Sentences with phrase «current global commitment»

There is a second level of concern about the current global commitment to growth that expresses itself in imposing the system of transnational trade on all.

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Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

[4] Is it possible that the current global collapse of confidence in our financial institutions could help people clutch their way back to a different sense of values and to the commitment of self which underlies any firm investment in their own happiness?

However, Marchionne fears that Liberty is going to change the sport into a kind of «global Nascar» and that if that happens, the red cars would no longer need to be a part of F1 once its current commitment ends in 2020.

The Clinton Global Initiative, which arranges donations to help solve the world's problems, set up a financial commitment that benefited a for - profit company part - owned by people with ties to the Clintons, including a current and a former Democratic official and a close friend of former President Bill Clinton.

Current national commitments to cut greenhouse gases would likely allow average global temperatures to rise by 3.5 °C by 2100, suggest new modeling results released today.

One focuses on the architecture of a new global climate treaty that would take effect after 2020, when the current Copenhagen commitments expire.

Current global climate policy is unsustainable; the U.K.'s commitment to boosting offshore wind power is only the latest example.

With estimates of the global adaptation need in the range of tens of billions to more than one hundred billion annually, the EU's current commitments fall well short of the necessary order of magnitude.)

This morning, the IEA has declared that «the age of cheap oil is over» and that current commitments by world leaders won't be anywhere near enough to limit global warming to 2C.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

As world leaders look for a signal of US commitment to forging a robust international agreement, it falls to President Obama to demonstrate that the US leadership has the political will to look beyond the tangle of current domestic politics and bring a serious commitment and a global perspective to the table.

Although the Obama administration is likely doing as much as it can under existing law, it would have to admit that its current commitments do not represent the US fair share of safe global emissions.

Ultimately, the latest scientific understanding of climate change allied with current emission trends and a commitment to «limiting average global temperature increases to below 4C above pre-industrial levels», demands a radical reframing of both the climate change agenda, and the economic characterization of contemporary society.

There is a 15 - 22 gigatonne gap between the current climate commitments nations made in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the respective emissions reductions needed to stay on track to limit the global temperature rise to 2C or 1.5 C. Subnational action can help bridge this gap and support national governments as they raise their climate commitments in the coming years.

«Keeping global temperature increase below 1 ° 5C is a matter of survival... science tells us that even full implementation of current commitments under the Paris Agreement will not be enough to reach 1 ° 5C.»

The Copenhagen Accord reaffirms the importance of limiting global warming to 2 °C (3.6 °F), but current national commitments would lead to approximately 3.9 °C (7.0 °F) warming by 2100.

A reasonable deal within this group would be nearly five times more effective than the current commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, which only covers 15 percent of global emissions.

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