Sentences with phrase «landmark global effort»

Were it not for a landmark global effort in disease control — and a fair amount of luck — it would probably still be out there.

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In the landmark Paris Climate Agreement, the world's nations have committed to «holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels».

The findings will be a blow to the EU's efforts to be seen as a global leader on climate issues as the world tries to implement the landmark Paris climate pact.

Professor Reif wrote, «Yesterday, the White House took the position that the Paris climate agreement — a landmark effort to combat global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions — was a bad deal for America.»

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.