Sentences with phrase «make national commitments»

Yet, many nations continue to make national commitments under the UNFCCC as if national economic self - interest rather than ethical obligations is an adequate basis for determining national policies on climate change.

The research agenda outlined below seeks to develop information and analyses that could be helpful in ensuring that nations take equity and justice seriously when making national commitments on climate change.

The second is making those national commitments to emissions reductions.

Make a national commitment to fully fund home visiting programs for all children living in low - income or poor households.

Just weeks after President Obama made a national commitment to greater investments in early education in his 2013 State of the Union, Head Start programs faced devastating budget cuts that slammed shut the window of opportunity for 57,265 at - risk children.

Not exact matches

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Calgary based Enbridge, the company behind Northern Gateway, has emphasized its commitment to safety and the environment, saying the National Energy Board Joint Review Panel, which held two years of hearings on the project, had made many of the company's voluntary commitments a mandatory part of the conditions for approval.

It pleases me to announce that our Government will partner with the National Trails Coalition to make this recreational experience even better, fulfilling another of our 2011 platform commitments.

UCI's unyielding commitment to rigorous academics, cutting - edge research, and leadership and character development makes the campus a driving force for innovation and discovery that serves our local, national and global communities in many ways.

«Building on Ottawa's earlier commitments to set a national carbon price, establish a clean fuel standard and to phase out traditional coal power, these measures will help Canada make the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

As such, the church is free of racial and national commitments it makes a universal claim.

It is faithfulness of commitment to Christ in each national situation which makes missionary concern in other parts of the world authentic.

In regard to the decision - making process in matters of energy policy, the document calls for «a national commitment to anticipate serious threats posed by certain technologies to the quality of the community of life and to design appropriate energy policy.

National Family Meals Month asks families to make a commitment to increase their number of meals together each week by one.

The country created the vision of Gross National Happiness and made a visionary commitment to going 100 % organic.

Making a strategic commitment to expanding the portfolio, Leucadia National Coporation purchases the two wineries and establishes the Crimson Wine Group.

With many top recruits in attendance, including national No. 2 Reuben Foster, an Auburn commitment, it was important to make the impression, and LSU delivered on and off the field.

Carey Casey is the Ambassador for Fathers with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

One of the biggest dairy - related stories to break this month was the announcement that as part of their commitment to increase the availability of healthy, American - made food products in schools, the USDA is expanding its pilot program for Greek - style yogurt for the National School Lunch Program in SY 2014 - 15.

Carey Casey is the CEO of the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

Carey Casey is the CEO of the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers who to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

Carey Casey is the CEO of the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers who to make the Championship Fathering Commitment –www.fathers.com/cf.

Carey Casey, with the National Center for Fathering, a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the culture of fathering in America by enlisting 6.5 million fathers who to make the Championship Fathering Commitment.

With growing public awareness of the issues surrounding stillbirth and neonatal death, and a national commitment to reduce the number of babies dying, Clea is dedicated to fulfilling Sands» potential to make a real difference for parents.

Everyone eventually left the house at around 1 am and we proceeded to get some sleep (2 - 3 hours) before I had to wake up and stick to a commitment I made to a national TV show which had been booked months in advance.

Last year, Shedd Aquarium announced its commitment to helping reduce the public's use of single - use plastics as a founder of the Aquarium Conservation Project, a coalition made up of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States banning together to tackle the problem on a national scale.

The government is expected to defer activity such as «taking or announcing major policy decisions; entering into large / contentious procurement contracts or significant long - term commitments; and making some senior public appointments and approving Senior Civil Service appointments, provided that such postponement would not be detrimental to the national interest or wasteful of public money».

It's true that, in Britain, the post-war welfare state and mixed economy were pre-figured by the «war socialism» of the Churchill coalition, and by the commitments to full employment, to a nation - wide system of compulsory social insurance and (less precisely) to a national health service made by the parties to the coalition.

He made key policy commitments to the creation of a National Care Service and called for inheritance tax to be replaced with a land value tax.

