Sentences with phrase «international protocols on»

This is an outrageous violation of international protocols on religion.

... The Government last night admitted for the first time that the chemical was delivered to Syria — a clear breach of international protocol on the trade of dangerous substances that has been condemned as «grossly irresponsible».»

Topics ranged from the political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters of University of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).

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Wine Institute and its global partnership of wine associations contracted Provisor Pt Ltd, a consultancy firm with expertise in resource accounting in the wine industry, to develop the international wine industry protocol, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol set by the World Resources Inprotocol, based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol set by the World Resources InProtocol set by the World Resources Institute.

We are also working with UNEP to develop major international flagship projects as part of the 10 - Year Framework of Programmes for sustainable development and of course, we are working with WRI on a food loss and waste protocol.

She serves on the Steering Committee of Guidelines International Network's Patient and Public Involvement Working Group and works with the Cochrane Collaboration's Pregnancy and Childbirth Group to involve consumers in refereeing the group's protocols and reviews.

The classic approach to teaching diplomacy is to teach international humanitarian law, the treaties, how the UN works, protocol, etiquette, and so on.

As the Montreal Protocol marks its 25th anniversary — the UN Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer — its legacy lives on, tugging and pulling at the sleeves of international efforts to address climate change.

When Mr Cameron stood up to speak for the second time, he questioned the prime minister's commitment to securing an international agreement on cutting carbon dioxide emissions to follow the Kyoto protocol which expires in 2012.

In 1987, an international agreement known as the Montreal Protocol led to a ban on the production and use of CFCs and many related compounds in industrial nations, but it ignored CH2Cl2 because researchers thought it didn't stay intact in the atmosphere long enough to rise into the stratosphere.

Wasn't the 1987 United Nations Montreal Protocol — an international agreement that set limits on the emission of ozone - eating compounds like chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs — supposed to shrink Earth's life - threatening atmospheric bald spot?

«On the phone a lot» to save Kyoto The exchange took place nearly three years after U.S. negotiators helped to broker the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that allowed wealthy countries to trade for emissions credits to cover some of their reduction responsibilities.

Gene drives spreading through wild populations would not respect international boundaries, so they might run afoul of international treaties, such as the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety that governs cross-border movement of genetically engineered organisms.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

And it is also clear — even to the negotiators who also agreed to be «informed» by the science expected from the International Government Panel on Climate Change's next assessment report in 2013 — that neither the «Durban Platform for Enhanced Action» nor the extended Kyoto Protocol are equal to the task of restraining ever - rising greenhouse gas emissions.

The production of these substances has been regulated and largely prohibited already for more than 20 years by the Montreal Protocol and further international agreements on the protection of the ozone layer.

Instead, the treaty provides a framework for negotiating specific international treaties (called «protocols») that may set binding limits on greenhouse gases.

President Obama's top climate diplomat acknowledged today that Capitol Hill delays over global warming legislation will likely push international negotiations to work beyond a December summit in Copenhagen on a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.

As is normal in international environmental law, it is likely that all countries that have joined the Kyoto Protocol will comply on paper even if formal observance does not actually do much to solve the underlying problem.

In the 1980s, under conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, Canada led the way in international policies to control acid rain and chlorofluorocarbons: the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is the most successful piece of international environmental legislation ever enacted.

At the time of the research no clear legal guidelines existed in France, but a new French biodiversity law is now to «implement the 2010 Nagoya Protocol, which complements the international Convention on Biological Diversity and aims to guarantee a greater control of the states rich in biodiversity, and their indigenous populations, over how their biodiversity resources are used and an equitable sharing of the benefits.»

Talks in Colombia to hammer out an international agreement controlling trade of bioengineered organisms broke down earlier this week, putting the protocol on hold with a goal of reaching an agreement by May 2000.

The Kyoto Protocol is seen as an important first step towards a truly global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate change.

-- The Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary of State, may issue international offset credits in exchange for instruments in the nature of offset credits that are issued by an international body established pursuant to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to a protocol to such Convention, or to a treaty that succeeds such Convention.

Work towards de-facto compliance with the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and create a new, strong international treaty with a starting date of 2010 instead of 2012.

The AF was initially set up to be run on a share of proceeds from the international carbon mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol.

Phase II has seen, since 2007, the first patents and the first international publications on technological programs (cell production, identification of genomic abnormalities) and biological research (identification of several differentiation protocols)

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone deProtocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone deprotocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

Even though this study protocol is dated 2013, it's worth a mention now because the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research just posted this on the ISNPR facebook page.

