Sentences with phrase «with subnational»

As the coordinating partner of the Sustainable Energy for All Building Efficiency Accelerator, we work directly with subnational governments to help them implement policies and projects to both improve buildings and save energy in their communities.

In Japan, «[t] here is splintered sentiment toward capand - trade,» with some subnational governments such as the Tokyo government implementing capand - trade while national momentum has stalled.

Not exact matches

But because of the relationship between permissible expression in national discourse, and in the subnational discourse that takes place among blacks, a broadening of debate in the black community may encourage white politicians and intellectuals to speak, and think, with a greater measure of candor on this issue.

Brown and the governors of New York and Washington said they would establish a coalition of states committed to upholding the Paris accord, while 27 California state senators sent a letter to Brown, urging him to convene a climate summit with «like - minded states and subnationals from around the world, to ensure that we continue to charge ahead without forfeiting all of our historic progress to date.»

DEQ staff are beginning the study now and said Friday that they plan to start with the assumption that they would be linking markets with California, Quebec and other members of the Western Climate Initiative, the U.S. - Canadian subnational carbon - trading alliance.

Lead author Dr Robert Holland, also from the University's Centre for Biological Sciences, said: «Based on mapping patterns of freshwater consumption associated with energy sectors at subnational scales, our analysis also reveals that pressure on freshwater resources associated with energy production happens in a number of freshwater scarce river basins globally.

For anyone who's has the time, there's the full report (Science Policy: Considerations for Subnational Governments report) and its recommendations on gender and diversity, researcher mobility, alignment with federal support and programmes, science advice and evidence - based policy, and more.

Los Angeles County Doing Business with Us Graphic Version: County Home Home About this Site About this Site Online Services E-mail FAQ Public Info The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.

A methodical next step for governments — at the subnational, national, regional and international level — is to set long - term decarbonization pathways for aviation that are compatible with the Paris Agreement and a roadmap to adhere to these pathways.

In order to achieve our goal of 7.8 billion trees, we will work with partners from all levels of society, integrate trees into all of our existing campaigns, and create coalitions with national and subnational governments, mayors, faith leaders, businesses, and civil society from all across the globe.

Considering that increased cooperation with the US federal government is currently unlikely, US cities and states may share interest in collaborating with Canada, its subnational governments, and with Mexico.

With renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) underway, several opportunities exist to enhance trilateral, bilateral, and subnational energy - sector cooperation and policy alignment.

This «Inside Story on Climate Compatible Development» tracks issues that arose with regard to decentralised renewable energy planning in West Nusa Tenggara in order to inform subnational and national energy policies and strategies in the future.

That combined with emission reductions that have not yet been paid for (nearly US$ 26 billion if all of Brazil's emissions reductions could be paid for), opens a window of opportunity to mobilize REDD + funding at the subnational level.

From a scientific, economic and political perspective, REDD is a very complicated business that ratcheted up demand for the Rapid Response Team because many governments with critical and intact forest are now pursuing national or subnational level policies for REDD, often without the necessary tools, time and capacity.

8 December 2014, Lima, Peru: The world's leading reporting platform for local and subnational climate action — the carbonn Climate Registy (cCR)-- welcomes its 500th reporting city today, with the new addition of the City of Bristol, United Kingdom.

The United States and China made headlines last year with their Climate Pact, but significant collaboration had already occurred at the subnational levels.

Germany, along with Canada, California, and other national and subnational governments, is a key member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, a voluntary partnership formed to advance the long - term objective of a carbon price applied throughout the global economy.

The alignment of subnational strategies with national policies and sustainable supply chains

1) Local and subnational governments are stepping up with hard data on their collective immediate and long - term commitments.

At the subnational level, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) announced a partnership with the World Bank to mobilize US$ 4.5 billion as loans to support 150 of its committed cities and launched Global Urbis — a partnership with the European Union, European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)-- to accelerate financing to cities in developing countries with US$ 1.5 billion.

Local and subnational governments are clearly recognized as important climate actors, and now ICLEI is focused on ensuring they are well - positioned with adequate resources and as implementation partners supporting nations with rolling out the architecture needed to fulfill their NDCs.

Global Campaign for Localizing Climate Finance: With leadership from the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA), the Global Campaign for Localizing Climate Finance will push for climate finance to reach local and subnational governments and look for ways to connect local action to the NDC Funding and Initiatives Navigator, a searchable database of financial and technical assistance programs that support implementation of national plans.

Though these type of events are often about speeches reiterating the alarming problems and bragging about commitments to change, Schwarzenegger plans to attend COP15 to speak on behalf of the «subnationals» with findings from this summit, praising the grassroots efforts of regional governments creating a green revolution.

The day kicked off with a closed session of subnational government Ministers and representatives, meeting on behalf of the states and regions alliance and chaired by Climate Group CEO Steve Howard.

Participants looked specifically at how states could partner further with businesses in order to accelerate the deployment of key low carbon technologies, as well as looking ahead to what new commitments can be developed on a subnational level for Cancun.