Sentences with phrase «global poverty efforts»

But at the same time, I was also seeing the students working on ending the genocide in Darfur and working on global poverty efforts.

Not exact matches

But while the entire MDG process has been basking in the glow of the poverty - reduction results — and talking of eliminating poverty altogether — none of this progress is properly attributable to UN efforts in particular, or the global governance movement in general.
A performing arts program for teens in foster care, service dogs for children with disabilities and a global effort to help children in extreme poverty are among the 27 charities that will receive a $ 25,000 grant as winners of the Upstanders Challenge.
With ChildFund's announcement, global poverty relief efforts are becoming increasingly tied to the bitcoin network.
World leaders met in New York last week to discuss the progress of global efforts to reduce poverty, hunger and disease.
Greater international efforts are needed to combat the «emergency» of global poverty, the prime minister warned.
In the meantime, UK NGOs will redouble their efforts on promoting an internationalist, outward - facing Britain committed to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and inequality.
Today's report finds that while the debt cancellation agreed last year is helping deliver essential health and education services, developed countries must step up their efforts if they are to make genuine inroads in tackling global poverty.
These anti-modernisers blindly interpret every effort to talk about global poverty or gay equality as a sell - out.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put climate change at the center of the fight against extreme poverty, part of an effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming global problems.
In order to end all forms of poverty without driving up global temperatures, world leaders will need to ramp up climate mitigation efforts by 27 %, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.
Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.
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In the effort to inform, condemn and most importantly prevent global poverty this paper examines the promises and policies of Greek politicians during the Greek crisis and its social effects and consequences on people's lives and rights.
Abstract In the effort to inform, condemn and most importantly prevent global poverty this paper examines the promises and policies of Greek politicians during the Greek crisis and its social effects and consequences -LSB-...]
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In order to foster international cooperation, it is also essential that the United States rejoin the global community and lead efforts to secure an international treaty at Copenhagen in December of next year that includes a cap on CO2 emissions and a global partnership that recognizes the necessity of addressing the threats of extreme poverty and disease as part of the world's agenda for solving the climate crisis.
And it will require a sustained global to effort to target the poor and fundamentally address rural poverty.
The first of these special reports, to be finalized in September 2018, is Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poGlobal Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The overriding objective would be to raise the global average efficiency of coal - fired power plants and so minimise CO2 emissions which will otherwise be emitted while maintaining legitimate economic development and poverty alleviation efforts.
For example, how many people die prematurely because efforts to combat global warming cause energy poverty to linger longer than would be the case otherwise?
The French hosts of a UN climate summit later this year insisted Thursday that combatting global warming would not undermine efforts to fight poverty as they lobbied for India's support in cutting emissions.
The recent IPCC report has highlighted that India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change and global warming will slow its economic growth, impact human health, and make poverty reduction and food security efforts more difficult.
Focusing on the rights of those who are already vulnerable and marginalized due to poverty and discrimination, a human rights - based approach to climate change can be a useful tool to complement international efforts aimed at tackling the adverse effects of global warming.
Therefore, international climate talks, which are inherently energy talks, are by proxy humanitarian relief opportunities to engage the global community in energy - based efforts to alleviate poverty.
Scrapping the effort to reform this law is a huge missed opportunity in a country where, if managed well, revenues from mining could offer a critical route out of poverty and contribute to stability,» said Nathaniel Dyer, Congo team leader at Global Witness.
Following the decision of the panel at its 43rd Session to accept the invitation from the UNFCCC, at its 44th Session, the Panel approved the outline of Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poGlobal Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
In a report, the bank said ending poverty would be impossible if global warming and its effects on the poor were not accounted for in future development efforts.
Climate change and global warming are and will continue to be a «significant obstacle» to efforts to eradicate poverty, the report says, citing climate - related impacts on people including drought, flooding, failed crops and rising food prices.
In September 2018 the IPCC will also finalize Global Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poGlobal Warming of 1.5 °C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poglobal response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The World Bank has made a «fundamental shift» in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday.
And in making this plan happen, the rich countries must take the lead: Focusing Just on the Economy is Short - Sighted The report says that efforts to revive the world economy alone are essential «unless new policy initiatives also address other global challenges — reducing carbon dependency, protecting ecosystems and water resources, alleviating poverty — their impact on averting future crises will be short - lived.»
So too, these days, do our efforts to meet our energy needs, feed a growing global population, ensure peace and security, and fight poverty and disease rely on wisely managing water resources that we can no longer treat as limitless.
The note, somewhat cryptic, seemed to suggest that efforts to fight global warming siphoned money from worthy causes like fighting poverty.
A number of different efforts have been working to build and sell products like that to those of us in the First World in order to help underwrite those projects, to raise awareness of the issues of global energy poverty, and to fund the development of rugged and affordable off - grid power solutions for the developing world.
Plan B has three components --(1) a restructuring of the global economy so that it can sustain civilization; (2) an all - out effort to eradicate poverty, stabilize population, and restore hope in order to elicit participation of the developing countries; and (3) a systematic effort to restore natural systems.
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