Sentences with phrase «measure global goals»

Indeed, there's a world of difference between citing one paper that has done something that MIGHT rebalance the global mean temperature data — as Joe's post suggests — and then assuming that the problem is fixed and the indicator remains the first best only way to measure global goals despite the fact that natural variability in the global mean surface temperature will also make that a sluggish measure.

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Wall Street support of similar measures also has convinced energy companies including Occidental Petroleum to address the Paris climate accord's goal of keeping global temperature increases under 2 - degrees Celsius.

And, of course, those commitments and associated domestic measures are just Canada's means to achieve the ends of contributing to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids the dangerous climate change, the shared goal set out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and reiterated in the Paris Agreement.

This commitment to ensure that supply chain waste is measured and reported makes Tesco the world - leading supermarket on transparent food waste reporting, and represents a significant step towards meeting the global goal to halve food waste by 2030.

WFP works with global leaders in almost every industry to create shared value that can be measured against the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The measures come amid concerns that foreign stars are crowding out local talent and harming the country's goal of becoming a global force in world football.

・ Reducing global population growth, especially in LDCs, through antifertility measures has long been declared a central goal of USAID / UN / WHO «family planning» [66]- [77].

In terms of global challenges, the world continues to develop programs and measures for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

«The UN Sustainable Development Goals remind us that we need to measure global development by the number of those being left behind,» said ITU Secretary - General Houlin Zhao, who serves as co-Vice Chair of the Commission with UNESCO Director - General Irina Bokova.

But do all these «multiple measures» really lead us to achieve the three most often cited goals of testing: building proficiency in basic skills, closing achievement gaps, and fostering the top - notch knowledge and skills that students will need in a competitive global society?

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs or Global Goals) offer a new framework against which your business can align, measure and explain its actions to operate more responsibly and deliver positive social, environmental and economic impacts.

The goal for this chapter was to identify energy - saving measures that will offset the nearly 30 percent growth in global energy demand projected by the IEA between 2006 and 2020.

While enough small measures could help reduce emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (the goal of the climate bill that died early in his first term), climate scientists caution that won't be enough to avert the worst impacts of global temperature rise.

Unlike the scenarios developed by the IPCC and reported in Nakicenovic et al. (2000), which examined possible global futures and associated greenhouse - related emissions in the absence of measures designed to limit anthropogenic climate change, RCP4.5 is a stabilization scenario and assumes that climate policies, in this instance the introduction of a set of global greenhouse gas emissions prices, are invoked to achieve the goal of limiting emissions and radiative forcing.

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The Global Tracking Framework can also aid in measuring progress towards the proposed Sustainable Development Goal on energy.

«Getting serious about climate change requires wrangling about the cost of emissions goals, sharing the burdens and drawing up international funding mechanisms,» they add, so it makes sense to shift from a simple but esoteric measure of global - temperature change to a range of indicators to which larger numbers of people are likelier to relate — indicators the authors argue are thus likelier to spur policies that have a real climate - curbing impact.

In addition the IEA goals require regulatory measures, which it describes as, «broader and deeper global efforts on technology collaboration to facilitate low - carbon technology development and deployment».

Here's what is required (leaving aside Theresa May's electorally hamstrung inability to deliver much of it): The entire cabinet and every business leader the government's black book can muster, on stage for the launch of the new strategy; an explicit declaration that this, full decarbonization of the economy, is the post-Brexit economic strategy; clear and attractive retail policies, such as a diesel scrappage scheme, tax breaks for green investment, new apprenticeships, a green home building program; an open invitation to all opposition party leaders to share a platform to support the plan with a declaration that while they may not agree on every component they fully endorse the over-arching goal; a willingness to shame those party leaders who play party politics and refuse to turn up; a fortnight - long program where each day sees a new cabinet member explain how the plan will transform parts of the economy; a Royal Commission on the flaws of GDP as an economic measure and the viability of alternative quality of life metrics; and, yes, a brave assertion that carbon intensive industries will have to transform or be scaled back, backed by a decarbonization adaptation fund to help affected communities respond to this global trend.

Gold Standard for the Global Goals will enable businesses that support life - changing climate and development projects to measure and report verified impacts toward climate security and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health - related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.

It's 3 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year as a goal and a measure for global sustainability.

Needless to say, accomplishing any one of these goals — a global carbon tax, maximized efficiency, an explosion of renewable energy, a wholesale revolution in agriculture, rapid reduction of non-CO2 GHGs, a rapid shift in global lifestyle choices, and successful measures to curb population growth — would be an enormous achievement.

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Offsetting through our integrated Climate + Care projects means you not only fund emission reductions to address your unavoidable carbon footprint, but deliver measured outcomes which can contribute to the UN Global Goals and your other business objectives.

He wrote a well - reviewed book called «The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming,» in which he presents measured skepticism of climate - change orthodoxy — for example, he believes the role of carbon emissions from human industry is greatly exaggerated by politicized science, but he doesn't think human carbon emissions are irrelevant, and is not implacably hostile to the goal of reducing them.

The household cooking and heating sector represents one of the best opportunities for the Coalition to affect quick and significant measures to reduce SLCPs and meet the climate goals of the global community while achieving other health, gender, environmental, and development benefits.

ISO 50001 supports the global climate agenda and provides a universal, reliable benchmark for measuring progress toward energy and climate goals.

After it was shown that Rose was comparing two numbers that measured two different things, Rose dodged responsibility by issuing a «clarification» that moved the goal posts to change the title to «global warming just QUARTER what we thought.»

Our goal is to help the nations of the world and the aviation industry use a policy tool — a well - designed global market - based measure — to help airlines turn away from the path of rising climate pollution.

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