Sentences with phrase «nongovernmental organizations say»

Other nongovernmental organizations say pulse trawling has promise to reduce environmental impacts and that ending it now would penalize the fishing industry for innovating.

One report by a local nongovernmental organization said there were 145 cases of torture and inhumane treatment, mostly by SEBIN and Bolivian National Guard agents, from January 2014 to June 2016.

Not exact matches

«A range of policy choices skewed the market in favor of diesel, whereas in the rest of the world this didn't happen,» says Greg Archer, who heads the Clean Vehicles arm of Transport & Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Brussels.

Other nongovernmental organizations, however, including Greenpeace Netherlands, say pulse trawling has promise to increase sustainability and that ending it now would penalize the fishing industry for innovating.

«Her dataset is one of a kind,» says Colorado State University conservation biologist George Wittemyer, chairman of the scientific board for the Kenya - based Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental organization.

Robson, whose @joolzr Twitter bio says she's a «primatologist who got a bit lost, and found her place to stand,» now works as a consultant for the University of Auckland, nongovernmental organizations, and others.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - making.

«These partnerships go well beyond just providing competitive grants to academic researchers and include numerous cooperative institutes, joint programs with academia and nongovernmental organizations, involvement with students at all levels, and participation in international organizations,» he says.

Olga Gershenzon, who chairs the board of Russian nongovernmental organization Transparent World, said in a statement the analysis «should be a clear call to action to look closely at forest management in Russia and Canada in the face of climate change.»

The key is to create a transparent framework that allows scientific experimentation to flourish — one that both governmental regulators and nongovernmental organizations can use to pursue projects that are good and sustainable and just, she says.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

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.

Scientists working with big data sometimes face government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that are unwilling to share their data, said Peter Speyer, chief data and technology officer at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

In a subsequent exchange, Senator Benjamin Cardin (D — MD) said that Trump's executive order yesterday reinstating the so - called Mexico City policy, which bans U.S. funding for foreign nongovernmental organizations that perform or promote abortions in the context of family planning, could also apply to maternal health organizations and others working to stop the Zika virus and HIV / AIDs.

«We were pleased to see this positive effect, given that nongovernmental organizations have substantiated real cases of deforestation within plantations held by RSPO members,» said co-lead author Kimberly Carlson of the University of Hawaii.

WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have dispatched an investigation team but for now are dependent on secondhand information from nongovernmental organizations and other partners in northern Syria, says WHO's Christian Lindmeier.

Those media reports relied on preliminary data on a trial of a new drug in Guinea that were leaked by a nongovernmental organization that was helping conduct the study, the researchers say.

A: At the G7 meeting, Dr. Bernice Dahn, [the Liberian minister of health], said when governments pay international [nongovernmental organizations] to go and do the delivery of service, the people in the community trust these organizations that take care of them instead of the government.

But the findings do not explicitly say why they returned, notes Mark Schuller, an anthropologist at York College of the City University of New York who has been doing research on globalization, nongovernmental organizations, and disasters in Haiti since 2002, but who was not involved in the current study.

«We're a nice little selfish country of petroholics, and that has made us lazy,» said Frederic Hauge, president of Bellona, Norway's largest nongovernmental environmental organization.

To spur open industry discussion, RFF said the talks, which began in December, exclude nongovernmental organizations.

He also said the press and nongovernmental organizations must be prodded.