Not exact matches
In 2017, authority officials failed to complete any financial disclosure forms meant to
monitor and prevent conflicts of interest
by key players and
policymakers.
The Federal Ocean Acidification Research and
Monitoring (FOARAM) Act of 2009 mandates the establishment of an «information exchange» to «make information on ocean acidification developed through or utilized
by the interagency ocean acidification program accessible through electronic means, including information which would be useful to
policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in mitigating or adapting to the impacts of ocean acidification.»
In a few states,
policymakers have taken a creative step toward solving this problem
by giving public - education money directly to K — 12 parents in a liberal but use - restricted and
monitored account that encourages families to treat the money as their own.
And
policymakers have potentially the greatest opportunity to add tremendous value for society
by investing in basic science, applied R&D, and long - term markets to support and advance CDR systems, from potentially creating an «ARPA - C», to further incentivizing and mandating the
monitoring, reporting and verification of different bio-carbon ecosystem restoration approaches, from «carbon farming» to «forestry.»
Just last September, an acoustic
monitoring program was established
by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state
policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.