Sentences with phrase «on subnational»

Participants looked specifically at how states could partner further with businesses in order to accelerate the deployment of key low carbon technologies, as well as looking ahead to what new commitments can be developed on a subnational level for Cancun.

It was produced by CDKN's project partners as part of the CDKN - ICLEI project on Subnational climate compatible development: learning from CDKN's experience.

Public / Private Collaboration on Subnational Action on Climate Change Thursday, November 16th 13:00 - 14:15 Fiji Dome

Brown, who is now the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change's special envoy for states, will host a summit on subnational action next year in San Francisco to be co-chaired by UNFCCC chief Patricia Espinosa.

These ranged from greater reliance on subnational government action to a sharp pivot to wind and solar energy and electric cars.

Not exact matches

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the prestigious event transpired late in the afternoon when one attendee asked, «How core is solving identity to expanding digital currency or solving some of the frictions in our existing system, and how do you foresee an identity world that's based on a national or — in the US's case — subnational system working or integrating in a global financial system?»

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

Creation of subnational and national - scale regulations on legal palm fruit harvesting, improving fire management in coffee and cocoa production landscapes, and visitor management plans to promote sustainable tourism.

Governments (at national and subnational levels) and companies should quantify and report on their food loss and waste in order to develop a base - year inventory and then monitor progress over time through 2030.

Depending on the issue agencies, private network or subnational entities should guide integration.

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

Subnationals, particularly cities, have long been among the more proactive leaders on climate change.

By the time the Paris meeting came around in late 2015, nearly 80 other subnational governments had signed on.

Stymied by the slow pace of the negotiations — which they are not even allowed to participate in — these so - called «subnationals» have worked on the sidelines for years, using political will, economic leverage and the celebrity status of prominent politicians to advance their climate goals.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

For anyone who's has the time, there's the full report (Science Policy: Considerations for Subnational Governments report) and its recommendations on gender and diversity, researcher mobility, alignment with federal support and programmes, science advice and evidence - based policy, and more.

Building on the New York Declaration on Forests launched during the Climate Summit in September 2014, it will showcase transformational examples at national and subnational level to make forests and their protection a core element of -LSB-...]

While US federal cooperation on regulating greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely in the short term, there are quite a few opportunities for subnational US and Canadian governments as well as the Mexican government to explore harmonization.

«What California's resolve shows is that even if progress on climate change and clean energy is stymied at the level of global governance or the nation - state, the subnationals can still move ahead to build a critical mass from below,» he wrote.

Mexico City, Mexico, 20 October 2017 — Current pledges by national governments are not enough to reach the goal set in the Paris Climate Change Agreement, but hope remains in the leading role being taken by subnational and non-state actors like cities, companies and organizations, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón told participants on the closing day of the Latin American and Caribbean Carbon Forum (LACCF) in Mexico City.

Some leaders are skeptical about the potential for subnational governments to lead the way on climate and energy, however.

In addition to the research listed below, read analysis by RFF experts on two subnational climate programs in the United States: the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Northeast and California's AB 32 cap - and - trade program.

In 2018, American subnationals can positively influence this process and reassert the United States» role as a global leader on climate action.

The Talanoa Dialogue is a mechanism, established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to deliver and integrate the stories and actions of subnational actors into the formal Paris Agreement negotiation processes.

The BEA partnership, currently comprised of over 35 companies and organizations, is committed to assisting subnational governments take action on building efficiency.

In this regard, ROAM will also enable countries to define and implement national or subnational contributions to the Bonn Challenge and concurrently allow nations to meet existing international commitments under the Convention on Biological Diversity, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework to Combat Climate Change.

Has your national government taken any position on or other wise encouraged individuals, businesses, organizations, subnational governments, or other entities that they have some ethical duty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

This «Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development» tracks issues that arose with regard to decentralised renewable energy planning in West Nusa Tenggara in order to inform subnational and national energy policies and strategies in the future.

The subnational governments also committed in the Under 2 MOU to working on adaptation and resilience, and to carrying out strategies to implement and achieve their goals and targets.

This is what we meant when, in our open letter to the Governor and California Air Resources Board, we stated that «Based on the experiences of existing REDD mechanisms and processes, we strongly believe that subnational REDD initiatives financed primarily or wholly through offsets will be inefficient, ineffective, and will lead to perverse outcomes.»

«These are important places that have a lot of people, property, and local economies that are going to struggle,» said Jessica Grannis, the adaptation program manager at Georgetown's Climate Center, at a recent Wilson Center event on the role of subnational decision - makers in achieving international goals.

There is a 15 - 22 gigatonne gap between the current climate commitments nations made in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the respective emissions reductions needed to stay on track to limit the global temperature rise to 2C or 1.5 C. Subnational action can help bridge this gap and support national governments as they raise their climate commitments in the coming years.

Both types of nesting are critically important and some of the most significant progress to date on developing compliance systems is being led by states and provinces (e.g., under the Governors» Task Force on Climate and Forests, a subnational collaboration between 15 states and provinces).

Its main focus, however, is on the discrete set of issues and options for nesting project - level activities within broader frameworks under the assumption that the issues will be broadly similar if the broader jurisdiction in which projects sit are national or subnational.

1) Local and subnational governments are stepping up with hard data on their collective immediate and long - term commitments.

Local and subnational governments are clearly recognized as important climate actors, and now ICLEI is focused on ensuring they are well - positioned with adequate resources and as implementation partners supporting nations with rolling out the architecture needed to fulfill their NDCs.

A total of 22 European Member States answered the questions focusing on eight thematic areas or topics: governance, vulnerability, impact and adaptation assessments, national and subnational adaptation strategies, climate - change mitigation, strengthening of health systems, awareness raising and capacity building, green health services and sharing best practices.

CCC's Sandee Recabar expounded on climate policies for local governments and the role of the Commission in support of them, as well as gave examples of subnational contributions given emerging directions of nationally determined contributions or efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Though these type of events are often about speeches reiterating the alarming problems and bragging about commitments to change, Schwarzenegger plans to attend COP15 to speak on behalf of the «subnationals» with findings from this summit, praising the grassroots efforts of regional governments creating a green revolution.

The Climate Group and the German State of North Rhine Westphalia hosted a high - level meeting of 15 subnational governments and global businesses in Bonn — marking the half way mark on the road to COP16 in Cancun.

The day kicked off with a closed session of subnational government Ministers and representatives, meeting on behalf of the states and regions alliance and chaired by Climate Group CEO Steve Howard.

The statement emphasized that 50 — 80 per cent of the actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade will happen at the subnational level, and called on world leaders to formally recognize this significant role of subnational governments.

I have also witnessed pats on the back for such initiatives as more legal aid money (from a cash - strapped government carrying the largest subnational debt in the Known Universe), more pamphlets, more e-filing, the re-purposing of the Shirley Dennison legacy to pay for an award for people who enhance A2J each year, and encouraging our First Nations people to make more use of (very useful) circles of healing.

Most countries have national (or subnational) guidelines for social and emotional assessment on student report cards, and «some countries assess student social and emotional skills in their national level surveys to evaluate their education systems.»