Sentences with phrase «wide change in policies»

A casual conversation about cats with your neighbor can be the start of a community - wide change in policies for cats!

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Even though the intellectual climate within the Reserve Bank and other economic policy agencies was already moving in favour of deregulation in the early 1970s, wider community acceptance of the case for change did not come until after the Government set up a broad - ranging inquiry, conducted by a group of independent experts.

As has been noted in the Bank's policy statements, the Bank will seek to look through the wide - ranging, but temporary, effects of the tax changes on the published measures of inflation.

There is a widening gap between individuals who have benefited from the policies of governments and those who have seen little relief, and that gap is particularly wide in autocratic countries where people have inadequate ability to change those policies or to voice their political opposition.

This book explores the political economy of transition cost mitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

The author comes across to the reader as an intelligent, hard working and rather detached politician who was seriously committed to achieve great changes in wider education policy to help the disadvantaged.

At the very least the proposed changes in Greater Manchester — which obviously go a lot wider than the system of government — have all the hall marks of a policy being made on - the - hoof, behind closed doors, by small groups of like - minded people — just the sort of ingredients identified by King and Crewe which lead to monumental blunders.

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

Now, he'd like to see wider tax policy changes in the coming year.

«It remains my view that staff shortages, overcrowding and the wider policy changes described in this report have had a significant impact on prison safety.»

First, fiscal discipline is fundamental to Labour's thinking and policy development, underpinning every proposal we make, every argument we advance — not only because our wider message will not be heard if people see us only as spenders, and not also as reformers — but also because we simply will not be able to deliver the changes we want to make in government if we do not have strong public finances.

Among the proposals not included by the Assembly: a sweeping policy change that would give the state wide latitude in determining value - based payments for health care providers, a plan to allow private equity investing in hospitals and a plan that would limit how much providers can charge for drugs in Medicaid - managed care plans.

EASL is the leading liver association in Europe, having evolved into a major European association with international influence, and with an impressive track record in promoting research in liver disease, supporting wider education and promoting changes in European liver policy.

She enrolled in the Education Policy and Management (EPM) Program with the hope of learning, she says, «how to thread these experiences together and build on them to learn how to create system - wide change.»

There are also issues about wider changes to education policy that are incongruent with the SEND reforms; notably those policies in the areas of accountability and assessment.

The report considered whether the change in discipline policy was associated with any of the following: (a) district - wide out - of - school suspension rates, (b) academic and behavioral outcomes for students (looking separately at students who had a record of prior suspensions and those with no prior suspensions), and (c) racial disparities in suspensions.

The report considered whether the policy change was associated with any of the following: (a) district - wide out - of - school suspension rates, (b) academic and behavioral outcomes for students (looking separately at students who had a record of prior suspensions and those with no prior suspensions), and (c) racial disparities in suspensions.

119 no. 1) issue of the American Journal of Education focuses on the role of social networks in educational change, and offers a collection of papers from forefront researchers on this topic that may serve as an introduction of the topic to a wide range of interested educators, policy - makers, and researchers.

The Division monitors fundamental changes in the industry, analyzes industry trends, and evaluates policy options on a wide range of issues.

Regrettably, this means that it may not reach the wide audience of policy makers and consumers that need to understand in order for change to happen.

Current climate change policies and actions in Kenya, and world - wide, do not provide effective support for community engagement in decision making, nor sustainable livelihoods and environmental conservation.

This underscores the wide range of returns of foreign investments caused by changes in the domestic monetary policy.

Cycles of Change has influenced a wide network of local residents and policy - makers by raising awareness and encouraging the use of bicycles — in conjunction with public transportation — as an every - day mode of travel.

«Thus, if climate change effects are anticipated, or detected in basin - wide storm statistics, sensible policy decisions should depend on the projected overall shift in the probability of damage rather than on a high - threshold criterion for trend emergence.»

This goes to what I describe in Chapter 4 as the policy - dependent nature of wider public perceptions as well as our own ideological biases as a community of people actively working to create social change on the issue.

In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

Talk by Cedric Bergeron, senior scientist for the Copernicus Climate Change Service, on the Copernicus open - data policy as a whole and the Climate Data Store in particular and how this will help the development of a wide range of climate related sectoral services.

The conference was attended by some 250 scientists, climate change experts, policy makers, government representatives, high dignitaries and journalists who took part in various discussions on a wide range of topics.

This document argues that access to and development and use of a wide portfolio of genetic resources is an essential insurance policy that enables responses to future changes in production conditions due to the impact of climate change.

CBS NEWS Oct 20 2016 - Where Trump and Clinton stand on climate change The third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Wednesday night in Las Vegas covered a wide range of issues from abortion to foreign policy to the national debt, but there was one glaring omission - climate change.

In order to ensure the scientific independence and credibility of the program and its products, the CCSP should develop CCSP - wide principles and policies on communications to ensure the scientific independence of climate change science communications.

This activity report describes progress achieved in combating climate change since 1994 and presents some of the wide range of actions, policies and approaches as reported in national communications from Parties to the Convention.

Opening a UN food crisis summit in Rome, Jacques Diouf attacked the subsidies for corn ethanol during a wide - ranging critique of global policies on climate change and food security, which he said were slanted to favour the west.

We recommend that the new scenarios be used not only in the IPCC's future assessments of climate change, its impacts, and adaptation and mitigation options, but also as the basis for analyses by the wider research and policy community of climate change and other environmental problems.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency

After working as a journalist, she entered law school with the goal of using her skills to give a voice to those in need and achieve positive change in national policies that impact a wide range of people, especially those lacking economic or political power.

In the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers loIn the most sweeping reform of Japan's legal system since World War II, the doors are opening wide for a flood of new lawyers to handle cases in an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers loin an increasingly litigious society.Experts say the reforms underscore a big shift in social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers loin social attitudes that is forcing Japan to change its policy of keeping the number of lawyers low.

Even more worrying is the wider change that was tagged onto the back of the change in defamation in amendments to CPR44.3 B which provide that, subject to the court's consent, a failure to disclose the existence of an «after the event» policy within the time limits set out in the Practice Direction will mean the premium paid will not be recoverable.

The principles underlying the Aarhus Convention and experience gained in the implementation of its provisions have wide application in many policy domains, including chemicals management, climate change governance and nuclear energy.

The goal of these policy changes is to affect wider, fairer auto coverage for all and to introduce and encourage systemic change in the auto industry in Ontario.

This setting can also be changed system - wide in the group policy editor.

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Going Beyond Trauma - informed Care (TIC) Training for Child Welfare Supervisors and Frontline Workers: The Need for System - wide Policy Changes Implementing TIC Practices in All Child Welfare Agencies (PDF - 179 KB) Heffernan & Viggiani (2015) The Advanced Generalist, 1 (3/4) Reviews current efforts to train child welfare workers in trauma - informed practices and argues that trauma - informed care adaptation and training must transcend case workers and supervisors in order for true systemic change to occur.

There has been a recent surge of interest in Australia and internationally in using population - wide linked administrative data sets to better understand the factors that promote positive early childhood health and development25, 26 and to evaluate the impact of early childhood programmes, services and policy changes in the «real world».27 — 29

Prior to this announcement, there was wide - spread speculation that the government was going to change current mortgage policies to include a minimum 10 per cent down payment, an increase from the current five per cent, and a reduction in amortization from a maximum of 35 to 30 years.