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By Joachim Marc Christensen, Project Coordinator of the Global Opportunity Network This week the UN adopts what some regard as a wish list of overambitious goals.

(September 20, 2016) At the 12th and final Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting, 30 partners joined No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an initiative of the Clinton Foundation, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and WEConnect International to announce a new series of commitments that address significant gender gaps and advance the gender equality targets of the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The project's goal is to change the global approach of employers to human labour and its conditions.

To project realistic goals for the society of the future in both its national and global dimensions, to nourish a consciousness embodying the ideas, ideals, and life - styles appropriate to the emerging society — these define basic tasks to which the public ministry of the church should be directed.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

BGI was set up as an independent research institute in 1999 in order to represent Chinese scientists in the Human Genome Project (www.genome.gov/10001772), and recently signed an agreement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to collaborate on genetics studies tied to global health and agricultural breakthroughs envisioned as part of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (www.un.org/millenniumgoals).

Calling for establishment of facility to secure financing for large projects addressing global challenges and achieving Sustainable Development Goals Facility will enhance implementation of all three Rio Conventions.

Obviously, for this goal, we need the collaboration of people working outside of neuroscience and also efficient cooperation among the global brain projects.

«There is strong demand for a Rio Conventions Project Preparation Facility to help finance large - scale, transformative projects that can deliver multiple benefits in addressing global challenges and in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals,» said Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the Desertification Convention.

Calling for establishment of facility to secure financing for large projects addressing global challenges and achieving Sustainable Development Goals

The goal of the Integrated Scenarios project is to use the global climate models to describe as accurately as possible what the latest science says about the Northwest's future climate.

The goal of this project was to craft a collective narrative from interviews of 30 global leaders who represent government, civil society and business interests — all making the case that deforestation must stop immediately if we are to protect our planet from the grim realities of climate change.

The project also further advances the University's goal of improving health and the human condition, which is one of the main pillars of UTA's Strategic Plan 2020: Bold Solutions Global Impact.

The Human Vaccines Project is a new public - private partnership, with the goal of accelerating development of improved vaccines and immunotherapies for global infectious diseases and cancers by decoding the human immune system.

Dr. Cole's project, «Mechanistic Derivation of Germ Line Mutation by Genome - Wide Mouse Tetrad Analysis,» will help define the global patterns of de novo germ line mutations and the frequencies at which such mutations occur in mice, with the long term goal of understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying germ line mutagenesis and developing strategies to prevent or treat disorders caused by such mutations.

TRANSVAC is a new infrastructure project - funded by the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020 - that aims to accelerate the development of effective vaccines urgently needed to address European and global health challenges with the ultimate goal to build an efficient and sustainable collaboration of experts and facilities to catalyse vaccine research in Europe.

Along with the ALMA VLBI friend Violette Impellizzeri and the ALMA Phasing Project (APP) lead scientist Geoff Crew, the trio explains the purpose of observations at ALMA as part of the global network of the Event Horizon Telescope, which have the goal of imaging super-massive black holes.

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Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.

Although these projects are in their nascent stages, they are the stepping stones to my ultimate goal in pushing the frontier of global education.

Participants become global citizens who make a difference through collaboration on projects with the goal of improving everyone's quality of life.

That the project was global in scope and sought to reach an understanding of other cultures satisfied IB goals.

It was an artist from Florida with The RAW (Re-imagining the Arts Worldwide) Project, a non-profit that connects global artists to local schools with the goal of beautifying school campuses.

«Long - term goals of Project GO include providing education and training for veterinary healthcare professionals in developing countries, creating a network of global partnerships and alliances for the care of injured animals, connecting human and veterinary health breakthroughs through translational medicine, and to provide funding for the cultivation of lifesaving breakthroughs in veterinary medicine.»

To achieve this goal, the company partnered with NativeEnergy, an organization that aims to combat global warming through the support of Native American, farmer - owned and charitable renewable energy projects.

