Sentences with phrase «landmark agreements»

«The signing of these landmark agreements demonstrates the shared vision of a partnership that will further stimulate the vibrant, fast - growing Nigerian economy and substantially impact the state and country's GDPs, resulting in increased employment and skills training.

«These landmark agreements signal the arrival of utility - scale PV solar power that may be cost - competitive with solar thermal and wind energy,» said Jack Keenan, chief operating officer and senior vice president for PG&E.

«This year, governments are seeking to adopt landmark agreements on climate change and ending poverty,» he said.

From landmark agreements protecting fish and wildlife habitat, to innovative educational programming, and hundreds of partnerships with organizations serving those in need throughout the state, the Muckleshoot Tribe is contributing to the health of its forests and the quality of life of its citizens and neighbors.

This vote builds on the landmark agreements we reached with Native American tribes this year, ending expensive court battles and unnecessary discord and restoring hundreds of millions of dollars to local governments.»

The diplomat is visiting Pyongyang after a landmark agreement between the two Koreas.

Oil's retreat to a level not seen since OPEC forged its landmark agreement to cut output last November stoked declines from iron ore to industrial metals and losses that many commentators had been putting down to individual supply and demand factors».

«It's incumbent on all of us to make sure we don't undermine a landmark agreement that occurred when the plan was signed in the first place, and to deliver on it,» she said.

Last September, the Alliance, founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, and the beverage companies announced a landmark agreement to reduce beverage calories consumed per person nationally by 20 percent by 2025.

The landmark agreement between the Alliance, founded by the American Heart Association and the Clinton Foundation, and the beverage companies, calls for an independent, third - party evaluator to track progress toward the goal of reducing beverage calorie consumed per person by 20 percent by 2025.

The landmark agreement was signed at the United Nations 4th Annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Sharm El - Sheikh, in the presence of H.E Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, the First Lady of Egypt, President and Founder of the Suzanne Mubarak Women's International Peace Movement, and sets the scene for a collaborative partnership in family online safety in Egypt and around the world.

«This landmark agreement demonstrates a clear commitment to vulnerable customers through the joint wishes of the members of BIBA and the ABI.

Under this landmark agreement, the two aging nuclear reactors at Indian Point will shut down in 2020 and 2021, respectively.

The Cayuga Nation is trying to sabotage a landmark agreement between the state and Oneida Indian Nation in a long - shot bid to get a casino in Cayuga County - a casino the Cayuga have said repeatedly they don't want, according to papers filed Tuesday in federal court.

Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said: «This landmark agreement shows how serious we are about moving powers out of Whitehall and reinforces the significant authority and finance already given to local communities.»

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. John Katko, a longtime critic of the Paris climate accord, reiterated his opposition Thursday after President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the landmark agreement.

«The landmark agreement to close Indian Point 14 years ahead of schedule will protect the health and safety of all New Yorkers,» Cuomo said.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and the Schools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and parents.

President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment will be a winning cause in the 2016 presidential campaign.

The leaders of AAAS and the Cuban Academy of Sciences have signed a landmark agreement to advance scientific cooperation by Cuban and U.S. scientists, in key areas of mutual interest to both countries.

In September, economic espionage and cyber espionage were forefront at the meeting between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, with the two leaders vowing in a landmark agreement not to target each other's companies.

The 2015 Paris accord «was a landmark agreement,» says Cara Horowitz, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law.

Last year, the university and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service signed a landmark agreement that formalized UCF's use of refuge facilities and established a protocol that will allow UCF to build research facilities and a plan that will give UCF oversight of the facilities for 40 years or more.

Despite some drama and tension at the COP21 meeting, world leaders and their negotiators are surprisingly optimistic Le Bourget, Paris — Momentum continues to build here for a landmark agreement to combat climate change.

Countries did find enough legal Band - Aids to patch together an agreement that finally won approval here, including the near - exact words of a landmark agreement in November between the United States and China that Stern said he and Chinese Minister Xie Zhenhua offered as a compromise.

