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.
Not exact matches
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 deforestati
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 deforestati
from 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