Sentences with phrase «effective global response»

Ultimately, if America is to fully contribute to an effective global response to the perils of a warming planet, Congress must stop dithering.
«In the absence of an effective global response, annual economic losses due to climate change are projected to exceed US$ 400 billion by 2030 for the V20, with impacts far surpassing our local or regional capabilities,» said Cesar Purisima, Philippines finance minister.

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«Putin expressed hope for joint work to restore Russian - American relations from their state of crisis, and also to address pressing international issues and search for effective responses to challenges concerning global security,» the Kremlin said in a statement.
And rather, they threaten to undermine America's closest alliances, sabotage the prospects for a joint effective response to China's rise, and deliver a serious blow to the already fraying set of multilateral institutions that underpin global economic order.
He says it was then that it was becoming clearer to more and more investors that the world's central banks» responses to the 2007 — 08 global financial crisis were not effective in improving economic activity and that their policies should be ultimately positive for gold prices.
The Meat Free Monday campaign has had an incredible response since its launch in 2009, with many of the world's leading authorities on climate change endorsing meat reduction as an effective way of fighting global warming.
«Our position, [which] continues to this day, [was] that an approach that would exclude the majority of the world's emitters was not going to be an effective policy response to a global risk.»
Because the immune system mounts an inadequate protective response against HIV, an HIV vaccine most likely will not be as effective as proven vaccines used to control or end global outbreaks, such as yellow fever and polio vaccines, which are nearly 100 percent effective.
Ultimately, climate change is not just an issue for specific sectors and regions: It is a global issue that demands an effective policy response from the U.S..
The agencies also deliver reliable real - time assessment of earthquake activity in the US and worldwide for effective emergency response, and to protect both domestic and global US interests.
The periodic review mechanism, followed by general comments adopted by the ESCR Committee, has not proved effective in checking regressive policies imposed by states in response to the global economic crisis, and neither have the ad hoc statements on specific circumstances that significantly affect ESCR (42).
The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.
Our industry can build effective and longstanding bridges between the public and private sector, be a reliable job creator and as a global industry contribute to both climate change response and poverty alleviation.»
A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.
What we really want is much more clarity on effective policy responses — with a focus on the real issues of global economic progress and environmental protection.
Acknowledging that the global nature of climate change calls for the widest possible cooperation by all countries and their participation in an effective and appropriate international response, in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities and their social and economic conditions...
It is further noted that GM strength has good relational coherence with the temperature difference between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and that on centennial time scales the GM strength responds more directly to the effective solar forcing than the concurrent forced response in global - mean surface temperature.
Green, a longtime proponent of a technology - led response to global warming, demonstrated the effectiveness of a policy of government investment in R & D aimed at developing new low - carbon technologies, making current technologies cheaper and more effective, and expanding energy - related infrastructure such as smart grids.
Andy West is blind to his own assumption — that a science free claim of uncertainty is an effective — or recent — response to the forces of institutional, scientific and global warming zealotry arraigned against him.
This Strategic Plan recognizes that effective response to global change requires a strong scientific foundation.
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