Sentences with phrase «step change in government»

What current atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration tells us about the need to stabilise the global climate and the need for a step change in government, city and business action.

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Far better, at least from the bank's point of view, is to have the government step in and re-level the playing field for everyone — providing, of course, the changes don't take too big a bite out of profits.

«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

Scientists have told an Australian government committee that the current strategy to protect the reef — the Reef 2050 Long - Term Sustainability Plan — is unachievable in light of recent mass bleaching events, especially since the plan doesn't include steps to counter climate change.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

A small step to change this culture is under way: ownership restrictions (the current range of 56 - 90 % government equity stakes in the state bank) will fall to 51 %, and below 50 % for one state bank.

We must do something to change it as soon as possible and I am doing my part by stepping up to the plate to run as a United Conservative Party candidate, under the strong leadership of Jason Kenney, to defeat the NDP government in 2019 and to put Alberta's economy back on track!

Kristen Wartman, also writing for Civil Eats, agrees with Lappé that the nutritional changes to Walmart's products are mere «health - washing» (the nutritional version of green - washing), and dismisses Walmart's promises to offer lower price fruits and vegetables by asking, «[W] hy can't the government step in and subsidize fruits and vegetables like they do the corn and soy that go into nearly every processed food item?»

The changes have been praised as a major step forward for the USDA, but some critics say the regulations still are wrapped in government red tape and make few concrete changes.

«Government and local authorities need to do more to ensure that care workers are supported in the vital work that they do — a small step towards this goal would be to make some of our recommended changes to the background systems they rely on and we stand by willing and ready to help in any way we can.»

«While government can not force people to change their behaviors — we can't legislate against eating Twinkies — we can take steps to encourage people to take better care of themselves,» Borough President James Oddo, who funded the equipment when he took office in 2014, said.

«Today's signing is a major step forward in restoring the people's trust in government and changing the way Albany does business,» he said in a statement that day.

It is my ambition to lead a government which takes the next steps in that process of change.

Enrollment at City Honors School has been lopsidedly white for years, prompting the federal government to step in recently and order changes in the admissions procedures to ensure that black students are not the victims of discrimination.

«The step - change that is needed in relation to children's mental health will not be possible without recognition from Government that schools and other services need the time, resources and funding which ensure that no child has their life blighted by mental ill health.»

It says the government is taking steps to tackle the problem in school but adds the key to large - scale improvement remains changing people's eating habits.

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has called on the government to step up its efforts against nuclear proliferation, comparing the issue in importance to climate change.

The change comes as Sir Bob Kerslake announced his plan to step down as head of the home civil service in the autumn and to retire as permanent secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government in February 2015.

«Students across our city deserve a safe learning environment, no matter what community they come from or where they attend school,» said Mark - Viverito, but like all her colleagues she refused to clarify what has suddenly changed that mandates the government now stepping in where it never has before.

Washington (CNN)-- The Democratic lawmaker taking the lead in crafting the Senate's financial regulatory reform bill has agreed to a key change that would limit taxpayers» exposure if the government must step in to wind down a large, failing financial institution, a key House Democrat said Thursday.

The only change in town government coming in 2012 will be current Trustee president Jill Doherty stepping in to Councilman Vincent Orlando's Town Board seat.

The state was on track to increase education and Medicaid spending by 13 percent each this year before the new governor stepped in, and he called on the Legislature to «change the culture» of a state government that has grown used to spending more every year.

A first step in the fightback is being taken by Greg Barker, the climate change minister, who writes in a Guardian article that the government will help drive down energy costs by prising open the energy market to challenge the «big six» suppliers.

Realization of the ERC demands that governments at the highest level be prepared to honour their political commitments, overcome their suspicions and lack of interest in changing the status quo, and take a bold step forward.

The 2030 cuts would be a key step on the road to the government's legally binding target of an 80 per cent cut by 2050, as set out in the 2008 Climate Change Act.

Stepping into that gap — at the request of the Danish government — will be the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, a collection of the world's top scientists and economists set to meet in Copenhagen in March 2009 to deliver an updated state of the science on global warming.

Evaluating Climate Policy The extended, step - by - step process by which governments established the WTO is only just starting in the field of climate change.

While U.S. EPA recently announced carbon reduction policies that will affect the coal industry and the Obama administration has issued new rules in 2012 to sharply raise fuel economy standards for automakers, among other steps, the federal government has yet to enact serious legislation to combat climate change's impact on infrastructure.

In other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.&raquIn other words, as external pressures on the teacher increase, due to changes in government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.&raquin government policy such as testing and changes in curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.&raquin curriculum, the need for those responsible for the running of schools to step up and show true leadership and support becomes ever more important.»

The report's authors, William B.P. Robson and Alexandre Laurin, says the government's recent change to RRIF rules are a step in the right direction, but don't go far enough.

