Sentences with phrase «beginning of a global effort»

Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will only know in a few years whether December's Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the beginning of a global effort to counter it.

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McDonald's (mcd) on Wednesday said that it would begin curbing the use of important human antibiotics in its global chicken supply in 2018, as the fast - food giant joins a broad effort to battle dangerous superbugs.

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Beginning with the Summer 2012 Event, we invited everyone around the world to participate from your local area in a global effort to raise awareness of baby / child - friendly mothering and fathering.

Our global efforts began in the late 1960s, when it became obvious that the clearing of forests and degradation of oceans affects us all regardless how well we're protecting our own backyard.

The World Health Organization Global Network of Age - Friendly Cities and Communities began as an international effort to help communities prepare for a growing aging population.

The Fight for $ 15, a global effort to raise the pay of low - wage workers, has circled back to where it began.

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.

Many global companies began to pull back their traditional efforts in marketing their goods and services outside of the US.

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

By refusing to join global efforts to cut emissions and initiate policies that will begin the process of large and sustained emission reductions, the Howard Government is storing up trouble for the future.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically ««reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,»» as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that «what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby — denial and delay — has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.»

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Tedious as it may be to read, the effort to go through each scientist's testimony — here (Lindzen's begins at pg 27), here, (Lindzen resumes at pg 3, Michaels begins at 10) and here (Idso at pg 3, Balling at 17)-- reveals that none of them offered anything remotely close to simple dismissal of global warming as a hoax.

This summary for policymakers of the International Panel on Climate Change Working Group III analitycal report outlines technological and behavioral changes that can limit the increase in global average temperatures to less than two degrees Celsius, the point at which science shows that climate impacts begin to overwhelm human coping efforts.

The evening also recognized Adrian Grenier, who brought home an award for his work with SHFT.com, a media outlet pioneering eco-friendly life style; Steve Elfman, Sprint President of Network Operations and Wholesale, on behalf of Sprint for their eco-friendly phone, the Samsung Replenish, which is made from 82 % recyclable materials; Arthur Rubinfeld, Starbucks President of Global Development, on behalf of Starbucks for the company's global sustainability initiatives, including achieving LEED certification for all new company - owned stores beginning in 2010; and Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, for their «efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.&Global Development, on behalf of Starbucks for the company's global sustainability initiatives, including achieving LEED certification for all new company - owned stores beginning in 2010; and Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, for their «efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.&global sustainability initiatives, including achieving LEED certification for all new company - owned stores beginning in 2010; and Bill McKibben and May Boeve, co-founders of 350.org, for their «efforts to raise awareness about the most threatening issue of our time: climate change.»

That finding struck Smith, a Republican from Texas who maintains that human - caused emissions of greenhouse gases are not causing global warming, as suspicious, and he began a dogged effort to determine if the scientists had manipulated data to arrive at politically - motivated results.

After he called on the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a December 2005 lecture, Dr. Hansen found that NASA officials began reviewing and filtering public statements and press interviews in an effort to limit his ability (as well as that of other government scientists) to publicly express scientific opinions that clashed with the Bush administration's views on global warming.»

And, by rejecting the non-problem of man - made global warming, he began the long and necessary process of waking up the likes of Professor Reif to the fact that the diversion of time, effort, and trillions of dollars away from real environmental problems and towards the bogus but (to MIT) profitable non-problem of supposedly catastrophic global warming is as bad for the planet as it is for true science.

What began as an effort to solve the problem of how global financial institutions can transact with each other with greater trust has ended up moving towards a tool for establishing trust in other industries, including insurance.