Sentences with phrase «new ethical fund»

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(If you expand your definition of «dirty» to include resources from countries that abuse human rights, disregard labour standards or fund terrorist organizations, as conservative commentator Ezra Levant does in his new tome, Ethical Oil: The Case for Canada's Oil Sands, the range of options shrinks even more.)

An outside review of New York's $ 150 billion pension fund for public workers shows it fixed ethical problems that led to a «pay - for - play» scandal.

ALBANY — Though Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo made expanding oversight of public officials a centerpiece of his agenda this year, none of New York State's commissions or agencies specifically charged with policing ethical lapses received an increase in funding in his proposed budget.

Start by paying attention to your lab's funding needs, what new infrastructure is needed to advance your field, and the ethical issues associated with your research, Baucher advises.

The new proposal promises an «open and ongoing dialogue» about the ethical, legal, and social implications of the work, and suggests that a percentage of the project's funding should go to supporting such discussions.

To promote better understanding of the ethics of research and the inclusion of individuals in research experiments, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced last year a new funding initiative: Research on Ethical Issues in Human Studies.

In accordance with that decision, the new guidelines would allow scientists to use NIH funds for research on cell lines isolated from embryos as long as the cells were derived by privately funded researchers who followed a set of ethical guidelines.

Part of what we did there was manager search and selection, and I remember this one occasion when we hired the Davis New York Venture Fund, which had a long history, was ethical, honest, all of that stuff.

Willie Soon — demonized by the New York Times for violating the ethical guidelines of scientific journals and concealing the fact that he was funded by fossil fuel companies — agrees wholeheartedly.

Modeled on the successful effort to get colleges, pension funds, churches, cities, and states to divest from apartheid South Africa, the groups are asking ethical investors to freeze new investments in fossil fuel companies and divest from direct ownership or commingled funds, which include public equities and corporate bonds.

«New documents reveal Koch, Exxon, Southern Company influence behind climate change denier scientist Dr. Willie Soon called his research and congressional testimony «deliverables» to corporate funders, may have violated IRS rules and scientific journals» ethical guidelines,» Greenpeace (Media Release), February 23, 2015.

Indeed, having personally read each and every one of the emails liberated from the Climategate Research Unit at East Anglia in the UK and all the Freedom of Information emails from NASA - GISS in New York, it is clear to me some of those scientists have violated their ethical obligations to both science and we taxpayers who fund their work by «cooking the books» to fudge and bend the data, often beyond the breaking point.

In the event that states adopt a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons systems — where talks have been underway since 2014 and another round is due in April — the report states that «it will be natural for autonomous weapons to be added to the list of weapon types that provide grounds for the exclusion of companies under the Fund's ethical guidelines, in the same way as it has done» before.