Payday loans have been a fairly popular discussion in 2018, as the Government of Ontario changed laws lowering the cost of borrowing for these types of loans and the City of Hamilton stepped in to be the first municipality in Ontario to limit the number of payday loan locations.

In an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail on the heels of the Fed's monetary - policy decision Tuesday - in which the central bank took a small step back into re-investing some of its own balance sheet to ease monetary conditions - the influential bond manager gave a vote of confidence to the Fed's strategy, criticized the Obama administration and Congress for a their lack of innovation and leadership, and argued that unless big government - policy changes are made, the United States faces years of economic stagnatioIn an exclusive interview with The Globe and Mail on the heels of the Fed's monetary - policy decision Tuesday - in which the central bank took a small step back into re-investing some of its own balance sheet to ease monetary conditions - the influential bond manager gave a vote of confidence to the Fed's strategy, criticized the Obama administration and Congress for a their lack of innovation and leadership, and argued that unless big government - policy changes are made, the United States faces years of economic stagnatioin which the central bank took a small step back into re-investing some of its own balance sheet to ease monetary conditions - the influential bond manager gave a vote of confidence to the Fed's strategy, criticized the Obama administration and Congress for a their lack of innovation and leadership, and argued that unless big government - policy changes are made, the United States faces years of economic stagnation.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

Having the federal government step in and force change was necessary to prevent ruining the beautiful island.

This youth movement is encouraging — in true Rock the Vote fashion, the youth vote has got to step up in 2008 to make the election a true people's choice — and hopefully their voices will help push our recalcitrant government towards a real stand on climate change, renewable energy options, and growth of the green economy.

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But the ACF says the Government announcement of «a target of reducing Australia's emissions by 25 per cent by 2020 in the context of a Copenhagen agreement that has the effect of stabilising emissions at 450ppm or lower» is a «significant step forward on climate change».

Courageous judges in two courtrooms, separated by 9 time zones and more than 8000 km, ordered governments to step up their game to protect their citizens from the dangerous impacts of climate change.

Steps that federal and local governments have taken to reduce emissions and prepare for the impacts of climate change have been in the right direction, the draft report states.

Following a judgment by a Dutch court that the government must step up the fight against climate change, a prominent international lawyer recently proposed that the International Court of Justice rule on climate science so that the scientific disputes in this area can be settled.

To prevent incentive retractions when governments change, as the industry saw in Spain, any multiplier could be designed with an automatic step down mechanism based on megawatts of storage installed.

Seemingly in lock - step with the prevailing views of the conservative government in Australia, that man will be Nick Minchin — a rusted - on denier of the science of human - caused climate change and power broker in the country's Liberal (that's conservative) Party.

Germany's coalition government has decided to take a big step in fighting climate change by cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent in just by the year 2050.

The report, which was two years in the making, was intended to help the New York state government take steps now to get people out of harm's way — and factor climate change into long - term planning to protect transport, water and sewage systems.

This morning, Alberta's Minister of Environment and Parks and the Minister Responsible for the Climate Change Office, The Honourable Shannon Phillips, spoke in front of a packed plenary room at CanWEA 2016, announcing that the Alberta government is introducing the Renewable Electricity Act to legislate its target of 30 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 and announced that Alberta will be proceeding with a procurement of an initial 400 megawatts of renewable energy as a first step towards meeting the target.

As the federal government's most comprehensive assessment of the harmful impacts of climate change on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's required «endangerment» finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision supportchange on human health and public welfare in the United States, this report, years in the making, should have been used in developing EPA's required «endangerment» finding as a step toward regulating greenhouse gases, instead of keeping the work of the Climate Change Science Program disconnected from this decision supportChange Science Program disconnected from this decision support role.

In addition to the tax credits, there are two important additional steps the government can take to dramatically reduce carbon emissions through land use change.

UN Climate Change News, 8 May 2018 - In an effort to step up action to increase resilience to climate change impacts such as floods or droughts, experts and governments are convening 9 and 10 May in Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and repliChange News, 8 May 2018 - In an effort to step up action to increase resilience to climate change impacts such as floods or droughts, experts and governments are convening 9 and 10 May in Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replicateIn an effort to step up action to increase resilience to climate change impacts such as floods or droughts, experts and governments are convening 9 and 10 May in Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replichange impacts such as floods or droughts, experts and governments are convening 9 and 10 May in Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replicatein Bonn to discuss how successful adaptation in communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replicatein communities and ecosystems can be scaled up and replicated.

«In the two years since Paris, governments, companies, and communities around the world have stepped up to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address the risks they face from climate change.

I could imagine the next step in this comedy of CO2 Insanity might be that Christian Paradis, in a fit of emulation, might just think it a stellar idea to change his title to Canadian Reich Minister of Global Warming Propaganda to show what appears to be his rather obvious adoration of Joseph Goebbels «ability to control the media and emit propaganda to an unsuspecting public who still naïvely believe their government won't lie to them.