Sentences with phrase «making global poverty»

By making global poverty a concern of U.S. citizens, the One Campaign makes it a concern of U.S. leaders.

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So Evans made it his mission to turn the short - term excitement around the Make Poverty History concerts into a longer - term movement, and founded the Global Poverty Project in 2008, which eventually became Global Citizen.

Secondly, he noted «the root causes of the global crisis have not been prop ¬ erly tackled» with the financial system remaining «the Achilles heel of the world economy» and thirdly, «little progress is being made in reducing working poverty and vulnerable forms of employment such as informal jobs and undeclared work.»

At Global Citizen, we believe that taking action on the world's most challenging issues — from education to health to climate — can make the world a better place and help eliminate extreme poverty by 2030.

The leaflets often make it seem as if poverty is «out there,» whether that's in the Global South or the inner city, and that the fight against it only includes a monthly donation and a couple of hours of volunteering or a short missions trip.

The «STAND UP» event seta national and global record in the Guinness World Records for the largest number of people to stand up for a cause... Lutherans across the U.S. participated in the event organised as part of «ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History», in cooperation with the United Nations» Millennium Campaign.»

The global community in which we live sure makes it hard to remain blissfully ignorant about wealth and poverty.

That leads on a pathway too permanent inner happiness.you people think you solving the world with your limited areas of buisness and criminal justice degrees or phony rip off international banking degrees.there is more education and technology but have not solved global poverty so sad.and most of you commit suicide which makes you a selfish sob and the root cause of it is false hope and GREED

In tune with this global rhetoric, the United Front Government in its Common Minimum Program made eradication of poverty as its main emphasis along with a seven - point agenda for ensuring safe drinking water, primary education for all, primary health care, housing, food security, road networks and mid-day meals to be implemented by A.D. 2000.

Micah Challenge is an organization that seeks to make the eradication of global poverty part of the church's mission.

Today's report finds that while the debt cancellation agreed last year is helping deliver essential health and education services, developed countries must step up their efforts if they are to make genuine inroads in tackling global poverty.

«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.

In addition, last fall, Syngenta put forward a more global strategy called The Good Growth Plan which makes six commitments to improve resource use efficiency, including finding ways to produce more food with less waste, degradation, and poverty.

Does his undeniable impact in turning the Church's public focus to issues of global poverty and migrants» rights, not to mention his use of the position to advocate for environmental causes or his papal subtweeting of Donald Trump, make him a valuable ally?

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Ministers have made statements on the importance of prioritising Development Issues and the potential for Ireland to make a positive contribution to the eradication of global poverty.

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The Gates Foundation makes monetary pledges «driven by the interests and passions of the Gates Family,» namely global access to health care, international poverty reduction and in the United States, increased access to quality education and information technology.

Founded in 2005, Kiva.org is a non-profit that uses the Internet and a global network of micro-finance institutions to allow people to make loans that will help alleviate poverty and create financial independence.

This book will open your eyes on global poverty, and make you realize that we are close to success, aside from self - inflicted wounds.

The news media's financial woes make it difficult to adequately cover issues like climate change, human rights and global poverty.

I am shocked by the reality of where we are and what we are faced with: global warming, climate change, poverty... The articles show us different perspectives, even divergent views, which promote us to come up with our own ideas about the meaning and vision of sustainability... It's time for us to take responsibility on our shoulders... We can make a big difference together.»

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

Summing up, he says that in his view other real - time problems, particularly global poverty, trump whatever long - term risk is posed by man - made warming, and that the slow natural pace of society's shift away from dirty fuels like coal toward cleaner ones will take care of the problem in any case.

The recent IPCC report has highlighted that India's high vulnerability and exposure to climate change and global warming will slow its economic growth, impact human health, and make poverty reduction and food security efforts more difficult.

«The same mindset which stands in the way of making radical decisions to reverse the trend of global warming also stands in the way of achieving the goal of eliminating poverty.»

Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin global problems of poverty and environmental devastation.

These include claiming that addressing climate change will keep the poor in «energy poverty»; citing the global warming «hiatus» or «pause» to dismiss concerns about climate change; pointing to changes in the climate hundreds or thousands of years ago to deny that the current warming is caused by humans; alleging that unmitigated climate change will be a good thing; disputing that climate change is accelerating sea level rise; and denying that climate change is making weather disasters more costly.

3 tons per person per year of carbon dioxide equivalent is the basis for global convergence on sustainable conduct, for a global technological and social revolution based on making economic growth mean ecological improvement and for the pursuit of social and ecological justice and an end to poverty.

She has played a leadership role on many global poverty campaigns for the past 11 years, including Oxfam International's Make Trade Fair campaign.

There's also every reason to believe that third world poverty is a much bigger threat to us than AGW, and a global bureaucracy that limits economic growth will make this worse, not better.

The ABC report never considered whether the drastic GNP losses associated with steps that would be predicted to make a significant difference would cause more death, poverty, and destruction than the likeliest global warming scenarios.

I agree that it would be wonderful if all the data was made public in some nice, organised, searchable, verifiable form, but I expect that this will happen sometime in the decades following the end of poverty and the establishment of global peace and universal goodwill.

The World Bank has made a «fundamental shift» in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday.

And in making this plan happen, the rich countries must take the lead: Focusing Just on the Economy is Short - Sighted The report says that efforts to revive the world economy alone are essential «unless new policy initiatives also address other global challenges — reducing carbon dependency, protecting ecosystems and water resources, alleviating poverty — their impact on averting future crises will be short - lived.»

In short, without concerted action the progress made in the past 50 years in addressing global poverty and increasing human welfare in the world's poorest countries is likely to be lost, «irrecoverable in the foreseeable future.»

They seem to have not realised that the green policies they have been advocating in response to the «man - made global warming» myth are the CAUSE of fuel poverty.

Making connectivity more accessible to these younger children — through a combination of cheaper devices and data, as well as more «sheltered» online environments — will help bring education, healthcare, and a global perspective to young people all across the world, helping to accelerate improvements in standards of living and offer new avenues to escape poverty throughout the developing world.