Sentences with phrase «national goals»

The delegation is currently working on the voluntary national goal of reducing energy intensity of GDP by 20 - 25 per cent by 2020 as compared to the base year of 2005.

Climate change is an area where working with our European partners can help us to achieve national goals which would be out of reach if we were isolated and alone.

That, he said, means that over the coming five years, meeting national goals will be far more difficult.

More legislation is needed to achieve efficiency's potential and to achieve the more ambitious national goals such as doubling energy productivity by 2030.

If growth does not make us happier, why make its production out national goal?

The new fund is the latest example of a large research program to serve national goals that is created outside the regular channel of competitive grants to individual scientists.

So in connection with the major economies process we launched, we're urging each country to develop its own national goals and plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Surely it is time for us to shift our shared national goal from increasing economic activity to enhancing the common good.

One of the problems is that the regulation of service activities is often closely related to specific national goals.

If so, there is a chance that we may in this country generate a debate about fundamental national goals that is not limited to how to make the economy grow faster.

There are much smarter national goals than being in the international Top 5.

Because of the these attributes, this seemingly modest, very local activity support national goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve health through prevention, and increase access to opportunity.

Without further legislation we still will not fully use efficiency to meet national goals, but these agency actions are strengthening the economy, the environment, and national security.

In addition to recommending a focus on young children, the group proposed that the next President set in motion a process to establish national goals to measure the progress of schools.

Most national goals in space are better realized by robot spacecraft

Reaching the new national goal of cutting food loss and waste in half by 2030, which was announced in 2015, is going to require renewed commitments to aggressively cut food loss and waste.

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

«Comparisons can help drive improvement and help ensure all Australian students are achieving important national goals.

Making good choices is complicated by the sheer volume of new products that claim to be aligned to the Common Core, the ambitious national goals adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia that aim to encourage critical thinking and deeper learning.

[76] At the conference, Miliband pledged to focus on six national goals for Britain until 2025, including boosting pay, apprenticeships and housing; a mansion tax and levy on tobacco companies to fund # 2.5 billion a year «time to care» fund for the NHS; a commitment to raise the minimum wage to # 8 or more by 2020; and a promise to lower the voting age to 16 ready for elections in 2016.

In the 25 years since the passage of Public Law 94 - 142, significant progress has been made toward meeting major national goals for developing and implementing effective programs and services for early intervention, special education, and related services.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was signed into law in 1965 by President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who believed that «full educational opportunity» should be «our first national goal.»

Graduation rates, teacher quality, student preparation, teacher development, and literacy were other national goals listed in the legislation.It also provided for federal funding to allow schools to achieve these goals.

Instead, such national goals should be addressed by funding mechanisms and mission - driven agencies that support research in areas such as health, environment, or national security, rather than the NSF.

Present Americans don't have any good national goal except the filthy immoral co-existence of villains and perverts and pleasues and money - making.

On September 16, 2015, in alignment with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EPA and the USDA announced the first ever domestic national goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.

The future of the Polish national goal keeper was in shambles following the transfer of Petr Cech from Chelsea.

Adopted by parliamentary majority, this declaration must be posted up in all public administrative units and defines such joint national goals as «work, home, family, health and order».

In both the «business as usual» simulations and a second set of simulations that reflected intended national goals proposed by the governments at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, the amount of ecological change that's predicted vastly exceeds that which has occurred during the Holocene.

We're competing against other countries in other markets, most of which have long - term national goals on renewable energy,» said SolarReserve's Smith.

If FT fuel production is to occur without compromising national goals to control greenhouse gas emissions, however, the following must hold, according to the report:

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

I therefore ask the Congress, above and beyond the increases I have earlier requested for space activities, to provide the funds which are needed to meet the following national goals:

Clinton sealed it, and our current president built on this foundation by introducing a punitive model for enforcing national goals.

The role that NCLB sets out for the federal government — setting national goals while leaving states and districts to decide how to reach them — is sound, and surely superior to the hodge - podge of state accountability systems that preceded it.

There was no comparable national goal, for instance, that would have made America first in the world in reading, like we had in math.

In the meantime, you can read Mr. Duncan's latest insights on education reform in this recent article in the Washington Post about the importance of setting ambitious national goals around early learning, graduation rates, and college readiness and completion.

As with the soundly defeated plans for a national test, this would once again be an effort to go through the back door to a national curriculum without open discussion as to whether this is a desired national goal.

Schools should set goals that go beyond the current national goals of education to address the broader growth and development of students, preparing them to assume responsible roles in the work force and society.

Marks, founder of the London - based Centre for Well - Being, sets out an ingenious new way of defining national goals — and in the process reveals five ways people can nurture their own happiness.

This afternoon the President will deliver a statement in which he sets a new intermediate national goal for stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.