Sentences with phrase «level by campaigners»

The issue of climate justice has been repeatedly raised at international level by campaigners, by religious leaders and by academics.

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Campaigners in the Philippines are exposing a threat levelled at the economy by Nestlé and other transnational companies if baby milk marketing regulations successfully defended in 2007 are not scrapped.

However the Campaign for Better Transport's sustainable transport campaigner Bridget Fox commented: «It's clear that the Government's rhetoric on tackling lethal and illegal levels of air pollution is still not matched by action.

Campaigners believe it will cause air pollution levels to soar, rendering impossible a 2015 emission target set by the European commission.

The other criticism levelled by secularist campaigners is that this is yet another example of religious privilege, akin to bishops in the House of Lords.

The concept, while highlighted by climate campaigners, was challenged on two levels — one on technical points about the number of wedges of avoided carbon dioxide that would be needed by mid-century and the other on the broader interpretation (which was never in the work originally) that this meant the challenge of limiting warming was not that hard.

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

I have tracked these developments for the past two years; first traveling with Drax to see its U.S. pellet operation, and then investigating the criticisms leveled by European and U.S. forest campaigners.

This episode illustrates the growing level of interest in a study that will be analysed closely by climate campaigners and sceptics, and will be used by politicians to justify future policies.