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes's project The People's United Nations (pUN) is both an exhibition and an event that puts the diplomatic and global problem - solving goals of the United Nations in the hands of ordinary people.

Apart from two main venues in Hong Kong and the capital, a dedicated project space has been inaugurated to host experimental exhibitions with the goal of breaking down cultural boundaries and providing an alternative vision to the global art market.

The goal of this project is in to cultivate a discourse involving pertinent local / national / global issues, by creating a supportive network for artists, thinkers and doers.

The «Clean Sky» initiative, reports Israel21c is the largest European research project ever and is designed to tackle global warming — with a budget estimated to reach over 1.6 billion Euros, the project «aims to radically improve the impact of air transport on the environment with the goal of eliminating environmental pollution by reducing greenhouse gases.»

The project's goal it to both inform global efforts to eradicate hunger and raise the profile of these efforts.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

Climate Science Watch: Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.

Now they're being used by the new IMPACT2C project, which is looking to provide new estimates for the impact and economic cost of climate change in Europe if global warming is limited to the international goal of no more than 2 degrees Celsius, relative to Western European pre-industrial levels.

ClimateCare's approach to delivery of multiple sustainability objectives in its development projects has been a hallmark of our approach for some time; now with the Gold Standard for Global Goals, ClimateCare clients will be able to obtain certification under the Gold Standard for these broader impacts.

«ClimateCare is uniquely placed to help bring Gold Standard for the Global Goals to market, as they have already undertaken a number of projects on behalf of corporate clients with funding structured around beyond - carbon development outcomes» comments Marion Verles, CEO of Gold Standard.

With a single, streamlined certification process that reduces costs and complexity, Gold Standard for the Global Goals will assess the impact of project activities toward the Sustainable Development Goals» targets and indicators, allowing demonstration of real progress toward meeting the ambition of the 2030 global development aGlobal Goals will assess the impact of project activities toward the Sustainable Development Goals» targets and indicators, allowing demonstration of real progress toward meeting the ambition of the 2030 global development aglobal development agenda.

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.

Scientists involved with the Past Global Changes (PAGES) project have developed goals and recommendations for studying the paleoclimate of the past 2000 years.

The goal of this project was to craft a collective narrative from interviews of 30 global leaders who represent government, civil society and business interests — all making the case that deforestation must stop immediately if we are to protect our planet from the grim realities of climate change.

The primary goal of the EdGCM (Educational Global Climate Model) Project is to enhance the quality of climate - change science teaching and learning at the high school level through broader access to actual GCMs, and to assist teachers by providing the appropriate technology, materials and support to use these research - quality climate models effectively in the classroom.

Photo: Mike Segar - Reuters In order to promote his project, the Clinton Global Initiative, former president Bill Clinton spoke to Brazilian magazine Veja and said one of the hardest goals of his organization is «to make of environmental preservation a

Participants in the webinars examined frameworks for global development goals and connections to health indicators, the role for health in the context of novel sustainable economic frameworks that go beyond gross domestic product, and scenarios to project climate change impacts and health outcomes.

The goal of the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, which was established in 2007, is to help identify and advance scientifically sound, economically sensible, and politically pragmatic public policy options for addressing global climate change.

«There is strong demand for a Rio Conventions Project Preparation Facility to help finance large - scale, transformative projects that deliver multiple benefits in addressing global challenges and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals,» said Monique Barbut, Executive Secretary of the Desertification Convention.

For all the effort to portray the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase as evidence of a sinister top - down industry directive, it is clearly obvious that it was little more than an oddly worded way of saying the goal of Western Fuels pilot project PR campaign was to show how the supposed «settled science» of man - caused global warming was not actually settled.

According to analysis from Project Catalyst hitting this goal requires a 17 gigaton decrease in annual greenhouse gas emissions to 44 gigatons per year from the projected increase of global emissions of 61 gigatons by 2020 if we continue polluting at current rates (Figure 1).

Our goal is to develop and provide legal support to Rule of Law projects and initiatives in the human rights and global capacity building...