Sentences with phrase «trade justice advocates»

The letter echoes the demands trade justice advocates have long called for: transparent and democratic negotiations; strong and enforceable labour rights, including for migrant workers; protection of public services; enforceable environmental standards; and the right to regulate in the public's interest.

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The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade reTrade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade retrade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade retrade regime.

After college, my ideas turned into practice, and life marched on in a series of how to be the best possible Christian, with a social justice flair (eschew money, buy fair trade, advocate for social justice causes, create programs for the needy in my neighborhood).

Environmental justice advocates, who have long criticized cap and trade for its propensity to allow businesses to avoid reducing emissions at the source, praised the lack of an immediate link to international deforestation programs.

This report responds to a purported rebuttal of the Institute for Justice's research on interior design regulations and details how its author, an advocate of increased regulation, fails to provide any evidence of the need for or benefits from limiting entry to the trade.

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

While environmental justice advocates still oppose the cap - and - trade program, they fiercely defend the law itself.

To environmental justice advocates in Wilmington and elsewhere in the state, cap and trade sounds like cheating — as if California has given industries leeway to buy their way out of greening their operations.

States also appear to be free to adopt new new cap - and - trade schemes and carbon offsetting plans — both of which, according to many climate justice advocates, are ineffective tools biased toward industry.

LNS believes the CPP can be implemented in ways that maximize the gains for climate protection by constructing broad coalitions that include environmentalists, trade unions, and social justice advocates around common interest in protecting the climate and maximizing positive jobs impacts.

But it is also the case that the strongest advocates for environmental justice in California, who support the progressive use of cap - and trade - funds, typically are strongly sympathetic with global justice issues as well.

This provision was added at the behest of environmental - justice advocates who have long fretted that big refineries and other polluters (often situated in low - income areas) could simply evade making cuts under cap and trade by buying up permits instead.

Source: LeghDay Adviser to the EU's highest court gives opinion on trade ties between EU states and the people of Western Sahara European Union Court of Justice's Advocate General -LSB-...]

Geoff Steward, partner at Macfarlanes LLP says: «Advocate General Mengozzi's opinion on trade mark dilution in free - riding cases, if followed by the European Court of Justice, will sound the death knell on lookalike products.