Sentences with phrase «nations of the world agreed»

In September 2015, nations of the world agreed to 17 Sustainable Development Goals, each with a number of targets.

In 1967, inspired by a new international outer - space treaty, the space - racing nations of the world agreed to spare no effort in preventing the potential spread of organisms from one moon or planet to another.

And it was in large part due to the efforts of China and the U.S. that the nations of the world agreed to combat climate change in Paris in 2015.

The first turning point was 1997, when the nations of the world agreed to limit their CO2 emissions at the Kyoto Protocol.

The nations of the world agreed in Paris last December to try to reduce emissions and hold global warming to significantly less than 2 °C altogether, but there is evidence that national plans tabled so far may not be enough.

In December 2015, the nations of the world agreed unanimously in Paris to an aggressive program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to limit the increase in global average temperatures to 2 C above pre-industrial levels.

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But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

Yet amazingly, 193 countries (100 % of United Nations members) figured out how to agree on what a better world would look like.

Most evangelicals probably agree with Reinhold Niebuhr that in a world infested with well - armed Hitlers, Stalins and colonialists, persons and nations that follow the way of the cross get wiped out.

Ignatieff argues, and I agree with him, that the world needs the American Empire as a guarantor of security and the basis for building new institutions in shattered nations.

If 46 % of people in the world's most technologically advanced and free nation don't agree with Mr. Nye, then he needs to think that over.

Even if their theology about the future of the world differed, they were likely to agree that America was God's chosen nation.

Do you agree that North Americans should make an effort to reduce their consumption of beef for the sake of a more efficient use of available grains for the hungry nations of the world?

Beginning in or around 2004 and continuing through 2011, I and others on the FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with the selection of South Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup... Beginning in or about 1993 and continuing through the early 2000s, I and others agreed to accept bribes and kickbacks in conjunction with the broadcast and other rights to the 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2003 Gold Cups.

At the same time, the WTO acts as a negotiating forum, bringing together the trading nations of the world to resolve disputes and agree common principles.

Under the landmark climate deal struck in Paris in 2015, most of the world's nations agreed to cut carbon emissions to limit warming by 2100 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Well, I don't think we should start messing around fixing it in the sense of sending them miles up into the space; [in] fact I make some arguments why that's not going to happen, because we can't even agree on CO2 now, the world's nations are not going to agree upon how much to try to turn the thermostat back, particularly when the crops might be growing better with higher CO2, right now when the temperature effects haven't kicked in fully.

A major test of the world's willingness to phase out greenhouse gases will arrive in December, when nations gather in Paris to try to agree on what to do about climate change.

What the major countries can not agree on is how the burden of taking action should be shared among the world's 196 nations.

A new global report on the HIV / AIDS epidemic spotlights success in both prevention and treatment efforts, but also stresses that countries must dramatically ramp up both if the world hopes to meet the ambitious goals agreed upon last year at a special session of the United Nations.

The Board contributes to a process concluding this fall to replace the UN's Millennium Development Goals, agreed by nations in 2000 for achievement in 2015, with a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through which progress in improving quality of life around the world will be tracked through 2030.

His concept of standard time formed the basis of the system adopted in 1884, but it took another 35 years before nations agreed a set of time zones covering the entire world.

Following a «carbon law,» which is based on published energy scenarios, would give the world a 75 % chance of keeping Earth below 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures, the target agreed by nations in Paris in 2015.

After 195 nations agreed to commit nearly all of the world's countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, heads of state praised the accord and the people who made it happen.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

In the presence of the UN Secretary - General, Ban Ki - moon, the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) have agreed to launch a new public awareness campaign calling on tourists to help reduce demand for illicit goods and services linked to transnational organized crime.

Amadeus, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, and the ministry of tourism of Kenya have agreed to work together to help young people and women in underprivileged communities access employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the travel and tourism industries.

