Sentences with phrase «international policy agreements»

Namely, that significant sums of capital expenditure from Australian - based fossil fuel companies risks being stranded in a scenario compliant with international policy agreements and continued technological advances away from fossil fuel energy sources.

Agriculture and other rural activities must be integrated in future international policy agreements on climate change.

In addition, the Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) was launched by WHO and UNICEF in 1991, when international policy agreements were translated into ten recommendations for health care, including the directive that babies should not be given infant formula as a default principle.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

He described the reversal of American policy on international agreements, including Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord, as «insane.»

«What's really going to make a difference is the individual countries» policies, most of which are happening notwithstanding an international agreement.»

Mr. Handa has had involvement in several international jurisdictions and his professional experience has included: work on primary and secondary IPO listings on the Toronto and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges; experience in various debt and equity financing transactions including convertible debentures, off - take agreements, metal streaming agreements, and, brokered and non-brokered financings; implementation of ERP systems to manage full - scale mining operations; implementation of domestic and international tax planning strategies; and implementation of corporate governance and internal control policies to comply with various stock exchange jurisdictions.

The Global Trade Strategy is designed to help Ontario businesses benefit from the global economy, and provides a framework for the province's role to ensure that programs, policies and international trade agreements reflect the interests of our Province's businesses and workers.

Mr. Melby was a senior staff member on the National Security Council from 1987 to 1993, during which he participated in bilateral and multilateral trade and economic negotiations, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Uruguay Round, bilateral economic issues, international energy policy and export controls.

«Isolationism is the policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, foreign trade, international agreements, etc., seeking to devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities.»

The unipolarist ideology by whatever name, adds a fourth party to the foreign - policy debate, which has otherwise involved 1) liberal internationalists, who seek world peace and stability by securing collective agreements from nation states to comply with international law; 2) realists, who seek to ensure a balance of power among competing regimes; and 3) principled anti-interventionists, who renounce the use of military force for all reasons besides self - defense.

«Free trade agreements that place the US on equal footing with other wine producing countries are absolutely essential to growing U.S. wine exports,» said Charles Jefferson, Wine Institute Vice President of Federal Relations and International Public Policy.

Trump's decision to withdraw from international climate agreements, and his seeming climate change denial, may restrict the US from legitimately using climate security rationales for informing grand strategy and foreign policy.

However the institution of the following policy changes can reduce both inter-state tensions and the associated recurring costs: a concerted effort to increase transparency in each nation's territorial claims; a US declaration on the status of disputed territory conflicts in its mutual defence treaties; and internal enforcement of international agreements such as the Code of Conduct.

The report recommends foreign policy follows five guiding principles: to actively work to protect civilians; to challenge abuses of humanitarian law and human rights; to deliver on policies like the Arms Trade Treaty which save lives through international agreement; to meet the challenges of the modern world, including new threats like terrorism; and strengthening multilateral institutions, with the UK taking the lead to reunite the UN.

As a diplomat, Beals said he saw the result of failed policies and noted the importance of investing in the State Department and not back out of international agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord.

Duncan Hames, director of policy at Transparency International UK said: «It is almost inconceivable that campaigners would donate to each other hundreds of thousands of pounds without some assurance or agreement as to what the money would be spent on.

The Country report covered ten thematic areas which include: General measures taken to realize the rights and welfare of the child in the policies and law of the State party or in any other international convention or agreement in force in the state.

The agreement stems from a meeting last spring between representatives of Science & Technology Australia and leaders of AAAS in Washington, D.C., where both sides explored pursuing opportunities of shared interests, including cooperative efforts to address international science policy issues.

Since the 1940s, explains Nigel Purvis of Resources for the Future, in a paper on the relevance of the subject to climate policy, the United States has approved 90 % of its international deals — thousands of pacts — through so - called congressional - executive agreements.

Jake Schmidt, international policy director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the key from Cancun will be agreements on issues like transparency, deforestation, technology transfer and financing that lead to some concrete implementation steps.

Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and has promised to quit the Paris Agreement, was considering ways to bypass a theoretical four - year procedure for leaving the accord, according to the source, who works on Trump's transition team for international energy and climate policy.

Climate scientists and international negotiators are concerned that the election of Donald Trump, who has pledged to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement and dismantle domestic climate policies, will derail the efforts to limit warming.

Prof. Joost Pauwelyn, a law professor at Duke University subsequently published U.S. Federal Climate Policy and Competitiveness Concerns: The Limits and Options of International Trade Law, which holds out strong hope that border tax adjustments could pass muster under WTO and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs & Trades) rules.

