Sentences with phrase «policy measure adopted»

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Those will also include economic stimulus measures help for small businesses threatened by bankruptcy and adopting a policy to combat unemployment, according to Tsipras.

On Friday, the White House not only defended President Trump's new tariff policy, but underscored the administration's intent to pursue harsher measures unless China adopts fairer trade practices.

National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

(1) to protect and promote breastfeeding, as an essential component of their overall food and nutrition policies and programmes on behalf of women and children, so as to enable all infants to be exclusively breastfed during the first four to six months of life; (2) to promote breastfeeding, with due attention to the nutritional and emotional needs of mothers; (3) to continue monitoring breastfeeding patterns, including traditional attitudes and practices in this regard; (4) to enforce existing, or adopt new, maternity protection legislation or other suitable measures that will promote and facilitate breastfeeding among working women; (5) to draw the attention of all who are concerned with planning and providing maternity services to the universal principles affirmed in the joint WHO / UNICEF statement (note 2) on breastfeeding and maternity services that was issued in 1989; (6) to ensure that the principles and aim of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and the recommendations contained in resolution WHA39.28 are given full expression in national health and nutritional policy and action, in cooperation with professional associations, womens organizations, consumer and other nongovermental groups, and the food industry; (7) to ensure that families make the most appropriate choice with regard to infant feeding, and that the health system provides the necessary support;

As part of its policy to appease the Taliban and their sympathisers in the Afghan parliament, the Afghan government has in recent years adopted a number of controversial legal measures that narrow down the space for women's rights rather than expanding it further.

Mr Blair has taken the unusual step of briefing newspapers over his concern that the Liberal Democrats will get nowhere if they move to the left of Labour, adopt a policy of demanding higher taxes and become more critical of his party's efforts to tackle measures such as social exclusion.

Since New York City's tax system and tax policy are in large part defined by State law, the City and the State are in active discussion about adopting coincident measures.

Instead of producing a series of measures in a panic - stricken way, as the Government have done in recent months, would it not have been better if they had speedily adopted our policy of a # 50 billion loan guarantee scheme for businesses of all sizes, and had shown some competence in getting it into practice at the speed required?

New York has officially become the last state in the nation to adopt no - fault divorce following the governor's signature of a measure that will permit couples to separate by mutual consent, signaling a major policy shift that has far - reaching implications for both families and attorneys.

Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, the primary sponsor of the resolution, declined to characterize the measure as creating a sanctuary county, but the proposal — which Rodriguez said was crafted largely from a policy adopted by Tompkins County — mirrors the language offered by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a report outlining model sanctuary provisions.

When asked whether Mr Clarke is likely to use his new status as one of the biggest beasts on the Tory front bench to try and change Mr Cameron's mind he added: «No, because it's the policy of the Conservative Party right now to adopt some of [the measures] we are discussing.»

And U.S. agencies should adopt standards for measuring, monitoring and verifying international forest activities that prevent double - counting and account for the potential for forest emissions to shift to other areas as a result of climate policy.

If the bulbs were adopted worldwide, that single measure could meet 70 percent of the additional carbon reductions promised by industrialized nations in the Kyoto Protocol, according to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst at the International Energy Agency.

But his call for Putin's Russia «to move more slowly, to adopt measured policies... forego impatience for circumspection» is unlikely to be heeded.

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

The DSCC is urging States and policy makers to take strong measures and adopt robust regulations to ensure the protection of the ocean depths and of the species that are so often «out of sight, out of mind» — those that live in the deep sea.

In the last decade, at least 15 state legislatures and boards of education have adopted policies incentivizing their public schools to prioritize measures other than grades when assessing students» skills and competencies.

When asked which measures would most likely improve social mobility and help disadvantaged young people get on in life, almost half of respondents (47 per cent) chose «high - quality teaching in comprehensive schools», ahead of two social mobility policies adopted by the main parties in the recent election.

The real «reforms,» here, pertained to the extent to which value - added model (VAM) or other growth output were combined with these observational measures, and the extent to which districts adopted state - level observational models as per the centralized educational policies put into place at the same time.

In addition, the U.S. Department of Education strongly pressured states to adopt controversial policies expanding charter schools and measuring teacher effectiveness on the basis of student test scores.

Adopting new measures, creating new policies, and implementing promising practices must develop at an appropriate pace — and at high fidelity to the still - emerging research.

That's why some policymakers came up with the idea of finding objective measures, and then adopting new firing policies.

Hoosiers for Economic Growth chairman Fred Klipsch explained recently how his organization and several affiliated groups spent $ 4.4 million to push through the education policies that Indiana adopted in 2011, including a huge voucher program, expansion of charter schools and anti-union measures.

The policy solution that has garnered the most momentum to improve civics in recent years is a standard that requires high school students to pass the U.S. citizenship exam before graduation.6 According to this analysis, 17 states have taken this path.7 Yet, critics of a mandatory civics exam argue that the citizenship test does nothing to measure comprehension of the material8 and creates an additional barrier to high school graduation.9 Other states have adopted civics as a requirement for high school graduation, provided teachers with detailed civics curricula, offered community service as a graduation requirement, and increased the availability of Advance Placement (AP) U.S. government classes.10

Discounts on adoption fees are routinely offered based on the belief that they incentivize adoptions, and, to the extent a local or state government can create incentives through tax policy, there is reason to believe that such measures could positively affect decisions to adopt.

