Sentences with phrase «international effort»

At the same time, he has pledged to help lead international efforts to limit climate change.
Baby Milk Action is today joining colleagues around the world calling on governments to support international efforts to strengthen international law, thereby better protecting people from human rights abuses caused by corporate activities.
Currently, everyone is getting hacked left and right and while there is concerted international effort on this issue a resolution is undoubtedly a distant dream.
Scientists at the meeting called for more research and coordinated international efforts before digging starts.
The opportunities for progress on science and technology related to this topic are immense, but a much larger international effort is required from society and scientists.
The affected countries did not have the infrastructure to control the disease, and international efforts including WHO were slow to respond.
Given the potential threat to the coastal environment, however, there may be little choice other than to move forward with an accelerated, coordinated, and sustained international effort.
With CO2 emissions continuing to rise despite the best international efforts, the importance of removing CO2 from the atmosphere is increasingly urgent.
It is our hope that this work will aid the multidisciplinary international efforts to understand and contain this expanding epidemic.
Space junk is very easy to make and very hard to clean up, so international efforts should focus on preventing its creation.
The book highlights international efforts to set legal and ethical rules for the protection of human subjects, which young scientists could then consult.
Thanks to vaccines and a tremendous international effort, today that number is down to just a few hundred cases globally.
Every lost opportunity to build cohesion around international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is dire; only a concerted, global approach will be sufficient to address this problem.
Additionally, international efforts meant to eliminate data gaps within the upcoming cryptocurrency markets will be discussed.
Experts say that battling the two killers will require concerted international effort — and money.
«The major obstacle for this research is time: We need time and coordinated international efforts,» she says.
This research is in line with a larger international effort that is underway to identify the core bacterial composition of a healthy human body.
The Genome Data Base is the linchpin of international efforts in gene mapping, locating genes on the human chromosomes.
McCombie's team has been involved in international efforts culminating in genome sequences for maize, rice, bread wheat — three of the world's most important food crops.
It calls for international efforts to write guidelines, saying a «global engagement» working group of the NSABB will start this process soon.
The arrest comes as international efforts to stem Wikileaks» near - constant flow of confidential US information took on a frantic nature.
Previously I was a business development manager leading multiple efforts on international efforts within PAE Inc, a Lockheed Martin Company.
Itegboje said Nigeria had consistently been in the vanguard of supporting and participating in international efforts at conflict - prevention, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and sustaining peace both sub-regionally, regionally and globally.
Instead, Cameron and Osborne were fighting against a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), a policy backed by Germany, France, Bill Gates and the Pope among others, which, even on modest estimates, could raise billions for domestic and international efforts against poverty and climate change.
«Although Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the country is committed to joining international efforts and [continue reading...]
With the porosity of borders, despite international efforts at controlling it, the world wide web of cultural practices and language are spinning stronger strings.
«A major international effort bringing together Russia, Iran, the neighbouring countries, the Gulf states, the United States of America and Europe to agree a post-civil war plan for Syria.»
«We appreciate the collaborative international effort led by our State Department, our Embassy in (the Sudanese capital) Khartoum, and our international partners, including the Italians, that reunited the family,» the Senators said in a press release.
And of course, if we are not acting, Australians can exercise their views about our country doing its fair share of needed international effort to tackle climate change at the ballot box - as they did in 2007 when Australia was slow to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the last international agreement to tackle climate change.
«It's a big international effort and it requires more resources from other countries.there are certainly six other countries involved in Afghanistan at the moment but it's quite clear that they need to be putting more resources in than they are at the moment,» he said.
The group is launching the first international effort to systemically examine the scope of sand supply and demand.
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New research reveals the growth of carbon production from Chinese exports has slowed or reversed, reflecting a «new phase of globalisation» between developing countries that could undermine international efforts to reduce emissions.
Focusing on the rights of those who are already vulnerable and marginalized due to poverty and discrimination, a human rights - based approach to climate change can be a useful tool to complement international efforts aimed at tackling the adverse effects of global warming.
Governments must enact domestic laws on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions if international efforts to stall global warming are to succeed, according to the UN's climate chief.
But in the face of growing international efforts to crack down on tax cheats, and complaints from abroad about its measures to stop illicit money, Singapore has made moves to show it takes the criticism seriously.
Societe Generale SA Chairman Lorenzo Bini Smaghi urged regulators to beef up international efforts to tame threats posed by bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that's soared toward $ 11,000 this week.
«I congratulate the G8 for putting its full force behind international efforts to bolster sustainable growth through global solutions to tax evasion and avoidance,» the OECD's secretary - general Angel Gurria said.
Next week, a meeting of UN member states in New York will begin to set out the steps needed to close that science gap and boost international efforts to tackle desertification.
Despite significant international efforts to forge agreement among the Syrian government and the moderate opposition, it is extremely difficult to envision any political settlement that the various internal combatants would agree to.
This misses enormous opportunities for effective action to reduce human suffering due to climate and weather disasters, and to lay a stable foundation for cooperative international efforts to address both climate adaptation and mitigation.
HFSP is a voluntary international effort by countries committed to promoting frontier research in the life sciences.
It was a global endeavour to rival the space race: billions of dollars invested, a massive international effort of singular scientific, medical, industrial and societal significance.
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A truly international effort, Monteverdi High Speed models were designed in Italy by Fissore who also built the bodies, then assembled in Switzerland, and powered by all - American Chrysler V - 8 engines.
In addition to this domestic effort, the proposal required a further international effort amounting to 850 MtCO2 in 2020, which would have been divided among EU Member States in an equitable way that took their relative per capita GDP into account.
It has done this primarily, but not exclusively, by way of its work on fair shares international effort sharing, via first the Greenhouse Development Rights project and, more recently, by way of its successor the Climate Equity Reference Project.
In the last decades most international efforts have focused on distributing food to vulnerable populations; with very little support dedicated to strengthening the ability of small holder farming to adequately feed their local communities.
Gordon Brown has urged India to support international efforts combating funding for terrorist organisations.
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