Sentences with phrase «sustainable national development»

This study investigated strategies of financing universal basic education for sustainable national development by school managers in North - Central Zone, Nigeria.

Specifically the purpose was to determine the relationship between commercial based income and sustainable national development as well as to examine the relationship between agricultural...

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General Fusion has also received funding from the Canadian government's Sustainable Development Technology fund (SDTC) and Cenovus Energy, in addition to scoring a research partnership with one of the U.S.'s leading scientific centres, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Jim Lopez, President and CEO, Tembec John Lounds, President and CEO, Nature Conservancy of Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President, Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Vicky Sharpe, Founding President and CEO, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Annette Verschuren, Chair and CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Robert Wesseling, President and CEO, The Co-operators Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

Greenchip Renewal Partners International Institute for Sustainable Development Responsible Investment Association Équiterre Nature Canada Greenpeace Canada SHARE Canada Forest Products Association of Canada Canadian Business for Social Responsibility Canadian Urban Transit Association Clean50 Climate Smart Business Genus Capital JCM Power Corporate Knights Toronto Atmospheric Fund The Asthma Society of Canada Bullfrog Power NEI Investments Sitka Foundation Alterra Power Corp. 20/20 Catalysts Program Renewable Cities VanCity Canadian Solar Industries Association Anglican Church of Canada Blue Green Canada Network for Business Sustainability Canadian Wind Energy Association Canada Quebec Employers Council Dunsky Energy Consulting NAIMA Canada Alliance québécoise de l'efficacité énergétique Marmott Énergies Biothermica Association québécoise de la production d'énergie renouvelable Enerkem Canadian Labour Congress Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada Plug» nDrive Regroupement national des conseils régionaux de l'environnement Business Council of Canada Sustainalytics Sustainability CoLab Écotech Québec National Union of Public and General Employees Insurance Bureau of Canada Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Ironnational des conseils régionaux de l'environnement Business Council of Canada Sustainalytics Sustainability CoLab Écotech Québec National Union of Public and General Employees Insurance Bureau of Canada Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources IronNational Union of Public and General Employees Insurance Bureau of Canada Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources Iron & Earth

Michael McSweeney, President and CEO, Cement Association of Canada Andrée - Lise Méthot, Founder and Managing Partner, Cycle Capital Management Lorraine Mitchelmore, co-Chair, Smart Prosperity; former President and Canada Country Chair, Shell Canada David Miller, President and CEO, WWF — Canada; Former Mayor, City of Toronto Joe Nemeth, President and CEO, Catalyst Paper Corporation Ken Neumann, Canadian National Director, United Steelworkers Derek Nighbor, CEO, Forests Products Association of Canada Robert Niven, Founder and CEO, CarbonCure Technologies Merrell - Ann Phare, Founding Executive Director, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources John Risley, Co-Founder, Chairman and President, Clearwater Fine Foods Peter Robinson, CEO, David Suzuki Foundation Ron Seftel, CEO, Bullfrog Power Vicky Sharpe, Founding President, Sustainable Development Technology Canada Jean Simard, President, Aluminum Association of Canada; co-Founder and Director, SWITCH Scott Skinner, Executive Director, Clean Foundation Merran Smith, Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada Rick Smith, Executive Director, Broadbent Institute John Stackhouse, Senior Vice-President, Office of the CEO, Royal Bank of Canada Kali Taylor, Founding Executive Director, Student Energy Ilse Treunicht, CEO, MaRS Discovery District Scott Vaughan, President and CEO, International Institute for Sustainable Development Annette Verschuren, CEO, NRStor; co-Chair, Smart Prosperity Galen Weston, President and Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd..

In the information revolution, the most immediate challenge for national governments and the international community is the insight that the use of Information - Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development will not be determined by technological developments but by political decisions.

The most immediate challenge for national governments and the international community is the insight that the use of ICTs for sustainable development will not be determined by technological developments but by political decisions.

Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development published a final report last month on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, after five years of experiments and studies.

