Sentences with phrase «voluntary actions»

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

[3] This estimated was calculated by the UNFCCC Secretariat and documented in their Preliminary Assessment of pledges made by Annex 1 Parties and voluntary actions and policy goals by a number of non-Annex 1 Parties.

Regarding the proposal to make voluntary actions effectual, it would be a lot simpler to just to buy permits and not use them.

Aligning our new goal with climate science helps ensure the voluntary actions we are taking are meaningful.

However, when it comes to facilities / equipment and the government and commercial sectors (the majority of energy consumption), most energy analyses show absolutely astonishing levels of waste — so here, I am more inclined to want to look at policy rather than voluntary actions (unless the current trend to take voluntary steps really takes off).

The projects all mark important milestones in broadening the opportunities for farmers and landowners to participate in carbon markets, incentivizing adoption of voluntary actions to reduce emissions.

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

All of these voluntary actions that we can take that save us money, make us healthier, and they lower our carbon footprint.

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.

A supplementary judgement is as to whether any voluntary actions are going to be enough to reach long term sustainability without irreparably damaging the planet and ourselves in the process.

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

In contrast, efforts to reduce vehicle oil consumption were put in the deep freeze from the Reagan administration until the end of the George W. Bush administration and the approach to CO2 was limited to calls for voluntary actions — calls that went unneeded by the auto industry.

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.

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

We thank the emerging economies for their voluntary actions and especially appreciate the work and leadership of the europeans in this effort.

Researchers from the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna have been testing whether dogs show signs of prosocial behavior — voluntary actions that benefit others.

This comprehensive approach includes immediate and long - term steps such as: launching «Operation Classification» in the Bakken region to verify that crude oil is being properly classified; issuing safety advisories, alerts, emergency orders and regulatory updates; conducting special inspections; moving forward with a rulemaking to enhance tank car standards; and reaching agreement with railroad companies on a series of immediate voluntary actions they can take by reducing speeds, increasing inspections, using new brake technology and investing in first responder training.

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

«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.

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

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

Whether free will has some ontological reality or is entirely an illusion, as asserted forcefully by Wegner's masterful monograph, does not invalidate the observation that voluntary actions are usually accompanied by subjective, ephemeral feelings that are nonetheless as real as anything else to the person who experiences them.

It is interesting to know about the behavioral problems in toddlers that at the beginning they might be voluntary actions that later become a habit.

The move by the Premier League seems forced, something that will not have the symbolism or the impact of the voluntary actions of the people at Wembley Stadium earlier in the week.

The New Testament concerns itself exclusively with individual voluntary actions, not governmental requirements for the redistribution of wealth.

Moreover, all of this common knowledge of the so - called primary properties is based on measurements in terms of units: centimeter, gram, second, with operational definitions which are recipes for voluntary actions.

My final conclusion is that there is real satisfaction in a philosophy which can bring under a common viewpoint the vast body of secondary but verifiable knowledge of the external world which constitutes science, with its necessarily deterministic and probabilistic interpretations, and the primary but private knowledge which each of us has of his own stream of consciousness, more or less continually directed toward the finding of an acceptable course through the difficulties of the external world by means of voluntary actions.

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.

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

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.

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.

That in itself is a principle requiring debate, given the dilemma between facilitating more voluntary action and undermining its non-conditional moral basis.

Anyway, they added, there is no way that voluntary action could substitute for massively funded government programs.

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.

We always have voluntary action.

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

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.

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»?

Persuasion in this sense consists in communicating information about the advantages of a certain course of action to gain strength of beauty from natural consequences unmanipulated by the voluntary action of other people.

I give blood on a regular schedule, and while I've never had a bad reaction, it's still a voluntary action on my part partially because there is still a risk.

The main criticisms of the government's measures have largely centred on the voluntary action by the food and drink industry and the absence of any restrictions on junk food marketing and advertising.

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.

After 4 months of age, rooting becomes a voluntary action rather than a reflex.

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

But it won't be achieved without a drastic shift in the world's economic structures, That shift can't be made by voluntary action or market mechanisms alone, though both have a part to play.

I am certain that you know that Agenda 21 is not a voluntary action plan, has binding and legal authority, and is infringing on US -LSB-...]

The take - home lesson is that the brain has specific cortical circuits that, when triggered, are associated with sensations that arise in the course of wanting to initiate and then carry out a voluntary action.

We found that, even a second before executing a voluntary action, visual contrast sensitivity oscillates in the delta \ theta range, phase - locked with the forthcoming action.

We reported this to the Food Standards Agency, who have taken action to notify Cow & Gate of labelling requirements and issued the following statement: In light of advice from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition on the adverse effects of trans fats on the risk of coronary heart disease, the Agency welcomes the voluntary action by the UK food industry to reduce the levels of artificial trans fats in our foods.

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