Sentences with phrase «helped global efforts»

The Biorock ® reef system has helped global efforts for the reef restoration due to positive effects on all marine life, eco-tourism and various conservation projects.

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«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

«As one part of a global effort to make the Web more responsive to women's safety, security, and enjoyment, I can't help but stand up and applaud,» Anita Sarkeesian, executive editor of Feminist Frequency says.

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.

Remote workers also help recruitment efforts by enabling companies to conduct national or even global searches for talent instead of being limited to the local applicant pool or to those prospects willing to relocate to your city.»

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He's also used his success as head of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Records to help fuel his philanthropic efforts, from donating to African educational charities to pledging $ 3 billion toward reducing global warming.

A diversified healthcare company and a global leader in providing solutions to help people live healthier lives, UnitedHealth Group has done a lot of pilots in its efforts to expand work flexibility, and remote work options in particular, to non-exempt as well as exempt employees.

He has led SaaS (software as a service) and mobile - technology expansion efforts for the Grameen Foundation in South America and Africa, a global nonprofit that helps the world's poorest people.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

I get to work on Adirondack conservation issues and assist those who are fighting global warming; I've helped my wife start a new school in our town; I can teach Sunday school and help run a nationwide effort to decommercialize Christmas and sit on the board of the local college.

«Our missions are very similar, to work with farmers and communities in an effort to protect the natural environment and help mitigate the effects of climate change on a global scale.

Many of them feel global warming or man - made climate change is real and wish to help with the efforts to alleviate it and though it may take away from fossil jobs it adds green energy jobs and adds competition with new technology in the international market.

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.

The World Health Organization Global Network of Age - Friendly Cities and Communities began as an international effort to help communities prepare for a growing aging population.

In the case of the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort to identify the body's 30 trillion cells, the Initiative is providing funding to help scientists carry out their cell mapping projects, but it also has hired a team to develop a data coordination platform so that the atlas of participants can collaborate and pool data more efficiently.

They note that global efforts have successfully helped to curb other causes of Amazon loss, such as agriculture and cattle.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

Tachi Yamada is the president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Trained as a gastroenterologist, he leads the foundation's efforts to help develop and deliver low - cost, lifesaving health tools for the developing world.

But it's not just for war zones: The Global Hawk flies humanitarian missions as well, most recently in Japan, where it was used to help coordinate post-quake rescue efforts.

The hotel chain is celebrating its 50th anniversary by planting 10 million trees across the 34 countries in which it operates with the hope that the effort will help combat deforestation and global warming and attract more customers concerned about the state of the planet.

All told, such efforts to restrain methane and soot emissions could help hold back global average temperature increases by more than 0.5 degree Celsius this century and improve public health.

What proved possible included an extension of the Kyoto Protocol for a period of either five or seven years (excluding Canada, Japan and Russia but adding nitrogen trifluoride, used in semiconductor manufacture, to the list of gases covered — CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons), a Green Climate Fund to help low - income countries cope (albeit without any actual funds yet), an Adaptation Committee to coordinate such efforts globally, rules for a global program to reduce deforestation and how to monitor such deforestation, and a Climate Technology Center that will help launch projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In the global effort to mitigate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, all options are on the table — including help from nature.

Their results will help to shape the way the University contributes to the global effort of understanding climate change and gives geography students at Sheffield access to the latest innovations in climate change research.

Tu, who helped develop the groundbreaking antimalaria drug artemisinin, was part of a trio of scientists who won the prize in physiology or medicine for their global efforts on communicable diseases.

In contrast with electricity generated from coal or natural gas, nuclear power contributes little to greenhouse gas emissions and could therefore help in the effort to reduce global warming.

Borboroglu and the Global Penguin Society are working with the Argentinian government to create a marine sanctuary for Magellanic penguins, an effort Borboroglu hopes will help increase the penguins» food supply and reduce chick deaths.

The former president has helped lead the global effort to fight Dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease, through his work with the Carter Center, a foundation he and his wife, Rosalind, established for fighting disease and promoting human rights.

Nelson Michael of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, which helped run the trial, is more optimistic: «We've shown that this 26 - year global effort has not been in vain.»

The Commonwealth «has the potential, and the responsibility, to help drive meaningful global efforts and outcomes that protect ourselves, our children and our planet,» 22 national science academies wrote in a joint statement.

On Monday, the national science academies of 22 Commonwealth countries, including from the UK, Canada, India and Australia, issued a «Consensus Statement on Climate Change,» declaring that the «Commonwealth has the potential, and the responsibility, to help drive meaningful global efforts and outcomes that protect ourselves, our children and our planet.»

That's the driving idea behind a global policy effort we helped pioneer, known as REDD +, which stands for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

Finally, to help ensure that our collective efforts are well - directed and truly global in scope, we are assembling a broad - based Advisory Group.

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From advice and video tutorials, the site tracks Shepherd's global effort to help men mate better, including tours in Europe, Australia and the U.S. Ways to maximize your looks and talents are continually explored, along with the many misconceptions surrounding females.

Teachers can also help students grapple with global concerns by focusing on what's happening at the local level, Bohmann says, and by highlighting positive efforts already under way.

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More than 250 global food and health leaders representing the public and private sector gathered in Washington, D.C. this week at the One Health Summit, and declared priorities to help combat antimicrobial resistance as part of efforts to produce a sustainable food supply.

For example, consider the growth of the Thriving Earth Exchange, an effort by the American Geophysical Union to help connect its global network of scientists with communities seeking science - based solutions to a variety of vexing problems: Read more...

In an effort to help, a small local non-profit looked for the Global Best Practices in transit planning that best matched out land use patterns and found it in Brisbane, Australia.

It bring the whole world in on the effort to help global warming.

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.

But these two global powers should also help pay for the compensation of fishermen, as well, to be sure that effort goes beyond 2017, providing more time for sustainable fishing methods to be refined.

For example, consider the growth of the Thriving Earth Exchange, an effort by the American Geophysical Union to help connect its global network of scientists with communities seeking science - based solutions to a variety of vexing problems:

Our generation of elders appears to be doing a woefully inadequate job of helping our children understand that the current, relentless, business - as - usual effort to grow the global economy, given the gigantic scale and anticipated growth rate of the economic globalization, could soon become patently unsustainable on a small, finite planet with the size and make - up of Earth.

Divestment of fossil fuel stocks would hurt, not help efforts to address global climate change.

The contest is promoted as helping to limit global warming by curbing carbon dioxide emissions, but also clearly is designed to show that not all such efforts have to be painful.

The sold - out event raised over $ 350,000 from the evening's ticket sales and live auction which willbenefit Global Green USA and its ongoing efforts to help the places, people and planet in need.