Article 4.2 states that the parties «shall adopt national policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change.»

The IEA strongly urges the government to adopt more ambitious policies and measures to encourage the use of sustainable dry wood and alternative heating technologies.

This policy brief highlights that under Millennium Development Goal 1, Asia - Pacific governments are committed to halving extreme poverty by 2015 and many have adopted poverty - related measures in national forestry policies and programs.

Requires the President to establish an interagency group to administer the program to provide developing countries with assistance from the United States to encourage widespread deployment of technologies that reduce GHG emissions and to encourage developing countries to adopt policies and measures that will reduce GHG emissions.

Among other things, for instance, the parties to the UNFCCC agreed that: (a) They would adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, (b) Developed countries should take the first steps to do this, and (c) Nations have common but differentiated responsibilities to prevent climate change, (d) Nations may not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking action, and (e) Nations should reduce their GHG emissions based upon «equity.»

This study considers the policies and strategies that were adopted to help manage the decline in employment.In particular, it focuses on two measures: the Mining Social Package and Special Privileges for Mining Communes.

Yet the less - developed countries, and emerging countries in particular, are not exempt from their own responsibilities with regard to creation, for the duty of gradually adopting effective environmental measures and policies is incumbent upon all.»

We will discuss below for each of these four areas mentioned above a number of key issues that require for policy attention and policy measures that might be adopted.

One of the reasons the world is now running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change is because fossil fuel companies and their allies in the US Congress has prevented the United States from taking serious action on climate change since 1992 when the George H. W Bush administration agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that the United States should adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference on climate change on the basis of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities.

In addition to the ethical problems with cost arguments identified above in response to questions one and two, this question is also designed to expose the fact that a nation that refuses to reduce its ghg emissions to its fair share of safe global emissions is violating promises it made under the UNFCCC to adopt» policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system.»

(a) They would adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system; (b) Developed countries should take the first steps to prevent dangerous climate change; (c) Nations have common but differentiated responsibilities to prevent climate change; (d) Nations may not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking action; and, (e) Nations should reduce their ghg emissions based upon «equity.»

Future demand for bioenergy will depend largely on the policy measures that will be adopted.

By projecting the renewable energy use for the years 2020 and 2030 and the associated resulting carbon dioxide emissions, the paper constructs through nonparametric analysis efficiency measures evaluating the different energy policy which can be adopted.

Policies adopted just since 2008 are now delivering China close to 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide (GtCO2) savings a year — nearly as much as the CO2 savings being achieved from the combined efficiency measures adopted by all the IEA countries since 2000.

The true value of such policy recommendations is to provide policy makers with a complete menu of policy options to start getting the prices right, and to impress upon them that, leaving aside the question of political feasibility, such measures can in fact be adopted in a reasonably short period of time.

A strong ethical case can be made that if nations have duties to limit their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions, a conclusion that follows both as a matter of ethics and justice and several international legal principles including, among others, the «no harm principle,» and promises nations made in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures required to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference with the climate system in accordance with equity and common but differentiated responsibilities, nations have a duty to clearly explain how their national ghg emissions reductions commitments arguably satisfy their ethical obligations to limit their ghg emissions to the nation's fair share of safe global emissions.

The resolution called for one panel discussion on identifying challenges and ways forward towards the realization of all human rights for all, including the right to development, in particular those in vulnerable situations, as well as the measures and best practices to promote and protect human rights that can be adopted by States in addressing the adverse effects of climate change on the full and effective enjoyment of human rights, and another panel discussion on how climate change has had an adverse impact on States» efforts to progressively realize the right to food, and policies, lessons learned and good practices.

Some nations including the United States have selected baseline years such as 2005 which represents the year of its peak emissions, 13 years after the United States agreed in the 1992 UNFCCC to adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous climate change that would return ghg emissions to levels that existed before 1992 by 2000.

The question is not only whether technology can help solve environmental sustainability challenges, but also what policies and measures are required to develop the right technologies and adopt them in time.

The AG solves the question on whether the ECB has therefore exceeded its powers by indirectly adopting economic policy measures by way of adding a condition to his final judgment, namely that no excess of power had taken place: The ECB must refrain from any direct involvement in the financial assistance programmes to which the OMT program is linked.

Moreover, even if one may acknowledge that, for the sake of having an impact on the market monetary policy, measures need to be published first by press release, there should still be a subsequent legal act which is properly adopted.

In 2008, after the outbreak of the financial crisis, the ECB first lowered the key interest rate and also adopted several non-standard policy measures such as providing unlimited liquidity to the Euro area banks at a fixed interest rate and against an adequate collateral and then extending the list of accepted collateral.

Fulfilling this precept, Article 80 determines that this policy is governed by the solidarity principle and by the share of the responsibilities between Member States, including in the financial plan, and if necessary, the acts adopted by the EU in executing it policy «shall contain appropriate measures to give effect to this principle».

In this regard, Canada should adopt measures to promote the active participation of indigenous women in the design and implementation of initiatives, programs and policies at all levels of government that are directed to indigenous women, as well as those that pertain to indigenous peoples more broadly.

Practice demonstrates that the legislator often opts for adopting the measure on a multitude of legal bases, even if the objectives are not inseparably linked and where the thrust of an agreement lies with one policy area.