Sentences with phrase «to meet one's pledges»

But for the past several years, scientists have warned that verifying whether countries meet their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions could be even harder.

The shift will help the country meet its pledge to cut greenhouse emissions, reduce local air pollution, and cut the risk of nuclear accidents, she says.

RM: This is simply meeting a pledge made under David Cameron but there is a lot of analysis suggesting it will not be enough, especially given the pressure that social care cuts are putting on the NHS.

That may supply 20 percent of the power to the city's Olympic venues, helping the country meet its pledge of a green Olympics.

Starting in 2023, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will implement reviews, called «stocktakes,» every five years to assess how countries are progressing toward meeting their pledges under the climate deal.

Last year, 32.6 % of the 5,617 general publishing projects launched met their pledge goals and were funded, and the category totaled almost $ 20,543,000 in pledges (down from $ 22 million raised in 2015).

Even if the so - called Clean Power Plan survives the legal gantlet, however, the United States will still fall short in meeting its pledged reductions for 2025 without significant additional efforts, according to researchers at the federal government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

It is meant to describe how the United States will lead by example and meet its pledge for cutting emissions...

Korea's newly announced ETS means it could meet its pledge if the cap is set tightly enough and the remaining open rules are set in the right way.

The United States has acceded to the Paris Agreement, but the country's current climate policies may not be enough to ensure the the emissions giant meets its pledged cuts by 2025.

Such a ban would certainly help President Emmanuel Macron meet his pledge to make France carbon neutral by 2050.

«The government must make the right choices for the future if it is to meet its pledges on ending child poverty, fair taxes and a welfare system that supports families properly.

My colleagues at the Migration Observatory and I have assessed the policies on offer to date, and concluded that they are not on course to meet the pledged target of «tens of thousands.»

Half a million public sector jobs are likely to go, but the Government met its pledge to increase spending on schools and the NHS in the spending review.

The U.S. is on course to nearly meet its pledge from the Copenhagen climate conference, according to a new analysis

After the U.S. Supreme Court last month ruled to delay implementation of Obama's Clean Power Plan on fighting emissions from power plants, new methane regulations could help Washington meet its pledges made in Paris.

«So my priority over the next few months will be making sure that other countries match our level of ambition in their own pledges, and they show how they will actually meet those pledges,» Canete continued.

In comparison, the United States will have a relatively easy time meeting the pledge made by President Obama.

And Ted Turner may not meet that pledge to the UN, you can only give away so much money before you have nothing left... and he does have a point though a bit hypocritical since he has 5 of his own children, the population is a bit out of control in this world.

Moving forward the Education Department and states should continue to work together to ensure that states will meet their pledged goals.

Both are using green bonds for projects required to meet pledges under the Paris Agreement.

DeConto's findings suggest that even if countries meet the pledges made as part of the UN climate agreements in Paris last year, global sea level could still rise 1 metre by 2100.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg says English primary schools may have «some difficulties» in meeting his pledge to provide free meals for under - sevens.

Our Green Deal, Green Investment Bank and our strategy for low - carbon energy production are the first steps in an ambitious programme to meet our pledge to be the greenest government ever.

Khan admitted that, like Livingstone, it would be «tough» for him to meet the pledge, particularly in the earlier part of his time in City Hall.

The historically slow pace of recovery means Osborne has failed to meet his pledge to eliminate the deficit by the end of the parliament.

However, it seems clear that the Deputy Prime Minister has failed to meet his pledge that the pupil premium would not be funded from within the schools budget - a clear case of robbing Michael to pay Liam.

Sen. Jeff Klein, the IDC's leader, emerged from that meeting pledging to help Cuomo pass «the strongest assault weapons ban in the country.»

In recent days, the Chancellor Phillip Hammond has hinted at a few of the measures he will announce on Budget Day to meet his pledge to build 300,000 homes a year — a more ambitious target than set by previous Governments.

And Corbyn has met his pledge of a 50 % female shadow cabinet.

Following pressure from Cabinet ministers led by Alistair Darling and Lord Mandelson, Mr Brown also seems to have accepted that Labour would have to cut public spending from next year in order to meet its pledge to halve the deficit in four years.

It would double clean energy research and development, bringing that amount to $ 7.7 billion, meeting a pledge the administration made during the Paris climate talks.

Chief among them is a lack of ground rules and the near - impossibility of policing whether governments are meeting their pledges, says Marion Vieweg of the climate modelling group Climate Analytics, in Potsdam, Germany.

Another danger is that carbon offsets could be counted twice, with both rich and developing nations using the same projects to meet their pledges.

Chief among them is a lack of ground rules and the near - impossibility to police whether governments are meeting their pledges, says Marion Vieweg of the non-profit climate modelling group Climate Analytics, based in Potsdam, Germany.

The application comes at a critical time for both teacher recruitment and apprenticeship creation, with education ministers under pressure to boost the number of trainees entering the profession and meet a pledge made by the prime minister during the general election campaign to generate three million apprenticeship starts over the course of this parliament.

Cameron did this to make sure he was able to meet his pledge to create 500 new free schools.

Only about 100 districts joined the initiative — out of the nation's more than 14,000 — and only a couple dozen said they met their pledge to replace one traditional textbook for one course with an OER alternative within one year.

«The new «ibis budget» brand delivers essential comfort at a modest price and will play an integral role in the overall Accor UK business, helping us to meet our pledge to increase our portfolio to 300 hotels by 2015.

Heart Machine and his team of skilled developers were able to meet their pledge goal and then some.

But the declines are too slow to meet the pledges that governments made in Paris (see «Climate shortfall»).»

«No major advanced industrialized country is on track to meet its pledges to control the greenhouse - gas emissions that cause climate change.

Airlines should meet their pledges by financing forest protection — providing an infusion of funding that will be critical to conserving the world's forests,» says Gustavo Silva - Chávez, a Program Manager at Forest Trends.

All major industrialized countries are failing to meet the pledges they made to cut greenhouse - gas emissions, warn David G. Victor and colleagues.

Countries are looking to renewable energy to meet the pledges they made as part of the UN climate accord last month in Paris.

Without that incentive, nations could see little reason to meet their pledges.

The Clean Power Plan is Obama's main mechanism for pushing the United States to meet its pledge under the Paris Agreement.