Sentences with phrase «sub-national governments at every level»

To move this leadership forward, Alberta is also hosting the Cities & Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, as part of the CitiesIPCC campaign led by C40 and ICLEI, to ask the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to focus on the active role of cities — and per extension, of sub-national governments at every level — on tackling climate change.

Not exact matches

Which is the other problem with continual red ink in Ottawa beyond just the problem of continual red ink in Ottawa: It promotes bloated government at the sub-national level.

Grants Canadian suppliers predictable and secure access to government procurement contracts within new markets in the TPP, namely Australia, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam and expands market access at the sub-national level with existing free - trade - agreement partners, Chile and Peru.

The Local Government minister nominee, Hajia Alima Mahama, indicated that the termination of the appointments of all MMDCEs was to ensure a uniformity of vision at the national and sub-national level.

At the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, MexicAt the high level conference organised on the side of to the UNFCCC negotiating session in Bonn, Germany, co-hosted by the government of North - Rhine Westphalia and The Climate Group, the States and Regions called for bold action to progress the UN negotiations, highlighted the core role of sub-national governments in global climate action as well as confirmed their own commitments to climate action and to reporting back on their progress at COP 16 in Cancun, Mexicat COP 16 in Cancun, Mexico.

The principle audience for this publication is the decision - maker at the national and sub-national levels, as well as domestic and international experts involved in assisting governments in establishing institutions and frameworks to support the management and delivery of climate finance.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

Both schemes show a desire for climate action in the US at the sub-national level which the national government has so far struggled to match.

Because principles of distributive justice require that differences in allocations from equal per capita shares to use the atmosphere be justified on the basis of morally relevant criteria, at a minimum, sub-national governments and groups should be required to explain how their emissions levels are just if they assert that they are already below what justice requires of them.