Decisions were adopted on the target to achieve LDN, how to align the UNCCD's goals and parties» action programmes with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), on effective implementation of the Convention at national, subregional and regional levels and linking scientific knowledge with decision making.

Agri - TNCs Network - Philippines, MASIPAG (Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag - unlad ng Agrikultura), KMP (Kilusang Mangbubukid ng Pilipinas), PNSFP (Philippine Network for Food Security Programs), SIBAT (Sibol ng Agham at Teknolohiya), HEAD (Health action for Democracy), PAN Phils (Pesticide Action Network - Phils, TFIP (Philippine Task Force for Indigenous Peoples Rights), CENDI (Community Entrepreneur Development Institute), SRD (Center for Sustainable Rural Development), Vietnam, SPFT (Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand), AGRA (Alliance of Agrarian Reform Movement), SERUNI National Women's Alliance, Indonesia, NWFA (National Women Farmers and Workers Association), BAFLF (Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation), SHISUK (Shikha Shastha Unnayan Karzakram), Bangladesh, APVUU (Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Vruthidarula Union), ORRISSA (Organization for Rural Reconstruction and Integrated Social Services Activities), CREATE, India THANAL, India, Save Our Rice Network, India, PAN-INDIA (Pesticide Action Network - India), India, GRAIN, PAN-AP (Pesticide Action Network - Asia Pacific), APC (Asian Peasants Coalition), Consumers Union of Japan, Women's Development Federation WELIGEPOLA, MONLAR, Sri Lanka

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

In a video message Laudemir André Muller, Minister for Agrarian Development, Brazil, talked about a set of public policies for a more sustainable production model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and healDevelopment, Brazil, talked about a set of public policies for a more sustainable production model, in particular the National Plan on Agroecology and Organic Production, designed for rural development and healdevelopment and healthier food.

The Australian Government has committed to halving food waste by 2030 (consistent with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals), and the strategy is expected to be released at the national food waste summit being held in Melbourne on 20 November 2017.

On September 16, 2015, in alignment with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), EPA and the USDA announced the first ever domestic national goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

BPNI coordinates and facilitates the education and training of grassroots personnel in health and nutrition sector and private hospitals through skilled counseling as a sustainable support to mother - baby dyads.Our training alliances include National Health Mission (NHM) and Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS).

«Crossrail will facilitate the continued sustainable development of London's primary finance and business service activities, located in both the City and Docklands and support local and national Government policy for economic development and regeneration, particularly in the Lee Valley and Thames Gateway areas.»

Labour should commit to including sustainable development in the national curriculum, a senior backbencher says

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

The workshop was themed, «Entrepreneurship Chemistry: A Tool For Sustainable National Economic Growth and Development».

Ghana's annual space exploration expenditure has been 1 % of its gross domestic product (GDP) for support research in science and technology and in 2012 Ghana was elected to chairman the Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (Comsats) and Ghana has a joint effort in space exploration with South Africa's South African National Space Agency (SANSA).

Dr Shirvani, an Austrian and Iranian national, is an engineer by training and has earned her Ph.D. in Fuel and Vehicle Technologies from the University of Oxford and her Master's degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.

Other include: the New Progressive Movement, Nigeria Democratic Congress Party, People's Alliance for National Development and Liberty, People's Trust, Providence People's Congress, Re-Build Nigeria Party, Restoration Party of Nigeria and Sustainable National Party

Labour should commit to including sustainable development in the national curriculum, a senior backbencher has said.

The Conference will also feature discussion on major issues that have direct bearing on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), poverty alleviation through Tourism and the linkage between Tourism peace at the National and International levels.

One of the key ways of doing this is by including within the new National Planning Policy Framework a presumption in favour of sustainable development.

[2] Western New York Sustainable Business Roundtable members include companies as large as General Motors, Rich Products, National Grid, Purina, and Uniland Development and as small as Community Beer Works, Elm Street Bakery and Block Club.

«Today's event marks another important chapter in the national quest for accurate and reliable demographic date for evidence based planning for sustainable development.

