Sentences with phrase «international environmental advocacy»
«This administration, [Michelle] Bachelet's administration, is really prioritizing climate change in a way that no other previous administration has done, including her first administration,» said Amanda Maxwell, Latin America project director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit international environmental advocacy group based in New York City.
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Documents housed at the University of California, San Francisco, and analyzed in recent months by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group, show that the oil and tobacco industries have been linked for decades.
She is a founding and active member of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (www.enviRN.org), an international organization that is helping to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and policy / advocacy.
Tara's impressive history includes working as the CA Director and Legal Coordinator of a wildlife program for Earth Island Institute, clerking for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and for In Defense of Animals, serving as a legislative extern for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and managing the Golden Gate Audubon Society.
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After uniting leaders in the policy, business, construction, utility, low - income advocacy and environmental arenas to win a 30 % efficiency boost in America's model energy code, the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), the Energy Efficient Codes Coalition is now campaigning to put future IECCs on a path of continued progress.
and relies on data supplied by the «International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, an advocacy group based in Kathmandu,» and info from «a study by the French environmental group GERES.»
It grapples with various national and international issues that Japan is involved — conservation of Nansei Shoto Archipelago (including the coral reef in Shiraho in Ishigaki Island) and tidal flats in many places, promotion of forestry certification scheme and environmental education, prevention of global warming through promotion of natural energy and policy advocacy on the cities.
He went on to develop several software applications that help individuals and companies better understand their environmental impact, produced and wrote the Discovery Network's first online news show for Planet Green, and later led digital advocacy for the TckTckTck campaign, a global network of 500 NGOs working to secure an international climate agreement.
The hearings were presided over by three judges: Brett Fleishman, senior finance campaigner for 350.org; Aurélie Trouvé the co-president of the french branch of «Attac», an international movement working towards social, environmental and democratic alternatives, and Marie Toussaint President of «Notre affaire à tous» an organisation that specialises in using law as an advocacy tool to protect the environment and the climate.
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It seems Viscount Matt Ridley is gaining international recognition for his climate denial as US environmental advocacy group the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) calls into question his «rational optimism».
In this capacity, she has represented the consortium before international environmental bodies and has also periodically coordinated efforts of the consortium with patient advocacy groups.
Environmental advocacy organizations will be battling to stave off any Trump administration efforts to pull back from the Clean Power Plan and other U.S. and international initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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