Sentences with phrase «nongovernmental groups»

This event will showcase the interests of U.S. states, cities, businesses, nongovernmental groups, etc. in mobilizing and providing climate finance.

To get a clearer picture, Pedler and colleagues pulled together 45 years of mammal trapping surveys conducted by the state government, mining companies, and nongovernmental groups.

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Meanwhile, the governor of Caquetá made the same point to our delegation, as did members of a morning - long symposium in which we heard from departmental legislators, nongovernmental organizations, educators and church groups.

Second, as moral inspiration, the Universal Declaration has helped launch nongovernmental human rights groups across the planet, including the influential organization Amnesty International, which numbers more than one million members worldwide.

Community development is practiced by many nongovernmental organizations including church groups, but it is overshadowed by the top - down development programs of the World Bank and by transnational corporate investments.

In an attempt to learn more about dragonfly migration, the US Forest Service's Wings Across the Americas program has assembled a group of dragonfly experts, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and federal agencies and formed the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership (MDP).

Another group of students will represent the views of government, nongovernmental organizations, scientific academies, and journalists.

In 2009 the nongovernmental Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a list of 100 disorders, including lower back pain, atrial fibrillation, and early prostate cancer, that it says require research analyzing which treatments work best for different groups of patients.

Amid the fear and confusion, there are ongoing efforts by outside groups such as DataRefuge to store data, especially that related to climate change, on nongovernmental servers and sites.

«It improves international security by allowing nongovernmental actors to monitor the actions of nations,» says Hitchens, who points to Amnesty International; that group has launched eyesondarfur.org, a Web site that broadcasts satellite imagery of 12 vulnerable villages in war - torn western Sudan, empowering the public to document atrocities and track the movement of refugees and troops.

Governments and intergovernmental bodies are the usual suspects, but any organization with an interest in influencing a science - policy debate — including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), patients» groups, trade associations, professional and learned societies, the industrial sector — also needs people with an understanding of science and policy.

He and others said Iraqis must «prioritize» their needs.The academics considered creating a nongovernmental organization (NGO) to promote collaboration among universities and research groups.

This past August White rolled out Memex to additional beta testers — two district attorney's offices, a law enforcement group and a nongovernmental organization (NGO).

Today you can find scientists working for private industry, government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, newspapers, law firms, venture capitol groups, and many other areas.

Nongovernmental watchdog groups have reported finding items on grocery store shelves that exceed the limit.

According to a 2013 study from the Climate Group, a London - headquartered nongovernmental organization, China will need at least $ 24 billion per year for adaptation actions by 2020; by contrast, the nation's estimated budget is only $ 13.5 billion based on its current expenditures.

The resolutions do not affect policy directly, but the group's members, which include 217 state and government agencies and more than 1,000 nongovernmental organizations, can use them to coordinate regional agendas.

Individuals and groups from K — 12 and higher education are invited to participate in this program, especially faculty, administrators, school and district leaders, and higher education administrators, as well as individuals and groups from educational nonprofits, funding organizations, and nongovernmental organizations.

The documents say that over four years ending in 2013, the group expects to have spent some $ 1.6 million on financing the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, an entity that publishes periodic reports attacking climate science and holds lavish annual conferences.

Finally, the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a group of distinguished scientists — many of whom had previously done work for the IPCC — released a report today that comes to almost diametrically opposite conclusions of the IPCC report, noting that the IPCC excluded data from its report that didn't agree with its conclusions.

To write the report, Heartland assembled a group it calls the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a particularly revealing choice of name.

Smith's most dramatic rush to the legal defense of the fossil fuel industry was his unprecedented move last year to issue subpoenas to two state attorneys general and several nongovernmental advocacy groups over the states» climate change fraud investigation of Exxon.

By contrast, on the decentralized track electrification is generally carried out through nongovernmental entities such as cooperatives, community user groups, or private entrepreneurs.

On Tuesday, the Climate Leadership Council announced its founding members, a group of companies, opinion leaders and nongovernmental organizations who have joined forces to promote a consensus climate solution based on carbon dividends.

NIPCC is the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, another group established by Singer.

Of that, $ 413,000 will go to supporting the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a small group of skeptics who have set themselves up as a counterweight to the IPCC.

Our group, called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), was founded in 2003 by a distinguished atmospheric physicist, S. Fred Singer, and has produced five hefty reports to date, the latest being released today (March 31).

But like other social movements in Turkey, would - be party organizers were set back by the 1980 military coup and the disbanding of political parties and crackdown on opposition groups and nongovernmental organizations that went along with it.

We codirect the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN), a group of over 600 experts who provide climate science information on adaptation and mitigation to urban leaders and practitioners from governments, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations and the community.

Based on the findings from wide - ranging studies of community variation (eg, why Aboriginal teen suicide and Aboriginal employment levels vary hugely from band to band; why seniors die during heat waves in some neighbourhoods and not others; why some watershed communities maintain sustainable agriculture over a millennium while others do not; why the United States biogenetic technology industry is now concentrated in only three places, compared with thirty areas a few decades ago) there is now a strong evidentiary base revealing common underlying characteristics of groups, at the nongovernmental level, that successfully address these challenges.

Already, in the past several years, many nongovernmental agencies have come together to bring systematic, high - quality SECD into schools — examples include the Massachusetts Alliance for Social - Emotional Learning (www.sel4ma.org), New Jersey Alliance for Social, Emotional, and Character Development (njasecd.org), and similar groups in Connecticut (ei.yale.edu), Colorado (www.randomactsofkindness.org), and Washington (www.facebook.com/SELforWA).