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Lessons, which will promote aims such as «End Poverty» and «Fight Inequality», will take place in schools from Sunday 27th September following the official announcement of the new Global Goals at the UN Summit in New York on Friday 25th September.
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«Microsoft and Apple are similar in that they're global companies with the same ruthless pursuit of monetary goals, but the perception of Apple is still very different,» says Marcus Giesler, a marketing professor at the Schulich School of Business.
Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.
The global financial institution said at the One Planet Summit in Paris that its decision would «align its support to countries to meet their Paris goals.»
Anyone with the vision and guts to start his or her own company almost inherently has big goals for making an impact on the world, whether at a local or global level.
These goals were announced as the chain reported that global sales at restaurants open at least a year, or same - store sales, increased 5.9 % in 2015, with net income for the year reaching $ 44.1 million.
Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»
Founders take more shots on goal and try crazy ideas while corporate CEOs do not, he said at Fortune's Global Forum in San Francisco.
The goal of hiring software is to avoid human pitfalls, such as overlooking potentially strong candidates who may not seem desirable at first glance, said Matt Doucette, director of global talent acquisition at Monster Worldwide.
«Our goal is to have a space environment that is populated by people acting responsibly,» said Peter Marquez, vice president for global engagement at Planetary Resources.
The United Nations» adoption of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or Global Goals) has the world poised at an historic crossroads — setting a course to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet.
(September 20, 2016) At the 12th and final Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, 30 partners joined No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and WEConnect International to announce a new series of commitments that address significant gender gaps and advance the gender equality targets of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
According to Reuters «ideas about binding commitments to extend the Toronto debt reduction goals at a summit hosted by Canada in 2010, sought by Germany first and foremost, have been abandoned» Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty would appear to be still living in the Toronto Summit, while the rest of the G - 20, except perhaps Germany, has moved on to confront more pressing issues, including the growing risks of global instability and the need to strengthen growth and job creation.
Thomas Gass, assistant secretary - general for policy coordination and interagency affairs in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs at the United Nations, talked with Global Finance about the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals and how the private sector can help.
Global goals on energy access, renewables and efficiency will not be met without accelerated ambition Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 April 2018
At a press conference on the opening day of the Assembly, General Secretary Emilio Castro attempted to sum up his goals for the meeting by first repudiating the notion that it would focus on global crises.
Gender is at the very heart of global development priorities and in particular of the Millennium Development Goals.
The goal is to allow the coexistence of the most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside marriage, at any age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the global sexual revolution.
More generally, the goals are: to reconquer space lost by democracy to the sphere of finance, to oppose any new abandonment of national sovereignty on the pretext of the «rights» of investors and merchants, to create a democratic space at the global level.
Target 12.3 of the goals calls for nations to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses» by 2030.
When you look at the kind of impact food loss and waste has on our environment, economy and society, it's clear why the United Nations included it among the most urgent global challenges the Sustainable Development Goals would address.
Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».
Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Champion 12.3 partners are directly addressing Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 — to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food loss along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses.
Tracy Oates, Director of UK Sustainability at DNV GL - Business Assurance, shares some of the global insights into the challenges and opportunities of meeting the UN sustainable development goals.
As diplomats and ministers at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly focus on advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, leaders from business, states and cities will participate in Climate Week NYC to demonstrate the resounding commitment to building a clean, resilient, inclusive global economy.
From a global perspective, the PLP report includes the Company's 2025 goals aimed at working to improve the health and well - being of all people, building resilience in communities around the world and positively impacting the environment.
However, after scoring 9 goals in three games against Newcastle and Manchester City, Arsenal are now back on track for global, or at least domestic, domination.
They are 17 global goals for sustainable development, due to be officially adopted at the UN Sustainable Development Summit this week in New York.
Fady Sharara, M.D., Contributes to Global Understanding of Fertility Breakthroughs at ASRM The world's most influential scientists and fertility specialists convened in Salt Lake City last month with one goal — to help men and women find a faster, more efficient path to pregnancy.
Breastfeeding and Human milk's contribution to environment sustainability and food security year - round should be considered in climate - smart development goals at national and global level.
The objective of the Maternal Newborn Child Initiative is to give momentum to the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 4 and 5 aimed at reducing the outrageous global rates of maternal and child deaths, malnutrition and illness.
Reaching the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius, as agreed to at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21), will require an unprecedented level of international scientific cooperation in both climate science and technology development.
The UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals are aimed at achieving equality, securing global peace and ending extreme poverty — an ambitious agenda that will require a wide - range of conditions to be met.
Hansen told reporters at a press conference yesterday that he hoped the paper — to be published online this week — would influence global climate talks this December in Paris and encourage negotiators to reconsider their goal of keeping warming to less than 2 °C above preindustrial levels, a laudable but insufficient target, some scientists say.
Both the Sierra Club and Greenpeace have objected to CCS, although all environmentalists seem to agree that global greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by at least 80 percent below 1990 levels by midcentury, a goal also shared by the Obama administration.
«The goals of the study were to help re-establish populations of this threatened and declining species, and to understand better what critical resources on the landscape are associated with the ability of young tortoises to survive and thrive,» said Ron Swaisgood, Ph.D., director of Applied Animal Ecology at San Diego Zoo Global.
THE global campaign to eradicate poverty picked up fresh support at last week's United Nations World Summit, when leaders of 150 nations pledged their commitment to the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Some of the discussion revolves around the goal, adopted by nations at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, of limiting the global average temperature increase to 2 °C.
But for biofuels to really take flight — or at least achieve the global aviation fuel use goal of at least 1 percent — a minimum of five facilities capable of churning out 100 million gallons or more would have to be built.
Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.
International negotiators at a United Nations - sponsored climate conference ending today in Bangkok repeatedly underscored the goal of keeping the amount of global warming in this century to no more than 2 ˚C.
«The overarching goal of our research is to create an innovative, yet sustainable and accessible, low cost solution to combat the global threat of West Nile virus,» said Chen, a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute and professor in the Department of TEIM.
A new global report on the HIV / AIDS epidemic spotlights success in both prevention and treatment efforts, but also stresses that countries must dramatically ramp up both if the world hopes to meet the ambitious goals agreed upon last year at a special session of the United Nations.
Bush proposed that a conference be held by the summer to formally establish such a goal and pave the way for a «global consensus at the U.N. in 2009.»
«They show that it is technically feasible to achieve a central goal in global climate policy: Namely, to limit average global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius compared to the level at the beginning of the Industrial Era.»
Joeri Rogelj, also at IIASA, said, «The carbon law outlines a global path towards achieving climate and sustainability goals in broad yet quantitative terms.
The scientists and economists provide a detailed analysis of the energy sector transformations required to implement the intended nationally determined contributions (so called INDCs), in major economies and at the global level in aggregate, and their potential for keeping the below 2 degrees goal within reach.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.