Sentences with phrase «serious national commitment»

Klein points out that for some scientists and policymakers, dimming the sun or geoengineering the atmosphere seem more plausible approaches than undertaking a serious national commitment to solar and renewable energy.

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In regard to the decision - making process in matters of energy policy, the document calls for «a national commitment to anticipate serious threats posed by certain technologies to the quality of the community of life and to design appropriate energy policy.

It was one of several mentions of her commitment to national clean - water infrastructure — an issue familiar to Cohoes residents, whose neighbor across the Hudson, the city of Troy, has suffered serious breakdowns in its decaying water system in recent months.

The Long Now Foundation made a serious commitment to the final clock when, in 1999 — or, as foundation literature renders this and all other years, «01999» — it bought 180 acres of desert mountain land adjoining Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada.

There has been a serious setback in terms of following the path towards a commitment of 0.7 % of Gross National Income for ODA, that the government had promised for 2012 (and that the other political parties with parliamentary representation had supported, through the Spanish National Pact Against Poverty), The ODA estimates established in the plan for 2013 indicate that this year, we will fall to 0.20 %, a percentage which takes us back to 1990 and which is a great distance away from the agreed 0.7 %.

However, a clear understanding of how national emissions reductions commitments affect global climate change impacts requires an understanding of complex relationships between atmospheric ghg concentrations, likely global temperature changes in response to ghg atmospheric concentrations, rates of ghg emissions reductions over time and all of this requires making assumptions about how much CO2 from emissions will remain in the atmosphere, how sensitive the global climate change is to atmospheric ghg concentrations, and when the international community begins to get on a serious emissions reduction pathway guided by equity considerations.

Anniversaries are a good time for reflection and as we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the National Apology tomorrow, I hope we can use the momentum to achieve something we've never managed to realise before — a serious commitment to tackle unresolved and Intergenerational Trauma in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.