Sentences with phrase «major international effort»

A major international effort is now gaining momentum to pay for safeguarding the world's important seed stocks.

Recent decades have seen a major international effort to inventory tree communities in the Amazon Basin and Guiana Shield (Amazonia), but the vast extent and record diversity of these forests have hampered an understanding of basinwide patterns.

This major international effort is pooling the snapshot scans of 1,200 individuals to create a generic, but authoritatively thorough, baseline brain map.

«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.»

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Leading S&P Dow Jones Indices» international media efforts, David oversees all major index - related press events and initiatives, serving as a global strategic communications counselor for S&P Dow Jones Indices in the areas of crisis communications, response planning and brand / reputation management.

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.

It is among the first companies in the United States to have the landfill diversion efforts at its plants verified by NSF International Strategic Registrations, a major milestone in the food industry.

In order to help struggling farmers, international donors, including USAID, began a major effort to rejuvenate Haiti's coffee industry and help it enter the specialty coffee market with the development of the Haitian Bleu brand, conceived in the mid-1990s.

«Earlier this year, we pledged to make New York known to its widest audience ever as an international tourism destination, and today marks a major step forward in that effort,» Governor Cuomo said.

«The major obstacle for this research is time: We need time and coordinated international efforts,» she says.

The wide geographical and analytical efforts required to measure many chemical species and isotopes in all oceans is a major undertaking, beyond the scope of a single nation and requires international co-operation.»

PHENOMIN, as a large scale national infrastructure for Biotechnology and Health, will primarily provide services for all French laboratories and also be a major player in the international strategic phenogenomics effort.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

«The scientific academies in the leading industrialized and emerging countries — which often control the purse strings for major research grants — must orchestrate a serious and transparent international research effort funded by their governments,» Victor and his colleagues wrote in the paper.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist Robert Martienssen was instrumental in organizing the international sequencing effort at its outset in 1996, and played a major role in interpreting the chromosome 4 results.

At least three major scientific efforts were conceived and initiated during Collins» tenure at NHGRI: the Human Genome Project (HGP), the International Haplotype Map Project (HapMap), and most recently, the 1,000 Genomes Project (TGP).

International efforts to control iodine - deficiency disorders are slowing, and reaching the third of the worldwide population that remains deficient poses major challenges.

One of the organization's major efforts has been the conception of Istancool, the Istanbul International Festival of Culture.

In this regard, the developed major economies will implement, consistent with international obligations, economy - wide mid-term goals and take corresponding actions in order to achieve absolute emission reductions and, where applicable, first stop the growth of emissions as soon as possible, reflecting comparable efforts among them.

After years of resisting efforts to define a dangerous level of warming in international climate discussions, the United States joined with the rest of the world's major industrial powers on Wednesday in a (non-binding) pledge to avoid warming the planet beyond a threshold long favored by European governments and many climate campaigners as a no - go zone.

The survey finds both support and skepticism for major efforts to reduce climate change on the first day of a Paris summit, with international leaders aiming to forge consensus on measures aimed at slowing the rise of global temperatures.

Witness the Arctic provides information on current Arctic research efforts and findings, significant research initiatives, national policy affecting Arctic research, international activities, and profiles of institutions with major Arctic research efforts.

This Climate Plan focused on three major efforts: cut carbon pollution in America, prepare the Unites States for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to combat global climate change.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

Since 2001, Rutagarama has continued his conservation work, playing a major role in facilitating international collaboration efforts to protect the Central Albertine Rift, a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Virunga mountain gorillas» habitat.

Climate change and Energy and Poverty are indeed two key challenges the energy world is facing today, and I do believe that a major international concerted effort can deliver a solution with co-benefits for both the issues.

This initiative complements a co-operative effort undertaken by six major International Organisations, including the IEA, to enhance oil - market transparency by producing more accurate, timely and complete data.

The major advance in knowledge was the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1957, while scientific efforts to assess Antarctic climate began as recently as the third IPY in 2007.

One of the major topics of discussion was Apple's international efforts, particularly in the greater China region, which includes Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Leidschendam, Netherlands About Blog World Darts Federation WDF encourages the promotion of the Sport of Darts, in an effort to gain international recognition for Darts as a major Sport.

Special Agent, Criminal Investigator AFOSI Detachment 611 — Osan AB, ROK (8/2003 — 8/2004) • Held integral role in the handling of 40 + criminal, fraud, and CI investigations, the largest caseload for AFOSI / Pacific Air Force Command, bringing unit to the highest pro-active rate in 8 years • Collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Division in an international fraud case, the first joint effort between these departments and the result of mutual interest coordination avenues between numerous entities • Protected valuable DOD resources and assets by conducting major counterintelligence, criminal, and fraud investigations, including close support through crime scene searches, evidence preservation, and laboratory analysis requests • Testified in court - martials, interviewed key witnesses, and performed interrogations of persons suspected of committing major violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice • Managed and utilized human informants to detect illegal activities as well as conducting undercover investigations • Investigated AFOSI applicant backgrounds to determine suitability for positions in department, also serving as a point of contact for counterintelligence, anti-terrorism, and local criminal awareness briefings on base

1962 The first International Conference on IUDs (intrauterine devices) is held in New York, leading to a major collaborative effort to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of IUDs, under the leadership of Dr. Christopher Tietze.