Sentences with phrase «policy debate about»

In the first academic study of the reformed QC appointments system, Dr Blackwell argues for serious policy debate about abolishing QC status since its existence does not appear to be in the interests of consumers or of justice.

If this were so, then there would be no science - based policy debate about the size of the gap between where emissions are headed at present and where they need to be in 2020 and 2030 at global, regional, and national levels.

My posts refer to the «public policy debate about climate change».

My objections to how the public policy debate about climate change concerns methodology, and are explained here: How we broke the climate change debates.

Unless the skeptics form a theory, they'll remain minor players in the debates — the climate science debate and the public policy debate about climate change (they're distinct, although often conflated).

This is journalism for the public policy debate about climate change, not written by a subject matter expert.

My reading of this statement is that you are saying that the likelihood that global warming is increasing the destructive potential of hurricanes (and is likely to do so increasingly in the future) is irrelevant to the policy debate about hurricane damage.

A Global Approach Until recently, nearly all policy debate about building institutions to protect Earth's climate focused on the global level.

That has sparked federal investigation into Russian political operations and policy debates about requiring the identification of sponsors of such ads.

In the face of these challenges in public understanding, the new report released at the AAAS meeting showed that 87 percent of scientists say they should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.

The greatest value of this study from Falchi and his colleagues may be the baselines it sets for policy debates about light pollution and any associated changes in the level of nighttime illumination.

Consumer polls are often cited in policy debates about genetically modified food labeling.

We no longer engage in serious policy debates about whether children benefit from K - 12 education.

And by all means let's ask Walmart to be a louder voice in public policy debates about energy and climate change.

Justin Gillis has written a news article putting the paper in context with other recent research on Antarctic dynamics and sea level, as well as with policy debates about the current value of fossil fuels against the momentous costs that could attend greatly expanded use:

Fierce policy debates about responsibility for climate mitigation and adaptation have long focused on the «common but differentiated responsibilities» of nations, the framework used for the Paris climate negotiations.

To accomplish this, researchers around the world should be requested to report on and document how ethics and equity issues are being considered in public policy debates about national policy within each country.

Policy debates about child poverty and welfare reform, which once focused almost exclusively on single mothers and their children, have in recent years begun to train the spotlight on fathers.

... The perspectives of young children, although compelling, have not had much influence in public policy debates about custody and visitation.

Not exact matches

An Australian banker caught on live TV showing a high interest rate in nearly - naked photos of supermodel Miranda Kerr has launched a viral video that has already drawn hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube — and fresh debate about employer Internet policies.

Harper wants the debate about economic policy to revolve around balanced budgets.

Of course no matter if it is NGDP targeting, the Taylor rule, or even a rule that would have the Fed tie itself to gold - the entire debate about rules - based monetary policy ignores the obvious: rules are meant to be broken.

Indeed, there is a robust debate about merits of the policy.

With this simple question, you would be exacting revenge for all the simplistic rhetoric and cynical policy proposals that have dominated the debate about the economy to date.

Dumbest Move: Bungling the «No Telecommuting» Policy When Mayer announced to employees in March that she was ending Yahoo's work - from - home policy, it sparked a national debate about workplace flexibPolicy When Mayer announced to employees in March that she was ending Yahoo's work - from - home policy, it sparked a national debate about workplace flexibpolicy, it sparked a national debate about workplace flexibility.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

«We welcome a debate about whether our current legal immigration policy properly balances family and skills - based migration.

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

Like so much happening in provincial politics today, a serious debate about this policy will serve the broader national interest.

This debate raises profound questions — probably not for the last time — about the effectiveness of the Fed's easy - money policy.

Such approaches could be designed to be revenue - neutral over the business cycle; they also could avoid past debates over fiscal stimulus by separating decisions on countercyclical policy from longer - run decisions about the appropriate role of the government and tax system.

The debate prior to this crisis can be (perhaps simplistically) characterised as between those who argued that an inflation - targeting central bank should care about asset prices to the extent that they affected the forecasts of output and inflation over the policy horizon, and those who argued that additional attention needed to be paid to asset prices and the possibility of credit imbalances.

But it also refers to a very real policy debate that is currently roiling the GOP over how to think about trade policy.

Of course, it is useful to have theoretical debates about optimal public policy.

At its core this debate is not about economic policy but about competing visions of the role, scope and validity...

Fiscal policy can be talked about, we can debate about it, and we can proclaim its benefits, but I don't see them in the current environment just as I didn't see them in 2009.

Uhlmann of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., has put together a remarkable range of information and arguments bearing on continuing debates about the end, and ending, of life.

I am not Mom enough to think that the debate over how to feed our youngest children — an important and nuanced conversation about nutrition, and workplace policy, and government responsibility, and gender relationships — can be boiled down to a simplistic, unrepresentative, staged photograph.»

Whatever one's viewpoint on such policies is (and there's been much debate about whether these were promises or merely aspirations on Corbyn's part), one can not deny they were a vote winner — they were relevant, meaningful and appealing.

In America, we debate what to do about undocumented aliens, how many visas to allocate to highly skilled workers, and whether a long - term policy of favoring family reunification should remain in effect.

Debates about a «pathway to citizenship» can be enriched if we ask how proposed policies do or do not promote national solidarity.

Everything flows from the opening sentence of the book, an expansion of a 2010 article from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: «What we have come to call the gay marriage debate is not directly about homosexuality, but about marriage.»

Over the past ninety years or so, the American debate about the national interest and the national purpose» the debate about morality and foreign policy» has careened through at least ten cycles, resulting in numerous, and sometimes jarring, shifts in the nation's approach to the world.

There is public debate about policy, and so on.

One could thus envision, for instance, debate about such things as the very appropriateness of the bishops writing such a letter, which in making concrete government policy suggestions clearly stretches the definition of «pastoral.»

At the Forum, about 300 eminent experts from around the world will review and debate the investment needs, technologies and policy measures needed to secure the world's food supplies on horizon 2050.

We have opened up a new debate within the policy - making community and in the press, about leave entitlements and the pay gap.

Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D - Ill., recently visited her granddaughter's Evanston school to learn about the situation on the ground so she can help shape federal policy when Congress debates the nutrition act.

The debate about the safety of home births continues in the literature, professional policy and practice.

The Scottish Government reduced its limit to 50mg / 100 ml in 2014, but similar measures in the rest of the UK have been resisted because of fears of their impact on pubs About the Institute of Alcohol Studies The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote an informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.