Sentences with phrase «global initiatives such»

They are not fully considered in in market oriented schemes and global initiatives such as the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD +).

As global initiatives such as the Paris Agreement and the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) come into effect, carbon neutrality has triggered a new wave of interest in sustainability from leading organizations.

Consider joining or cooperating with, as appropriate, relevant global initiatives such as the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and the Global Methane Initiative

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TIL, which typically uses its own resources or that of its deep - pocket parent BCCL to fund growth initiatives, had kicked off the uncharacteristic move of raising substantial external capital for MagicBricks Realty Services Ltd early last year when the digital real estate business in India saw the emergence of a host of new players backed by global investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger Gglobal investors such as SoftBank, News Corp and Tiger GlobalGlobal.

«IBM is proud to be the lead corporate sponsor of such a high - impact global initiative.»

This investment will enable SoundCloud to remain focused on building value for creators and listeners alike, and to continue the global rollout of many company initiatives such as our recently launched subscription service, SoundCloud Go.»

Such an initiative could perhaps be led by Global Affairs Canada, which is heavily involved in assisting Canadian firms targeting foreign markets.

Dubbed Xiong «An Global Blockchain Innovation Fund, the new initiative was announced Monday at the opening ceremony of a new Blockchain Industrial Park in Hangzhou - a Chinese city noted for its support for innovation and which plays host to major companies such as Alibaba.

While organisations such as the Financial Stability Board (FSB), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors take the lead in setting global standards, we contribute to global regulatory initiatives by participating in their task forces and committees to work on implementing financial regulatory reforms, enhancing standards and facilitating market development.

In addition, we highlight global best practices such as policies, programs and breakthrough initiatives that jumpstart the growth of high - impact female entrepreneurs.

He is widely recognized as a champion of inter-industry collaboration through such initiatives as New Ways of Working Together and his efforts to establish the Global Consumer Goods Forum.

Efforts are underway by various certification bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global food companies to develop the production around poorest regions of the world, such as Africa, and to measure the actual impacts that the various initiatives, standards.

A Citizenship Ambassador for the Obama Administration and an ambassador for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves launched by Hillary Clinton, he also runs his own initiatives including World Central Kitchen, plus education and training programmes in countries such as Haiti.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

This clarification was necessitated when our Global Council, on behalf of IBFAN, had to take a strategic decision whether or not and under what conditions IBFAN should participate in two new initiatives by UNICEF and WHO, WHO NetCode, and the UNICEF Breastfeeding Advocacy Initiative, both receiving funding from the BMGF, which has direct links and gets its returns from the baby food industry and also engages with entities such as the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) that create situations of risk of conflicts of Interest in infant and young child feeding.

Baby Milk Action has demonstrated that non-binding initiatives such as the UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are ineffective.

Also present were bodies set up to further their aims, such as Epode (an initiative that promotes corporate involvement in and funding of nutrition education), the International Food and Beverage Alliance, the World Economic Forum, the Global Social Observatory and the International Association of Infant Food Manufacturers.

We have demonstrated that non-binding initiatives such as the UN Global Compact and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises are ineffective.

We know that some governments argue that regulation at international level is unnecessary because, so they say, corporations can be persuaded to change their behaviour through the UN Guiding Principles and initiatives such as the UN Global Compact.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

What makes implementing a bill such as this difficult is that the state has to work within the parameters of its self - imposed Medicaid global cap, a 2011 initiative that limits the growth in state Medicaid spending to a fixed percentage based on cost trends.

The solution to gridlock on global warming solutions is not grand policies such as the Kyoto Protocol, but smaller initiatives aligned with what each individual nation can honor.

In November, the World Bank announced that the value of global carbon pricing initiatives, such as California's cap - and - trade system, is now $ 52 billion and growing by 7 percent each year.

Instead of taking the internship to merely work on a project, accept the position to learn what makes a company successful — such as a research process, resourceful and productive employees, and global marketing initiatives.

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Harnoor even goes out in the community and leads events through his club such as initiating the conversation to make change while promoting worthwhile community causes and engaging as well as empowering local and global youth through his group's various community initiatives.

Leading global aid organizations such as USAID, The World Bank, United Nations and Global Partnerships have all started girls educational initiaglobal aid organizations such as USAID, The World Bank, United Nations and Global Partnerships have all started girls educational initiaGlobal Partnerships have all started girls educational initiatives.

