Sentences with phrase «voluntary schemes for»

Review by Ruth DeFries and colleagues assesses voluntary schemes for tropical commodities like coffee, bananas and tea

In 2014, the governments of Australia and New Zealand started to implement a Health Star Rating (HSR) system as a voluntary scheme for industry adoption.

Not exact matches

A new voluntary star rating scheme to estimate the greenhouse emissions of buildings has been proposed for WA by the Office of Energy.

Second, while NCOS offers guidelines for voluntary trading, there is no guarantee that the scheme will take off.

Linked to the voluntary Smart Meal Seal Programme (a point - of - purchase labelling scheme for healthy options), the Colorado Department of Health provides nutrition training for catering managers in participating restaurants and canteens to encourage the development of healthier options that meet nutritional standards.

A few months ago I told you about a voluntary scheme created by the Council for Better Business Bureaus under which major food manufacturers promise to either devote 100 % of their child - directed advertising to «better - for - you» foods, or to not engage... [Continue reading]

Unlike government schemes the Islwyn Work Experience Programme is entirely voluntary with applicants receiving additional help from Job Centre Plus to continue looking for permanent work [18] It was launched alongside local businesses at a media event at the Crosskeys campus of Coleg Gwent.

These include: · Restricting trade hours of on - licence venues to limit the availability of alcohol in the early hours of the morning · Enhancing community involvement, better facilitating the engagement of local residents with licensing systems · Adding / prioritising public health and / or harm minimisation objectives in alcohol legislation · Restricting the sales of high risk products in areas of concern; and · Deprioritising government support for industry voluntary schemes in place of policies supported by evidence.

The Federal Government got a commendation at the weekend over its voluntary income declaration scheme as Executive Chairman of the Lagos Inland Revenue Service (LIRS), Mr. Ayodele Zubair, described the Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme (VAIDS) as the last chance for tax offenders to redeem themselves.

When asked if Nigerians are ready for voluntary assets declaration, Mr. Zubair said a lot of people have started showing interest and trust in the scheme, which offers confidentiality and expressed belief that the sincerity of the government will arouse greater confidence in the scheme among Nigerians.

The source said the company introduced the voluntary severance scheme, VSS, to provide a window for one week in April, for persons who have served in MTN for five years and above to take up.

Mr Pickles said that at a similar scheme for driving licenses started as voluntary but was eventually made compulsory across the union.

However, opportunities exist for voluntary carbon market schemes.

But the numbers which reveal the development over 11 years show that the voluntary scheme is ineffective and has serious consequences for the fetuses.

It is a voluntary retirement scheme set up by the government through which one can save for his / her old age pension and / or create a retirement corpus.

For him, that means encouraging Canadians to put more money into pooled retirement plans, or tax - free savings accounts — both of them voluntary savings schemes that involve no contributions from government or employers.

The Irish Green Building Council has launched a voluntary quality labelling scheme for new residential development in Dublin.

In the final strategy, common gas purchasing is downgraded to a voluntary scheme, reserved for crisis situations in member states that import all of their gas from a single supplier.

One such scheme is President Bushs proposal to expand the Department of Energys Voluntary Reporting of Greenhouse Gases program to include the awarding of transferable carbon credits for voluntary greenhouse gas reductions.

While the bills wouldn't scrap the state's voluntary target, they would eliminate financial incentives for utilities that invest in or build renewable projects under the scheme.

How will the new government - facilitated voluntary scheme compare with (say) paying more to get «green» electricity, paying Qantas more for offsets etc.?

With the EU highly unlikely to use offsets unless government agrees to deepen a proposed carbon reduction target beyond 40 %, the main source of demand for forest offsets in the short term might be restricted to California's carbon reduction scheme and the voluntary carbon market.

Though probably an unintended consequence, ratifying the Kyoto Protocol and fast - tracking a national emissions trading scheme are making it crunch time for the voluntary carbon market too.»

The Government has recognised more needs to be done to close that gap; it introduced the «Think, Act, Report» scheme, a voluntary program for organisations to report their gender pay gaps.

Some exceptions apply — for example, a scheme will not be a master trust where the only money purchase benefits it provides are additional voluntary contributions.

The cost judge's conclusion that it was inherently unreasonable for the appellants to enter into a CFA rather than a voluntary mediation scheme went too far.

As a trainee solicitor, David represented tenants facing eviction on the duty scheme at Woolwich County Court on a voluntary basis for Greenwich Housing Rights.

For most workers, however, work - related injury or disease was disastrous, plunging families into poverty and forcing those not covered by guilds or voluntary benefit schemes to rely on charity.

The SRA proposes to develop competency standards for advocates and implement a voluntary accreditation scheme.

The most radical departure for both rules and the 2008 Act is the impulse towards a «voluntary» ethos and mediation: «voluntary maintenance arrangements» occurs early in the 2008 scheme (s 2 (2)(a)-RRB-.

It adds: «Where voluntary schemes are valuable in helping solicitors demonstrate additional expertise then solicitors themselves, through their professional body or practitioner groups, should be responsible for operating them.

Launched in 2009, NPS is a voluntary, defined contribution retirement savings scheme and one of thetop investment option for retirement, which is open to all individuals across the country.

The scheme is voluntary, but anyone terminating their placement early can face sanctions, including a stop on their benefits for between two and 26 weeks.

The Australian Government should design the Healthy Welfare Card and the Work for the Dole scheme in remote communities as voluntary, opt - in schemes.

For Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander People, voluntary schemes need to be governed by Aboriginal community controlled organisations — and by community organisations in the five new sites — with agreed entry and exit criteria, clearly specified processes and with the terms of the scheme negotiated and agreed according to individual circumstances.