Sentences with phrase «policy aimed at»

Overall, the country has signed on to its obligations to reduce greenhouse gases as per the Kyoto Protocol, but has yet to implement a nationwide policy aimed at reducing overall GHG emissions.

It presents community and institutional leaders with a context - setting tool to develop public policy aimed at keeping families safe and stable.

The CCW process should spur governments to acknowledge their practice on fully autonomous weapons and develop policy aimed at regulating or banning the weapons.

It is a travel medical insurance policy aimed at senior citizens to make their travel a pleasant experience.

The Court of Appeal of Quebec struck down the lower court decision, partly on the grounds that the Quebec Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission (acting for Mr. Latif) failed to show the causal link between his ethnic or national origin and the discriminatory practice, and that the U.S. policy aimed at non-U.S. citizens in general and did not target Muslims or Arabs.

«Effective climate policy aimed at reducing the risks of climate change to natural and human systems involves a portfolio of diverse adaptation and mitigation actions (very high confidence).»

Most recently, ALEC adopted a policy aimed at repealing the 17th Amendment, which provides for the direct election of U.S. Senators.

One suspects though, that most of them would agree that some public policy aimed at decarbonising energy supply and minimising destruction of carbon sinks would be a good idea.

[Translate] Environment Americans can say goodbye to President Obama's signature environmental policy aimed at fighting climate...

The carbon fee would be an insurance policy aimed at rapidly dropping the emissions blamed with increasing the average temperature of the world's land and atmosphere, which are linked by scientists to increased melting of glaciers and icecaps and rising sea levels that pose a direct threat to south Louisiana, he said.

Jamail adds, «There is nothing to indicate in the political or corporate world that there will be anything like a major shift in policy aimed at dramatically mitigating runaway anthropogenic [human - caused] climate disruption.»

A major infrastructural change to our transportation sector is needed, and that change must come from the federal government through direct, targeted policy aimed at eliminating our use of hydrocarbon fuel in cars, trucks, and airplanes.

This part of the report reinforces the reality that no policy aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases is meaningful unless it's relevant in the world's population billionaires, China and India, where the lion's share of growth in fossil fuel burning and emissions is coming.

South - South is a project — its title adopted from Brazil's foreign policy aimed at reinforcing integration between major powers of the developing world — that places common histories and experiences at its core.

The project borrows its title from Brazil's foreign policy aimed at reinforcing integration between major powers of the developing world.

«[W] e are deeply concerned that the proposal would undermine decades of federal policy aimed at helping students at the undergraduate and graduate levels afford a high - quality higher education,» he said.

(While the Fed's short - term rate policy doesn't directly affect longer - term rates like for mortgages, an aggressive policy aimed at driving up short - term rates would increase the chances for higher long - term rates.)

(Colo.) After establishing itself as the first state in the nation to enact a comprehensive policy aimed at encouraging participation in advanced placement courses, Arkansas reported nearly half of all its high school students had taken at least one of the college level classes in 2013.

The quality, fairness, and reliability of teacher effectiveness measures will make or break any policy aimed at identifying and rewarding highly effective teachers, exiting low performers, and preparing and supporting new teachers or those struggling somewhere in the middle.

He later established the Charter School Policy Institute to develop independent research and policy aimed at growing the public charter sector through gold standard practices.

After 15 years of federal education policy aimed at sanctioning schools and teachers based on test scores, such statements should come as a breath of fresh air for critics of test - based accountability.

It transforms the Pell Grant from a policy aimed at transforming lives to one that simply rewards students lucky enough to be born into situations where their families are able to seize good high - school educations for them.

After all, Africa isn't the first region to put in place a policy aimed at increasing the number of advanced - degreed scientists it produces as part of an economic growth initiative.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia, has decided to double down on its implementation of a congressionally mandated policy aimed at reducing research misconduct among NSF - funded scientists, despite a new report that notes problems with the agency's approach.

Since assuming office at the beginning of this year, the incumbent government has strived to achieve a balance between its avowed commitment to supply side, expansionary economic policy aimed at accelerating growth and...

I support the Land Bank as an important tool for a housing policy aimed at decreasing concentrated poverty, increasing affordable housing, and expanding the property tax base.

Terrorism: FG to Unveil New National Strategic Communications Approach The Federal Government has put machinery in place to unveil a new National Strategic Communications (NSSC) policy aimed at tackling the ideology and narrative of the Boko Haram terrorists and other insurgent groups in the country.

People inundated the offices of Rep. Brian Higgins in recent weeks with complaints about a First - World problem: a federal agency's decision to end «net neutrality,» an Obama - era policy aimed at forcing internet service providers to allow the same access to all websites without playing favorites.

Trump will issue «further guidance» on an Obama administrative policy aimed at protecting transgender students in public schools, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said.

I very much liked Mantiq's comment, which also captured how this was a pro-family policy in a real and concrete sense, as well as an «opportunity for all» policy aimed at encouraging individual responsibility.

Just hours before the meeting began, the board decided to table a vote on a gender policy aimed at making district school's more accommodating to transgender students.

Ahmed, who addressed the correspondents alongside the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige and Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, said the policy aimed at using a transformative mechanism for mitigating poverty and unemployment across the country.

Britain can not pretend to hold all the cards in the Syrian conflict but a clear strategic policy aimed at halting violence based on a commitment to the twin diplomatic - humanitarian track puts us on the good side of a bad conflict.

As an example, any policy aimed at preserving Generation's Me - me - me (aka Baby Boomers) Social Security is wildly popular right now because the Baby Boomers who benefit from it (at the expense of the next generations) comprise the majority of population, and those who will be harmed by it aren't realizing it till it will be their time to retire 20 - 40 years from now.

Increase domestic energy production and thus supply; which was intentionally decreased by Obama administration policy aimed at reducing carbon energy sources.

But I will not be pushed into considerations of individual circumstances when what concerns me is a matter of policy aimed at keeping sex creative.

Government needs a more practical, less academic social policy aimed at the deficiencies of public authority» law enforcement, school standards, and work requirements» that the research itself suggests are central to poverty today.

For example, the government could take advantage of the cultural competency of these returnees by utilizing them as consultants when designing policy aimed at attracting tourists.

The National Monetary Commission's longest volumes were on the great German industrial banks, and Republican policy aimed at bringing banking into the industrial era, to provide long - term funding after the model of German and other Central European banks.

The United States could certainly benefit from a more effective trade policy aimed at reducing barriers to trade through well - thought - out and forceful negotiations and taking actions that are consistent with global trade rules.

There is room here for activist public policy aimed at assisting people as soon as they become unemployed — including very fast interventions to have resumés updated, interview skills improved and much shorter - duration job training programs (rather than ones that last months or years).

The latter suggestion goes against decades of US policy aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, and in Japan's case, decades of anti-nuclear sentiment.

I'm not arguing that policies aimed at increasing productivity are misguided.

«There is some truth to that, because [in] Toronto for example, there is limitation as to where you can build low rise construction,» he said, referring to green belt policies aimed at limiting urban sprawl.

The non-profit advocates for laws and policies aimed at protecting children, provides legal representation to child victims, and offers community events, parenting classes, and counseling to support families across the Bay Area.

A set of policies aimed at middle class growth does not require us to reject the widely accepted understanding that the supply side of the economy determines long - run growth.

This reality, combined with the fact that just 10 % of the labor force is now employed in manufacturing, means that there is plenty of electoral support for policies aimed at increasing trade.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

We also modelled a number of existing and proposed federal and provincial policies aimed at helping Canadians save energy.

It's important to recognize, though, that policies aimed at stimulating demand might be able to help a lot.