Sentences with phrase «global poverty project»

Retiring from the Macquarie Group after a 30 year career that culminated in his position as Executive Chairman, Simon has also been involved with CSIRO, MS Research Australia, Global Poverty Project Australia, VisionFund Australia and World Vision Australia.

According to the Global Poverty Project one in seven people are going hungry, despite the fact there is enough food to feed the global population.

The Global Poverty Project is deliberately seeking to harness the communitarian powers of Britain's religions to drive the campaign.

The Global Poverty Project's Hugh Evans explains the goals behind his work in St Paul's Cathedral.

So Evans made it his mission to turn the short - term excitement around the Make Poverty History concerts into a longer - term movement, and founded the Global Poverty Project in 2008, which eventually became Global Citizen.

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Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

At USAID there are projects and programs in areas such as global health, food security, water and sanitation, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation, and civil disorder.

The winning projects should raise awareness, develop critical thinking and encourage the active participation of students in the pursuit of global citizenship, solidarity, eradication of poverty and sustainable development» (Eurydice, 2012, p. 67).

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Most recently, Sarah wrote about global poverty and human rights issues for the Borgen Project.

Through community projects and programs, you can help end global poverty right from your hometown.

Ms. Falik is the founder and chief executive of Global Citizen Year, which, she told me, aims to expand the number of young Americans taking a «gap year» between high school and college to work abroad on projects that increase their awareness of the world outside of the United States and, as Pop!Tech says, «create a pipeline of leaders prepared to combat global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.&Global Citizen Year, which, she told me, aims to expand the number of young Americans taking a «gap year» between high school and college to work abroad on projects that increase their awareness of the world outside of the United States and, as Pop!Tech says, «create a pipeline of leaders prepared to combat global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.&global poverty and injustice throughout their lives.»

The United Nations is meeting this week to discuss among other issues, the Millenium project, a project aimed at eliminating global poverty:

Five Poverty - Fighting Clean Water Projects and Designs Millions May Gain Access to Clean Water After Clinton Global Initiative «Mega-Commitment» Global Greengrants Fund: Where Green Ideas, from Sustainable Agriculture to Mine Restoration, Sprout Around the World

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).

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Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty — The Climate Justice Way, a major new report written for the Mary Robinson Foundation: Climate Justice by Sivan Kartha and Paul Baer of the Climate Equity Reference Project, breaks new ground in global climate justice theory and analysis.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 pPoverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 ppoverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.

We are partnering with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest people.

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Given Canada's leading role in the global mining industry, we call for peaceful demonstrations in front of Canadian embassies across the world in order to show our condemnation of these mining projects that only leave behind desolation, poverty, and death for our people while enriching the few.

A number of different efforts have been working to build and sell products like that to those of us in the First World in order to help underwrite those projects, to raise awareness of the issues of global energy poverty, and to fund the development of rugged and affordable off - grid power solutions for the developing world.

If you come across a blockchain project that promises only profits, seeks to eradicate poverty or global warming, aims to replace the internet, or advocates for a 10,000 % profit ratio, think twice.

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