Sentences with phrase «subnationals from»

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.»

Not exact matches

«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 development of legitimate state institutions at both national and subnational levels is critical, but often leaders of fragile states and international donors lack information about what the public want from those institutions.

A new paper from the U.S. Institute of Peace, which builds upon fieldwork from the past three years, argues that 2014 marks an important opportunity for donors to recalibrate three central tenets of their subnational governance and development strategy.

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

From the panels, speeches and joint agreements to the massive star - spangled pavilion, subnational leaders are loudly proclaiming their commitments.

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.

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.

«What California's resolve shows is that even if progress on climate change and clean energy is stymied at the level of global governance or the nation - state, the subnationals can still move ahead to build a critical mass from below,» he wrote.

The study covers 342 subnational and non-state actions by individual actors — of which 22 are from states, 58 from cities and 262 from companies headquartered in the US.

In order to achieve our goal of 7.8 billion trees, we will work with partners from all levels of society, integrate trees into all of our existing campaigns, and create coalitions with national and subnational governments, mayors, faith leaders, businesses, and civil society from all across the globe.

To ramp up their own ambition, these countries will benefit from seeing progress and ambition in the contributions of subnational actors.

It was produced by CDKN's project partners as part of the CDKN - ICLEI project on Subnational climate compatible development: learning from CDKN's experience.

INDCs apply to what happens after 2020, and the most interesting stuff in the 2015 - 2020 period might not come from within the UNFCCC, but from businesses, donors, and subnational initiatives.

From a scientific, economic and political perspective, REDD is a very complicated business that ratcheted up demand for the Rapid Response Team because many governments with critical and intact forest are now pursuing national or subnational level policies for REDD, often without the necessary tools, time and capacity.

In Marrakech, it was quite clear that there is a strong and supportive group of climate stakeholders, ranging from businesses and academic institutions to local and subnational governments.

Global Campaign for Localizing Climate Finance: With leadership from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA), the Global Campaign for Localizing Climate Finance will push for climate finance to reach local and subnational governments and look for ways to connect local action to the NDC Funding and Initiatives Navigator, a searchable database of financial and technical assistance programs that support implementation of national plans.

Though these type of events are often about speeches reiterating the alarming problems and bragging about commitments to change, Schwarzenegger plans to attend COP15 to speak on behalf of the «subnationals» with findings from this summit, praising the grassroots efforts of regional governments creating a green revolution.

U.S. subnationals — states, cities, companies and colleges — spoke out Saturday at COP23 in open rebellion against Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

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.