Sentences with word «subnational»

A specific case study was carried out at subnational level in France, where wheat was found to be more sensitive to overly wet conditions.

«The role of subnational governments is more important than ever, and California has shown that state and regional governments can institute policies that will grow the green economy, create jobs and clean our environment.»

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

These ranged from greater reliance on subnational government action to a sharp pivot to wind and solar energy and electric cars.

Public / Private Collaboration on Subnational Action on Climate Change Thursday, November 16th 13:00 - 14:15 Fiji Dome

Implicit in this concept is the idea that governing is performed by a very large coalition of actors involved not only in a national government, but in subnational governments, in foreign governments, in markets, in non-governmental organisations, in the media, in think tanks and so on.

The Talanoa Dialogue is a mechanism, established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to deliver and integrate the stories and actions of subnational actors into the formal Paris Agreement negotiation processes.

RFF experts are examining how states, regions, and other subnational jurisdictions are taking action to address climate change, both independent of and together with federal policy.

For anyone who's has the time, there's the full report (Science Policy: Considerations for Subnational Governments report) and its recommendations on gender and diversity, researcher mobility, alignment with federal support and programmes, science advice and evidence - based policy, and more.

Although the U.S. government has stepped away from climate leadership, many subnational leaders — governors, mayors, tribal statesmen, CEOs and university heads — have formed a coalition to uphold the U.S.'s Paris accord promise.

For methane in particular, sharing data as well as approaches for cost - effective regulation would aid subnational jurisdictions.

As the coordinating partner of the Sustainable Energy for All Building Efficiency Accelerator, we work directly with subnational governments to help them implement policies and projects to both improve buildings and save energy in their communities.

As a practical political matter, however, there is little precedent for states or other subnational bodies to invest in anything that might be considered broadly as foreign aid; such contributions are typically considered an aspect of foreign policy and are left to national governments.

Ecoterrorism.Eco - terrorism is defined by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as «the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against people or property by an environmentally oriented, subnational group for environmental - political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.»

The study «Wheat yield loss attributable to heat waves, drought and water excess at the global, national and subnational scales» was published in Environmental Research Letters earlier this month.

A U.S. subnational delegation committed to keeping America's Paris Climate Goals.

Her research interests include donor stabilisation programs, community - driven development, subnational governance, statebuilding, and countering violent extremism.

This analytical document provides an up - to - date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including national and subnational initiatives.

CCC's Sandee Recabar expounded on climate policies for local governments and the role of the Commission in support of them, as well as gave examples of subnational contributions given emerging directions of nationally determined contributions or efforts by each country to reduce national emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Though their functions are largely ceremonial, their titles are often centuries old and are usually vested in the members of historically prominent families in the various subnational kingdoms of the country.

Finally, subnational activities are a critical piece of emerging national frameworks for REDD + management and accounting.

I have also witnessed pats on the back for such initiatives as more legal aid money (from a cash - strapped government carrying the largest subnational debt in the Known Universe), more pamphlets, more e-filing, the re-purposing of the Shirley Dennison legacy to pay for an award for people who enhance A2J each year, and encouraging our First Nations people to make more use of (very useful) circles of healing.

However, over time subnational debt levels will increase in an unsustainable manner.

Many subnational government workers function as de facto federal bureaucrats.

Instead, they endorse a concept of postnational (global) citizenship and seek to shift authority to an institutional network of international organizations and subnational political actors not bound by any clear democratic, constitutional framework.

They should shift to a more restrained vision of subnational aid delivery that stresses predictability and reliability rather than maximal outputs.

Council tax is one of very few subnational revenue streams over which councils have any discretion — and even then accounts for barely a fifth of income in any council.

Brown and the governors of New York and Washington said they would establish a coalition of states committed to upholding the Paris accord, while 27 California state senators sent a letter to Brown, urging him to convene a climate summit with «like - minded states and subnationals from around the world, to ensure that we continue to charge ahead without forfeiting all of our historic progress to date.»

«Estimated internal human migration flows between subnational administrative units for every malaria endemic country in Africa.»

We will get more subnational governments on track towards 100 percent renewable energy through coalitions like our 100 % Renewable Energy Cities and Regions Network.

This new report by Forest Trends and IDESAM (Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável da Amazônia) shows that over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies and recommends that more finance should go directly to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies, in particular subnational governments, indigenous peoples, farmers and local communities of the Amazon.

• Asia — Adaptation is being facilitated in some areas through mainstreaming climate adaptation action into subnational development planning, early warning systems, integrated water resources management, agroforestry, and coastal reforestation of mangroves.

The alignment of subnational strategies with national policies and sustainable supply chains

Perhaps the most interesting moment of the prestigious event transpired late in the afternoon when one attendee asked, «How core is solving identity to expanding digital currency or solving some of the frictions in our existing system, and how do you foresee an identity world that's based on a national or — in the US's case — subnational system working or integrating in a global financial system?»

The concessions granted the Europeans (doubling the duty - free cheese quota, extending the patent protection period by two years to compensate for time elapsed during the approval process, opening subnational procurement markets above certain thresholds) indicate that Prime Minister Harper is prepared to tolerate some internal political heat in order to reach deals that bring overall economic benefit to the country — and political benefit to his government.

«Ontario is the largest subnational debtor in the world,» Oliver proclaimed from the comment pages of the Financial Post at the end of December, as if that (unsupported) fact carried profound meaning.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted rules, mandated by the Dodd - Frank Act, requiring resource companies to disclose certain payments made to the U.S. government or foreign governments (including subnational governments).

Depending on the issue agencies, private network or subnational entities should guide integration.

Julián López - Murcia is currently conducting his doctoral research at Oxford, which deals with the question of how to characterise and account for «recentralisation» in Colombia between central and lower levels of government from 1994 to 2014 and addresses a wider literature on subnational politics in Latin America.

Aid budgets are contracting, and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and other subnational civil - military installations — long key international platforms to distribute aid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing down.

For example, any attack on military targets is never terrorism, and only subnational or clandestine groups can be terrorists.

Year in, year out, human right reports from the state department of the United States of America and that of Amnesty International based in the United Kingdom have always identified the Nigeria police as notorious violators of human rights but sadly, because the presidency and other heads of subnational executive branch of government benefits from these abuses, the thirst for effectively changing the face of the police has remained elusive.

Now Trump's presidency has galvanized subnational leaders, who want to uphold the U.S.» Paris pledge to cut its emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

DEQ staff are beginning the study now and said Friday that they plan to start with the assumption that they would be linking markets with California, Quebec and other members of the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S. - Canadian subnational carbon - trading alliance.

According to one study,»Cause - specific mortality for 240 causes in China during 1990 - 2013: a systematic subnational analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013», Shanghai City had the highest life expectancy in China in 2013, at 80.2 for men and 85.2 for women.