Sentences with phrase «voluntary measures»

The policy - related aspects of the site predictably promote the administration's approach of relying on voluntary measures.
Some oil and gas companies have taken voluntary measures to reduce their methane emissions.
This administration refuses to consider any caps on CO2 other than recommending voluntary measures.
«This is a positive step by Facebook to take the lead to put in place the transparency requirements called for in the Honest Ads Act, but a patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't going to cut it — we need to pass the Honest Ads Act,» she said in a statement.
Mr. Bush set a policy that until 2012 would rely on voluntary measures by industries to slow growth in emissions of carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases.
While the court generally looks favorably upon voluntary measures such as mediation, counseling, parenting education, and other alternative dispute resolution techniques; there is no legal provision in Alabama that require either party to engage in such services prior to filing a complaint or receiving a judgment of divorce.
While the court generally looks favorably upon voluntary measures such as mediation, counseling, parenting education, and other alternative dispute resolution techniques; there is no legal provision in the District of Columbia that require either party to engage in such services prior to filing a complaint or receiving a final decree of divorce.
In a report published yesterday by the Prince of Wales's Corporate Leaders Group, leading businesses argued EU Member States must go beyond voluntary measures and legislate to make sure mass renovation actually happens.
Another co-sponsor of the bill, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, applauded Facebook on Friday for voluntarily complying with the bill's proposals, but added in a statement that «a patchwork of voluntary measures from tech companies isn't going to cut it.»
In the first year of the program, the vaccination rate among employees rose to 97.6 percent after lingering below 50 percent in most preceding years using voluntary measures.
For years, the federal government has encouraged Canadian companies to subscribe to voluntary measures collectively known as «corporate social responsibility,» or CSR.
«What I'm trying to do is help customers understand what these companies are doing, and encourage these companies to put in place voluntary measures,» Franken told me soon after dispatching the first letter.
But two, I have to take issue with the suggestion that the President has only put forward voluntary measures.
The industry's efforts to cut methane emissions might be laudable, but «voluntary measures just are not going to get us across the goal line here,» said Schneider.
The United States has attempted voluntary measures to prevent electrical blackouts for much of the past century.
Mr. Bush has called only for voluntary measures to slow growth in emissions through 2012.
Gore in 1992: «No government mandated requirements would be necessary of any kind, that we could all but meet the goal with purely voluntary measures»
But thus far, the ARB has decided to achieve reductions only through voluntary measures, which Newell argues allows the livestock industry to effectively continue with a business - as - usual approach to methane production.
For example, conduct may be non-serious, and may best be addressed by educational or voluntary measures aimed at practice improvements.
Jewell said the decision not to list the bi-state grouse should be «real encouraging» for other western states pursuing similar voluntary measures to ward off listing of the greater sage grouse in the plains states.
In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in...
Ontario's Environmental Commissioner has expressed concerns that decision - makers rely too heavily on voluntary measures and do not use the mandatory regulatory tools available to them.
It showed that 20 countries have enacted laws, decrees or other legal enforceable measures, 27 have enacted many of the Code's provisions as law, 21 countries have implemented the entire Code as a voluntary measure or as a national policy and another 22 are currently drafting regulations based on the International Code and Resolutions.
Campaigners for a ban are critical of the voluntary measures.
The research also noted that job losses are more due to natural wastage, non-filling of vacancies and voluntary measures, as opposed to compulsory redundancies.
Ms. Ospina said she was hoping that voluntary measures, like increased used of magnet schools, could solve the problem.
Oil and gas companies operating off Sakhalin Island have implemented some voluntary measures to reduce their impacts on gray whales, such as speed restrictions on their vessels (Anon.
The article demonstrates the voluntary measures adopted by industry to mitigate losses on internal rate...
Bush last year abandoned a campaign pledge to seek mandatory cuts in carbon dioxide emissions and instead has advocated a series of voluntary measures.
The voluntary measures put on the table at Paris by over 100 nations are a welcome step, but unless there are strong measures to reduce emissions beyond 2030, global emissions would remain at a high level, practically guaranteeing that young people inherit a climate running out of their control.
The voluntary measures the United States will propose will simply not achieve the necessary emissions reductions.
The 1992 Framework Convention is the mother treaty for the Kyoto Protocol, and the latter was agreed 1997 because it was accepted that the voluntary measures set out on the Convention had failed to have any appreciable effect on the growth of greenhouse gas emissions.
In a first of its kind collaboration, a coalition of leading environmental organizations and offshore wind developers has agreed to a series of voluntary measures that will protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales, while helping to expedite responsible offshore wind development, in the Mid-Atlantic.
47 Beyond these voluntary measures, the government - designed building codes, which set minimal standards for building energy efficiency, are highly effective.
The article demonstrates the voluntary measures adopted by industry to mitigate losses on internal rates of return due to carbon - based expenses.
Tradable certificates can also be used as a voluntary measure.
The reasonable worry about Japan's actions however is that moving away from a second commitment period for the protocol would signal a move from developed countries altogether away from a system of binding emissions cuts to one of voluntary measures only.
In the study, published today in Nature Climate Change, the team looked at 17 policies across three categories — passed legislation, proposed legislation, and potential or voluntary measures (state - level strategies, for example, that have not been formally proposed on a federal level, but that the nation might someday pursue)-- and used the most up to date measurements of energy use and emissions to estimate the likelihood of success.
It is noteworthy that this is also the mistaken fear that many came to after the Copenhagen climate summit last year ended in the creation of a political accord which does not bind parties to reducing emissions but only asks them to inscribe their voluntary measures in a pledge under the accord.
Attendees said there was little serious talk of government restrictions on content (which would present significant legal challenges), and the conversation focused on more robust age restrictions or voluntary measures that could be undertaken by the industry itself.
«The protection of American elections from foreign interference can not be left to voluntary measures by tech companies.
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