Sentences with phrase «global progress»

Their figures provide a comprehensive new analysis of global progress towards reducing child mortality.

How do we ensure continued and improved global progress follows a more sustainable path?

«We have seen unprecedented, historic and miraculous improvements,» she said of global progress on climate change, «but it's very fragile.»

Champions 12.3 launched its 2017 Progress Report assessing global progress toward achieving Target 12.3, and a roadmap for how to halve food loss and waste by 2030.

So we are working with partners to put in place methodologies and standards to transform data into information that countries can use to tackle their own needs while monitoring global progress towards SDG 4.

The achievable imperative for global progress.

The representatives will also address how nations will assess the gap between global progress made and the Paris agreement's 2 - degree C goal — a collective five - year review named the «global stocktake» that will commence in 2023.

This year, countries around the world are undertaking an important exercise to assess global progress toward achieving the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement.

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.

As global progress was made on eradiation, many countries switched to the inactivated vaccine.

While global progress on this grey area is still to come, Canadians at least, can now expect to feel safe on the...

Since its initial report in 2011, the committee has monitored global progress on food and nutrition security issues and explored three aspects in greater depth — the role of technology and innovation in agriculture, opportunities for advancing nutrition security, and the need for environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable agricultural systems.

On the eve of the international AIDS conference that begins in Vienna this Sunday, UNAIDS unveiled its Outlook report with a new vision for how to make more global progress against HIV.

Thornier still is the proliferation of its drug - resistant forms (MDR - and XDR - TB) which — just as contagious, but harder to treat — have undermined global progress towards eradicating the disease.

But «the EU must prepare to act in the absence of adequate global progress,» Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told a news conference in Brussels, saying that a legislative proposal may come next spring.

From September 15 — 17, 2017, Canada 2020 hosted Global Progress 2017 in Montreal, Canada for the second consecutive year.

What is the most surprising thing about viewing global progress through Trendalyzer software, as compared with looking at the more familiar charts and tables of economic data?

The 12 feature articles provide concrete examples of programs that are working effectively on the ground, reflect on global progress madeand define a way forward.

«It will also help inform global progress towards achieving the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals,» Professor McGeoch said.

As socio - economic issues continue to disrupt global progress, deeper learning skills could present the next generation with the means to ameliorate international relationships and financial deficiencies.

Caught between local inhabitants and visitors from all over the world, the town has gained a unique character that is a blend of old world charm rubbing shoulders with global progress.

The lack of political will for tackling core problems will, as always, put far more pressure than is deserved on relatively small, and often highly effective, programs aimed at fostering global progress.

Last night, Eric Holthaus, the talented and passionate blogging meteorologist at Slate, got in touch to see if I wanted to talk about Francis's remarkable effort to propel global progress on the most wicked of issues — humanity's entwined climate and energy challenges.

The Paris deal has laid the foundations for real global progress on climate change.

«2013 Annual Report: Supporting Global Progress».

Although emissions reduction targets are at the core of the Paris Agreement, the Paris Agreement also includes a Global Stocktake Process for evaluating global progress towards the goals of the agreement and for identifying new mitigation opportunities and, over time, strengthening the nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

A small group of scientists — mostly associated with the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia — have consciously withheld data and methods to place global progress, development, economies and peoples lives in jeopardy.

The Better Life Index gauges worldwide development, zeroing in on quality of life indicators that affect global progress — housing, jobs, civic engagement, health and safety, to name a few.

Global progress in reducing the MMR since 1990 saw an annual rate of reduction of 2 · 3 % globally, while regionally progress varied from an annual reduction of 1 · 8 % in the Caribbean to 5 · 0 % in eastern Asia.

I'm heartened at the efforts to reduce food loss and waste that have gained traction in the past year, and with even greater action by governments and businesses we can accelerate global progress toward Target 12.3.»

And there are real questions about the future of global progress against deprivation unless we deal with issues of sustainable development and the global commons.

Prof. Robert Sternberg argues that a national focus on standardized tests and IQ scores is hampering global progress.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

While global progress on this grey area is still to come, Canadians at least, can now expect to feel safe on the ground and in the sky.

The show, curated by Sixty Eight founder Iben Bach Elmstrom and curator, writer and Base for Active Knowledge (BAK) editor Tom Clark, takes frustration as the fertile ground for artistic growth, «at the entrenched ideologies, local specificities, and claims for global progress that bind the everyday».

This briefing is the annual Climate Action Tracker estimate of global progress towards the Paris Agreement goals, with some positive and negative findings.

The Global Progress 2017 Summit to feature Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Philippe Couillard, Arianna Huffington, John Podesta, Maria Elena Boschi, Reid Hoffman, Helle Thorning Schmidt, David Milliband and more at gathering hosted by Canada 2020 in partnership with the Center for American Progress, Policy Network and Volta Italia.

There are numerous organizations, including certain NGOs at the UN, that explicitly contend that the nation - state is the enemy, or at least is obsolete and an obstacle to global progress.

Now, there has been global progress.

Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, discusses the global progress made but calls for further action to combat childhood obesity.

Tonight sees a gathering of 150 influencers at the House of Lords, organised by Malaria No More UK to mark UK action and global progress on malaria, shortly after the UK premier of «Mary & Martha», the new film written by Richard Curtis about two mothers who unite to save lives after losing their own sons to malaria.

Global progress towards tackling obesity has been «unacceptably slow,» with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating up to 2010, according to a major new six - part Series on obesity, published in The Lancet.

Global progress in reducing the prevalence of smokers appeared to fall into 3 phases for both men and women: modest progress from 1980 to 1996, followed by a decade of more rapid global progress, then a slowdown in reductions from 2006 to 2012, with an apparent increase since 2010 for men.