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Moreover, while Art. 3 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), 73 guarantees sex equality, only the Optional Protocol allows complaints by individuals coupled with state parties.74 Nonetheless, only those states that have expressly signed and accepted this Optional Protocol can enable individuals or groups of that state to report breaches of the Convention.

Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, General Assembly resolution 2200A (XXI) of 16 December 1966.

And the introduction of new international energy management standards like ISO 50001 and the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which rely heavily on verifiable and robust data collection are opening up new avenues for further innovation and developmeinternational energy management standards like ISO 50001 and the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which rely heavily on verifiable and robust data collection are opening up new avenues for further innovation and developmeInternational Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP), which rely heavily on verifiable and robust data collection are opening up new avenues for further innovation and development of aM & T.

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European elbow evaluations are based on the findings of the International Elbow Working Group (IEWG), a group of veterinary radiologists and surgeons, geneticists and dog breeders who have developed a screening protocol to facilitate international exchInternational Elbow Working Group (IEWG), a group of veterinary radiologists and surgeons, geneticists and dog breeders who have developed a screening protocol to facilitate international exchinternational exchange of data.

For a charity like International Cat Care, it is always important to back up action with evidence and to share the information — David has collected data from thousands of neuterings, worked on anaesthetic protocols and made information available to others to use and learn from.

During a session at the World Pet Association's (WPA) recent Groomer Supershow in Las Vegas, WPA president Doug Poindexter and representatives from International Pet Groomers, Inc. (IPG), the International Society of Canine Cosmetologists (ISCC) and the National Dog Groomers Association of America, Inc. (NDGAA) described a protocol that includes standards for animal housing and handling, equipment, and facilities with a focus on safe operations and attentive animal care.

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A number of lawmakers, foreign governments and environmental advocates had urged the administration to offer an amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the international treaty on ozone - depleting substances, calling for the rapid elimination of HFC's.

Key to linking these markets together is a secure and integrated international regulatory framework post-2012 when the Kyoto Protocol will expire, the very subject that so many people are focusing on in Bali and where political chiefs are expected to come up with a new master plan to fight climate change, or rather a blueprint for further negotiations to reach that master plan.

Building a global carbon market based on global financial markets would also require the development of a global registry and market instruments allowing international trading and an expanded role for project - based mechanisms (such as the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol).

The most recognized international treaties addressing mankinds» impact on our environment also include the Stockholm Convention (persistent organic pollutants or POPs), Rotterdam Convention (requiring prior informed consent before hazardous wastes can be shipped into another country), and Kyoto Protocol (greenhouse gases).

Not only is Canada withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, but the Climate Change office at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) is busy silencing art which is critical of government policy on climate change.

The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer («Montreal Protocol») is often cited as the most successful international environmental agreement — having successfully forced the phase - out of more than ninety - eight percent of ozone - depleting substances («ODS»), placing the ozone layer on the road to recovery by the end of the twenty - first century.

United Nations member states will convene in Warsaw next week to continue negotiating a post-Kyoto Protocol international climate agreement, which has previously stumbled on the topic of monitoring of REDD activities.

More resources: Ozone Secretariat CAN Briefing Paper: Achieving an ambitious outcome on HFC Phasedown under the Montreal Protocol in 2016 (Climate Action Network International) Momentum growing for HFC agreement as Vienna talks kick - off (Natural Resources Defense Council) Primer on HFCs (Institute of Governance and Sustainable Development) The importance of ambition in the 2016 HFC phase - down agreement (Environmental Investigation Agency)

For evidence of Solomon's strange stance on environmental issues, one need look no further than his comments in the conservative National Review where he argued that the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty dedicated to reducing carbon emissions, was «the single biggest threat to the global environment.»

The trend was interrupted following international agreements (Montreal Protocol and its Amendments signed 30 years ago in 1987) on the reduction of ozone - depleting substances, and the first signs of ozone recovery were seen by satellites.

This Special Report was prepared following a request from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

The position taken by the Australian government in UNFCCC negotiations has been largely counterproductive, including: its membership of the Umbrella Group of delayer countries; its prioritization of a post-2020 agreement over raising ambition as is urgently required; its insistence on a meaninglessly weak Kyoto Protocol second commitment period target for Australia; its unreasonable conditions for Australia to increase its Kyoto target; its refusal to countenance even conditional targets deeper than 25 % below 2000; its pursuit of creative accounting rules for LULUCF (land use, land use change, and forestry) in both Kyoto commitment periods [v]; its intended reliance on international offset mechanisms; and its failure to provide finance for developing countries.