Standing up for the nation's endangered Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System — a World Heritage site that's fragile, delicate and threatened — was the Belize Prime Minister and his cabinet, all of whom agreed that a policy to ban offshore exploration wasn't just a good idea — it could be the only way to save this unique ecosystem.

So the great nations of the world came together and they huffed and they puffed and at the end of it all they agreed....

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

McNutt (who was just nominated * to be the next president of the National Academy of Sciences) points to studies showing that nations» emissions - cutting pledges made ahead of Paris climate treaty talks this December are insufficient to keep the planet from heating up beyond the 2 - degree Celsius threshold the world's nations previously agreed to avoid.

Leaders from the «Group of 8» leading industrialized nations — United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and Russia — agreed in L'Aquila last week that developed nations should aim to reduce emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050 — a formula that essentially requires the developing world to make a 20 percent cut.

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

The same simulations found that — were the world to achieve the 1.5 °C global warming limit which 195 nations agreed upon at the Paris climate summit in 2015 — then the Mediterranean region would experience only 3.2 months of drought.

Based on the latest science, most of the world's nations agreed in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 that industrial nations should cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and the treaty was modified last year to require further reductions in emissions to levels well below those of 1990, over the next 10 to 15 years.

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, «I think the great thing about the Commonwealth conference is that we could find nations that were rich and poor, nations that were facing directly now climate change and nations who were debating it but hadn't felt the full impact of it, all coming together to agree something that, you know, if a third of the world can agree at the Commonwealth conference, then perhaps the whole of the world can agree at Copenhagen.»

That means the world's nations will start meeting regularly at the United Nations to discuss how to strengthen their individual climate pledges over time and claw toward their agreed - upon goal of keeping global warming belonations will start meeting regularly at the United Nations to discuss how to strengthen their individual climate pledges over time and claw toward their agreed - upon goal of keeping global warming beloNations to discuss how to strengthen their individual climate pledges over time and claw toward their agreed - upon goal of keeping global warming below 2 °C.

Nearly 200 nations, finally agreeing to keep the world from burning up, began writing the rulebook by which the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement could be achieved, while seeking the trillions needed to move quickly away from fossil fuels to a green - energy economy.

The wind power industry set new records across the world last year, and wind is leading the charge in the transformation of the global power system, long overdue and very necessary to achieve the objectives agreed by 186 nations in Paris last December.

And for those of you who are not as familiar with it, essentially what the Paris agreement did was, for the first time, mobilize 200 nations around the world to sign up, agree to specific steps they are going to take in order to begin to bend the curve and start reducing carbon emissions.

The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at the United Nations General Assembly and agreed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), among which is the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.

What is your evidence that that a trade agreement as you have outlined can be agreed upon by the nations of the world including the sanctions you have described?

One of the reasons the world is now running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change is because fossil fuel companies and their allies in the US Congress has prevented the United States from taking serious action on climate change since 1992 when the George H. W Bush administration agreed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that the United States should adopt policies and measures to prevent dangerous anthropocentric interference on climate change on the basis of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities.

It's an assertion repeated by politicians and climate campaigners the world over: «2,500 scientists of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agree that humans are causing a climate crisis.»

Given that in ratifying the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the United States and almost every country in the world in 1992 agreed under Article 3 of that treaty to not use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for postponing climate change policies, do you believe the United States is now free to ignore this promise by refusing to take action on climate change on the basis of scientific uncertainty?

Getting the world's fractious nations to agree to a program of remedial measures sounds extremely difficult, but Stephen Schneider sees signs that it may not be impossible.

In reaction to fears over the ozone hole, most of the nations in the world agreed to the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which had been tied to the creation of the ozone hole.

The international community agreed at a meeting of the conference of the parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen in 2009 that the world must work together to limit warming to an additional 2oC to avoid rapid non-linear impacts from climate change.

The two countries, among the largest and fastest - growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, submitted letters to the United Nations agreeing to be included on a list of countries covered by the Copenhagen Accord, a three - page nonbinding statement reached at the end of the contentious and chaotic 10 - day conference.