Sentences with phrase «from global burdens»

The GDRs considers both inequality within countries and inequality between countries: national obligations are based on the exemption of poor individuals (under a «development threshold») from global burdens.
Just one in 20 people worldwide (4 · 3 %) had no health problems in 2013, with a third of the world's population (2 · 3 billion individuals) experiencing more than five ailments, according to a major new analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2013, published in The Lancet.
Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health - related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.

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Given limited resources, officials and observers said, the Commission's competition directorate is likely to focus on a fairly small number in the expectation that success — still to be tested in court — can deter others from going to extremes in reducing their global tax burdens.
The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.
The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60
«The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010, from where the quoted study has obtained their data, suggests that in Australia the biggest causes of mortality or poor health include factors such as obesity, smoking, poor diet and low physical activity.
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Osborne has shifted the burden of the bank levy from large banks with global balance sheets such as HSBC and Standard Chartered, who can easily get up and leave, and on to smaller banks and building societies, who can't leave.
Finally, an estimate of the burden of alcohol - attributable breast cancer incidence and mortality by means of a Population - Attributable Fraction methodology (using data on alcohol consumption from the Global Information System on Alcohol and Health, and data on cancer incidence and mortality from the GLOBOCAN database) showed that an estimated 144,000 breast - cancer cases and 38,000 breast - cancer deaths globally in 2012 were attributable to alcohol, with 18.8 % of these cases and 17.5 % of these deaths affecting women who were light drinkers.
To figure out not only how many people die from specific diseases but also how much each disease affects people's quality of life, researchers in 1992 first estimated what's called the global burden of disease.
The reports are based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative effort of researchers from 50 countries around the world led by IHME at the University of Washington in the United States and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
An estimated 627,000 Indians die prematurely each year from outdoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization's Global Burden of Disease project.
In the last decade, the global burden of disease has shifted from communicable disease to non-communicable disease, including heart disease.
Far from just inverting the burden of proof, with IPCC's statements, Trenberth has to show far beyond just «statistical evidence» of «anthropogenic global warming» AGW.
(Source: Wellcome Trust) The global burden of dengue infection is more than triple current estimates from the World Health Organization, according to a multinational study published in the journal «Nature».
«Contemporary African art has been present on the global art scene long enough for imaginary forms stemming from creative minds to be apprehended first and foremost through the intrinsic nature and the intricate relations between form, medium and space, before being loaded with the burden of history and cultural specificity.»
[9:10 a.m. Insert More of the logic in expediting a shift from coal to natural gas in developing countries comes from the latest pollution mortality estimates, as reported in the Global Burden of Disease study in The Lancet.]
It predicts an annual global mean first indirect forcing of -1.5 W m - 2 from an anthropogenic sulfate burden of 0.59 Tg S. Most of the cooling occurs in norhtern hemisphere (NH), where most anthropogenic sources of aerosol are located.
China will make the decision not only with the understanding of its own situation... but also the overall design of the global responsibility system, including looking at the share of burden or benefits in the process from other countries — for example the United States, Europe, Japan.
The EC burden - sharing framework, unfortunately, is complex and somewhat ad hoc, and even if it worked internationally — even if it demonstrably protected the South's right to development — its lack of transparency would prevent it from being acceptable as a principle - based, global burden - sharing framework.
By incorporating geographical information into models for wind energy, researchers from KAUST have developed an innovative statistical tool that reduces the computational burden of locating global wind resources.
The G - 77 ′ s position is that emissions from developed countries are already projected to peak in the next 10 years, so a global emissions peak in the same time period means the burden falls to developing countries, while for developed countries it'd be business as usual.
Although the human burden of population has soared from 2.5 bn to more than 7bn in one lifetime, in 2010, the scientists say, the OECD countries that are home to 18 % of the world's population accounted for 74 % of global gross domestic product, so most of the human imprint on the Earth System comes from the world represented by the OECD.
«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.
At present it is not possible to estimate global trends of multidrug - resistant tuberculosis because information from high burden countries is lacking.
Scientists proposing catastrophic majority anthropogenic global warming models (a.k.a. «Climate change») bear the burden of proof of providing clear robust evidence supporting validated model predictions of anthropogenic warming with strong significant differences from this climatic null hypothesis.
However, a counter argument can be made that a regime is just if total emissions from the area within the jurisdiction of the government are below the government's fair share of safe global emission regardless of whether some emitters are not covered by the government's ghg allocation because governments have the right to make decisions distributing the burdens and benefits of government policies within their jurisdiction.
From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestatiFrom a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestatifrom deforestation.)
The direct radiative forcing (DRF) is strongest in the Northern Hemisphere summer when the insolation is the highest although different seasonal cycles of the sulphate burden from the chemical transport models result in maximum global mean radiative forcings ranging from May to August (e.g., Haywood and Ramaswamy, 1998), the ratio of the June - July - August / December - January - February radiative forcing being estimated to lie in the range less than 2 (e.g., van Dorland et al., 1997) to > 5 (e.g., Penner et al., 1998b; Grant et al., 1999) with a mean of approximately 3.3.
Comments like this from Keith Trenberth: «Given that global warming is «unequivocal», to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence [on the climate].»
Provided that the excess carbon emissions came from activities that accelerated the decline of global poverty (e.g., by enabling more of the global poor to electrify their homes and businesses more quickly), such overshooting could help reduce the injustices associated with global poverty without unjustly burdening future generations.
According to the WHO, it is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide.1 More than 300 million people are estimated to be suffering from depression, corresponding to 4.4 % of the global population.1 Depression is more common among older adults, with a prevalence of 7 % and believed to be underestimated.2 As the world population ages, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of older adults with depressive symptoms and associated global health burden.3
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