Sentences with phrase «policies aimed at»

This works at cross purposes to land use policies aimed at intensification.

«Housing market conditions are improving partially because of new policies aimed at providing regulatory relief to the business community,» said Granger MacDonald, chairman of the NAHB, in a statement.

Testing for disparities by demographic factors like race and income can suggest a need for policies aimed at reaching out to underserved subpopulations.

With the new government came new policies aimed at improving Aboriginal's and Torres Strait Islander's social and economic situation.

The relationship of Indigenous people to their land is widely recognised as a basis for their cultural values and identity and as such must be taken into account in the policies aimed at achieving sustainable economic development.

Chapter one notes that the relationship of Indigenous people to their land is widely recognised as a basis for their cultural values and identity and as such must be taken into account in policies aimed at achieving sustainable economic development.

These results suggest that policies aimed at increasing educational attainment among girls may have broad - ranging long - term benefits.

The Commonwealth, State and Territory governments have also responded to the alarming levels of disadvantage in Indigenous communities with policies aimed at economic and social development for Indigenous people.

[17] The effects of maternal depression on child outcomes may also be moderated by higher levels of maternal sensitivity, [18] suggesting that policies aimed at increasing parental sensitivity, in addition to those reducing parental depression, may be effective in improving child outcomes.

Thus, this is the best body of evidence to date concerning how low - income adolescents fare as a result of policies aimed at increasing their parents» employment.

Policies aimed at reducing childhood poverty can yield positive benefits for Washington in terms of improved individual and family functioning, and increased economic self - sufficiency for future generations.

This view accounts for the scant policy development of native title in NSW and its isolation from the state's wider policies aimed at achieving social and economic development outcomes for Indigenous people.

The chapter suggests that failure to co-ordinate the goals of native title negotiations with these broader policies aimed at addressing the economic and social development of Indigenous people, not only limits the native title process; it also limits the capacity of the broader Indigenous policy to achieve its objectives.

• Create, develop and implement core collection policies aimed at reducing client delinquencies • Isolate delinquent accounts and determine how much is owed to the company • Create a list of delinquent accounts and assign sets to collections officers • Assist collection officers by providing them training on how to contact and speak to clients • Contact clients directly and provide them with updates on their accounts • Listen intently to clients to determine their ability and willingness to pay and make corresponding notes

With each party campaigning for your vote, here's a quick rundown of where each of the 3 main parties stand with regards to their policies aimed at younger voters, students and graduates.

Twitter, in December, began enforcing new rules around violent and hateful content posted to its platform, as part of the company's broader agenda to craft new policies aimed at reducing the amount of online abuse, hate speech, violent threats, and harassment associated with its service.

There are specialist classic car insurance providers out there for instance that offer policies aimed at these particular types of vehicle.

This week the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) announced two new policies aimed at enhancing transparency and efficiency in ICC arbitration proceedings.

The nations of the world will never unify around policies aimed at slowing or reversing growth in order to return to the Holocene, but they might come together around common technology investments to create a better Anthropocene.

It would simply require the implementation of policies aimed at rewarding such carbon sequestration practices on land reclaimed from the highly destructive livestock agriculture sector.

Project Syndication: Of all major world regions, Europe has worked the hardest to implement policies aimed at countering human - caused climate change.

While we push for policies aimed at helping more American farmers transition to organic, recent research shows that most non-organic farmers could dramatically reduce overall pesticide use while growing just as many crops and maintaining, or even increasing, their profit.

Of these, policies aimed at renewable energy, CHP, reduction of nitrous oxide from industry and reducing methane emission from landfills produced the largest decreases.

So to say that human - caused global warming is proven to be a dangerous problem is untrue, and to introduce policies aimed at stopping presumed warming when cooling is actually under way is vainglorious.

The IPCC scientific assessments play a primary role in legitimizing national and international policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The 2007 IPCC report discusses the influences of deforestation on climate in great detail, for example here and here, and devotes a section to policies aimed at reducing deforestation here.

In other words, the IPCC assumes that these reductions will occur anyway, even in the absence of specific policies aimed at producing the shift.

As Canadians, we can lobby our leaders and politicians to adopt policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Previously, Mr. Knight led the development of the Multi-Sector Emissions Model (M - SEM), a spreadsheet - based tool used for evaluating historical energy use and emissions, as well as future energy use and emissions based in light of new policies aimed at reducing CO2 emissions sector - wide.

Economic policies aimed at sustainable development can bring a variety of co-benefits including utilizing new energy technologies and improved access to adequate and affordable modern energy services.

This would have a real effect on tar sands development as an MIT study points out that they are vulnerable to climate / energy policies aimed at reducing emissions.

Reporting companies, particularly those in fossil fuel industries, may wish to review their disclosure practices regarding the possible financial impact of climate change and of proposed laws, regulations and policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

«[O] ur conference features international top scientists and experts, presenting pressing evidence to reconsider or stop the current policies aimed at «saving the climate»,» reads a description of the event at the Berlin Manhattan Institute.

Wider policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions such as carbon pricing mechanisms may also support RE.

And just like policies aimed at limiting potentially dangerous climate change, adaptation policies will be implemented in the face of uncertainty, both in climate impacts and variance in extreme weather.

Both developed and developing countries need to work together in crafting policies aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, while recognizing the potential for differing national priorities.

By Brad Plumer, NYTimes, Feb 2, 2018 Exxon Mobil's shareholders — concerned that the company's main businesses, oil and natural gas, may be imperiled — had demanded last year that the company give a more detailed accounting of the consequences of global policies aimed at curbing emissions of earth - warming gases.

The president himself is pushing policies aimed at weaning the U.S. transportation system off imported oil, but he has also acknowledged that Canada and other neighbouring democracies are favoured sources for the imported oil that will be needed.

Policies aimed at liberalizing trade in forest products have mixed impacts on forest management practices.

The prime minister won a battle to keep policies aimed at boosting renewables and saving electricity voluntary for member states.

For instance, in February, Parliament's Science and Technology Select Committee called for submissions to an inquiry into the public's understanding of climate change, following a report that had advised that «should scepticism continue to increase, democratic governments are likely to find it harder to convince voters to support costly environmental policies aimed at mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change.»

Lomborg claims the often - repeated talking point that «Policies aimed at addressing climate change can easily end up punishing the poor,» pointing a finger at Germany and citing a study by the fossil - fuel - funded Institute for Energy Research (IER), claiming that renewable energy targets and emissions caps have resulted in «energy poverty.»

4) Will policies aimed at reducing the use of coal and oil be more or less cost - effective than policies aimed at adaptation to forecast changes as they emerge?

Globally, coal - fired projects under development saw a steep decline between 2016 and 2017, led primarily by policies aimed at fighting air pollution in developing countries like China and India.

This was thanks to policies aimed at reducing urban pollution and stimulating Chinese industry.

There are wide political divides over the consequences of policies aimed at climate change that hold even among those who agree that the Earth has been warming.

Political divides are found in issues ranging from what drives climate change to how policies aimed at climate change reduction will affect the environment and the economy.

However, Republicans across all generations are largely in agreement over the consequences of policies aimed at reducing climate change.

Most Republicans are skeptical about whether, in general, policies aimed at reducing climate change benefit the environment (72 % of Republicans and Republican leaners say these policies either make no difference or do more harm than good), and 57 % think such policies harm the economy.

In addition to destroying the moral incentive for households to «do their bit» to reduce emissions, this design feature renders all other policies aimed at reducing emissions pointless.