Sentences with phrase «various think tanks»

The alleged evidence for these theories seems to be selective misrepresentation of the funding sources for various think tanks which have taken a stance on climate change.

This nonsense goes back to 2003 (some background here, detailing M&M's co-operation with various think tanks, PR types and right - wing politicians):

He previously worked with various think tanks in Germany, India, Pakistan, and the UK, and has been a programme coordinator and research associate with Harvard University's Center for European Studies.

Not exact matches

Various academic and think tank studies have found that reductions in the small business tax rate disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals who incorporate their businesses in order to reduce their personal income tax burden, split income with family «shareholders» and avoid capital gains taxes.

Carol Lancaster, who teaches at Georgetown University, has worked on U.S. policy toward Africa as a fellow of various Washington think tanks, as deputy assistant secretary of state for Africa in the Carter administration, and as deputy administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Clinton administration.

The Organic Movement — under the lead of IFOAM — Organics International took up various think - tanking processes towards Organic 3.0.

It has various human rights centres in universities and think tanks.

The various Labour think tanks, pressure groups, and affiliated societies are also throwing their shoulders to the wheel.

«The various alternative tax options all highlight how complicated and difficult to implement they would be,» said E.J. McMahon of the fiscally conservative Empire Center think tank.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) claim their manifesto is ready but STRANEK as a think tank where policies and governance is pivotal of its establishment sees it as unfair to Ghanaians as they need enough time to understudy the manifestos of the various political in order to make good political decisions.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

The council, an independent and influential think tank based in the United Kingdom, released its report today evaluating various methods that could potentially allow women who have mitochondrial disease to bear healthy, genetically related children.

He has served as an adviser to various denialist think tanks and has spoken at denialist conferences.

FutureEd, a non-partisan think tank at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy, launched a new website on various education related topics including ESSA examination.

This blog from writer Michael Horn, a co-founder of the nonprofit think tank Innosight Institute, follows the various ways that technology is shaping education reform.

But Jonathan Simons, head of education at think tank Policy Exchange, told Schools Week: «It's the right thing to do, under the circumstances — the delay caused by various elections and the referendum and subsequent political changes meant that the timing would have been unreasonably tight.

Even though exceptional vehicle dynamics have always been a forte of these two mid-engine crackerjacks, the Weissach think tank pulled various strings «to get even closer to 10 out of 10 points.»

There were many other people who testified that day from AARP, its relatively new but strong foe AAWP (w - > Working), and various conservative and liberal think tanks, but no one said anything valuable that the Chief Actuary didn't already say: without changes to benefits or taxes (contributions, haha), payment skipping would become regular.

And that is precisely what various constituencies, from Inhofe to Cuccinelli and a host of think tanks, do not want.

Tax filings obtained by the Center For Public Integrity show that the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch donated a combined $ 24 million to various conservative organizations and think tanks in 2011, through the four foundations that they run.

Arnold is the executive vice president of the think tank the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, which has received funding from various conservative foundations and oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil.

And there isn't a lot of science being done on their side so they rely on ideological think tanks and journalists to promote and spread various messages about climate science.

Monckton has been widely described, by various contrarian think tanks and blogs, such as the Heartland Institute or Marc Morano's Climate Depot, as a «former science advisor» to Margaret Thatcher.

UCS was a leading force behind the proposed effort by the Justice Department and various Democratic Party state attorneys general to prosecute ExxonMobil, other fossil - fuel companies, researchers, and think tanks who have expressed doubts about the claim humans are driving dangerous climate change.

Then just last week, a panel of climate policy experts from various Chinese government think tanks, published an extensive 900 - page report that has gained notable attention in both the Chinese and Western press for advocating the notion that China can feasibly aim to peak its carbon emissions by 2030.

On Valentine's Day an anonymous source emailed documents to various journalists that were leaked from the Heartland Institute, a free - market think tank.

You have a privately funded think tank who are recieving approximately $ 7 - 8M a year from various private and corporate sources.

According to Kert Davies, the director of research for Greenpeace in the US, the Kochs have spent more than $ 50m since 1998 on «various front groups and think tanks who... oppose the consensus view that climate change is real, urgent and we have to do something about it».

Since this book is written by a sceptical French climatoligist who has no connection to the oil industry or the various liberterian think tanks and who claims indisputably, that the «greenhouse effect or global warming scenario is a myth» fostered on the general public by so called scientists, I would be very interested in hearing your rebuttal, because I am still in the process of forming an informed opinion.

Carine is a member of several scientific committees (including INTERSOL, relating to soil contamination and ATMOSF» AIR, relating to air issues), and is also involved in various environmental law working groups and think - tanks.

Indeed, if punitive damages did not raise much concern, it would be hard to understand why various entities have in re-cent years underwritten the activities of think tanks and academics interested in tort re-form.