Sentences with phrase «effective global action»

«It is an incredibly important issue and there are incredibly strong reasons for taking comprehensive, effective global action to reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions.»

He is a research fellow at the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley and a visiting scholar at the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences of Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.

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Rather, measures of early improvement in market action that were effective across every post-war market cycle quickly proved insufficient during the global financial crisis.

The 2017 Concordia Annual Summit will explore today's most pressing global challenges with the aim of building effective cross-sector partnerships and driving collective action.

Advancing Women - Owned Businesses in New Markets, a «Commitment to Action» announced at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City was created to address the challenges associated with advancing and promoting women in a competitive global economy and their effective integration into global supply cGlobal Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York City was created to address the challenges associated with advancing and promoting women in a competitive global economy and their effective integration into global supply cglobal economy and their effective integration into global supply cglobal supply chains.

The United States could certainly benefit from a more effective trade policy aimed at reducing barriers to trade through well - thought - out and forceful negotiations and taking actions that are consistent with global trade rules.

The church being one sixth of humanity can be a very meaningful and effective community for global reflection and action on the needs of persons and groups today.

Baby Milk Action works within a global network to strengthen independent, transparent and effective controls on the marketing of the baby feeding industry.

Baby Milk Action is a non-profit which works within a global network to strengthen independent, transparent and effective controls on the marketing of the baby feeding industry.

(1) to urge Member States to take effective measures to implement the recommendations included in resolution WHA39.28; (2) to continue to review regional and global trends in breastfeeding patterns, including the relationship between breastfeeding and child - spacing; (3) to support Member States, on request, in adopting measures to improve infant and young child nutrition, inter alia by collecting and disseminating information on relevant national action of interest to all Member States; and to mobilize technical and financial resources to this end.

I agree with the point which you acknowledge that there could be a danger of frustration and disempowerment getting in the way of working out what civic actions could help or maximise the chances of an effective global deal.

Our politicians and public need to recognise the need for global action and provide the necessary political mandate for reform and resources that are required for effective governance, if this is to be achieved.

As we approach the global climate negotiations in Paris in just over a week, actions by state governments like New York State provide essential momentum toward a strong and effective agreement.»

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«We know that the measures proposed in the WHO Global NCD Action Plan 2013 - 2020 are effective in reducing the toll of deaths and disease from noncommunicable diseases.

It is hard to believe that one can expect to get effective political action on global warming without really convincing the public of the scientific agreement.

I know I am becoming part of a global team of men and women committed to transforming care and empathy into real, direct and effective action that creates lasting change in the lives of some of the world's poorest people.»

The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.

Key Message 3: Long - Term Strategy Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid «dangerous climate change» regardless of how it is defined.

At the same time, in order to ensure an effective and ambitious global post-2012 climate regime, all major economies will need to commit to meaningful mitigation actions to be bound in the international agreement to be negotiated by the end of 2009.

That treaty set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases for the three dozen industrialized countries that ratified it, but is seen by a growing number of climate and economic experts as a faltering model for effective action to limit global warming.

This is truly a sad commentary on those who continue to oppose effective action reducing global warming pollution.

Global Climate Scam has been bringing the world the latest news debunking the global warming myths since 2007, engaging in billboard, TV and internet video ad campaigns, aggregating global warming news, providing action items and building effective coalitions to stop the global warming madness from hurting ordinary AmerGlobal Climate Scam has been bringing the world the latest news debunking the global warming myths since 2007, engaging in billboard, TV and internet video ad campaigns, aggregating global warming news, providing action items and building effective coalitions to stop the global warming madness from hurting ordinary Amerglobal warming myths since 2007, engaging in billboard, TV and internet video ad campaigns, aggregating global warming news, providing action items and building effective coalitions to stop the global warming madness from hurting ordinary Amerglobal warming news, providing action items and building effective coalitions to stop the global warming madness from hurting ordinary Amerglobal warming madness from hurting ordinary Americans.

We have the right signal from the Paris Agreement; with global resolve and political will, we can work together to turn this signal into effective climate actions.

Ireland has particular vulnerabilities to climate change and has a very strong stake in ensuring that global action on reducing carbon emissions is effective, according to Laura Burke (pictured), director general of the EPA.

