Sentences with phrase «like policies aimed»

And just like policies aimed at limiting potentially dangerous climate change, adaptation policies will be implemented in the face of uncertainty, both in climate impacts and variance in extreme weather.

Not exact matches

Regulation champions «Open» as an explicit policy goal, with directives like PSD2 aiming to create growth via choice, transparency and competition.

«The consortium of 40 + banks (known as R3cev) which aims to do just that will inevitably develop something which: is permissioned (for users and developers like the apple app store), privatized, has fees, will not be entirely transparent to everyone, will not be open - source, it will definitely be inflationary to accommodate monetary policy of debasement and fractional reserve schemes, it will facilitate negative interest rates, central control of accounts for suspension / freezing of funds, bail - ins, bail outs, capital controls and transactions will include the identity of both sender and receiver and store that information in a centralized location for the convenience of hackers.»

It says the government would have to make it «the central aim of all its economic policies» and identify what it looks like in terms of employment rates for specific groups, more sustainable welfare provision and public services and a greater focus on job creation.

The 2020 «is trying to do the longer - term thinking... setting out a compelling, radical and progressive vision of where conservatism is going», and its key policy aim is to find the answer to the question: «What would the country look like after a successful majority Conservative government» - i.e. in 2020.

I very much liked Mantiq's comment, which also captured how this was a pro-family policy in a real and concrete sense, as well as an «opportunity for all» policy aimed at encouraging individual responsibility.

«As the Federal Government begins negotiations with the new Senate to repeal the carbon price, any technologies, policies or plans that aim to tackle climate change should take water usage into account, especially in arid countries like Australia,» Dr Wallis said.

Lower rates of asthma and other health problems are frequently cited as benefits of policies aimed at cutting carbon emissions from sources like power plants and vehicles, because these policies also lead to reductions in other harmful types of air pollution.

Leaving aside all of the obvious practical concerns, like whether schools have or can develop staff qualified to teach computer science, this new research raises questions about the aim of these policies.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE SUMMIT SPARKS TRANSPARENCY CONCERNS: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos today will hear from supporters and opponents of Obama - era guidance aimed at curbing racial disparities in school discipline and the overuse of harsh policies, like out - of - school suspensions, expulsions and school - based arrests for nonviolent offenses.

We like most of what we've seen since Cheatham took over, though the district's student discipline policy, aimed at reducing suspensions and expulsions, remains a concern if it increases classroom disruptions.

Those aims sound like common sense, but districts do not commonly have policies in all of these areas.

Does the blind leading the blind in a rush to carry out an incomplete policy of mysterious origins aimed toward vague and poorly defined goals sound like a good idea?

But like crash dieting, the one - child policy employed radical means and aimed for quick results, causing a rash of negative side effects.

(While the Fed's short - term rate policy doesn't directly affect longer - term rates like for mortgages, an aggressive policy aimed at driving up short - term rates would increase the chances for higher long - term rates.)

Macroprudential is a term used to describe financial policies that are aimed at minimizing or eliminating risks to the financial system as a whole — think of it like a blanket, nation - wide policy that's used to eliminate or reduce systemic risk within our country's economy.

So it felt like a fresh spring breeze to see constructive discussion sparked by «Fighting Climate Change With Innovation,» a Foreign Affairs essay proposing a public - private mix of clean - energy investments, policies and incentives aimed at overcoming technological hurdles and accelerating deployment.

5:38 p.m. Updated Thomas Schelling, a Nobel Prize winner in economics who has long studied climate policy and diplomacy, told me last year that the way forward must involve much more of what legal scholars call «soft law» than old - style treaty making aimed at legally binding instruments like the fading Kyoto Protocol.

Policies aimed at narrow objectives like reducing CO2 emissions, while necessary, are not sufficient.

Jamail adds, «There is nothing to indicate in the political or corporate world that there will be anything like a major shift in policy aimed at dramatically mitigating runaway anthropogenic [human - caused] climate disruption.»

This does not look like it can possibly lead to or guide any planning ahead policy except wait and see, which is perhaps the aim.

2016 Candidate Series: Leadership from a state's governor is critical to setting the tone for energy policies, like REPS, and this blog series aims to inform voters on the policy stances regarding energy and climate issues that face North Carolina.

Globally, coal - fired projects under development saw a steep decline between 2016 and 2017, led primarily by policies aimed at fighting air pollution in developing countries like China and India.

Even reducing certainty to whatever reasonable percentage of warming Dr. Curry attributes to human emissions, it seems like policy action aimed at this level of reduction is at least rational.

If we agreed on points like this, we really don't need to spend so much time and effort focusing on regulation, carbon pricing, emission targets and time tables and high cost mitigation policies that have low probability of achieving their aims.

If I were to quote influential US figures and bodies (like the Council on Foreign Relations) then the aims of US foregin policies over the past 60 years would be laid bare.

With policies like no - air conditioning, no phones, television or music, solar water heating, minimal electricity usage, and employment of only people from the local community, among many others, the lodge is really a chance to get in touch with the wild and help a project whose aim is to conserve a great portion of nature.

Organisations can implement policies which at first glance look like indirect discrimination but can be shown to be a «proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim».

No one knows your financial situation like you do so you must also decide if you are aiming to get whole life insurance or term insurance, in other words if you wish to take out a policy that will last for the rest of your life or for a certain number of years.

Like most insurance companies, the bulk of the complaints around 21st Century Insurance are aimed at the company's claims payment policies.

However, smaller companies are better able to provide policies towards a particular sector of consumer (like a woman with children) or they may offer policies that are aimed at the type of vehicle being driven.

The new policies that target American internet telecom giants like Facebook's WhatsApp and Microsoft's Skype aim to force these corporations to abide -LSB-...]

Testing for disparities by demographic factors like race and income can suggest a need for policies aimed at reaching out to underserved subpopulations.