Sentences with phrase «global progress on»

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

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

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.

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.

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According to the WEF's most recent Global Gender Gap report on economic opportunity for women, Saudi Arabia ranks 137th of 142 countries — despite all that recent progress.

LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

«If we're going to make any sort of progress on winning this global war against Jihadism, we've got to focus on the ideology and win the battle of ideas, not just have a look at their propaganda tools and their frontmen and their symbols.»

This time, there has been «progress on bank leverage regulations,» and «the current global capital flow cycle has already almost fully reversed from the cycle peak,» he writes.

Later on April 17 came Global Times editor Hu Xijin's message that the move by an «afraid and desperate» US is an attempt to derail China's 5G progress.

Analysts said after a temporary boost markets will focus on more fundamental matters again, in particular the progress of the global economic recovery and how central banks respond to higher inflation.

«With the global economy poised to accelerate, new U.S. tax legislation providing tailwinds and a leading franchise across our businesses, we are well positioned to serve our clients and make significant progress on the growth plan we outlined in September,» he added.

Experts and SOE leaders join us to share their insights on the progress of reforms and how SOEs will influence the global business landscape in the years to come.

Furthermore, there are opportunities for progress on the structural side in terms of both trade and productivity if conditions permit another wave of global integration.

While the re-balancing of global oil markets is progressing, record - high crude and gasoline inventories continue to put downward pressure on prices.

What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

Victor Luis will provide an overall summary of our first fiscal quarter of 2016 milestones and learnings and will also discuss our progress on global initiatives.

Progress on global energy goals slow, but strong gains in countries show promise The world is not on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030 set as part of the Sustainable Development Goals 2 May 2018

Investors started off 2015 with a slow global economy, low oil prices, a strong Dollar, and a deflationary Europe with great uncertainties on the progress of the US economy and the recent launch of Europe's quantitative easing.

The event progressed as our keynote speaker, Jagat Shah — Chief Mentor at Mentor on Road took the stand to give an extremely articulate speech on the Global startup scenario.

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Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy Progress Report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy by 2030.

His program rests on three pillars: technological progress, global markets, and public investments.

Basic science is fundamental to progress in research (some of which is literally life - saving) and to America's ability to compete economically and technologically on a global scale.

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

We report annually on our CR program and initiatives, including our progress against the United Nations Global Compact principles and our measures to prevent modern slavery.

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.

The Super Eagles were the first country from the African qualification phase to reach the global tournament, and there is seemingly pressure on them to progress beyond the round of 16, which they have achieved on three occasions.

This year World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) focuses on the progress that has been made on the implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (GSIYCF) which was adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF ten years ago.

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Companies have been excluded for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these reports are posted to the Global Compact site even when they are misleading (as in the case of Nestlé), they are of little value in any case.

The UN Global Compact publishes company Communications on Progress on its website, including Nestlé's Creating Shared Value reports.

Companies have been delisted for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these are posted to the Global Compact website even if proven to be misleading, as in the case of Nestlé, they only serve a public relations purpose, says Baby Milk Action.

We provided evidence of misleading statements included in the Communications on Progress posted to the UN Global Compact website (which bring the initiative into disrepute) and practices that violate human rights (which break the Global Compact principles).

The World Breastfeeding Trends initiative (WBTi) assesses countries on their progress in implementing 10 key policy areas set out in the Global Strategy.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

Supporting commercial lines businesses Progress on fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standardon fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standardon the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standardOn Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards.

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

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.

Small Steps Diplomats hope there will be some progress on funding to help developing countries most at risk from the effects of global warming, particularly in Africa and small island states.

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.

Rich and poor were deadlocked on Wednesday over how to raise aid to help developing countries cope with the damaging effects of global warming, in a setback at United Nations climate talks in Warsaw seeking progress towards a 2015 accord.

And having testified since the 1970s about the threat of global warming, he had seen plenty of progress on public acceptance of the issue.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

«The survey also shows that facilities participating in the WHO global hand hygiene campaign achieved a higher level of progress,» says co-author Prof. Didier Pittet, MD, MS, Director, Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Center on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.

But this dramatic rise masks progress in recent years; since 2005, health loss due to HIV / AIDS has diminished by 23.9 % because of global focus on the disease.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

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.