Sentences with phrase «global priorities included»

The Prize contributes to the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals 4 — on education — and 5 — on gender equality, and supports UNESCO's global priorities included in the Medium - term Strategy 2014 - 2021 and the Gender Equality Action Plan 2014 - 2021 (GEAP II).

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First, you receive a $ 100 credit towards the application fee for the Global Entry program, which includes TSA PreCheck expedited domestic security at the airport and priority service when you return to the United States after visiting a foreign country.

Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church polity.

Feeding an estimated 9.8 billion people by 2050 on a rapidly shrinking area of arable land can only be accomplished through a radical transformation that includes a wholesale reinvention of our global environmental priorities, as well as our social ones.

The Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (GSF) document is the strategic plan on the priorities and actions that will be undertaken by the CFS and the key overview document it is therefore critical that Organic Agriculture is included.

Global Priorities, the Group's key focus, include Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, SKYY, Wild Turkey e Grand Marnier.The Group was founded in 1860 and today is the sixth - largest player worldwide in the premium spirits industry.

Global Priorities, the Group's key focus, include Aperol, Appleton Estate, Campari, SKYY, Wild Turkey and Grand Marnier.

Each policy commission was asked for priorities, and I was disturbed that Britain's Global Role included «maintaining the UK's minimum, independent, credible nuclear deterrent through a continuous at - sea deterrent».

Top priorities of the Trump transition team and cabinet nominees — many who disregard the connection between global warming and fossil fuel energy use — include rolling back eight years of Obama administration climate regulations and restrictions on coal, oil and gas development.

«National security is our number - one priority, and this bill will fund essential programs that maintain our nuclear deterrence posture in the face of growing global threats — including North Korea and other countries that are testing the tolerance of the international community,» House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen said.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The Strategic Research Priorities continue to emphasize the importance of research approaches that enhance rigor and reproducibility, include sex as a biological variable, consider prevention through early intervention, aim to reduce mental health disparities, and maintain a global perspective on mental health across the priority areas.

The updated Strategic Research Priorities continue to emphasize the importance of research approaches that include the role of the environment, focus on prevention via early intervention, consider sex as a biological variable, address mental health disparities, and recognize global perspectives on mental health.

Current stated priorities for the NRDC include curbing global warming, reviving the world's oceans, defending endangered wildlife and ensuring safe and sufficient water supplies.

The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations signal «the importance of early childhood development as a priority in the global development agenda, including for high - income countries like the U.S.,» McCoy adds.

This is reflected in the importance placed on Global Citizenship Education (GCE), including via the UN Secretary - General's Education First Initiative, which considers the fostering of Global Citizenship a global priGlobal Citizenship Education (GCE), including via the UN Secretary - General's Education First Initiative, which considers the fostering of Global Citizenship a global priGlobal Citizenship a global priglobal priority.

Before joining EducationCounsel, she served as Managing Partner at America Achieves, where she led a number of the organization's most critical priorities, including their support for state and local superintendents, the Global Learning Network and their parent engagement initiative.

Intelligence Squared U.S. energy and environment debates shine a critical light on the most pressing issues spurred by climate change and 21st century environmental priorities, including clean energy, fracking, organic and genetically modified foods, and whether or not global warming poses an immediate threat.

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* The government insists that dealing with global warming is way down the priority list and since our economy is booming because of mineral exports (including heaps of coal don't you know) we should concentrate on that and not get too worried about the water situation.

Many measures are needed, including providing safe alternatives to indoor cooking and heating in low - income countries, but vehicle emissions are a priority: fleets in emerging - economy cities are set to double in the next five to ten years and the global fleet is set to grow from about one billion to three billion vehicles by 2050.

The university was quick to acknowledge both studies in a press release, note small differences in approaches and include quotes from the authors, who reiterated that global warming is quite real, more research is needed, and reducing emissions of CO2 should be considered a top priority.

In 2008, eight of the world's leading economists, including five Nobel Laureates, in the so - called Copenhagen Consensus, recommended priorities for confronting the top ten global challenges.

The Children's Charter for DRR was launched at the United Nation's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Global Platform for DRR in 2011 and consists of five priorities for DRR, including addressing climate change, identified by children from 21 hazard - prone countries.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healglobal partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

Furthermore, as part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public funds, through a variety of actions, including supporting country - driven strategies, and taking into account the needs and priorities of developing country Parties.

«The IGBP places high priority on establishment, maintenance, validation, description, accessibility, and distribution of high - quality, long - term global data sets, including the synthesis or generation of new global data sets,» and, «Full and open sharing of the full suite of global data sets, and other data sets needed for global change studies, is the primary objective of the IGBP - DIS» (IGBP Report No. 12).

Majorities of Americans say that global warming and clean energy should be among the nation's priorities, want more action by elected officials, corporations, and citizens themselves, and support a variety of climate change and energy policies, including holding fossil fuel companies responsible for all the «hidden costs» of their products.

Gross points out that the program reflects a number of important trends, including (1) A Touch of Conscience (where most companies pay lip service to concerns like global warming or poverty); (2) The New Guilded Age (where fat and happy law firms think nothing of the absurdity of giving students a $ 60 allowance for lunch); (3) Defining Public Service Down (a situation where most people claim interest in community service but don't want the lower incomes that go with it, so they find a win - win situation like doing pro bono at a large firm); and (4) It's Good To Be the King (describing how partners set priorities and realize that the $ 15 lunch is quicker and gets associates back to billing more quickly and spares partners from socializing).

The addition of these new partners demonstrates the Firm's ongoing commitment to the pursuit of its strategic priorities, which include investing in the growth of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice.

• Business Operational Standards: Creating a global legal operating structure that aligns lawyers with the business» top priorities, including effective corporate compliance and business support / acceleration.