Sentences with phrase «landed global mandates»
Our choice for this year's Energy Firm of the Year has not only landed global mandates from energy giants such as BP and Total, but also assisted Asian players from Hong Kong's China Light and Power to China's State Grid and China Southern Grid on strategic overseas investments.
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It not only mandates limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels — well below the original 2 degree goal — it calls for the protection of indigenous land rights and ecosystem health.
As such, the GCRA (Section 106) mandated that the CCSP prepare, not less frequently than every four years, a scientific assessment report, or National Assessment, of global climate change research that, among other things, analyzes the effects of global change on eight specific areas, including: «the natural environment, agriculture, energy production and use, land and water resources, transportation, human health and welfare, human social systems, and biological diversity.»
Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.