Sentences with phrase «many national commitments»

In his «I Have a Dream» speech, King argued that our national commitment to equality demanded that we emancipate ourselves from segregation as well as slavery.

This national commitment to high unemployment means that those who are currently unemployed can find work only by displacing those who now work.

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

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.

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.

We see it as part of our national commitment to improve upon the lives of the people.»

These set out our national commitments in the international trading system.»

Bringing fire and illegal logging under control is key to reaching our national commitment to reducing carbon emissions.»

Current national commitments to cut greenhouse gases would likely allow average global temperatures to rise by 3.5 °C by 2100, suggest new modeling results released today.

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.

«Our results also illustrate how important it is to promote a successful eutrophication management in the Baltic Sea — a factor which, unlike rising global temperatures, could be achieved by national commitment.»

D.M.: Basic research level academics are facing great challenges, much of it related to funding, but also the national commitment to basic research and the competitiveness of U.S. research globally.

Last December's Paris agreement on climate change introduced national commitments from 2020 to limit emissions from power generation, land transport and deforestation.

«The Medicare home health benefit is the most important piece of our national commitment to helping senior citizens age - in - place,» said Dr. Landers, who also is president and CEO of the Visiting Nurses Association Health Group.

«Innovation in China and Japan occurs in the context of national commitments to public health, and as a practical matter that should make access to cell - based therapies more equitable,» Mathews says.

With a sustained national commitment, the United States could obtain substantial energy - efficiency improvements, new sources of energy, and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through the accelerated deployment of existing and emerging energy technologies, according to the prepublication copy of the capstone report of the America's Energy Future project of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.

The report makes eight key findings, including the top level finding regarding the sustained national commitment.

Despite the enormous difficulties of changing basic behaviors such as smoking, diet or exercise habits, «a national commitment to the prevention of cancer, largely replacing reliance on hopes for universal cures,» exhort the authors, «is now the way to go.»

Our national commitment to equal opportunity and a just society demands no less.

In this brief, the Hassels also call for a national commitment to reallocating other existing and new spending to higher teacher pay, which together with reach models can make teaching a six - figure profession.

The speakers sought to encourage a broad national commitment to bilingualism through two means: educating limited - English - speaking students in both English and their native tongue, and increasing...

Today, a Democratic candidate could bring together the party's wings by calling for a national commitment to high standards and the resources to meet them.

As an historian, I was particularly pleased to see how the editor saw fit to include an historical review of the period since the 1950s, mentioning, among other things, Arthur Bestor's great book, Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools, the influence of Sputnik, and (a little later) the Great Society legislation, to underscore the national commitment to education for everyone.

TFA's presence in the Greater New Orleans area represents one of the organization's most substantial national commitments.

Head Start was a significant national commitment to deliver early learning services in vulnerable communities.

We need a national commitment to the well - being of all our children.

This growth in dual enrollment, said Bailey, represents an increasing awareness that the U.S. no longer leads the world in college enrollment rates, and it suggests a national commitment to boost those rates, thus enabling larger numbers of low - income students to enter the middle class.

To that end, we recommend that any reconsideration of ESEA include the following: A National Commitment to High Quality and Well Supported Teachers in Every Classroom: The words of our dear friend Ted Sizer, first stated over 25 years ago, are still the truest ever spoken about public education: «Without good teachers, strategically deployed, schooling is hardly worth the effort.»

Hundt served as Chairman of the FCC from 1993 - 1997 and played a major role in implementing the Snowe - Rockefeller program that directs more than $ 4 billion annually to connect all classrooms to the Internet and is hailed as one of the largest single national commitments to K - 12 education in American history.

He served on the FCC board from 1993 - 1997 and played a major role in implementing the Snowe - Rockefeller program that directs more than $ 4 billion annually to connect all classrooms to the Internet and is hailed as one of the largest single national commitments to K - 12 education in American history.

This new center will support New York City shelters and rescue groups working to find loving homes for cats and dogs in need, and will also serve as a place where animal lovers from all around the country can join Best Friends» national commitment to end the killing of dogs and cats in shelters.

Garuda Indonesia started to serve the flight to UK since 2014, as a strategic effort for the airline to strengthen its position as global player, as well as to implement the national commitment to promote Indonesian tourism worldwide.

At COP21 in Paris, many governments included forest management as a principal way to meet their national commitments to this United Nations climate agreement.

The real problem, as eloquently commented above by marguerite, is there's no high - level leadership on policy, plans, and an outline of what needs to be done, what are the necessary and acceptable steps forward, with a shared national commitment to making it happen.

Why not a national commitment to the research and development needed to make solar energy so plentiful that fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs?

The proposals for change are based on «voluntary national commitments», which are not legally binding and will not commit countries to meet any targets or to work within a given timeframe.

The national commitments and the promise of a set of goals are good achievements, just not enough to justify all of this.

In the same press release, however, they say that its carbon intensity target, together with its efforts in the development of low - carbon energy sources and reafforestation, are «independent actions in accordance with its national commitments («这是我国根据国情采取的自主行动...»)» [my translation].

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

This comes ahead of the latest round of climate talks in Bonn next week, when negotiators will work on ways to monitor, fund and ratchet up national commitments to cut CO2 so that temperatures can rise on a safer path of between 1.5 and 2C, which is the goal of the Paris agreement reached in 2015.

Those talks will take place between now and the U.N. climate conference in Paris at the end of next year, which is intended to deliver the legally binding national commitments that a similar event failed to deliver in Copenhagen in 2009.

Requires the President, beginning June 30, 2018, and every four years thereafter, to determine, for each eligible industrial sector, whether more than 85 % of U.S. imports for that sector are from countries that: (1) are parties to international agreements requiring economy - wide binding national commitments at least as stringent as those of the United States; (2) have annual energy or GHG intensities for the sector comparable or better than the equivalent U.S. sector; or (3) are parties to an international or bilateral emission reduction agreement for that sector.

As a result there is a huge gap between national commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions that have been made thus far under the UNFCCC and global ghg emissions reductions that are necessary to limit warming to 2 oC, a warming limit that has been agreed to by the international community as necessary to prevent very dangerous climate change.

What we need to ease Florida's climate problems is a national commitment to accelerating the transition to a clean, renewable energy economy.

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.

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.

As we debate our entire national commitment to climate change action through the proxy of an oil sands pipeline project or two, we should remember every one of us has had a hand in getting the bitumen into that pipe.

But now is not the time to pat ourselves on the back, now is the time to roll up our sleeves and start implementing the agreement at all levels of government and ensure we have political leaders who will ensure these national commitments are scaled - up and fulfilled.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

The global carbon accounting system that the Paris Agreement operates under counts emissions where they occur, so fossil fuel exporters like Australia can increase production with impunity, knowing the combustion emissions count elsewhere, and are not subject to their national commitments.