Sentences with phrase «global mobilization»
The obstacles which hindered global mobilization of resources and people have vanished and the world seems to have been liberated from the artificial boundaries.
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As everyone knows, the Copenhagen talks failed to catapult us into the ambitious global mobilization we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The real question is whether this new configuration offers us new ways forward, and if any of them lead beyond the «North / South impasse (a misleading formulation that implies an equal division of blame) to enable a meaningful global mobilization.
About 40 students have already confirmed participation, interested in the call for Global Mobilization for Divestment.
If we're to scale to the necessary global mobilization at anything like the necessary speed, we're going to need a lot more than Paris can possibly deliver.
How should we contrive the necessary global mobilization?
But having written elsewhere about the global mobilizations over insults supposed to have been delivered Muhammad, from the publication of The Satanic Verses to Danish cartoons of the Prophet, I want to focus here on the politics of those who defend free expression against such «theological» challenges.
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«The frustrating, protracted Cold War demanded vigilance, mobilization, global engagement, steely nerves, strong stomachs, and patience,» he writes, «traits very unlike those that Americans habitually took into war.»
We also talk with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of Church Mobilization for World Relief and the co-author of «Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis,» about how you can help some of the world's most vulnerable communities.
I also oversee the world of our global prayer mobilization.
Like many disasters, the devastating earthquake in Haiti has prompted a widespread mobilization of aid and a global outpouring of support as the poorest country in the western hemisphere finds itself in crisis.
Yet more than the transformation of the international order following the Cold War, or the role of television in the emergence of global forms of mobilization, it is this fundamentally Christian narrative that continues to provide the defenders of free expression with a template by which to understand events like the Rushdie Affair.
The level of public concern about this global issue is mostly influenced by the mobilization efforts of political leaders and advocacy groups, new research shows.
The concept of rapid, full - scale mobilization against global warming is a hard sell; dramatic actions are normally driven by immediate threats, not distant, uncertain trends.
Yet they also acknowledge the need for political mobilization given the increased likelihood that Yasuni will again be considered open to oil exploration — what Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has repeatedly characterized as his only plan B alternative if global funding doesn't come through.
Resolve to commit resources for its implementation, including mobilization of financial and technical support from the international community, and welcome and sincerely appreciate the pledges to support the Program made during the Global Snow Leopard Conservation Forum.
Perhaps the greatest attraction and chief benefit of intratumoral therapies is their ability to synergize with systemic checkpoint therapies and accelerate the development of a lymphoid infiltrate and perhaps secondary lymphoid structures in vivo, which in turn can result in systemic mobilization of a T - cell response: the local injection — global effect model.
«The Sea Hawk» was reissued years later at a much shorter 103 version - an unthinkable length, given the film's finely crafted screenplay - but it was restored to its original 127 minute length in the Eighties, including Elizabeth's «mobilization» speech to wartime British audiences, which alludes to Hitler's global domination scheme.
At all levels of human organization, from the global to the regional, the national and the local, there has to be mobilization and a problem - solving approach to address the challenges of sustainability.
Of course, there's a risk of manipulation or polarization, but they also have the power to activate global political mobilization.
It also doesn't help that there are almost no grass roots mobilization efforts being carried out by national environmental groups over the issue of global warming other than 350.org.
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Strong's persistent calls for an international mobilization to combat environmental calamities, even when they are exaggerated (population growth) or scientifically unproven (global warming), have set the world's environmental agenda.»
Let's call that kind of action global emergency mobilization.
Using the Global Climate Action Summit as a motivating moment, the Peoples Climate Movement will execute a comprehensive organizing and mobilization plan.
The Greenhouse Development Rights (GDRs) framework is a Equity Reference Framework that is designed to support an emergency global climate mobilization while, at the same time, preserving the rights of all people to reach a dignified level of sustainable human development free of the privations of poverty.
An increasing global RS value does not necessarily constitute a positive feedback to the atmosphere, as it could be driven by higher carbon inputs to soil rather than by mobilization of stored older carbon.
Gopal has been active in many people powered direct action movements, including the Global Justice / Anti-Globalization Movement, Direct Action to Stop the War, Mobilization for Climate Justice, Take Back the Land, and Occupy.