The author doses the report by advocating that the precautionary principle be used in international «agreements and treaties, in government policies (taxing dangerous chemicals and giving tax breaks), and in corporate practices.

As part of BIOACID, Ekardt's Research Unit Sustainability and Climate Policy assessed political instruments against ocean acidification and climate change such as the different treaties of international law, the Paris Agreement or regulations for marine conservation as well as human rights.

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Once again, the migration policy stayed above other policies based on international agreement.

The Office of the Secretary (OST) formulates national transportation policy; prepares needed transportation legislation; helps negotiate and implement international transportation agreements; assures the fitness of U.S. airlines and enforces airline consumer protection regulations.

Also, each insured credit default swap the Company enters into is governed by a single transaction International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. («ISDA») Master Agreement relating only to that particular transaction / insurance policy.

Subsidy reform has been an important international policy agenda, especially ever since the December 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change that called on countries to reduce emissions.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

Now consider this: to deal with greenhouse gas emissions, international agreements and national government policies and regulations are being proposed and enacted (at least in Europe and Canada).

As time passed, however, my views evolved, and for several years now, my opinion is that U.S. domestic policy action needs to proceed in parallel with committed efforts to develop a sound international scheme of cooperation, including the key emerging economies (the usual list), whether that scheme be an official post-Kyoto agreement, some other multilateral arrangements, or a set of bilateral arrangements.

For policy makers and in international agreements where people have to deal with what is actionable, setting objectives in terms of GHG emissions is the only option available.

These market forces will ultimately prove more important than policy, international agreements, or the inertia of those with old ideas and trapped equity.

If you want to learn more about the Paris Agreement and the international legal and policy framework to address climate change, check out Module 2 of the Introductory e-course on Climate Change.

The Brundtlands and Kofi Annans retire from politics and become figureheads for spurious international organisations providing the policies which politicians put forward as being inevitable, because backed by the higher authority of science, international agreement, or simply some glossy «study».

The study is the first to model demand for oil, gas and thermal coal under the International Energy Agency's Beyond 2 Degrees Scenario introduced last year, aligned with 1.75 C, the mid-point of the Paris Agreement, and compare it with the IEA's New Policies Scenario, aligned with 2.7 C, consistent with emissions policies announced by global govePolicies Scenario, aligned with 2.7 C, consistent with emissions policies announced by global govepolicies announced by global governments.

Paper promises in the form of policy and legislative mechanisms are good and well; but as experience has taught us, paper promises are 90 % of the time just that, lovely forms of references when monitoring a state's adherence to international agreements or even local law, but the lack of monitoring and enforcement barely happens and if at all with «sweetheart - slap - on - the - wrist» penalisation of polluters.

And the precautionary principle is at the heart of international agreements and domestic policies on the environment.

Ulriikka Aarnio, CAN Europe International Climate Policy Coordinator said: «The EU played a crucial role in ensuring the Paris Agreement came into place, but domestically the EU keeps acting as if Paris never happened.

It also notes that policy - makers have largely failed to take the tourism industry's emissions seriously on the global stage — international aviation, for instance, is currently excluded from the Paris climate agreement, and the only UN-backed aviation emissions standards on the books are weak as hell.

View 4: «If the high - polluting nations such as Australia adopted a policy of reducing emissions to 25 per cent below 1990 by 2020 this would likely lead to an international agreement that would stabilise emissions at 450ppm or lower.»

The putty - clay model suggests that tax - inclusive energy prices need to be 273 % higher than laissez - faire levels in 2055 in order to achieve policy goals consistent with international agreements.

After the final text of the Paris Agreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land - focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climatAgreement was adopted mid-December 2015, several land - focused organizations analyzed the different ways land use and agriculture are positioned in the agreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climatagreement, in order to identify the future trajectory of land use in international climate policy.

Researchers should make it clear that they are going beyond their professional expertise when they make recommendations about the policy implications of their research, according to a new international agreement on research integrity.

In addition to engaging around the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement, the International Climate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships betweInternational Climate Action Initiative also addresses climate policies in other contexts, including international cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships betweinternational cooperative initiatives involving national governments, businesses and cities; broader development policy and linkages with climate policy; and key bilateral relationships between countries.

In support of the Paris Agreement, science - based targets from leading companies demonstrate to policy - makers the scale of emission reductions that are achievable to positively influence international climate negotiations and domestic climate policy.

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.