Sentences with phrase «year agreement aiming»

WRAP has published results for its three - year agreement aiming to reduce food and packaging waste and improve waste management in the hospitality sector.

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The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

A demonstration track will be built in two to three years from the signing of the final agreement, while the second phase will aim to complete construction of the full Pune - Mumbai route in five to seven years.

Earlier this year, we announced the launch of a new company, EvoTeq, and signed two new business agreements as part of an investment in technology aimed at improving the lives of people living in the UAE.»

The 16 RCEP countries will present their offers for market opening when they meet in Busan in South Korea on Monday, with an aim to make «best efforts» towards reaching agreement by year - end, a South Korean official close to the negotiations said.

Under the terms of the agreement, said to be worth $ 1 billion to Disney, McDonald's paid $ 100 million in royalties and conducted 11 promotions a year for Disney films, videos and TV shows, with seven aimed specifically toward the young Happy Meal consumers.

Since Living Goods» overall budget is increasing, it also aims to raise an additional $ 3 million in reserves (about $ 2 million in 2015 and about $ 1 million in 2016).148 It expects to raise some funds from partnership consulting fees and margins on goods sold to CHPs, leaving about $ 10 million per year that would need to be supported by donor funding.149 In 2012 Living Goods raised $ 2.8 million, and in 2013 it raised $ 3.3 million from donors.150 Living Goods told us that it believes there is a decent chance it will reach two - thirds of its funding target for the first year through agreements with funders who have supported its work in the past, but the money has not yet been secured and the funding need will grow each year.151 The Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), one of Living Goods» major core funders historically, will be deciding in Q1 2015 whether to fund Living Goods» scale - up.

Last year, the member - owned network of banks and other financial institutions revealed a successful proof - of - concept aimed at reimagining the nostro - vostro accounts used by companies to store cash around the world, and in January, it signed an agreement with seven central securities depositories to evolve the way the centralized organizations might leverage blockchain.

To bolster these actions, we aim to achieve within the year an agreement to reinstate one industry national standard — and more importantly the regulatory infrastructure around it — for export and domestic products.

Mr Robb has given Australian dairy farmers an assurance that he is aiming to get them an equal footing with their New Zealand competitors, who finalised a free trade agreement with China several years ago.

Cuomo defended to reporters the agreement in the state budget that is aimed at providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for students whose families earn less than $ 125,000 a year, which has come under criticism from some lawmakers and yes, The New York Times.

While no agreement could be secured on a measure aimed at raising the age of criminal responsibility, one Senate Republican hopes to try again next year on a more comprehensive package.

Years of acrimonious accusation, nonpayment of revenues and stubborn refusal came to a sudden and fair end on Thursday when Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder settled their differences over casino gaming in Western New York.With their agreement, the financial gun aimed in Niagara Falls was lowered and the threat to...

Rumore has concentrated on salaries, putting forth proposals that aim to get teachers compensation for the years some of them worked under the expired agreement.

Through a 5 - year cooperative agreement with the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, we're aiming to introduce and reinforce healthy lifestyle behaviors, including physical activity and healthy eating, to promote emotional, intellectual, and physical growth.

Fair is aiming to change the way people get cars by breaking up the standard two - or three - year lease agreement in favor of a flexible model that allows customers to return their car at any time.

Dec. 4, 7:34 p.m. Updated CANCÚN, Mexico — At almost every negotiation in recent years aimed at building a new international climate agreement, a batch of delegates and United Nations officials huddle at the end of the first week to start framing some kind of text.

But it could demonstrate leadership, both to the American middle class and the international community preparing for talks aimed at forging a global climate agreement at the end of the year in Paris.

Longtime readers will recall how I've cited the Talking Heads lyric «same as it ever was» quite often over the years in assessing negotiations aimed at forging a new global agreement on slowing global warming and limiting its impacts.

The new paper, which Hansen told me he's been working on for eight years, was being rushed into public view with the hope of influencing negotiations at the December round of talks in Paris aimed at crafting a new global climate change agreement.

The supermarket chain committed itself last year to new science - based targets to reduce emissions in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement, with the ultimate aim of becoming a zero - carbon business by 2050.

If that doesn't sound like a big jump, consider that the agreement reached at the U.N. climate summit in Paris last year aims to limit warming to 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

The decision about the adaption fund is the first significant agreement to emerge from the talks, which aim to establish a «road map» to lay the groundwork for an expected two years of talks to draft a replacement for the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

When international delegates meet in Paris next year to negotiate a new global climate agreement, they'll be aiming to keep global average surface temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels.

This year's summit was a relatively technical affair which aimed to smooth out agreement on several topics ahead of some significant deadlines in 2018.

Those talks aim to strike an international agreement limiting climate - altering greenhouse gas emissions worldwide — a lofty goal that has eluded international negotiators for years.

The European Union's climate commissioner, Connie Hedegaard of Denmark, said Tuesday that nations should now aim to reach an agreement in 2011 at a United Nations conference in South Africa, rather than this year in Mexico.

Due to be completed late next year at a cost of 3 billion shekels ($ 773 million), the facility will provide around 1 percent of Israel's electricity under an agreement with the Israeli government, which aims for 10 percent of the country's energy needs to be provided by renewables by 2020.

Climate Neutral Now is an initiative launched by the UN Climate Change in 2015, aiming at encouraging and supporting all levels of society to take climate action to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century, as enshrined in the Paris Agreement adopted the same year.

The illusion has stifled real progress on climate talks almost since they began in 1992, but it started losing its grip two years ago, on a frigid morning in Warsaw, when negotiators abandoned the quixotic quest for a one - size - fits - all, top - down agreement like the failed Kyoto Protocol and aimed instead for a global framework within which countries can embed their own unique climate action plans.

These announcements are part of an effort to build political will and momentum leading up to the U.N. climate conference later this year in Paris, which aims to produce an international agreement on climate change.

Over the last fifteen years, the CJEU has issued several judgments aiming to clarify the EU concept of ne bis in idem (at the beginning only with regard to Art. 54 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, and later also Art. 50 CFREU).

If this all sounds far too 21st - century, it's worth remembering that the aim of pre-nuptial agreements was, and has always been, to promote harmony - at least for a thousand years.

The Parliamentary Information and Research Service of the Library of Parliament has released a series of brief background papers on the Canada — European Union trade negotiations that began last year and that are aimed at achieving a «Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement» (CETA).

In June this year, together with the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), TWI has launched the «Solar Energy Standardisation Initiative», which aims at standardising contracts to streamline the global development and finance of solar projects to assist in meeting the objectives and quotas the governments around the world set via «The Sustainable Development Goals» and the «Paris Agreement».

This year's Native Title Report sets out guidelines for agreement making, that aim to direct agreements towards meeting traditional owner goals as well as the legal requirements of the Native Title Act.

Over the next five years the partners to the Agreement will aim to prepare Indigenous people for the workforce and support the development of Indigenous businesses.

One of the aims of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing (the Remote Indigenous Housing Agreement), discussed in the next section, is to «[increase] the life cycle of remote Indigenous housing from seven years to a public housing - like lifecycle of up to 30 years».

The National Perinatal Depression Initiative also fell victim to the funding cuts, ABC's 7.30 revealed, with the Federal Government refusing to extend a five - year funding agreement with the states that has seen thousands of new parents access screening and counselling services aimed at identifying and treating the illness in the early stages.

Background: The aim of the study is to report parent / youth self - report agreement on emotional and behavioral symptoms among 15 - to 16 - year - old adolescents.