Our Global Divestment Mobilization from May 5 - 13, 2017 mobilized people and encouraged more activists in over 270 communities in 45 countries to join the fight.
Just this May during 350.org's Global Divestment Mobilization, thousands of people attended over 260 events in 45 countries on 6 continents to put pressure on institutions to break their financial ties with fossil fuel companies.
Innovate4Climate 2018 will convene global leaders from industry, government and multi-lateral agencies for a one - day Summit, workshops and a Marketplace, to work and dialogue on development of innovative financing instruments and approaches to support low - carbon, climate - resilient development pathways; mobilization of private investments in climate action; support to developing countries in their NDCs implementation; development of ideas on how market - based and non-market based climate finance instruments identified in the Paris Agreement can best be designed to maximize impact and minimize costs.
His principle interest is distributional justice within an emergency global climate mobilization, which he hopes to live to see.
It's now well understood that what's needed to stop this unfolding apocalypse is an emergency transformation of the global economy — a WWII - scale mobilization to rapidly restore a stable climate and reverse ecological overshoot.
CHANGE / 350 Vietnam held activities that educated the public and youths about the Global Divestment Mobilization 2017, and encourage them to collectively send their demands to banks investing in coal with street art and online communications.
Over 150 people attended 350.org Japan's two - day «Earth Choice Festa» event for the Global Divestment Mobilization.
Many partners are supporting the Summit and the mobilization in advance including Climate Group; the Global Covenant of Mayors; the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group; BSR; We Mean Business; CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project; the World Wide Fund for Nature; Mission 2020
«Democratic Platform Committee members voted in favor of an historic amendment categorizing climate change as a global emergency requiring a World War II - scale mobilization.
Delaying the peak year even further to 2020 could necessitate global emissions reduction rates of up to 9 % per year — i.e. reductions on an almost inconceivable scale, entailing technological feats and social sacrifices on a scale comparable to those of the Allied mobilization during the Second World War.26
Figueres stressed that the completion of the Fund's institutional design and its initial resource mobilization can also provide new impetus towards a successful conclusion of a global climate change agreement in Paris in 2015.
This event will convene global leaders from industry, government and multi-lateral from industry, government and multi-lateral agencies to work and dialogue on development of innovative financing instruments and approaches to support low - carbon, climate - resilient development pathways; mobilization of private investments in climate action; support to developing countries in their NDCs implementation; development of ideas on how market - based and non-market based climate finance instruments identified in the Paris Agreement can best be designed to maximize impact and minimize costs.
The Global Divestment Mobilization (May 5 to 13) will draw together thousands of people from across 39 countries on six continents to push forward divestment from fossil fuels, in favor of renewable energy.
Thousands came together for Global Divestment Mobilization to call on institutions and individuals to do what is necessary for climate action by divesting from fossil fuels.
S&N think global warming is an existential threat, a generational challenge that requires a societal mobilization along the lines of the Apollo Project.
The Paris Agreement represents a major landmark, not only because of its significance as the first truly global climate treaty, but also because of the unprecedented mobilization of state and non-state actors in creating the right conditions to facilitate the adoption of a text that was agreed to by over 190 countries.
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Copenhagen was obviously a failure — at least if you judge it by the numbers, the formal emission targets and financial commitments that are needed to support a fair and effective emergency global climate mobilization.
Key events for Friends of the Earth during the summit are: 30th November — COP21 climate talks starts, with about 150 world Heads of State 3rd December - Pinocchio Climate Awards ceremony 5 - 6th December — People's Climate Summit in Montreuil, Paris showcasing low - carbon alternatives 7 - 11th December — Climate Action Zone - For five days, this hub of international creativity, which offers popular and contemporary programming, will be a central place for citizen's mobilization 7th December — FoE International side event on People, Rights and Justice 10th December — Paris gathering of global anti-fracking campaigners 11th December — COP21 conference is due to end and international; Friends of the Earth activists «People.Power.Assembly» gathering with about 2,000 people 12th December — special «Climate.Justice.Peace» event in the streets of Paris
The unemployment crisis is a source of bottomless suffering around the world, and the millions upon millions of jobs that would be created by global emergency climate mobilization are anything but incidental.
Democrats, on the other hand, «are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II.»