Promotion of development through an overhaul of the planning system through the National Planning Policy Framework - CIHT acknowledge the need to simplify planning policy and process; however we wait to see what the new Framework will deliver on the principles of sustainable transport

Others include: Legacy Party of Nigeria, Mass Action Joint Alliance, Modern Democratic Party, National Interest Party, National Rescue Mission, New Progressives Movement, Nigeria Democratic Congress Party, People's Alliance for National Development and Liberty, People's Trust, Providence People's Congress, Re-Build Nigeria Party, Restoration Party of Nigeria and Sustainable National Party.

Coordinator of Post Graduates Programme of the Faculty of Education at the University for Development Studies (UDS), Dr. Ibrahim M. Gunu, has dismissed suggestions by some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), that the free Senior High School programme may collapse within five years, if a sustainable plan is not put in place.

Finance Minister, Hon Seth Terkper who was also present at the function underscored the importance of a viable and sustainable scheme and drew a correlation between a healthy population and national development.

The groups are; Centre for Strategy, Ethics and Value, Northern Socio - Cultural Initiative, Committee of National Patriot and Africa Initiative for Sustainable and Positive Development.

He intimated the Council that in its effort to align and deliver on Agenda 2063 and its first 10 - year implementation, Nigeria had mainstreamed the Agenda along with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) into its national planning process.

The authors reflect on the right of developing countries to science and technology, and advocate for approaches that make micro-macro linkages and ensure individual and national rights to science, technology, and sustainable development.

«The idea of net negative emissions by 2050 is not credible right now,» says Guido Schmidt - Traub, executive director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which is working on plans to eliminate CO2 in national economies.

Until 2001, she worked at the NationalAcademies» National Research Council over a 17 - year period, serving in several capacities — Executive Director of the Board on Sustainable Development, where she directed the Sustainability Transition Study and the Global Change Research Program; director of international organization programs for the Office of International Affairs; and Director of the Polar Research Board.

In short, we have arrived at a point where the challenges of sustainable development — including public health, infrastructure, energy and national security — require changes not only to policy but also to basic public management systems.

Good examples are the Estonian Biocentre in Tartu, the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics in Tallinn, and the Estonian Institute for Sustainable Development.

Those are four key ingredients in Brazil's recipe for combatting global warming over the next 15 years, according to a new national plan unveiled on 27 September at the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Summit in New York City.

Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development (ENEA) Casaccia Research Center, Via Anguillarese 301, 00123 Roma, Italy.

«If countries wish to break the poverty cycle and achieve (post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals), they will have to set up ambitious national minimum target investments for STI, including special allotments for the promotion of basic science and science education and literacy.»

Tissue collections have also been destroyed elsewhere, including from experiments done at Hiroshima University in Japan, the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development's research centre in Casaccia and the UK Medical Research Council's complex in Harwell.

Welcome: Ferenc Friedler (vice president, National Research, Development and Innovation Office, Hungary) Part A. IPBES in the Sustainable Development Agenda Thomas Koetz (IPBES Secretariat): IPBES: key functions, structures and an overview of its work programme Ivar Baste (IPBES Bureau): IPBES in the broader international governance landscape followed by a panel discussion with the two speakers and Jacqueline McGlade (UNEP chief scientist).

Reversing the effects of land degradation and desertification through sustainable land management (SLM) is not only achievable; it is the logical, cost - effective next step for national and international development agendas.

Next to performing Joint Transnational Calls and assessment of the funding mechanisms and results of the funded research projects the E-Rare-1 and E-Rare-2 programmes paid attention to deepening the cooperation and coordination among the E-Rare partners by systematic exchange of information on the national programmes and by strategic activities aimed at a sustainable development and extension of the network of rare disease research funders.

Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is the nation's lead laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment and is engaged in the mission of ensuring the nation's energy security with safe, competitive and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabNational Laboratory (INL) is the nation's lead laboratory for nuclear energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment and is engaged in the mission of ensuring the nation's energy security with safe, competitive and sustainable energy systems and unique national and homeland security capabnational and homeland security capabilities.

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