Sentences with phrase «voluntary action»

I don't know of a good way to isolate and measure the effects of voluntary actions by local and regional institutions to address climate change, but they shouldn't be ignored.

«You can't get there with voluntary actions alone,» he said.

WHO has repeatedly advocated for voluntary action over stronger, regulatory measures.

Individual actions will play a huge role in this, but they won't be voluntary actions driven by the desire to do good.

The 1992 treaty calls for voluntary action to avoid «dangerous» human interference with the climate.

An interconnected voluntary action of global citizenship is the key to achieving the SDGs.

The Bali Action Plan formally listed REDD among other mitigation activities as a potential means to achieve emissions targets and encouraged voluntary action on REDD.

Yet his dismissal of the «common apprehension» that active powers play a role «in our complex ideas of natural substance» as they do in voluntary action «they being not, perhaps, so truly active powers as our hasty thoughts are apt to represent them,» is conspicuously hesitant, For what is the force (that is to say, the weakness) of «perhaps»?

Ford's commitment to cleaner trucks, and its resulting rise in our ranking, is proof positive that automakers can improve their pollution performance through voluntary action, although continued leadership is needed to maintain their edge.

As a result of the decision, the Connecticut State Legislature passed legislation in 1997 encouraging voluntary actions toward racial integration.

The good news is that by taking voluntary action now to measure, manage and reduce their impacts, there are huge opportunities for brands to stand out from the crowd.»

A different order of questions is raised when we move from boycotts and other voluntary actions to employing the coercive force of law.

If System 2 accepts what it's given, impressions and intuitions become beliefs, and impulses become voluntary actions.

An Accreditation and Leadership Award component based on voluntary action toward implementation will create trust - worthy standards and a universal sustainability language for the industry as a whole.

In other words a conscious voluntary action should be associated with a tendency for the potentials in the field to lead the potentials in the neurons.

Brashears said those suspensions were essentially voluntary actions by BPI taken after pathogens were discovered in its product by the lab working for the lunch program.

If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions.

I just don't see how voluntary actions alone will actual ensure the long term sustainability of ecologically sustainable development.

Economy - wide Measures to reduce other Greenhouse Gases: The Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies are taking actions to cut methane emissions from landfills, coal mining, agriculture, and oil and gas systems through cost - effective voluntary actions and common - sense standards.

With the promise of revenue from carbon offsets, a methane gas collection and control system at the Bi-County Municipal Landfill was built as a completely voluntary action.

According to the report «voluntary action remained a dominant force behind forest carbon credit transactions in North America.

We would like to thank the companies who have pioneered the development of forest carbon projects under our standard as well as those purchasing the offsets as an investment in the environment and to demonstrate voluntary action to reduce emissions,» said John Kadyszewski, director of ACR.

The Labor Senators in the Senate Economics Committee, having dedicated a whole chapter to the problems with the way the CPRS ignores voluntary action, concluded that «this must be adressed».

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), urged voluntary action by businesses and individuals to avoid catastrophic climate change: «It is going to require action today and tomorrow and everyone needs to get on board from governments and corporations to cities, regions and individuals.»

A new study found that the current voluntary actions are not enough, but that if they were supplemented with other actions, such as «restoring wetlands in marginal corn and soybean fields and within river and stream paths, [enhancing drainage ditches,] as well as reconnecting rivers with their floodplains,» they could be significantly more effective.

The list includes «Better Alternatives Now» (that's where the BAN acronym comes in)-- ways in which consumers, industry, and government can take voluntary action without waiting for technological fixes.

One of the recommendations intended to speed things up is for the food industry to «take broad, common, and urgent voluntary action to make substantial improvements» to marketing aimed at kids.

«Businesses» engagement in voluntary actions to reduce their impact on Earth's ecosystems can be an engine of positive change in two ways: it can be a source of new opportunities for business, and a means of preserving our natural assets for future generations,» states Jonathan Lash, President of World Resources Institute.

Cancun, a center for tourism, has proposed a plan to eliminate plastic bags, straws, and water bottles, initially through voluntary action.

First, it makes voluntary action to reduce emissions ineffectual, since this just lowers the cost of emissions permits (I thought this had been fixed by the changes announced in March, but I was wrong on this point).

As long as responsibility was primarily for voluntary actions, man must be seen as able, in a quite simple and direct sense, to do what he ought.

The Commission has been encouraging voluntary action by the industry to remove illegal content online through initiatives such as the Code of Conduct on Illegal Hate Speech Online and the EU Internet Forum.

Immediately, industry can take voluntary action; and, USEPA has to enforce existing regulations.

Breathing is unique in that it's an automatic response that can also be controlled with voluntary actions.

The government's measures, centred on the sugar tax announced by George Osborne in March, rely on voluntary action by the food and drink industry and are shorn of any restrictions on junk food marketing and advertising.

However, Kapur stresses that this doesn't mean that the device is reading your mind, since «silently speaking» is a voluntary action that the user makes.

Additionally, Facebook's voluntary actions won't govern the activities of the thousands of other companies that store, process, and transmit sensitive personal information with no oversight.

If you want to war on obsessive consumerism, I'm totally with you; if you go to church when you don't want to, that's a voluntary action unless you're a minor who's forced into it.

The Declaration does not specify how we are to strive toward that goal - whether through state policy, international initiatives, market dynamics, voluntary action, charity, or all of these combined.

The model we should be using is rather that of action which issues from free choice, the voluntary action of an intelligent agent.