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Diane Wittenberg, Chair of California's Plug - in Vehicle Collaborative, concluded the discussion by noting «some of the most important regional efforts on climate change» and how «they've moved the dialogue and the action along.»

«A regional effort on both sides of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers is needed to strategically identify floodplain areas that could provide temporary water storage and policy incentives for landowners of low - lying lands to profitably invest in crops and income alternatives.»

Not exact matches

«The Coalition calls on all parties to focus their efforts in the same direction to defeat ISIS, which is our common enemy and the greatest threat to regional and worldwide peace and security.»

Indonesian Defence Minister Ryamizard Ryacudu on Friday said he had lobbied other ASEAN defence ministers to carry out maritime patrols in the South China Sea among efforts to improve regional security.

BRAZZAVILLE, April 19 (Reuters)- Congo Republic's current efforts to restructure its external debt will not affect multilateral creditors or holders of its Eurobond and regional bond, Prime Minister Clement Mouamba said in a statement late on Wednesday.

In more recent years, our advocacy efforts have also focused on regional issues, from our very public role in the 2015 transit and transportation plebiscite, to our work around Metro Vancouver's proposed Bylaw 280 and regional waste management, our longstanding calls for a mobile business licence program across Greater Vancouver, and our advocacy at all levels of government to invest in roads, bridges, and Pacific Gateway trade infrastructure across the region.

In conjunction with our localization efforts, we have added on - the - ground regional teams and increased our country and regional specific marketing spend.

Meanwhile, the World and National councils of churches, myriad regional and local councils, the many bilateral conversations, and unity efforts like the Consultation on Church Union have continued to do their work largely out of the public eye except for occasional moments of media - orchestrated controversy.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, the wine community joined together to create the Sustainable Winegrowing Program, administered by the California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance.

Discussions with executives at several national and regional baking companies pointed to an increased focus on innovation and stepped - up marketing efforts.

Inputs can be developed internally or at worst sourced on a regional basis in an effort to create a sustainable scenario.

ASEAN nations have since redoubled efforts to better manage domestic food supplies and shore up regional arrangements to share information with one another on cross-country stocks and prospects as well as curb volatility in rice and food prices.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, including the first five viticulture chapters of the Lodi Winegrower's Workbook, the Code was first published in 2002 to help all California vintners and growers continuously improve and adopt sustainable practices.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, the wine community joined together to create the Sustainable Winegrowing Program.

Building on major trends and successful regional efforts, Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) launched the SWP in 2002 to give growers and vintners educational tools to increase adoption of sustainable practices and to measure and demonstrate ongoing improvement.

STONE SMARTT: The Del Oro - Loomis senior QB remained delivered a 4 - TD effort in the Golden Eagles» NorCal regional win on Dec. 3.

The local press have picked up on us in the past but we prefer to focus on a broader reach — as our audience are UK and world - wide and often the effort that goes into a regional story is the same as for a national one.

We've talked before on The Lunch Tray about efforts by school districts to source at least some of their produce from local or regional producers.

Judith Enck, a former regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who is working with Bennington College on the informal survey, welcomed the additional efforts by the state and characterized the timing of the agency's announcement on Tuesday as «curious.»

The President of ECOWAS Commission, Mr Jean Brou, has called for collaborative efforts among member states, to address issues bordering on regional peace and...

Cuomo, meanwhile, touted on Wednesday the regional economic development plans, which he framed as an effort to give more control to local officials, even as the awards themselves are determined by the state.

A coalition of statewide and regional business groups on Wednesday formed a coalition to formally oppose efforts to increase the minimum wage.

The Assembly Minority Task Force on Heroin Addiction and Community Response held a regional forum aimed at identifying problems and weaknesses in current efforts to combat the rampant heroin epidemic.

Is an effort by Suffolk County to tie funding for certain projects to attendance at a quarterly regional planning meeting an effort to get everyone on the same page, or strong arming by big government?

Cuomo already has pushed back on efforts to change how the regional councils work.

While they may disagree on many policy issues Miner and DeFrancisco agreed on the need to invest in aging infrastructure such as pipes and roads and faulted Cuomo's efforts to boost the upstate economy, which include tax breaks for start - up companies and competitive regional economic development awards.

