Sentences with phrase «on environmental safeguards»
In a year of political upheaval and attacks on environmental safeguards, American Rivers continues to claim some significant victories — thanks to you, our supporters.
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Those $ $ $ should have been spent on environmental safeguards and pollution controls.
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In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.
Other safeguards ensure no change to the reliability of supply for consumptive users and place limits on changes to environmental outcomes.
In the Senate, she'll be ready on day one to fight for stronger rent laws, the DREAM Act, campaign finance reform and tough new environmental safeguards.»
«Approval of a convention places every safeguard we've fought for and cherish, like (the) Forever Wild clause, on the chopping block or subject to a political trade,» said Peter Iwanowicz, executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York.
«Focusing on solving the major environmental problems that seriously endanger people's health, (China) investigated and punished harshly illegal pollution and environmental crimes, so as to safeguard people's right to a healthy and clean environment,» it said.
Published in Nature, this review looks into the values of different pollinators on issues including food secutiry and biodiversity, their status and trends, risks from environmental pressures and the consequent management and policy response options to safeguard pollinators.
Abstract: As human pressure on the marine environment increases, safeguarding healthy and productive seas increasingly necessitates integrated, time - and cost - effective environmental monitoring.
Today's workshop on «Benefits Sharing and Safeguards» for policies to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +) also included newly released recommendations for how California can bring REDD + offset credits into its statewide cap - and - trade system with environmental integrity and social equity.
Wang Hong, director of the State Oceanic Administration, reaffirmed China's commitment to safeguarding non-militarization, freedom of research and environmental protection in Antarctica on Monday at a press conference in Beijing.
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She explained that even in some of the most forward - looking environmental statutes in the United States, like the legislation creating the national parks, the language on safeguarding this asset «unimpaired» for future generations is in the preamble, and thus not «hard law.»
Commenting on EU-U.S. trade negotiations, Magda Stoczkiewicz, director of Friends of the Earth Europe said: «EU and U.S. leaders may be trading away environmental and health safeguards for the sake of big business and short - sighted interests.
It notices that in the space of three years, capacity building and training efforts have transformed REDD + from a little - known concept to one which is recognized, discussed and on the agenda of the Government of Viet Nam and that alongside awareness raising at a national level, substantial progress has been made in capacity building for policy development and environmental safeguards.
It notices that in the space of three years, capacity building and training efforts have transformed REDD + from a little - known concept to one which is recognized, discussed and on the agenda of the Royal Government of Cambodia and that alongside awareness raising at a national level, substantial progress has been made in capacity building for policy development and environmental safeguards.
Merging the two risks losing important environmental, social and cultural safeguards that are necessary to make REDD work on the ground.
«(6) make available to the Administrator its advice and comments on other ways to improve or safeguard the environmental integrity of programs established under this part and part E.
«(D) make available to the Secretary advice and comments on other ways to improve or safeguard the environmental integrity of the offset practice types listed under section 503 of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009; and
At least at the beginning, the GCF is likely to rely heavily on financial intermediaries to disburse funding and uphold environmental and social safeguards.
Going forward, international efforts must focus on supporting developing countries to strengthen forest - related institutions, build participatory processes, and ensure proper social and environmental safeguards are in place.
«We call on Parties to learn from the Barro Blanco project to improve stakeholder consultation and to develop robust social and environmental safeguards for future market mechanisms, already common among multilateral financial institutions» says Juliane Voigt, Carbon Market Watch Policy officer for sustainable development.
The draft conclusions from the Advanced Working Group on Long - Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) REDD - plus negotiating text are similar to the previous version from the last round of talks in Barcelona, the so - called «non-paper 39», but negotiators this time around have removed brackets (in UN speak this means consensus has been reached) from the principles (paragraph 1), scope (paragraph 3), sub-national approaches (paragraph 7 and 13) and social and environmental safeguards (paragraph 2).
We expect a decision that mandates all countries to make «intended contributions» on adaptation, finance, technology, and capacity building that are gender responsive and include social and environmental safeguards.
«We are pleased be working with these leading environmental organizations who have been forceful advocates for launching America's offshore wind industry on this measure to help safeguard North Atlantic Right Whales,» said Mark Rodgers, Communications Director at Energy Management.
President Trump's attacks on the Clean Power Plan — an essential policy to ensure we achieve carbon pollution reductions and provide a long - term investment signal for markets — and other essential safeguards are an assault on the continuing bipartisan legacy of environmental protection in America.
More specifically, Parties agreed on seven social, environmental and governance safeguards ranging from respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities to the protection of natural forests and full and effective participation of stakeholders.
Since 1991, half our traffic growth has been achieved without any increase in CO2 emissions,» and their vision for the future, «Our strategic environmental programme for safeguarding mobility clearly demonstrates that we are firmly intent on doing our share in the future in shouldering our responsibility for environment and climate protection.»
Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to attend the Environmental Protection Agency public hearing in Chicago on its proposed mercury and air toxics safeguards.
Given the impact of climate - related disasters on the vulnerable and the poor, the project aims to provide necessary technical and financial support to the Rural Development Unit and the Divi Neguma Department of the Ministry of Economic Development to safeguard the investments made in uplifting the rural livelihoods against climate related disasters and environmental changes.