In 2011 the Center reached a landmark agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service compelling the agency to move forward on protections for the Mono Basin sage grouse population — as well as the greater sage grouse as a whole and more than 750 other species.

Discussions to implement a landmark agreement to limit manmade warming are currently underway in Morocco, though negotiators are concerned that the election of Donald Trump could derail these efforts.

Under a landmark agreement between the United States and Russia, 500 metric tons of former Soviet nuclear weapons material was converted into fuel for America's civilian power reactors.

July 12, 2011 — The Center reached a landmark agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service compelling the agency to move forward in the protection process for 757 species, including on improved protections for the Mexican gray wolf.

NEWARK In a victory for grassroots organizers in Newark, the Newark Public School district has reached a landmark agreement with the U.S. Department of Education following a federal civil rights investigation into the discriminatory impact of school closures on students of color.

A landmark agreement to use student test scores for the first time in evaluating Los Angeles Unified teachers was approved by union members Saturday.

She recently played an instrumental role in a landmark agreement in which leaders from eight Maryland education organizations have joined together to support the implementation of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), a key component of the new teacher and principal evaluation system in the state.

This is landmark agreement that Blackberry signed with Amazon, but there is a downside.

The Pacific Asia Travel Association has signed a landmark agreement with the South Pacific Tourism Organisation.

Four major land - managing public agencies and a Bay Area conservation nonprofit have reached a landmark agreement to work together to steward the long - term preservation and restoration of Marin County's beloved Mount Tamalpais.

SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier of Sri Lanka, and the Amadeus IT Group, a leading technology partner for the global travel industry, today announce a landmark agreement that will see the airline migrate to Amadeus» full Altéa suite by 2014.

The Caribbean Tourism Organisation and Airbnb have signed a landmark agreement to develop a set of policy principles and recommendations on the sharing economy for Caribbean governments and other stakeholders.

And in a landmark agreement last month, the two largest emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, agreed on setting new limits to their carbon emissions.

Last December in Paris, 195 countries came together and adopted a landmark agreement on climate change.

The gifting of 2 million home solar systems was announced by SkyPower as part of the landmark agreement between the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and SkyPower to develop, build, own and operate 2 GW of world - class, utility - scale solar projects across Kenya, which will be built over the next five years.

The report was published on Monday as diplomats and environmentalists gathered in Bonn, Germany, to keep working on the rules governing the 2015 Paris climate accord, a landmark agreement aimed at combating climate change.

SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy projects, today signed a landmark agreement with the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for the development of 1 GW of world - class solar projects to be built in four phases in Kenya over the next five years.

This landmark agreement was, in effect, a retroactive tax on cigarettes smoked in the past, one designed to cover indirect costs.

«Campaigners call for an end to fossil fuel finance and subsidies to avoid dangerous global warming at a meeting to mark two years since the signing of the landmark agreement.»

Earlier this week, Syria become the latest signatory of the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as a climate Pariah: the only country which now does not support the landmark agreement.

This initiative forms part of the landmark agreement between the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and SkyPower to develop, build, own and operate 2 GW of world - class, utility - scale solar projects across Kenya, which will be built over the next five years.

A landmark agreement was reached in Nagoya, Japan by 193 nations in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to save the world's species.

The New York Times: In Climate Deal With China, Obama May Set 2016 Theme WASHINGTON — President Obama's landmark agreement with China to cut greenhouse gas pollution is a bet by the president and Democrats that on the issue of climate change, American voters are far ahead of Washington's warring factions and that the environment...

NAIROBI, Kenya, July 27, 2015 / CNW / — SkyPower, the world's largest developer and owner of utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) energy projects, signed a landmark agreement with the Kenyan Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for the development of 1 GW of world - class solar projects to be built in four phases in Kenya over the next five years.

Just last week, President Obama and President Xi made a landmark agreement to work towards reducing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a potent greenhouse gas.