Sentences with phrase «global commitment»

It ranks countries based on their performance and details the challenges and opportunities that advanced economies face in achieving global commitments to children.

This latest endeavor is part of the company's overarching global commitment to getting people to read more.

What I do find obvious is that as long as there are nation - states, we need a global agreement with a genuine global commitment to eliminate net carbon emission.

«Global commitments made in Paris in 2015 to reduce emissions are still not being matched by actions,» said Glen Peters, a research director at Cicero who led one of the studies.

It is difficult to imagine a surge in global commitment when a country that represents just 4.5 percent of the world's population and around 19 percent of worldwide carbon emissions votes to use the atmosphere as a garbage can.

«We have revised our sustainability ambitions and targets in the light of global commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, as well as our own corporate strategy «SAIL» 22».

The new UNCCD 2018 - 2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations.

Shell CEO Peter Voser, at a briefing with news media May 16 at a business forum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, said government support in Canada had made his company's investment in the Quest CCS project feasible, but it would be difficult to advance the technology without global commitment to cut carbon emissions.

It finds that across the oil and gas industry $ 2.3 trillion of upstream projects — roughly a third of business as usual projects to 2025 — are inconsistent with global commitments to limit climate change to a maximum 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.

In the closing moments of the talks, Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been in Paris for much of the talks, called the deal «a remarkable global commitment.»

In the foreword to the report Dr Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief said: «Despite global commitments to promote and to protect freedom of religion or belief, the scale of violations remains enormous, with almost 80 per cent of the world's population living in countries with «high» or «very high» levels of restrictions and / or hostilities towards certain beliefs.»

«We've seen the AWS Standard help businesses translate global commitments into on - the - ground action, which includes working with others in a basin on shared water challenges,» said Alexis Morgan, Water Stewardship Lead at WWF.

New briefings show that while some banks are making good progress, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement.

«And we are now at a decision point: sustained global commitments and recent funding cuts affect capacity and capability for a full - spectrum fight against a near - peer adversary.»

The focus on finding jobs for youth is an extension of Starbucks global commitment to hiring Opportunity Youth — those between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren't in school and aren't working.

campaign is part of Walmart's larger global commitment to provide meals to those in need.

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.

As founding members of the International Alliance for Responsible Drinking (IARD), we have signed Global Commitments to reduce alcohol misuse, through commitments for reducing underage drinking, strengthening and expanding marketing codes of practice, reducing drunk driving, providing responsible product innovation and consumer information and enlisting retailer support.

A similar global commitment to assist Afghan government's development efforts beyond 2014 is expected at the international donors» conference on Afghanistan, to be held in July in Tokyo.

Thus, the impact of the crisis and its aftermath on Europe has not yet prevented ambitious EU - level efforts, which go beyond global commitments.

Jeffersonians eschew burdensome global commitments in favour of concentrating on domestic policies.

(a) Increasing the political momentum: Active promotion of the UNCCD, notably by linking scientific findings with political decision - making, supports a growing global commitment to halt land degradation and rehabilitate already degraded land.

Pfizer Animal Health Expands Global Commitment to a Safe Food Supply with a New Focus on Healthy Fish

It is now clear that the outcome of the Paris climate talks was a game changer, delivering a renewed global commitment to addressing climate change.

Rapid ratification of Paris Agreement is a historic step forward, IEA says Approval by the world's major economies signals a strong global commitment in the battle against climate change 6 October 2016

«If the administration does propose rules that are ambitious, it will demonstrate leadership about their broader global commitment.»

President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement is bad for the U.S. and bad for the world, but has galvanized global commitments to the goals of climate stabilization and to the agreement itself.

The unprecedented acceptance of the Convention clearly shows a wide global commitment to advancing children's rights.

The new UNCCD 2018 - 2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast expanses of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations to build

Some pundits are claiming that in terms of global commitment, Trump's decision may actually improve things as other countries decide to step up just to spite us:

Despite global commitments to increase the number of protected areas, less than 3 % of the world's oceans are now protected within an MPA.

A «Skill - sharing session on monitoring of gender - responsive climate policy» brought forth research on possible synergies or tradeoffs between gender equality and other objectives for climate policy, while a panel discussion with the same partners looked at «Gender equality in climate policy: Translating global commitments to national policy».

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

We can not now talk meaningfully about world order without discussing whether this global commitment to economism is to be accepted.

Bishop Nicholas said: «I am, frankly, very disturbed by President Trump's decision to revoke the United States» commitment to the Paris Agreement, which was a global commitment made in good faith.».

As part of The Salvation Army's global commitment to fighting modern slavery and human trafficking an International Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce has been established.

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization serving the world's most vulnerable by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources to create long - term, sustainable change.

More information about Nestlé Waters» global commitment can be found here.

Through IARD, leading beverage alcohol producers put our commercial competitiveness aside to create a shared force in our Global Commitments to Reduce Harmful Drinking — the most ambitious and comprehensive set of initiatives we have undertaken as an industry to date.

Someone told me once that McDonalds has a global commitment to maintaining a certain standard of washroom — that all McDonalds restrooms must have a North American - style toilet with a toilet seat, toilet paper, and a sink with soap.

«We support the development of a global commitment for public country by country reporting on tax information for large multinational enterprises.

Policymakers in Beijing must recognize that U.S. military forces have global commitments and that only a portion of these are dedicated to the Asia - Pacific.

Miliband represented the UK at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit, from which emerged a global commitment to provide an additional US$ 10 billion a year to fight the effects of climate change, with an additional $ 100 billion a year provided by 2020.

The Foreign Office told inthenews.co.uk it was «working hard to reinvigorate the global commitment to a world free from nuclear weapons».