Sentences with phrase «make public commitments»

The good news is that palm oil can be produced without deforestation — and many companies have begun to make public commitments to use deforestation - free palm oil in their products.

Mr. Horovitz indicated to Mr. Lampert that once the process was complete Avigen would communicate its findings to stockholders and that the Board did not believe that it would be prudent to make public commitments until that time.

But for now, I'll point you to the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, an organization comprised of some of the world's biggest companies who have made a public commitment to work together on issues of diversity and accountability in all its challenging nuance.

Since 2014, tech companies have been reporting the demographics of their workers and have made public commitments to increase the diversity of their workforces.

It's also worth noting that when I say that I'm gay and celibate, I am making a public commitment to a certain standard of behavior.

U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions are businesses and organizations that have made a public commitment to reduce food loss and waste in their own operations in the United States by 50 percent by the year 2030.

Woods has yet to make a public commitment to play the L.A. tournament, which he has not appeared in for 10 years after back spasms forced him to withdraw from the 2017 competition before it began.

Some former presidents of the Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON), in the Ashanti Region, have commended Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, for making public his commitment to prioritize members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in his dealings with Ghanaians.

Our hospitals and clinics make a public commitment to continuous improvement and delivery of safe, high - quality care.

Even more embarrassing — is that it was directly after making a public commitment to ALL my friends and family to lose those extra 20.5 lbs I gained being consumed by life getting in the way.

They also made the public commitment pledge to attend and complete college.

As part of an initial phase supported by the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools, 41 League schools made a public commitment to advancing educational equity, personalized learning, proficiency - based diplomas, alternative learning pathways, and ongoing school improvement.

From owning and sharing and responding to questions and making a public commitment.

I was in a blue writing funk last month but made a public commitment to redouble my efforts and push on to finish the first draft of my latest novel.

I'm a big fan of making a public commitment to save, because it's one of the little steps that made a big difference early on in my savings journey.

Several companies have made public commitments to sustainable palm oil.

[12], [13] «Burmese and Chinese authorities must both make a public commitment to close the border to timber until Burma's forests are managed in a way that is both legal and sustainable,» said Mike Davis.»

The governor of Riau province has also made a public commitment to protect the province's remaining forest.

To join, companies are invited to make a public commitment to one or more of the following areas with a 2030 target date:

Norfolk Southern has made a public commitment to reducing CO

Over 250 more companies have made a public commitment to the Science Based Targets initiative.

Norfolk Southern has made a public commitment to reducing CO2 emissions 10 % below 2009 levels by 2014 and reached nearly 40 % of the five - year goal in the first year.

Xcel Energy has made a public commitment to reducing CO2 emissions 20 % below 2005 levels by 2020 and has already reduced 11 %, approximately 26 million tons, cumulatively since 2003.

She noted that about two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies and nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies have made public commitments to shift away from carbon - intensive coal and natural gas to more climate - friendly energy sources.

As Slashdot points out, this patent comes from a company that in 2006 made a public commitment to pursuing greater clarity and transparency in patents.

While Premier Wynne and Minister Coteau have made a public commitment to address racism in all its forms - stated in the ARD Mandate Letter as «Combat Systemic Racism Including, but Not Limited to, Indigenous Racism, Anti-Black Racism and Islamophobia» - the Government has not yet released any concrete strategy nor has it developed the necessary statutory framework to support the work of the Directorate.

We invite member states of the OECD to protect the open Internet and make a public commitment to opposing Internet filtering and blocking by intermediaries, to affirm existing limitations on intermediaries» liability, and to support due process and judicial review of allegedly illegal content and behavior.

Prompted in part by the EU Lisbon Summit in March 200 where EU heads of state made a public commitment to «become the most competitive knowledge - based society in the world by 2010.»

USAA has made a public commitment to sustainable business practices by becoming one of the largest purchasers of renewable energy among Fortune 500 companies, building LEED - certified buildings and cutting its electricity use by 24 percent since 2008.

«We don't comment on individual customers but as announced, we've begun an extensive review of our advertising policies and have made a public commitment to put in place changes that give brands more control over where their ads appear,» Google said in a new statement given to The Verge today.

Another big change since 2014 is the rise in companies making public commitments to open their patent portfolios to the public.

Once again, Google has made a public commitment to faster Android updates.

Facebook has long made public commitments to privacy, and when the situation has gone south, issued the usual corporate bromides.

While joining the Privacy Shield is voluntary, once an eligible organization makes the public commitment to comply with the Framework's requirements, the commitment will become enforceable under U.S. law.

The SEL team has made a public commitment to implement the vision for schoolwide SEL as a priority for student learning.

I encourage the Australian Government and the Opposition to make a public commitment to act on the recommendations of the Expert Panel.

Not exact matches

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«If they are really making this commitment, they need to provide a timeline to their customers and the public,» says Hari.

Mackey told the magazine then that his business is mission - based, with core values including commitments to the fulfillment of equitable treatment of stakeholders, as well as the health of the public, while also having a commitment to making money.

The proponent clearly has more work to do in order to fulfill the public commitment it has made to engage with Aboriginal groups and local communities along the route.»

The CEO said he would indeed remain a member, reaffirming a commitment to stay part of the group he made prior to the meeting, following the resignation from the council of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in response to both employee and public reaction.

It continues to be important that provincial and regional commitments are made to fully participate in cost - sharing of the Federal Government's Public Transit Infrastructure Fund.

To secure social license from a wary public and give businesses the certainty they badly need, Alberta will need to continue increasing its carbon price over time — and that commitment needs to be made now.

When federal candidates knock on your door in the next few weeks, we should all try raising the topic of public pensions to see what commitments they will make.

Commitment and consistency are a very powerful forces that kick in with particularly strong force when people do things like making a public statement about something like a stock price or a political issue.

Thus, to begin to make progress on this extremely difficult matter will require enhanced private and public commitment alike.

When I think about the public application of ashes, I have to stretch and strain against the powerful prescriptions to be private, prescriptions which are made more complex by the deepening middle - class commitments to privacy and to the supreme value of personal freedom.

It is for these reasons that civilised states, in recognising the foundational place of the family, have made the public, life - long commitment of marriage as a civil institution.

Despite the strong public sentiment against such convictions after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.

Madden says that «public debate predicated on the claim that our opponents are just making errors with regard to their ultimate commitments... strikes me as a non-starter.»