Sentences with phrase «of policy debates»

Yet climate change and several other global environmental issues are raising civilization challenging moral, justice and ethical questions that need to be teased out of policy debates.

It's a useful round - up of the economics of a policy debate that shows no sign of being resolved.

But the ultimate outcome of this policy debate is still far from clear, several officials said.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

The report's release quite dramatically changed the currency of policy debate to student outcomes.

Here, we must exit the world of policy debate and enter the less elegant world of political power.

The second sub-title is new and notable because it has only been in recent years that the costs of administering capital punishment have become a more common part of policy debates.

Berlin (AFP)-- Dismissed a decade ago as far - fetched and dangerous, schemes to tame global warming by engineering the climate have migrated from the margins of policy debate towards centre stage.

Population aging has wide ranging impacts for our country and while much of the policy debate surrounds the impact on areas such as health care, taxation revenue and our productive capacity, there is little discussion about the impact that it will -LSB-...]

Most of the policy debate surrounding the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to anthropogenic climate change has been framed by observations of the past 150 years as well as climate and sea - level projections for the twenty - first century.

Uncertainties have been discussed in respect to climate predictions since the beginning of the policy debate.

The Bank of Canada is a conscientious objector when it comes to releasing minutes of its policy debates, even as most of its peers now do so.

Keep ahead of policy debates and Westminster gossip.

At the same time, she said, it will give them a foundation for understanding climate change, alternative energy sources, the uses of nanotechnology, and other science topics that are already the focus of policy debate.

He discovered very painfully that in fact petitions weren't the way you should behave anymore, because he sent a copy to James Franck, who had been his colleague and his advisor and with whom he shared many things, and Franck wrote him a very touching but powerful letter saying that, «It's not our right as scientists just because we're scientists to intervene in all sorts of policy debate unless it's specific to our own concern.

Somewhere in the middle of this policy debate, an estimated 600,000 students nationwide, at least this school year, are taking advantage of free tutoring from providers of their choice because they go to schools...

As for Hess's sober and sensible calls for muting the rhetoric of policy debates, it's hard to feel much optimism.

Programs such as CCSSO's National Teacher of the Year program are an important reminder that in the midst of policy debates, budget cuts, and constantly increasing scrutiny, teachers are going to work every day and touching the lives of their students in unimaginable ways.

The ATL framework will be launched in February 2015 at the third in our series of policy debates and widely circulated.

In terms of the policy debate, the Lewis & Curry paper might help to constrain bad policy while the deeper understanding which you seek, Rob, is pursued further.

Peddlers of this myth push the assumption that climate science can not take place independently of the influence of policy debates, accusing the climate science community and institutions like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of having a political agenda, conspiring to fabricate data, and hyping up the science for personal gain.

Bush often stayed out of policy debates, at least publicly, but she did advocate for the National Literacy Act of 1991, which aims to strengthen adult literacy programs and ensure universal literacy.

Whether it is through pairing schemes, a short - term internship, or by embracing a new career full time, being a part of the policy debate is a fine, concrete way to have an impact on science.

[18] On another side of the policy debate, opponents of the expansion of public subsidies to support responsibilities that families in prior generations handled themselves, could, based on the present findings, argue that a lot of parents across a broad swath of socioeconomic levels utilize center - based care for their young child without having to have government assistance.

To his credit, Murray is wholly uninterested in tinkering at the margins of policy debates.

The sole expressed purpose for E911 at the beginning of the policy debate was to locate cell phone users who were in need of emergency assistance.

Besides, in a nation in which the great majority of voters describe themselves as religious, religious belief will usually be the background — even if frequently unstated — of our policy debates.

There was a notable lack of details in this morning's Times story, in which Klein said «some type» of coalition government would take the politics out of policy debates and end the «constant hyperpartisan bickering» in the chamber.