Civic Enterprises is partnering with numerous organizations and programs, such as the Earth Conservation Corps, EARTH University, and the 21st Century Conservation Service Corp, to strengthen environmental policies and initiatives on a national and global scale.

While initiatives are still at work to increase global access to internet connection — such as programs like Google's Project Loon that literally plans to use high - altitude weather balloons floating over various regions around the world to provide internet access to places that otherwise wouldn't have it for decades — there's no point in having internet access if you can't afford a device to connect.

Just a speck of its fortune these days goes for public libraries compared to other praiseworthy causes such as malaria prevention in developing countries, and the foundation is phasing out its global libraries initiative.

Imagine the future world when deforestation worsens the global warming, paperless solution is one handy strategy that we can start policing our own initiative towards such environmental - friendly goals.

Art and the Feminist Revolution» and «Global Feminisms») with major projects such as Hauser Wirth & Schimmel's «Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 — 2016» (curated by Paul Schimmel and Jenni Sorkin), on view at the Los Angeles gallery through September 4, and «Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960 — 1985» (curated by Cecilia Fajardo - Hill and Andrea Giunta), opening in 2017 at UCLA's Hammer Museum as part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA initiative.

Such values continue to be expressed and Lazinc has set precedence in setting the stage for a variety of innovational exhibitions, including JR's global Inside Out initiative and 3D's major retrospective of Massive Attack visual history.

The highlighted points of emphasis in the report have been the dominant focus of research in the field of science communication and science studies for the past 15 years and the basis for recent innovative projects such as the World Wide Views on Global Warming initiative.

One such effort is Global Population Speak Out, a Web - based initiative pushed by a variegated network of scientists and campaigners.

In the same token, we expect some global initiatives for Bangladeshi people in fighting such natural menace.

-- Launch a major research initiative on the earth system and global sustainability, at a scale similar to those devoted to areas such as space, defense and health, to tap all sources of ingenuity across disciplines and across the globe.

Highlighting the goal of the IEA to become a global hub for clean energy, through support for initiatives such as the G20, Mission Innovation, and the Clean Energy Ministerial, Dr Birol noted that «international co-operation is vital for a secure and sustainable energy economy.»

Projects that combine national resources with international development initiatives such as the World Bank's Water Global Practice or the Asian Development Bank's Water for All program could leverage additional investment in the future resiliency of vital infrastructure.

The climate related focus of the EIP will likely be towards mitigation activities in the energy sector of EU Neighbourhood countries, while existing initiatives such as the Global Climate Change Alliance went completely under the radar of European Commission officials.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

ACR applauds The Climate Trust's pioneering work to foster initiatives important to market integrity such as their founding role of the Offset Quality Initiative, in which ACR, The Climate Group, the Climate Action Reserve and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change were partners.

Led by Dr. James E. Hansen from 1981 to 2013, research at GISS emphasized a broad study of global change, which is an interdisciplinary initiative addressing natural and man - made changes in our environment that occur on various time scales — from one - time forcings such as volcanic explosions, to seasonal / annual effects such as El Niño, and on up to the millennia of ice ages — and that affect the habitability of our planet.

Such initiatives after the UAE's lead to host Irena in Abu Dhabi has changed the discussion on global climate change.

Building on current developments in international initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

have already committed to setting such targets through the Science Based Targets initiative, a joint effort of CDP, the UN Global Compact, WWF and WRI.

Nearly 90 companies have already committed to setting such targets through the Science Based Targets initiative, a joint effort of CDP, the UN Global Compact, WWF and WRI.

Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»

BT continues to use alternative suppliers, such as Elevate, Axiom, Halebury, NewGalexy Services and Obelisk Support, and has launched a number of technology initiatives, such as legal projectmanagement software, document management and an internallydeveloped software tool for the wider business to seek automated regulatory advice on complex global transactions.

Her experience in Government includes initiatives such as the development of the Provincial Immigration strategy, the establishment of the Global Food Institute, the Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation, establishment of Innovation Saskatchewan, construction of the first Women's Shelter built by the Provincial Government since 1989, the creation of the Office of the Counsel for Children, and changes to the Human Rights Code regarding transgender persons and Kate's Place, a supportive residence for women who are attending Regina Drug Treatment Court.