Sentences with phrase «makes voluntary action»

First, it makes voluntary action to reduce emissions ineffectual, since this just lowers the cost of emissions permits (I thought this had been fixed by the changes announced in March, but I was wrong on this point).

Regarding the proposal to make voluntary actions effectual, it would be a lot simpler to just to buy permits and not use them.

Not exact matches

However, Kapur stresses that this doesn't mean that the device is reading your mind, since «silently speaking» is a voluntary action that the user makes.

This transcendence is palpably demonstrated by the voluntary exercise of the will in making decisions and directing the body's actions.

But it won't be achieved without a drastic shift in the world's economic structures, That shift can't be made by voluntary action or market mechanisms alone, though both have a part to play.

ACT For TCTA is the political action committee (PAC) of the Texas Classroom Teachers Association and is funded through voluntary donations made by TCTA members.

The idea that it is voluntary would suggest that such an action is not binding, but Xie Zhenua, Vice Chairman of the NDRC, has made it clear that it would at least be domestically binding, and that it would «never swerve» from this commitment.

All of these voluntary actions that we can take that save us money, make us healthier, and they lower our carbon footprint.

Non-state actors, including international corporations, continued to make voluntary commitments to reduce their climate impact as part of the Non-state Actor Zone for Climate Action (NAZCA).

When China announced its carbon intensity targets (see previous post «China to adopt «binding» goal to reduce CO2 emissions per unit GDP by 40 to 45 % of 2005 levels by 2020 «-RRB-, it was careful to make clear that it was an «autonomous action» (some translated this as «voluntary action»).

[3] This estimated was calculated by the UNFCCC Secretariat and documented in their Preliminary Assessment of pledges made by Annex 1 Parties and voluntary actions and policy goals by a number of non-Annex 1 Parties.

Ohio legislators should be cautious of any action to freeze, eliminate, make voluntary or weaken the standard because the study committee will be forced to rely on special interest groups to come to their conclusion.

One of the recommendations intended to speed things up is for the food industry to «take broad, common, and urgent voluntary action to make substantial improvements» to marketing aimed at kids.