Sentences with phrase «improved global progress»
How do we ensure continued and improved global progress follows a more sustainable path?
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We are part of a global project to improve cowpea production in Africa and are making progress towards incorporating «built - in» insect pest protection that could help to reduce food shortages in the region.
To improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition WHO's Member States have endorsed global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition and are committed to monitoring progress.
These findings represent progress towards improving estimates of annual global carbon emissions.»
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.
While other tests (including the National Assessment of Educational Progress) show that U.S. student achievement is improving, TIMSS makes clear that these improvements are not rapid enough to keep pace with other nations in an increasingly global economy.
Through the Paris climate agreement and discussions with other countries, the United States is working with other major economies to encourage progress on fuel economy standards, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that will improve global energy and climate security by reducing our reliance on oil.
With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.
My agenda is to find a way to make progress on improving human wellbeing world wide while accepting there are irreconcilable differences about «greenhouse - driven global warming» and its consequences.