As part of efforts to clinch as many seats as possible, in the Greater Accra region, the regional executives have embarked on a tour of all 34 constituencies in the region to join the party's candidates in their door - to - door campaigns.

State and federal investigations that threaten to ensnare SUNY Polytechnic Institute already are having an impact on regional economic development efforts and the photonics initiative that the institution is charged with leading.

The Governor warned against a pre-empt of the outcome of on going investigation, saying it will be prejudicial to the efforts of the law enforcement agencies, he however expressed confidence that the crisis is not an inter-ethnic, inter religious or inter regional conflict.

While much of this discrepancy can be explained with reference to society's established power structures and imbalances, we'd like to see more of an effort made on the Committee side to bring about, where possible, a greater degree of gender and regional parity.

The GOP chairman is making an effort to attend all six of Cuomo's State of the State regional addresses being given today in Westchester and on Long Island.

«SUNY Poly's narrowly focused on some very high - profile tech projects, but for someone to say economic development, broadly speaking, has been turned over to to someone at SUNY Poly is just incorrect,» Mr. Zemsky said, citing the governor's efforts to involve regional officials in economic planning and to spread state funds across thousands of smaller economic development projects.

«Our efforts have focused on regional development strategies across the state and we want the opportunity to lay out regional accomplishments, goals and challenges.

The Department of Environment and Planning leads the County's economic development efforts, oversees environmental compliance, collaborates on local and regional planning, provides digital mapping services, and provides wastewaster treatment services in seven sewer districts across the county.

UKIP are highly unlikely to win any constituency seats, and it is clear that the party is focusing its efforts on winning regional seats.

Participants heard plenary framing presentations on five topics including the Governor's recent regional economic development initiative and experience with it to date, past and current efforts to do regional planning in the Hudson Valley and regional approaches to business and tourism.

He also helped facilitate a regional IDA marketing campaign with seven local IDAs, and he helped organize an effort in Western New York to oppose a controversial tax on IDAs.

The fire was discovered at about 1:15 p.m. on Thursday behind Nice Pak Products along Greenbush Road and firefighting efforts soon scaled up to become a regional effort that included volunteers from throughout Rockland County and received aid from fighters from Westchester, Bergen and West Point.

The effort is part of a broader initiative to grow the regional economy by identifying the city's strengths and capitalizing on them, says Michael Contaldo of New Economy Manchester — an organization created to help Greater Manchester's economy grow.

On Saturday Brown will sit on a panel about regional and local efforts to uphold U.S. Paris goalOn Saturday Brown will sit on a panel about regional and local efforts to uphold U.S. Paris goalon a panel about regional and local efforts to uphold U.S. Paris goals.

These new instruments in EU research funding foster coordinated efforts between the EU and its Member States» national and regional programmes, are highly ambitious, and rely on cooperation among a range of disciplines, communities and programmes — requiring support for up to 10 years.

Through regional networks in the U.S. like the Pediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) Network and Project Cure, and international organizations such as the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) and TREAT - NMD, the SMA community has collaborated effectively on recruiting patients, establishing standards of care, standardizing outcome measures, and supporting multi-site clinical efforts, such as the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) and the PNCR Network Natural History studies.

UNC Lineberger researchers Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, and Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, called for tailored, local - level cancer prevention, screening and treatment efforts to address regional disparities in cancer mortality rates in an editorial published in JAMA on Tuesday.

Sept. 29, 2017 - Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 on Tuesday presented Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with a regional - level award for significant efforts in reducing waste.

A longtime corporate supporter of national school - reform efforts has announced plans to focus its grantmaking exclusively on regional education initiatives.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

To support regional capacity - building efforts to better serve the state's ELs, Icela became one of the state's only WIDA - certified trainers on the English language proficiency standards and assessments.

She continues to focus her efforts on school transformation, social justice, and equity through her work as regional director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.

In face of the government's ambitious plans for «coasting schools», fleshed out in some more detail in today's Queens» Speech, regional school commissioners are focusing their efforts on persuading individual academy heads to rise to the challenge through forming a Multi-Academy or Umbrella Trust.

After a brief mention from Dunn about the on - going work of Charter Schools Now, the 501 (c)(4), Veronica Garcia, the Vice President of Government and Public Affairs, gave an overview of TCSA's advocacy efforts including city - based regional grassroots coalitions, legislative engagement, parent / advocate trainings, and communications.