Sentences with phrase «worldwide ban»

In 2010, HSI and its allies successfully fought off a proposal by a number of member governments — including the United States — to relax the quarter - century - old worldwide ban on commercial whaling.

Aldicarb was the first of the so - called «dirty dozen» pesticides that an environmental group, Pesticide Action Network North America, targeted in 1985 for worldwide ban.

It has nothing to do with global warming and almost everything to do with the near - worldwide ban on polar bear hunting, which hitherto kept populations in manageable numbers.

Nevertheless, HSBC hasn't gone as far as some other banks who have adopted a worldwide ban on coal.

Nearly four in five Britons think the government should support a worldwide ban, the poll suggests, while 62 per cent said Britain can not act as a force for good if it does not adopt the treaty.

It is a lengthy process before a contaminant is identified as such and its harmful effects are highlighted with a worldwide ban.

Despite the controversy and the possibility of a worldwide ban on human cloning by the United Nations, scientists in the United States and Britain are already moving forward with attempts to repeat the process.

«Now is the time to use the full weight of the international community for a worldwide ban on reproductive cloning.

Personally, I have a pet project — a worldwide ban on correlational studies, kind of like with chemical weapons, etc..

Though WHO doesn't necessarily have the authority or power to enact a worldwide ban, their influence is strong enough that they could absolutely inspire change.

Zombies are hard to kill, but one I thought had been permanently dealt with — the myth that Rachel Carson brought about a worldwide ban on DDT, leading to millions of deaths from malaria [1].

Despite my attempts at zombie - slaying, the myth that Rachel Carson advocated and caused a worldwide ban on DDT, leading to the deaths of millions, keeps being reanimated.

«We have to take down the criminal syndicates behind the trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, and enact a worldwide ban on all trade in ivory and rhino horn including domestic trade.

Protecting the earth's soil also warrants a worldwide ban on the clearcutting of forests in favor of selective harvesting, simply because with each successive clearcut there are heavy soil losses until the forest regenerates.

Even the United Nations recommended a worldwide ban.

The claims (not yet verified by Twitter) are that the social network will institute a worldwide ban against ads for...

The worldwide ban may also cover adverts for cryptocurrency exchanges, used by traders and other interested parties to buy and sell items such as Bitcoin.