Land degradation neutrality is a simple but revolutionary idea that can connect the dots between
most global goals and targets.
Not exact matches
By Linda Hasenfratz and Hal KvislePublished in the Hill Times - December 13, 2010 Despite clear signs of progress in building an international consensus, the outcome of the latest round of UN climate change negotiations in Cancun appears to have fallen short of the target: a clear and comprehensive plan to reduce
global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Many of the
most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators»
goals in a legally binding agreement and how...
The
goal is to allow the coexistence of the
most contradictory interpretations: maternity, contraception or abortion; voluntary sterilisation or in - vitro fertilisation; sexual relations within or outside marriage, at any age, under any circumstance, as long as one abides by the triple precept of the new ethic: the partners» consent; their health security; and respect for the woman's right to choose.Reproductive health is the Trojan horse of the abortion lobby and of the
global sexual revolution.
When you look at the kind of impact food loss and waste has on our environment, economy and society, it's clear why the United Nations included it among the
most urgent
global challenges the Sustainable Development
Goals would address.
With the
global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the
most crucial
goals in rice research.
Fady Sharara, M.D., Contributes to
Global Understanding of Fertility Breakthroughs at ASRM The world's
most influential scientists and fertility specialists convened in Salt Lake City last month with one
goal — to help men and women find a faster, more efficient path to pregnancy.
As we work to achieve the ambitious
goals of the
Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents» Health, we can start with one of the
most effective, low - cost health interventions that benefit women and their newborns, with an impact that will last over their lifetime.
To reach the 90-90-90
goals — and a world without AIDS — the
global AIDS community must focus on the populations
most vulnerable to HIV, target interventions that are
most effective and sustainable, and improve the continuum of care for people with HIV, the authors conclude.
Supporting
global data systems is one of the
most important steps the world community can take to achieving sustainable development
goals.»
The
goal of the COP21 meeting in Paris is to limit
global temperature rise to two degrees Celsius — the temperature threshold that should avert some of the
most severe effects of climate change.
Her
goal is to build a
global movement that inspires and empowers women to live a life
most excellent - positively impacting their family, workplaces and society.
Written and directed by filmmaker Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and Funeral, Love Actually) and Mat Whitecross (Spike Island, Road to Guantanamo) and created by The Rumpus Room, people around the world have the chance to co-star alongside some of the world's
most famous people to help «Tell Everyone» about the
Global Goals by adding their voice to the film.
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?
«Our primary
goal with the new Auris was to create the
most bold and dynamic hatchback on the market, without compromising on interior usability,» explains Simon Humphries, Executive General Manager, Toyota
Global Design.
According to Toyota
Global Design Executive General Manager Simon Humphries, the
goal was to «create the (boldest) and
most dynamic hatchback on the market, without compromising on interior usability.»
-- One webinar a month: what
most companies offer — Audience engagement: the
most important
goal —
Global reach: online training goes far beyond the USA — Average length: 1 hour, Average attendance: 28 attendees — Reason for 85 % of webinars: to get new customers — Best organization: first: what the benefit is to the reader, second what the book contains
If applying U.S. equities to get international exposure is a main
goal, large - cap companies do the
most global business.
Adria Hotel Forum traditionally gathers key hoteliers,
global hotel operators, investment funds and the
most relevant regional experts with
goal to discuss
global hotel and development trends and increase quality in hospitality industry.
Most of the major plot elements in MGS2 revolve around the Patriots: a clandestine organization whose
goals involve
global social, political, and economic control.
But
most of the world isn't so keen, yet, to spend handsomely on this
global goal.
UNEP's latest
Global Environment Outlook goes on to say that we're making little to no progress on 24
goals, with 8 getting worse, including some of the
most serious such as climate change and coral reef destruction.
Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and
most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting
global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a
goal of peaking
global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a
global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,
The first strategy is to identify the
most appropriate
Global Goal for your business and to focus your sustainability efforts on making progress towards this target.
«If one wanted to sabotage the chances for a meaningful agreement in Paris next year, towards which the negotiations have been ongoing for several years, there'd hardly be a better way than restarting a debate about the finally - agreed foundation once again, namely the
global long - term
goal of limiting warming to at
most 2 degrees C,» Stefan Rahmstorf, an expert at Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, wrote last week in an online response to the Nature piece.
