Sentences with phrase «voluntary plans for action»

Whereas in Copenhagen there was an effort to browbeat countries into accepting targets for reducing carbon emissions, Paris is about collecting voluntary plans for action drafted by individual countries.

Not exact matches

Open to all California wineries and vineyards as a voluntary option, CSWA's new program, Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing, requires applicants to meet 58 prerequisite criteria to be eligible for the program, assess winery and / or vineyard operations, create and implement an annual action plan and show improvement over time.

Open to all California wineries and vineyards as a voluntary option, CSWA's new program requires applicants to meet 58 prerequisite criteria that are among the 227 best management practices in the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Practices Self - Assessment Workbook to be eligible for the program, assess winery and / or vineyard operations, create and implement an annual action plan and show improvement over time.

Durham Public Schools eventually entered into a voluntary resolution agreement with the United States Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights outlining a plan of action to create a school environment that nurtured every child, regardless of English language ability.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

Boulder's Climate Action Plan tax is an excise tax upon electricity consumption for residential, commercial, or industrial customers that provides an exemption for voluntary purchases of utility provided wind power.

My comment is that I'm not sure how clear the legal restrictions are in light of voluntary affirmative actions cases like Weber and Johnson, which both provide for the permissibility of such race and gender AA plans under certain conditions.

NAR and its affiliate, the Institute for Real Estate Management, have stressed costs and the need to keep actions voluntary in comments they submitted on a draft government plan for combating airborne biological and related terrorist attacks.