Sentences with phrase «global consensus»

This resolution adds to the fast - growing global consensus that to end marine plastic pollution we must invest in improved municipal solid waste management.

In a remarkable moment of global consensus, the member states of both the United Nations (UN), through its adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), through its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018, prioritized education for global citizenship and global competence.

Creating global consensus for deciding whether or not to use and then, if yes, how to make it happen — including how to minimise termination risks — will be a massive undertaking.»

The Commission took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on,» Apple said.

How might Big Butter design a study (like the Siri - Tarino and Chowdhury meta - analyses) to undermine global consensus guidelines to reduce saturated fat intake?

On the one hand, division and acrimony; on the other, global consensus in a time of real need for unity.

-LSB-...] Twenty years have passed since the fall of the Berlin wall, when the UN undertook to build a «new global consensus» on the norms, values and priorities of international cooperation for the post-Cold War era and the 21st century.

ex-PM John Howard is representative of a distinct alternative ** global consensus ** of key ** public opinion makers ** in the media, in business, in politics, even Priests and Archbishops, with influence and a distinct public presence about Climate Change today.

We are, all of us, fortunate that it did so, for this has left the IWC well - positioned to further extend its commitment to protection for whales, and to honor the developing global consensus against the legitimacy of commercial whaling.

In Holochain's fledgling system, no true global consensus is maintained.

Since the 1990s, this has become an all but unquestionable global consensus, and neither presidential candidate is going to disrupt it.

In all likelihood it will serve as the unifying worldview that will undergird any future global consensus.

Applications can therefore interact without attempting to achieve global consensus: a system that presents a retailer's wares to customers will harvest information from suppliers» databases (themselves likely to use heterogeneous formats) and map it onto the retailer's preferred ontology before being displayed to customers.

Bush proposed that a conference be held by the summer to formally establish such a goal and pave the way for a «global consensus at the U.N. in 2009.»

Whether we are considering the importance of advancing innovation to business organizations or higher education research, people who are involved in these endeavors on the front lines need a vision for the future of eLearning that is built on a strong global consensus.

While the Paris Agreement and the neo-liberal global consensus certainly falls far short of meaningfully addressing the current climate crisis, the rising authoritarianism and denial of climate science exhibited by the Trump administration embodies an even more dangerous direction.

So is a top - down, global consensus needed to achieve a good Anthropocene?

Prime Minister John Howard was never enthusiastic about addressing global warming but public sentiment meant his government had to be part of the emerging global consensus to do something serious.

This requires abandoning the irreducibly global consensus seeking approach in favor of open debate and discussion of a broad range of policy options that stimulate local and regional solutions to the multifaceted and interrelated issues surrounding climate change.

The purpose of the conference process was to build a new integrated world vision, a new world order, a new global consensus, on the norms, values and priorities for the international community in the new era: education (Jomtien, 1990); children (New - York, 1990); the environment (Rio, 1992); human rights (Vienna, 1993); population (Cairo, 1994); social development (Copenhagen, 1995); women (Beijing, 1995); housing (Istanbul, 1996); and food security (Rome, 1996).

«The proposed turnover tax aimed at online platforms is discriminatory and ignores the global consensus that the so - called «digital economy» should not be singled out,» said Christian Borggreen, vice president of tech trade association CCIA Europe.

But a report by the OECD published on March 16 indicated that there is still no global consensus on how best to proceed with the taxation of the digital economy or on the merits of an interim solution.

Unlike the years before the crisis, the global consensus now is that governments should be agnostic when it comes to fiscal policy; too much debt is problematic (Greece, Spain, etc.), but it can take more than a balanced budget to inspire business confidence and get executives to spend.

Meanwhile, China said it remains committed with its Prime Minister saying that fighting climate change is a «global consensus» and an «international responsibility».

There is no global consensus that the world is a community and should be made more tolerable for all its people.

«The proposed turnover tax aimed at online platforms is discriminatory and ignores the global consensus that the so - called «digital economy» should not be singled out,»

But one of the consequences of widespread use of gas attacks in WWI was a global consensus that this should not happen again.

This further raises tension in South Asia, undermines the global consensus on non-proliferation.

The Wall Street Journal editorial page has for years railed against these scientific findings on climate change, even as the global consensus has reached nearly 100 percent of the scientific community, including the reports commissioned by the skeptical Bush White House.

We must build on the global consensus around the Sustainable development goals, particularly on gender and on Land degradation neutrality to turn dreams into reality for poor rural women.

Globally there is also more attention; for example the G8 leaders» statement «Promoting Global Health» in July 2009 [21], the global consensus statement for MNCH in September 2009 [22], and an announcement by Canada's Prime Minister that MNCH will be a top priority for the 2010 G8 meeting [23].

However, despite these impressive results, there is no global consensus on the role of estrogens in glaucoma.

As the world's trusted, authoritative voice on lifestyle as medicine, we demonstrate and disseminate the global consensus on the fundamental, evidence - based principles of lifestyle as medicine, we will change the global understanding of lifestyle practices that most likely help people live longer and live healthier.

Clearly, there is a need to come to a global consensus on what concrete actions we need to consider in overcoming these harmful and tragic boundaries.

These measures are very much out of step with the global consensus on the appropriate role of central banks, and they would seriously impair the prospects for economic and financial stability in the United States.

Their legality is subject to legislation, often based on a global consensus.

«We're afforded so much optimism and education and time to do these things, and this is not the global consensus.»

I still can't imagine a scenario in which a single actor would initiate some sun - blocking initiative or, in contrast, a global consensus could be reached on its deployment (unless things get truly unhinged on the up side).

It's time the United States really and truly joined the global consensus — that climate change is now.