Sentences with phrase «concerted global effort»

It would also represent the first concerted global effort to reverse the decline in a major natural asset — tropical forests.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Naeem, too, would like to see a concerted global effort to create a more complete and comprehensive database of traits for the natural world.

«We really need to have a concerted global effort to keep them around.»

Despite concerted global efforts to reduce carbon emissions through the expansion of clean and renewable energy resources, fossil fuels continued to dominate the global energy sector in 2012, according to new figures released yesterday by the Worldwatch Institute.

Not exact matches

The report commissioned by the British government and published in May predicted global production losses of $ 100 trillion between now and 2050 if concerted efforts to stem antimicrobial resistance are not taken.

Cities like London and Kuala Lumpur are making concerted efforts to establish themselves as global sharia finance centres, and Hejazi warns that Canada has ground to make up on the U.K., the U.S. and Australia in the Anglo - Saxon world alone.

Perhaps it can prevent such situations from arising by involving more and more countries in the Belt and Road Initiative in order to make concerted efforts to build a shared community and make greater contributions to global development.

The weaker overall outlook for global economic growth could prove the decisive factor in persuading the ECB to further ease monetary policy in a concerted effort to stop the eurozone's recovery from stalling.

A final consideration is that the imbalances and inequities which are a characteristic of the global economy can not be corrected by unilateral actions but requires a concerted effort.

«We have seen the results of a concerted effort and coordinated approach to malaria in the region,» says Izaskun Gaviria, the Global Fund's Senior Fund Portfolio Manager for RAI.

In fact, some scientists say that it seems to be part of a «global, concerted effort» on the part of humpbacks.

In 2012, Bacardi, along with other leading producers of spirits, wine, and beer, decided to unite in a concerted effort to tackle the global problem of harmful use of alcohol through the creation of five Commitments to Reduce Harmful Drinking for delivery over a five - year period (2013 - 2017).

In addition to ensuring our suppliers comply with the food safety standards recognized by Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), we make a concerted effort to give diverse companies such as small, women - owned, minority - owned and veteran - owned businesses the opportunity to supply quality product options that meet our company's growing business needs.

To bolster perceptions of Russia as a great power, Putin has made a concerted effort to expand the Russian military's global reach.

American scientists «have been engaged in a quiet but concerted effort to figure out how quickly existing technology can be deployed to defeat global warming,» McKibben wrote, calling it a «modest start... for a mighty Manhattan Project.»

On the other hand, while sustained high oil prices could provide climate change mitigation efforts a mild boost, the study concludes that such market developments would be no substitute for concerted global policy to limit climate change to below 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

With the pursuit to achieve world's best technology, the newly introduced All - new Elantra was developed with concerted efforts of all our employees at Hyundai Motor,» said Woong - Chul Yang, Vice Chairman of Hyundai Motor Group's R&D Center during the All - new Elantra launch ceremony in Namyang R&D Center, the heart of Hyundai Motor's global R&D network and birthplace of all Hyundai cars, today.

The emphasis is on global solutions to environmental and social sustainability, including concerted efforts for rapid technology development, dematerialization of the economy, and improving equity.

However, this in itself is not enough — in this global age we need more concerted international effort to stop human right abuse.

The 2 centigrade target is noble (though still dangerous as pointed out in this and other fora), but it very much remains to be seen that this threshold can indeed be implemented and maintained which would require a truly global concerted effort and understanding.

We don't need renewable energy so much as global concerted effort to reduce population.

The Global Green Freight Action Plan calls on governments, private sector, civil society, and other actors to work in concert to align and enhance existing green freight efforts, develop and...

This article by Jane McAdam traces the «catalytic effect» of paragraph 14 (f) of the Cancún Adaptation Framework, through to the concerted, but ultimately unsuccessful effort of the UNHCR in 2011 to get states to agree to the formulation of a «global guiding framework» on displacement relating to climate change and natural disasters.

It shows that millions of people's lives have improved due to concerted global, regional, national and local efforts to achieve the MDGs, which serve as the foundation for the next global development agenda.

A fifth of global human - caused carbon emissions today are absorbed by terrestrial ecosystems; this important carbon sink operates largely without human intervention, but could be increased through a concerted effort to reduce forest loss and to restore damaged ecosystems, which also co-benefits the conservation of biodiversity.

Every lost opportunity to build cohesion around international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is dire; only a concerted, global approach will be sufficient to address this problem.

If national and international leaders can't take care of basic matters of state, then what hope do we have that they can address a complex global problem, requiring unprecedented cooperation and decades of concerted effort?

Blue - Action will through its concerted efforts therefore contribute to the improvement of climate models to represent Arctic warming realistically and address its impact on regional and global atmospheric and oceanic circulation.

It also says «concerted efforts» were made in 2004 - 05 to change the way the UK media covered climate science after Tony Blair declared that global warming was one of his priorities.

This Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 demonstrates that with concerted efforts at all levels, we can achieve the goals and targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 — 2020.

The same mitigation factors are in place for oil depletion as for global warming — that is a concerted effort to reduce our dependence on hydrocarbons and to plan for alternative energy sources.

Through concerted effort, the world's governments exterminated a virus that for millennia had played an important role in global ecology, serving as a check on human numbers.

Your efforts were not time wasted, but necessary to counter the concerted disinformation campaign by the deniers and skeptics who only need to sow doubt in the mind of the public about the scientific research on global warming.

They note that emissions from this plant would «seriously undermin [e] the concerted efforts being undertaken by multiple states to address global warming.»

«But I'm very confident our concerted efforts as global enterprises will affect change and encourage other companies to follow our lead.»

With a potential viewership of hundreds of millions around the world, Huawei will be leveraging the tournament to establish itself as a global consumer brand and to promote its concerted effort to integrate cloud solutions into all of its upcoming smart phones and devices.

Renowned scientist Stephen Hawking recently called for a concerted effort to launch humans into space saying: «To leave Earth demands a concerted global approach,...