Under intense questioning by Kornacki, Cantor, the WFP's national director, said the governor has made a «commitment to the overall project» of assisting his fellow Democrats in their quest to re-take the majority.

«If the proposal for License to Practise signals a commitment by a future Labour Government to restore qualified teacher status (QTS) as a requirement for all teachers in state funded schools, to introduce, within a national framework of pay and conditions of service, a contractual entitlement for all teachers to continuing professional development and to re-establish a proper system of professional regulation which ensures that all headteachers have QTS and NPQH and are accredited to lead and manage schools, then this is a basis on which progress could be made.

He stated that building a Better Ghana can be best achieved through selflessness, hardwork, and commitment to peace and development which makes one patriotic and promoting national unity by putting your nation first through working seriously to ensure increased productivity, exposing nation wreckers and reviving communal spirit for clean up exercises.

The National Republican Congressional Committee in Washington, D.C., has made the biggest commitment to date.

The Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) has made a commitment to reducing tourism VAT «to make holidays at home more affordable and attract foreign tourists, creating up to 7,000 jobs».

Corbyn also called on the government to make a commitment that EU nationals currently living in the UK would be free to continue to do so, saying the failure to do so amounted to «playing political games with people's lives».

Also at 11 a.m., Nilda Mesa, director of de Blasio's Office of Sustainability, community groups, local leaders and national organizations thank de Blasio for his 2015 commitment to power 100 percent of city government operations with renewable energy, and deliver a letter urging him to make offshore wind a significant part of achieving that goal, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

I appreciate that they recognize my commitment to important issues like a strong national defense, protection of our borders and making government more effective and accountable,» said Donovan.

Most of the European policy commitments in this manifesto echo longstanding themes, including scrapping of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, cutting funding for the Common Agricultural Policy and increasing the power of national parliaments to scrutinise EU decision making.

To help the self - employed I'm going to fulfil the manifesto commitment we made, and from 2018 abolish Class 2 National Insurance Contributions altogether.

«When you look at the technical report which GII added, such that it is a period of two years in which the perception is compiled, when you look at 2016, in that year, you know all the corruption allegations that came to the fore: the bus branding saga, Ghana Standards Authority, NCA [National Communications Authority], Electoral Commission allegations and a host of them that the [Mahama] government did not show any commitment to fighting revelations and scandals that had been made public.»

National Treasures are highly significant endangered historic places throughout the country where the National Trust for Historic Preservation makes a long - term commitment to staying involved until a solution is reached.

On July 19, seven national academies, including the Royal Society, urged the government to make a «bold public commitment» that the United Kingdom wants to retain and build on its research base, «to assuage any loss of confidence in UK research».

The AAAS's commitment to engage issues involving scientific freedom, responsibility, and law has two historical beginnings marked by the establishment of a Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, born as a special committee in 1970 and made permanent in 1976, and by the establishment of the AAAS - ABA National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists in 1974.

The new funding, geared at providing stable support for high - risk, interdisciplinary research, exceeds the original commitment of $ 40 million that the Kavli Foundation made to the national Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, when it was first launched by President Obama in 2013.

The massive projects needed now — such as devising a model of climate change detailed enough to be truly predictive or batteries efficient enough to compete with gasoline — can not wait or depend on chancy funding, he believes.He added that a strong national commitment to goal - centered basic science could help solve other important problems by drawing America's talented young people into scientific work and providing them with better opportunities for aspiring researchers to build careers with a realistic chance of making both a significant scientific contribution and a decent living.

The 193 national signatories of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD) made a global commitment in 2010 to increase the world's terrestrial protected area network from 13 to 17 percent by the year 2020.

The Long Now Foundation made a serious commitment to the final clock when, in 1999 — or, as foundation literature renders this and all other years, «01999» — it bought 180 acres of desert mountain land adjoining Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.

«The fact that India made a financial commitment at national and international level sets a precedent for other emerging economies to offer more support to global biodiversity conservation,» Gustavsson said.