By Alister Doyle, cross-posted from Reuters, Thu Sep 15, 2016 The last gasoline - powered car will have to be sold by about 2035 to put the world on track to limit
global warming to the
most stringent
goal set by world leaders last year, a study said on Thursday.
National governments need to promise greater emissions cuts and enact policies to keep
global warming to the more ambitious target of 1.5 C or at
most 2C, which they set as the
goal of the Paris climate agreement.
The announcement followed the peak bodies» statement in June pledging their support to the
global goal of limiting climate change to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, and acknowledging that this will require
most countries, including Australia, eventually to reduce net emissions to zero or below.
At ClimateCare we firmly believe that taking urgent action to halt climate change is the
most central tenet of progressing towards the UN's
Global Goals.
Most scenario studies collected for this assessment that are based on the idealized assumptions that all countries of the world begin mitigation immediately, there is a single
global carbon price applied to well functioning markets, and key technologies are available, find that meeting a 430 480 ppm CO2eq
goal by century's end would entail a reduction in the amount
global consumers spend of 1 4 % in 2030, 2 6 % in 2050, and 3 11 % in 2100 relative to what would happen without mitigation.
That single
most misinterpreted Cambridge Reports page was titled «Strategy,» listing nine
goals, topped by «Reposition
global warming as theory (not fact).»
But since regional markets have reduced emissions
most effectively so far, it says, a
global mechanism would be the
most effective means to achieve this
goal in the future.
A position on a
global ghg atmospheric stabilization target is essentially an ethical question because a
global ghg atmospheric concentration
goal will determine to what extent the
most vulnerable people and the ecological systems on which they depend will be put at risk.
Each year nations have meet in COPs to achieve a
global solution to climate change and each COP for the
most part continued to add small steps toward the
goals of the UNFCCC.
Most scientific estimates show that to keep those
goals within reach, the
global emissions trajectory needs to not only reach net - zero by the second half of this century, but continue downward into net - negative emissions.
In fact, in the lead - up to Copenhagen,
most of the justifications for national commitments that had been announced by countries to reduce their emissions were exclusively focused on whether they met
global goals to reduce GHG emissions unadjusted by equity considerations.
«We examined international relationships between the sustainability of resource use and the achievement of social
goals, and found that basic needs, such as nutrition, sanitation, and the elimination of extreme poverty, could
most likely be achieved in all countries without exceeding
global environmental limits,» said Daniel O'Neill, who directs the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds in the UK.
«Achieving this
goal will require deep
global emissions reductions, with
most countries including Australia eventually reducing net greenhouse gas emissions to zero or below.»
We already know that if we continue with the lifestyles we have in
most of the Western world, we'll never be able to meet sustainability
goals or our need to lower carbon emissions to deal with and slow
global warming.
We've mentioned it often: The main
goal is to make solar cost - competitive with fossil fuels so that there are no excuses even for the
most ardent
global warming deniers.
Most experts predict that, when talks conclude in Paris, nations won't have promised enough action to meet a
goal set years ago — limiting
global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
The
Global Goals were a culmination of a four - year process for setting priorities to help the world's
most disadvantaged people — a process beset from the start by horse - trading, haggling and endless consultation.
Limiting
global temperature rise to 1.5 C has long been the
goal of developing countries and those
most at risk from climate change.
Socialists of all stripes no longer have to spew Marxist notions that turn
most people off; now, they can talk the science of
global warming and hurricanes and massive floods and such, and, using fear, trample the average guy into their socialist
goals of stifling capitalism, growth, and having the government take over the economy through this environmental back - door.
Mr. Collymore believes that the
global business community is a key catalyst to fast - track inclusive economic growth, with the Global Goals being the most effective lens that can drive businesses to see inequalities as business opportun
global business community is a key catalyst to fast - track inclusive economic growth, with the
Global Goals being the most effective lens that can drive businesses to see inequalities as business opportun
Global Goals being the
most effective lens that can drive businesses to see inequalities as business opportunities.
The
most important agreement was on climate change: a commitment at least to â $ œconsider seriouslyâ $ the
goal of halving
global greenhouse - gas emissions by 2050...
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A key product for one of the
most well - known industry startups, the digital asset won no shortage of favor from investors enamored by its
goal of disrupting an oligopolistic
global payments industry.
That means dropped frames, but
most reviewers pointed out that this feature works quite well for games like Dota 2 or Counter-Strike:
Global Offensive where speed is everything, and quality isn't the
goal.
After years of coaching clients through
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