Sentences with phrase «international political efforts»

The UNFCCC treaty, which the United States has signed, serves as the foundation of international political efforts to combat global warming.

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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.

It will play a leading role in the campaign against Daesh and to support international efforts to bring peace to Syria through a lasting political settlement.

It's not a single thing obviously, it's a complicated set of relations and institutions, but it is a public thing that took a certain shape as a result of histories of democratic political struggles, decolonisation efforts and international resolutions, and it has become a target for those on both the left and the right for different reasons.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday commended the international community for its efforts in ensuring political and economic stability in the West African sub-region.

The NPP, he added, is drawing its strength from these unnamed international forces and these persons have been pushing them to cause disaffection for the ruling party in an effort to win political power.

Pulling our troops out and allowing the country to adjust (thru their own political efforts and their own security efforts, with international guidance) is now the ONLY Winning Strategy.

«The Commission is concerned that over-reliance on international offsets — given the practical difficulty of assuring that emissions reductions claimed in other countries are real, permanent, additional, and verifiable — could undermine program goals and political support, especially if substantial U.S. funds are leaving the country to support abatement efforts abroad rather than at home,» it states.

In areas of Indonesia and Malaysia, the economic and political agendas of international investors, corporations and local officials might also thwart Orion's efforts.

Topics ranged from the political (Vienna - based astrophysicict Mazlan Othman, who may have the best business card in the world as she is the director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, discussed her duties and called for an international protocol on dealing with the possible detection of life in outer space) to the philosophical (theologian Ted Peters of University of California, Berkeley, discussed the significance of the discovery of extra-terrestrial life for the world's religions) to the positively apocalyptic (astrophysicist Frank Drake, the original champion of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence efforts, pondered whether a technologically advanced civilization would inevitably use its power to annihilate itself.).

Taking as a starting point the «backfire effect» — a phrase coined to describe how people often maintain or even strengthen their beliefs when given factual evidence against them — Tillmans interviewed scientists, politicians, journalists, and social workers in an effort to understand changes in the international political climate in recent decades, with a particular focus on right - wing populism and fake news.

The heirs» efforts to compel the Russian state to provide them with «reasonable compensation» has become an international legal and political issue.

If the United States does abandon the Paris accord, it will certainly mark a moment for nations that have not traditionally led international climate efforts to step up, as the United States and Europe deal with difficult political situations at home.

The lack of vision and political will from the leaders of many developed countries is not just harming their long - term competitiveness, but is also endangering efforts to create international co-operation and reach a new agreement that should be signed in Paris in December 2015.

These announcements are part of an effort to build political will and momentum leading up to the U.N. climate conference later this year in Paris, which aims to produce an international agreement on climate change.

Italy's top political leadership has been briefed by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative and Italian non-governmental organizations on the need for the government to support the call for a ban on fully autonomous weapons and play an active role in international efforts to address the weapons.