Sentences with phrase «on policy formation»

Under the plans being put forward by EuroHORCs, ESF's granting activities would cease and it would concentrate on policy formation and lobbying, possibly moving its headquarters from Strasbourg in France to Brussels, seat of the European Union.

Not exact matches

He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Biotechnology Industry Organization for nine years, where he was active in the policy areas of capital formation, bioethics, intellectual property and regulatory policy.

While all of these infrastructure policy programs have an explicit focus on accelerating capital formation for infrastructure, they rest on the assumption that information about viable projects is readily available within the economy.

Mr. Slusarchuk is a past TEDx speaker on the topic of capital markets, was a senior advisor at a top tier Canadian brokerage firm, and is a member of multiple mining industry advocacy associations in emerging markets, through which he has regularly advised various governments on the formation of mining policy.

I will be heading to Montréal to participate in the NDP Policy Convention, where the political pundits of Canada will observe Tom Mulcair leading the «dippers» on the road to what many expect will be the formation of the next government of Canada.

The Elector was pleased with the good intake of students being achieved, and was placing no opposition in the way of the formation of a new policy which was generally accepted now that Karlstadt had come round to it, and a formal set of Theses on the subject had been successfully defended.

The three candidates standing to be chairman of the National Conservative Convention answered a first tranche of questions yesterday on candidate selection issues and a second tranche this morning on the role of members in the party conference and policy formation.

I would welcome the appointment of Eric Pickles as chairman of the party, as I think he is an excellent campaign strategist - but more importantly because it would get him away from areas of policy formation in the field of local government where I believe that, despite his apparent experience, he has been too focussed on areas which appeal to the tabloid newspapers and has not fought hard enough over important issues such as local government powers and planning.

On Tuesday, Police Commissioner James O'Neill announced the formation of a 30 - day working group to review the police department's marijuana enforcement policy.

On September 17, AAAS CEO Alan I. Leshner sent a letter to the to the Department of the Interior that applauded the formation of and suggested improvements to their Proposed Scientific Integrity Policy.

«EMEP's formation illuminates the importance of developing technological networks and international research projects on acid rain in furthering both détente among European countries as well as international research and policies for environmental protection,» she concludes.

Last week, representatives from 85 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea, to approve the formation of the Intergovernmental Science - Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), which will operate much like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Besides promising increases in energy research, Obama also announced the formation of the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST), a group that will advise the president on numerous public policies.

The PIM conferences have contributed to the development and formation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and to policy and science debates on ocean issues since their inception.

Dynarski has served on the board of contributors of Evidence Speaks, a weekly series of reports by a standing panel of researchers under the editorship of Russ Whitehurst, with a commitment to elevating the role of methodologically rigorous research in the formation of education and social policy.

West has served on the board of contributors of Evidence Speaks, a weekly series of reports by a standing panel of researchers under the editorship of Russ Whitehurst, with a commitment to elevating the role of methodologically rigorous research in the formation of education and social policy.

Abstract: The Secretariat of Education of Bogotá since 2013 has been implementing an educative policy focused on citizenship and civic coexistence, fostering the formation of critical, empowered and participative citizens, who think globally and act locally.

Though this work centers on Minnesota schools, the CSC's impact — in terms of school - reform research and policy formation — reaches well beyond that state's borders.

I was also interested in opportunities to develop and implement a national agenda on assessment education and to contribute to publications and policy formation.

She has served on review panels at the U.S. National Science Foundation and been called to participate in Expert Groups advising the United Nations on the dynamics of the science - policy interface and the formation of a global sustainability report.

(For a much more rigorous analysis of the role of the climate change policy opposition in US climate policy formation see Brown 2002, chap 2 and Brown 2012, chap 2 and numerous articles on this website under the category of «disinformation campaign.»)

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

On November 30, The Guardian reported that Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi had announced the formation of «an international solar alliance of over 120 countries with the French president, François Hollande, at the Paris COP21 climate summit,» and that the initiative «called the International Agency for Solar Technologies and Applications (Iasta), aims to spread cheap solar technology across the globe with pooled policy knowledge.»

It a central issue in climate change policy formation because each government policy on reducing the threat of climate change is implicitly a position on that government's fair share of safe global emissions.

Each researcher answered the same 10 questions which sought to determine how equity, ethics, and justice considerations affected national policy formation on greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets and commitments and on funding adaptation, l, osses and damages in vulnerable developing countries.

Maureen Donahue Hardwick concentrates her practice on the formation and management of focused industry consortia that address common scientific, regulatory and policy goals of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies.

It contains a number of separate strands including a strategic review of the formation of planning policy on a national basis backed by statute.

Parliament and the public can not hope to call the Government to account without an adequate knowledge of what is going on; nor can they hope to participate in the decision - making process and contribute their talents to the formation of policy and legislation if that process is hidden from view.

Advised new businesses on formation of corporations and business structures, drafted privacy policies and structured commercial transactions.

While some investors may take a wait - and - see approach to betting their money on U.S. commercial real estate assets in the short term given the uncertainty surrounding U.S. economic policy under the new President Elect, «capital formation globally continues to grow and increase allocations to real estate,» according to Byron Carlock, real estate practice leader with consulting firm PwC, who is currently in London for an investment conference.

With the formation of new rules and policies, real estate agents and brokers could display parts of the MLS database on their website using IDX.

December 14, 2012 Voice of Corporate Real Estate Industry Strengthens With Launch of CoreNet Global's Issues Advocacy Focus Group ATLANTA (December 10, 2012)-- For the first time, corporate real estate (CRE) occupiers are speaking with a unified voice on public policy issues and CRE industry practices impacting business and society with the formation of the CoreNet Global Issues Advocacy Focus Group,

December 14, 2012 Voice of Corporate Real Estate Industry Strengthens With Launch of CoreNet Global's Issues Advocacy Focus Group For the first time, corporate real estate (CRE) occupiers are speaking with a unified voice on public policy issues and CRE industry practices impacting business and society with the formation of the CoreNet Global Issues Advocacy Focus Group