Sentences with phrase «sustainability agenda for»

This internationally - agreed upon set of actionable, specific targets builds on the MDGs and sets the sustainability agenda for the next 15 years.

Bacardi actively participates, with other member companies, to drive the environmental sustainability agenda for the beverage sector.

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At the same time, it is obstructing any attempt to reverse the trends and to implement a global agenda for sustainability.

However, advances in environmentally - friendly building technology, coupled with a strong business case for sustainability, have effected a market shift that is pushing the environment up the agenda like -LSB-...]

Under her leadership, numerous reforms agenda of the Federal Government had been undertaken such as the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS), implementation of Treasury Single Account, implementation of Whistleblower Policy, establishment of an Efficiency Unit, establishment of Development Bank of Nigeria, launch of Asset Tracking and Management Project, and introduction Fiscal Sustainability Plans for States, among others.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

On the contrary, it ridiculed forty years of serious attempts to place the world on a sustainable development path and tried to change the direction established twenty years ago through Agenda 21; these attempts were made by redefining sustainable development from a narrow green economy perspective, by drowning the calls for equity, and by trying to slaughter the rights to sustainability.

The Peoples» Sustainability Treaties (PST) were initiated by civil society organizations to develop collective agreements for sustainable futures beyond Rio +20 and a post 2015 agenda of the multilateral system.

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The outcome statement of the Rio +20 Conference on Sustainable Development (2012) centred around ecological sustainability.2 If countries of the world are serious about the commitment made at Rio, then the MDGs need to evolve into a new framework; sustainability was not at their heart, and it is increasingly clear that without such an orientation, various «development» goals are impossible to meet for both the current and future generations.3 As the report of the UN System Task Team on the post-2015 development agenda says, «the proposed vision and framework for the post-2015 agenda must be fully aligned with that (Rio +20) outcome».4 Accordingly, the theme of sustainability should be running through all the post-2015 goals (as should the themes on equity and human rights), even as more specific environmental targets such as halting the erosion of biodiversity could be specified in one of the goals.

In the Sustainability and Social development Agenda, gender perspective and women rights are considered to be key to the eradication of poverty and hunger, and to the creation of the WORLD AND FUTURE THAT MUST BE CREATED FOR THE CARE OF PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS AND THE URGENT CARE OF THE PLANET.

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Tamara Azar joined NCTR in 2010 as Policy Director and is responsible for developing NCTR's policy agenda, advocating for policies that support and facilitate the development of high quality urban teacher residency programs, and supporting NCTR network partner programs to achieve scale and sustainability within the changing landscape of state and federal education teacher policy.

On today's program, Host Leslie Thatcher speaks to Park City School Board member, Julie Eihausen and communications manager Molley Miller who have update us on Tuesday's board meeting.Park City Manager Diane Foster and Economic Development Director Jonathan Weidenhammer to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting, including the revised drawings for a new affordable housing project Woodside Park and Erin Bragg, Summit County Sustainability Specialist has details on the Home Energy Score assessments that will be made available for 100 eligible homeowners.

Park City Manager Diane Foster and Environmental Sustainability Manager Luke Cartin discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting and review the Climate Reality Project's Leadership training they attended last week.

Then Park City Manager Diane Foster and Transportation Planning Manager Alfred Knotts will be in to discuss the agenda for Thursday's city council meeting followed by Kara Cody with the Sundance Institute and Park City Environmental Sustainability Manager Luke Cartin.

On the agenda are the significance of the Middle East as a source market for the Caribbean, his work with the World Travel & Tourism Council, and the importance of sustainability in the hospitality sector.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

The week - long conference was conceived at Rio +20 in 2012, to push for a global agenda centered on sustainability.

Across the Americas, Europe and Asia, senior executives gather to listen to expert speakers and network with their peers in electric power industry as they help set the agenda for energy policy and sustainability.

The concept of «sustainability» was an established part of the international agenda long before the IPCC produced an «unequivocal» consensus on climate; the IPCC was established to create a consensus for political ends.

The sports industry is increasingly placing sustainability at the heart of its agenda, presenting huge opportunities are being created for directly reducing emissions through sustainable technology innovation

Speaker after speaker stepped up to echo the view that now is the time for business to step up and really drive the sustainability agenda.

1:45 pm — 2:45 pm: Afternoon Keynote: Michael Shaw Agenda 21 and the U.N. Mandate for Social Revolution 2: 45 pm - 4:00 pm: Afternoon Panel: The Sustainability Agenda: Who Gains, Who Loses?

The UN's climate front is just a part of the overall UN «Agenda 21», which is the sustainability program and the biodiversity program... But the biggest one's the UN agenda for global governance.&Agenda 21», which is the sustainability program and the biodiversity program... But the biggest one's the UN agenda for global governance.&agenda for global governance.»

«Contributing to combating climate change and respecting planetary boundaries in the way we do business is a priority for us,» said Marie - Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs, Kering, «The Science Based Targets initiative is enabling the business community to set meaningful and measurable goals to ensure that we align with the 2 °C global agenda and Kering is proud that our own GHG reduction ambitions have been validated by the initiative.»

«William McDonough has not only created the language we use when we talk about sustainability, he is single handedly responsible for setting the modern green building movement in motion — from designing the first «green office» for the Environmental Defense Fund, serving as the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, establishing the Cradle to Cradle Certified ™ Products Program, and most recently, helping the World Economic Forum make sustainability a primary focus for their agenda,» said Michael J. Hanley, president of the Hanley Foundation.

It also seeks to contribute to media awareness and understanding of sustainability, as outlined by the Agenda 21 Plan of Action for all nations endorsed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

The sustainability agenda has created a virtual Inclosure Act for the 21st Century: as our dependence on land increases, so too has its value, but so to has our ability to access it has been reduced.

From getting grouchy over pay - as - you - throw trash metering, to concerns over what their Big Society agenda means for the fight against climate change, the party far from embracing sustainability whole heartedly.

Fashion for Sustainability was part exhibition, part open learning environment and gives a glimpse of a new agenda for fashion based on change.

Measuring green roofs impact on stormwater management, air, and water quality would especially allow cities to strategically allocate resources for the installation of green roofs and make them part of city sustainability agendas.

We celebrate effective altruism and activism that loosens the stranglehold of transnational corporations and sets the agenda for sustainability and a radically fairer future.

The Rio Declaration and its program for implementation, Agenda 21, identify the importance of a partnership approach, declaring that «States shall cooperate in a spirit of global partnership» 115 to achieve sustainability goals.

In The Australian (paywall) meanwhile, the issue of raising the Medicare levy to address sustainability issues was once again put on the agenda and Treasurer Scott Morrison was reported as warning that despite its popularity, Medicare could not become a «money pit» for taxpayer funds.

The Rio Declaration and its program for implementation, Agenda 21, identify the importance of a partnership approach, declaring that «States shall cooperate in a spirit of global partnership» (103) to achieve sustainability goals.