Sentences with phrase «nations agreed a set»

His concept of standard time formed the basis of the system adopted in 1884, but it took another 35 years before nations agreed a set of time zones covering the entire world.

Not exact matches

A process has been agreed to take forward the design, by 2015, of a set of sustainable development goals for all nations.

A 30 August editorial in The Lancet added: «A major opportunity to advance global health is in danger of being lost» if substantive targets are not set and nations don't agree to be held accountable for meeting them.

The Board contributes to a process concluding this fall to replace the UN's Millennium Development Goals, agreed by nations in 2000 for achievement in 2015, with a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through which progress in improving quality of life around the world will be tracked through 2030.

The third part of the deal, the Nagoya Protocol on genetic resources, has taken nearly 20 years to agree and sets rules governing how nations manage and share benefits derived from forests and seas to create new drugs, crops or cosmetics.

New York City principals and assistant principals have agreed to trade in some of their long - standing job security for substantial pay raises, setting the stage for a new era of school management and accountability in the nation's largest school district.

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The report has three sections: 1) Setting the Context, which discusses the need for effective systems of evaluation and support for school leaders; 2) Sharing Key Lessons Learned, which highlights how states and districts can work together to agree upon and communicate expectations for school leaders and implement standards - based systems of leadership support and evaluation, thereby increasing teacher effectiveness and improving student outcomes in all schools across the nation; and 3) Improving Standards Based Leadership Evaluation, which examines leader evaluation as a policy foundation for identifying, and supporting effective educators.

There was no clear path to establishing such a protocol, although those at the meeting appeared to agree that the United Nations Security Council, in its current form at least, would never be the vehicle given the veto power of states dead - set against anything resembling outside interference in internal affairs.

At the United Nations Rio +20 Earth summit last year, 192 countries agreed to create a set of universal Sustainable Development Goals.

In June 2011, the cabinet and parliament passed a set of six laws and one ordinance — the so - called «Energy Package» — that adopted 120 individual measures of the 2010 «Energy Concept» and cemented a plan to permanently decommission all 17 of the nation's reactors by 2022 — without abolishing the nuclear fuel tax agreed to in September 2010.

The wind power industry set new records across the world last year, and wind is leading the charge in the transformation of the global power system, long overdue and very necessary to achieve the objectives agreed by 186 nations in Paris last December.

The insight that nations will not agree to what equity requires of them because it is not in their national interest should not be the basis for abandoning an equitable approach to climate change as recommended by the above referenced World Bank paper because national interest is not a morally acceptable justification for national climate change policy yet it is likely to remain the criteria for setting national climate change policy unless a nation is shamed for its ethically bankrupt position on climate change.

Besides the clear objective of countering climate change, the pact agreed upon by the EU leaders was also aimed at setting an example for other nations ahead of a United Nations climate summit which will be hosted by France in December nexnations ahead of a United Nations climate summit which will be hosted by France in December nexNations climate summit which will be hosted by France in December next year.

Speaking from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, Prime Minister Meles acknowledged that, while developing nations had ultimately agreed to the climate financing goals set by the Copenhagen Accord, many remained deeply cynical about whether that money would ever be delivered.

The soul of a nation is defined by its citizens» ability to agree upon a set of principles and values which reflect the moral fabric of its entire population, something only accomplished when everyone has a voice.

The truth is: a business as usual approach towards Indigenous Australians is not working... We need a new beginning — a new beginning which contains real measures of policy success or policy failure; a new beginning, a new partnership, on closing the gap with sufficient flexibility not to insist on a one - size - fits - all approach for each of the hundreds of remote and regional Indigenous communities across the country but instead allowing flexible, tailored, local approaches to achieve commonly - agreed national objectives that lie at the core of our proposed new partnership; a new beginning that draws intelligently on the experiences of new policy settings across the nation...