Requires such group, within a year and every four years thereafter, to submit to Congress a report that: identifies gaps in data and recommends actions to fill those gaps; proposes a coordinated strategy for funding and allocating responsibilities among federal agencies for climate and other global change data collection, management, and retention; recommends a federal capital investment strategy; and evaluates optimal design of observation system components to ensure a cost - effective, adequate set of observations detecting and tracking global change.

The real tragedy is that these actions have been effective and have worked to prevent action on global warming that could have minimised any climate change that will result from this until it is perhaps too late.

By attacking the level of certainty that people may hold with regard to either the existence of or human causation of global warming, climate change denial has attractions for those outside the inner circle of beneficiaries from the fossil fuel industry who do not want to reckon with either changes in their own lifestyle or with the increased role of government required by effective climate action.

A global agreement under the Montreal Protocol to address HFCs is the fastest, largest, and most cost effective action the global community can take to mitigate the effects of climate change.

The resulting compromise safeguards the vested interests of global dependency on fossil sources of energy, while constraining the capacity of the international community to take any effective action to deal with the threat of dangerous climate change.»

Such an approach holds great promise for ensuring that effective action will be taken to meet this global challenge.

IIED: Accurate cost benefit analysis of climate change adaptation actions is not only critical in designing effective local - level adaptation strategies, but also for generating information that feeds into national and global climate policy agreements.

Climate Sim force of nature Beth Sawin (in the picture to the left) recently wrote a really lovely blog post about our team's effort to address climate change and global ecological limits through the use of simulations that are embedded in effective conversations about action.

We believe that an effective Emissions Trading Scheme with realistic targets attached with global action is what the Australian Public voted for at the last election.

These images, the study found, helped people feel they could take effective action — but did little to make them more concerned about global warming.

Fast action to reduce HFC use is easy and possible due to many cost - effective and energy efficient alternatives, and has the potential to achieve near - term climate benefits that will help address the global health threat posed by climate change.

Potentially, contributors to such a facility could include governments for whom domestic mitigation action might be more costly than investment through the global market, or sectors where the technology is not yet fully available to enable them to take effective large scale mitigation action — such as the aviation industry.

The need to examine effective action and partnerships at the intersection between climate and agriculture is more pressing than ever as recent estimates show that agricultural production will need to increase by at least 70 percent to meet global demand by 2050.

Global Witness (1) welcomes this statement, which puts forestry issues at the top of the EU agenda for Burma for the first time, but it needs to be turned into immediate and effective action.

At the just - concluded U.N. climate negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Earthjustice attorneys Martin Wagner and Erika Rosenthal advocated for rapid action to reduce emissions of black carbon, now considered one of the most effective strategies to slow near - term global and Arctic warming.

Any effective U.S. life - sciences innovation policy needs to level the global playing field by taking more forceful action to address unfair trade practices, Joe Kennedy writes for Stat News.

In the end, the report's theme is that the most cost - effective way for systemic change to occur is by coordinating action on the global scale.

Roger Pielke Jr. writes, «Don't get me wrong, we should be taking more effective actions to decarbonize the global energy system.»

My question for Dr. Pielke (and you, and anyone else) remains... if y ’ all accept Dr. Ausubel's and my projections, why is it that, ``... we should be taking more effective actions to decarbonize the global energy system.»

Dave Roberts in Gristmill says: I too have my doubts that global warming will ever serve as an effective driver for public action.

Don't get me wrong, we should be taking more effective actions to decarbonize the global energy system.

Rapid, sustained, and effective mitigation based on coordinated global and regional action is required to avoid «dangerous climate change» regardless of how it is defined.

Al Gore tried to sound the call to action that Obama failed to deliver: «Placing a limit on global - warming pollution and accelerating the deployment of clean energy technologies is the only truly effective long - term solution to this crisis,» Gore said.

To take effective action against existing and potential socio - environmental challenges, global society needs scientifically - based development of appropriate policies, education that raises collective awareness and leads to actions, investment to build new or improved technologies, and changes in economic and social structures.

The deadline for effective action to curb global warming, he argues, is 2030, and by then we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 90 %, nothing less.