Sentences with phrase «at global poverty»

From the traditional right Cameron enlisted Iain Duncan Smith for the social justice policy group, John Redwood to examine economic competitiveness and Peter Lilley to look at global poverty.

Not exact matches

Since taking over the Caterpillar Foundation in 2011, Sullivan has led an ambitious — and, at times, edgy — quest to address the «root causes» of global poverty.

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.

How the Vatican is improving our climate, global poverty, and our waste crisis By Ibrahim AlHusseini Dec 3, 2016 I was recently invited to participate in an unusual investment conference hosted at an even more unusual venue: the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences, at the Vatican, in Vatican City, Rome.

China generates 35 per cent of world economic growth and is at the heart of solutions to climate change, global pandemics and global poverty.

At Global Citizen, we believe that taking action on the world's most challenging issues — from education to health to climate — can make the world a better place and help eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

At the same time, nation states are slowly recognizing their interdependence and that great issues, such as global warming, poverty, drug abuse and international terrorism can not be dealt with by one country on its own.

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.

At the end of the century, the same proportion of the much larger global population remained below the poverty line.

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.

John Dickie, the director of Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, and Sir Harry Burns, the former chief medical officer for Scotland who is now Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Strathclyde, will also be at the campaign launch.

It is not simply a matter of a state of poverty rather it is a process continuously at work at the very heart of global economic functioning.

At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty with its US headquarters in Atlanta, the powers that be don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk.

Even most Americans on an income at the poverty line fall inside the top 10 per cent of global incomes.

Dr. Pogge is a renowned expert on poverty and human rights, Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

«There is no security or prosperity at home unless we deal with global challenges of security, globalisation, climate change, disease and poverty.

4.48 pm: Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, is leading a session on global poverty at the moment.

World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put climate change at the center of the fight against extreme poverty, part of an effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming global problems.

In economics, agent - based models can be a powerful tool for understanding global poverty, says Stéphane Hallegatte, an economist at the World Bank in Washington, D.C..

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.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

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.

Peter Singer was talking about the fact that we can often look at issues of global poverty or global warming, we can look at those as technological issues or such policy issues.

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.

At the Opening Ceremony of World Science Forum (WSF) 2017 under the theme of «Science for Peace» a panel of global thought - leaders declared renewed intent to fight poverty and promote just, equitable and inclusive social development based on the restoration, protection and sustainable use of natural resources and ecosystems to promote greater peace and social harmony.

Next Page: People with bipolar aren't the only ones at risk [pagebreak] Harder times ahead for everyone In October, the World Health Organization warned that the global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with poverty and unemployment.

All of a sudden my general (and at times very overwhelming) interest in this massive social justice issue of global extreme poverty and gender inequality became a narrow - focused mission to help a few of Uganda's brightest young women go to college and become leaders in their communities.

Principally, though he extols his 13th Century namesake for choosing poverty, and is angry at the world's inequality, wherein 20 % of the global population holds 80 % of its wealth.

The good news is that students in the United States can help — and get a real - world lesson in global poverty while they're at it.

Ex-President de Klerk joined Global Education Magazine at its first edition in International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (October 17th, 2012), where he published «South Africa is one of the most unequal societies in the world ``.

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.

Javier Collado submitted a proposal for educational reform at global level (you can read it here: proposal for Rio +20) which was one of the most voted throughout the world in the group of Sustainable Development for Eradication of Poverty.

Dóchas, the Platform for Development NGOs in Ireland, is determined not to let this opportunity pass at such a crucial moment in global campaign to eradicate poverty.

I submitted a proposal for an educational reform at global level and it was one of the most voted throughout the world, specially in the group of Sustainable Development for Eradication of Poverty.

Laudato Si, in short, is Pope Francis» appeal to the faithful to take a closer look at how we are shaping the future of our planet, the effect of humanity on global issues such as climate change and poverty, and the protection and care for what Francis calls «our common home.»

You say at one point that poverty in Africa and other parts of the world is not only the result of bad governance but also an outcome of the global economic system.

Previously, she was the Director of Community Education for Heifer International, a nonprofit organization dedicated to relieving global hunger and poverty, and also developed and directed the Center for Animal - Human Relationships at the Virginia - Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, where her focus involved human well - being as it relates to interaction with companion animals.

And yet that is the central issue facing the world at Durban: most non Annex - 1 countries — a category now including such poverty - stricken nations as the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Singapore and so on — insist that a new round of Kyoto is the be-all and end - all, an absolute precondition for any progress towards a truly global deal encompassing all the major emitters.

We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.

Aware of the broad scientific view that the increase in global average temperature above pre-industrial levels ought not to exceed 2 degrees C, we support an aspirational global goal of reducing global emissions by 50 percent by 2050, with developed countries reducing emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050, and recognizing the critical importance of development, including poverty eradication, in developing countries.

In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.

To learn more about Los Meses Flacos visit aftertheharvest.org and join us in developing sustainable solutions to global hunger and poverty at the household level.

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

A short - sighted coal company might decide to start launching critiques of the science of climate change and start having a crack at renewables while at the same time selling its product as some sort of silver bullet that can solve global poverty with a single well - aimed shot.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

For a development threshold to reasonably capture the principle of a right to development, it should be set at least modestly higher than a global poverty line that reflects a level of welfare that is beyond basic needs, though well short of today's levels of «affluent» consumption.

The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework is a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.

It must be lean times at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, because this poverty - stricken argument is so bloated, it needs four bandwagons to wheel it onto the pages of the New Scientist: obesity, global warming, anti-Americanism and anti-capitalism.