Sentences with phrase «voluntary pledges»

Although many food and beverage companies have taken voluntary pledges not to target children under 12 years old with certain marketing, teens are not included.

Before the conference began, attending nations submitted voluntary pledges for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and the numbers are clear — these plans leave us on track to exceed the 2 C «guardrail» by 2100.

The FCC chairman has floated a plan to replace the FCC's mandatory rules with voluntary pledges by Internet service providers, which would be policed not by his agency but by the Federal Trade Commission.

At the end of January 2018, the Lithuanian Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga announced the country would not introduce a tax on sugar but will work with food producers to reduce sugar, salt and fat through voluntary pledges.

A recent UNEP report shows that current voluntary pledges for emission reductions are far below the levels necessary to avert dangerous climate change, and could lead to a 5C rise in temperature.

Tuesday's U.S. voluntary pledge — known in UN-speak as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution — was initially tough to download via a Google Chrome browser, which some considered symbolic:

[91] The Cancún agreement, agreed in 2010, includes voluntary pledges made by 76 countries to control emissions.

In 2006, with pressure from the Council of Better Business Bureaus (BBB), which stated it was unethical to use cute mascots to promote unhealthy foods, 17 major corporations, General Mills and McDonald's among them, took voluntary pledges to reduce marketing their least - nutritious brands to children.

Brands including Coca - Cola, Procter & Gamble and Britvic have joined major UK supermarkets to launch a voluntary pledge to cut plastic packaging.

Kids won't spontaneous combust if other kids say a voluntary pledge of allegiance in school, either... but that seems to get some attention from folks.

What joins the Americans one to another is not a common nationality, race, or ancestry but their voluntary pledge to a shared work of both the moral and political imagination.

Developing this potential is vital for Brazil to meet new energy demands as well as its voluntary pledge to reduce its projected greenhouse gas emissions between 36.1 and 38.9 percent by 2020.

A working group made up of a small number of nations will now investigate ways to persuade countries to boost their voluntary pledges before 2020.

The Leaping Bunny Logo shows that a cosmetic or personal care company adheres to the Corporate Standard of Compassion for Animals, and is a voluntary pledge that companies make to not test on animals during any stage of production development.

The Leaping Bunny Logo certifies that a cosmetic or personal care company adheres to the Corporate Standard of Compassion for Animals, and is a voluntary pledge that companies make to not test on animals during any stage of production development.

earth domain is tied to a voluntary pledge to act as an ambassador of earth and do away with actions that harm it and its inhabitants.

If Japan now lowers its voluntary pledge under the Cancun agreement, that reduces ambition and credibility.

Those voluntary pledges would be wrapped into a larger pact that has some form of legal force.

The recent UNEP Emission Gap report (2014) has recognised India as being one of the countries on track to achieve the voluntary pledges.

It says this matches the fact that countries» voluntary pledges to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for 2030 associated with the Paris Agreement, represent reductions substantially smaller than those needed to stay below the Paris target of a global average temperature rise of below 2 °C.

Unfortunately, most participants here believe the climate talks are on a path toward a weak agreement composed of voluntary pledges and no mandatory commitments by developed countries responsible for most of the greenhouse gas emissions.