Sentences with phrase «for global action»

He was the first executive of a major auto company to call for global action on the threat, more than 15 years ago.

An unhealthy diet is a leading preventable risk factor for poor health (1), and improving diets is a priority for global action (2).

In terms of real hopes for global action on climate change, we are now far behind where we were in 1997, or even 1992.

A nuanced reading suggests that Shell, then as now, gave more attention to the need for global action on climate, and did so earlier, than Exxon.

They are using World Breastfeeding Week to call for global action in supporting women to combine breastfeeding and work.

It built momentum for global action against emissions from burning coal, gas and oil, and helped earn the IPCC a share in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize along with US climate campaigner and ex-US vice president Al Gore.

NEW YORK: The iconic Empire State Building in New York City is going green on Friday September 22 to mark Climate Week NYC 2017 and demonstrate support for global action on climate change.

He also responded to the call of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations led by Parliamentarians for Global Action to lead them in the preparatory meetings and dialogue at New York, USA, of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court.

«We are indeed very worried and our article is a call for global action from the scientific community at large and from the public and policymakers to prevent this.»

«History will credit President Obama for turning the U.S. from climate laggard to climate leader, by acting at home and forging the international consensus for global action that is now coming to fruition,» said David Doniger, climate and clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

It's been a busy year for global action star Liam Neeson who delivers a riveting performance in his new suspense thriller, «A Walk Among the Tombstones,» his fifth major film to hit theaters in 2014.

From 6 to 8 March, the Global Review Forum for the Global Action Programme (GAP) will take stock of progress since 2014, when the programme was launched, and examine the way forward.

Economics of Climate mitigation: Policy options for global action beyond 2012.

It is time for global action — the world is watching.»

Though many fear the planned exit from the Agreement by the United States could slow progress, support for global action remains high and UN negotiators have pledged to forge ahead with detailing the rules for implementation while in Bonn.

This year's UN Climate Summit in Doha, Qatar represents another lost opportunity for global action to reduce carbon emissions and slow global warming.

Second, the Philippines has also agreed that the collective INDCs shall be the basis for global action toward a low - carbon, climate - resilient future.

The momentum for global action on climate change refused to be overshadowed by the election of a climate denier to the US Presidency, according to Friends of the Earth International, as the international climate conference in Marrakech came concluded today.

Despite 147 heads of state emphasizing the need for global action during the last two days, one thing is clear...

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Whereas the exemption for Developing Country Parties is inconsistent with the need for global action on climate change and is environmentally flawed;

Our politicians and public need to recognise the need for global action and provide the necessary political mandate for reform and resources that are required for effective governance, if this is to be achieved.

• Finally, in this week's editorial, Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of London, calls for global action to ensure the mobility of researchers as they travel to conferences and foreign laboratories:

It noted «entry into force» of the pact and its implementation and called for global action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution.

For global action to counter warming, the big question remains who sets the thermostat?

Here's a 2009 post on «the climate bill in climate context» with a bit more background on how American legislation relates to the need for global action, mostly in developing countries, to blunt the rising human impact on the atmosphere.

The Oxfam charity has launched its GROW campaign, which calls for global action to fix a broken food system where 925 million people already go hungry every day.

Over the past year, the United States has helped draft the rulebook for implementing the Paris climate accord, signed international memoranda calling for global action to fight climate change, boosted funding for overseas clean energy projects, and contributed to global research on the dangers and causes of the Earth's warming.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change used its strongest language yet in a report on the causes of climate change, prompting calls for global action to control emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.

In the real world, where UN negotiations have not only failed to agree on an international regime of national emissions targets adding up to a safe global target, but have even agreed to delay such an agreement until it will be too late, radical unilateral action is needed to get a momentum for global action.