Sentences with phrase «meet the pledges made»

RM: This is simply meeting a pledge made under David Cameron but there is a lot of analysis suggesting it will not be enough, especially given the pressure that social care cuts are putting on the NHS.

After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.

DeConto's findings suggest that even if countries meet the pledges made as part of the UN climate agreements in Paris last year, global sea level could still rise 1 metre by 2100.

The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.

In comparison, the United States will have a relatively easy time meeting the pledge made by President Obama.

Not exact matches

Such a ban would certainly help President Emmanuel Macron meet his pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050.

Enough noise was made on that occasion that Trudeau met with their representatives later on and pledged his support for the Porter boycott.

The commitment was made in 2014 and thus far only six of the 28 countries that made the pledge meet the goal.

This, in the senator's mind, is tantamount to «double crossing» of the community by its elected officials, whose names he has pledged to make public — just as soon as he figures out who has met with whom.

According to President Akufo - Addo, in September 2017, two important campaign promises he made in the run - up to the December 2016 elections are going to be met, adding that this is an indication that the pledges he made during the electioneering period were not mere campaign platform talk, but are pledges that will be fulfilled during his tenure of office.

«The government must make the right choices for the future if it is to meet its pledges on ending child poverty, fair taxes and a welfare system that supports families properly.

Picente, Perra and Utica Mayor Robert M. Palmieri met with senior Cuomo staffers and others Jan. 20 — after the governor's budget came out — to make the case why the state should keep its pledge.

«We are not in any way in doubt of the support as pledged at the concluded meeting with the Governor that this is not going to be an abandoned project because we are going to have all the support needed and in that wise, our intention is to make Lagos a kind of medical tourism centre where people in sub-Saharan Africa will be coming to Nigeria to receive healthcare instead of going to places like India,» Ilori said.

And I can say today that every change we make, every single pledge we make, comes with a price tag attached, and a clear plan for how that cost will be met.

At the 2015 meeting, Brewer pledged her support in identifying needed resources, and last month she was joined by Congressmember Adriano Espaillat, Assemblymember Inez Dickens, City Councilmember Bill Perkins, and Community Board 10 in establishing a task force to coordinate government, business, and community efforts for making it a reality.

Levy told the New York Post's Fred Dicker that RGA Executive Director «Nick Ayers, one of the high - up persons for (RGA chairman) Haley Barbour,» made the money pledge in a meeting that included state GOP chairman Ed Cox.

That would have made it nearly impossible for the country to meet its Paris agreement pledge to cut carbon dioxide emissions 37 % by 2030, she adds.

He's pledged to make the Maldives carbon neutral by 2020 and held an underwater cabinet meeting in scuba gear to highlight the existential threat his nation faces from rising sea levels caused by global warming.

It would double clean energy research and development, bringing that amount to $ 7.7 billion, meeting a pledge the administration made during the Paris climate talks.

Athena Ballesteros, who leads work on climate finance for the World Resources Institute think tank, said, «If this meeting will help contribute to the goal of coordinating countries plans and actions to mobilize the $ 100 billion pledge, that would be most welcome, and part of the conversation is to find innovative sources of finance that would complement the scarce public resources being made available.»

The World Energy Outlook suggests that unambitious pledges made at last year's United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen will mean that much tougher action is needed after 2020 if the world is to meet the goal of limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to 450 parts per million (p.p.m.).

If, during that time, donors pledge to meet the target amount, the site charges the pledgers and passes along the money, minus an 8 % to 10 % commission, to the proposer, who then begins making good on the rewards and research.

Cameron did this to make sure he was able to meet his pledge to create 500 new free schools.

But Deal repeatedly postponed that pledge after he was elected, and entering his final year in office, he made official what many lawmakers long figured was inevitable: There would be no rewrite of a formula he once assailed as a disservice to students, a drain on taxpayers and not suitable to «meet the needs of a 21st century classroom.»

To make this donation possible, Pfizer employees pledged during their annual meeting to show support for these strategic philanthropic partners.

When Make It Right was announced at the meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in September, Mr. Pitt pledged to match $ 5 million in contributions to the project, as did Steve Bing, the philanthropist.

However, the U.S. has pledged to reduce emissions by 26 - 28 % from 2005 levels by 2025 in its internationally determined contribution (INDC) to the UN process, meaning that the US must make more than an additional 16 % reduction from fuel efficiency standards, energy efficiency programs, non-CO2 greenhouse gas (e.g. methane, hydrofluorocarbons) reductions, and other components of Obama's climate action plan in order to meet its INDC.

But the declines are too slow to meet the pledges that governments made in Paris (see «Climate shortfall»).»

The Cancun meeting in fact made it more likely for the developed countries to shift from the Kyoto Protocol and its binding regime of emission reduction commitments, to a voluntary system in which each country only makes pledges on how much it will reduce its emissions.

«So my priority over the next few months will be making sure that other countries match our level of ambition in their own pledges, and they show how they will actually meet those pledges,» Canete continued.

Even if all pledges from the Paris Climate Agreement are met, the world will be 3 °C (5.4 °F) warmer, making parts of the Earth uninhabitable.

Gathering 195 states, the 12 - day meeting also has to agree on the pact's heart — a format for nations to make pledges to reduce Earth - warming carbon pollution.

Japan made the pledge one day after the US at last week's G20 meeting in Australia.

This in turn required the developed countries to report annual GHG inventory every year; prepare a biennial report — highlighting the progress made in meeting its obligations under the Convention, both, on mitigation pledges and support; and national communication every four years; and, for the developing countries to prepare a biennial update report, including GHG inventory, on planning and implementing NAMAs, and to prepare a national communication every four years.

At the Tokyo CG meeting Cambodia's donors including the World Bank and the IMF made it clear that if the RGC failed to achieve its pledges, then aid would not be disbursed.

Finally, no progress was made on how to scale up finance for developing countries to meet the $ 100 billion / year pledge that the U.S. and other developed countries made five years ago in Copenhagen.

But after initially pledging to make the change rather quickly, the company was forced to scale back its plans after it learned that its suppliers could not provide it with enough milk free of rBGH to meet the needs of all its stores.

China's emissions are set to grow from 10 Gt CO2e today to 11 - 14 Gt in 2020, India's from 2 Gt to 3 - 5 Gt, Iran and Saudi Arabia have not made pledges, South Africa is unlikely to meet its pledge to approximately stabilize its emissions, Mexico and Brazil have pledged absolute emissions cuts conditional on finance, and Indonesia's emissions (mostly from forestry) are highly uncertain.