Sentences with phrase «policy bodies»

To create the Criteria, the consortium convened a Technical Working Groups (TWG) and an Industry Working Group (IWG) with representatives from investors, public utilities, water NGOs and international policy bodies from around the world.
It bypasses the existing educational policy body in New York, the State Board of Regents, chaired by former Citigroup CEO Richard Parsons.
China and India have created advisory and policy bodies at the highest levels of government to deal with climate and energy, and they are cooperating with industrial countries to create climate - friendly energy options.
According to the Canadian Public Accountability Board, an independent policy body for the accounting profession, there is genuine cause for concern around TSX - listed companies that primarily operate in China.
You sit on Labour's National Policy Forum, which is one of the less well - understood bodies in the Labour Party structure, because Conference is supposed to be the sovereign policy body.
In the latest protest, Roddam Narasimha, an aerospace scientist at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, resigned on 24 February from the Space Commission, India's top space policy body.
The WGIG put forward a number of options for change, all of which include enhancing the roles of ICANN and the GAC or the formation of a new all - embracing internet policy body that would be in charge of ICANN instead of the US.
For science itself, the year 2005 had its share of headline - grabbing triumphs and controversies, but for scientists and science trainees planning their careers, the year offered mostly more of the same: the usual job - market uncertainties, a continuing scramble for research funds (which during the year became increasingly scarce), and more studies by important policy bodies aimed at increasing the number of scientists our nations produce.
International policy bodies like the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and others are beginning to include blue carbon in their discussions of natural ecosystems.
Mark is also the President of AIDA and participates on many high l evel health policy bodies.
The dizzying ascent in world oil prices threatens to turn the good times into bad for the U.S. economy — and our housing markets could get caught in the middle as policy bodies attempt to keep the oil situation in check.
It is widely expected that on December 13 the Federal Reserve's policy body will vote and publicize the next «rate hike» in its exit strategy.
Meanwhile, Haley Barbour's lobbyist nephew Henry was one of the author's of the Republican National Committee's «autopsy» that, while admitting that the Republican National Committee was not a policy body, called on the party to embrace «comprehensive immigration reform».
Willetts in particular, advised by my former colleague Anna Fazackerly, knows where all the policy bodies are buried.
«A lot of people think the board is there to fix things rather than be a policy body
It is effectively a policy body.
The first - hand experiences of SRLs as they attempt to navigate the legal system are a vital part of planning for system change and SRLs can contribute much to both formal (eg working groups, policy bodies) and informal (eg professional conferences, classrooms) discussions about change.
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