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Each June, Franklin Templeton celebrates Involved Impact Days, our global dedicated month of volunteering where employees around the world put in an extra effort to participate in community service projects.

In light of the issues around the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other benchmarks that have arisen over the past decade, there has been an ongoing global reform effort to improve the functioning of interest rate benchmarks.

This effort was a result of their nine year strategy to provide people access to clean, safe water and conserve global water supplies around the world.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Efforts are underway by various certification bodies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and global food companies to develop the production around poorest regions of the world, such as Africa, and to measure the actual impacts that the various initiatives, standards.

Beginning with the Summer 2012 Event, we invited everyone around the world to participate from your local area in a global effort to raise awareness of baby / child - friendly mothering and fathering.

«Obasanjo is one of 18 global leaders, senior officials and experts on the high - level board created earlier this year to advise the Secretary - General on mediation and back those efforts around the world.

The reports are based on the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2010 (GBD 2010), a collaborative effort of researchers from 50 countries around the world led by IHME at the University of Washington in the United States and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Last week, leaders of these massive, multi-institution projects and others around the world met at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss an even loftier goal: a global neuroscience collaboration that would link their efforts and rival big science investments in astronomy and physics.

Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current efforts on the timing and drivers of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant climate events.

But the U.K. Met Office (national weather service), the U.S.'s National Center for Atmospheric Research and other partners around the globe aim to change that in the future by developing regular assessments — much like present evaluations of global average temperatures along with building from the U.K. flooding risk modeling efforts — to determine how much a given season's extreme weather could be attributed to human influence.

That said, the news comes at a time of great uncertainty over the future of global emissions reduction efforts, while nations around the world are convening in Germany for the U.N. climate conference.

To reaffirm the progress made at the summit, more than 80 Ministers from around the world issued the Ordos Declaration urging countries to step up efforts on all fronts to tackle desertification — one of the planet's most pressing global challenges.

Hear experts from the Global Coral Restoration Project provide an overview of coral restoration efforts around the world and discuss current obstacles and potential solutions.

Since 2011, America's Plastics Makers ® have partnered in many efforts to research and prevent marine debris around the world under our «Declaration of the Global Plastics Associations for Solutions on Marine Litter,» which has been signed by 70 plastics associations in 35 countries.

Marine scientists from Australia and the USA today called for global efforts to protect deeper coral reefs as insurance against the widespread destruction of shallow reefs and their fish stocks now taking place around the world.

The effects of these restoration efforts can be felt in communities around the Earth, and our innovative approach is a model with global scalability.

MTV Games» SVP, Paul DeGooyer, stressed the importance of releasing more global acts, saying, «We believe music transcends boundaries, and intend to prove it with a committed effort to release more music from around the world on the Rock Band platform.»

Updated, Feb. 8, 10:00 p.m. Given Florida's special vulnerability to rising seas and other consequences of human - driven global warming (which I first wrote about in 1988), it's not surprising that one of the first efforts to break the partisan impasse in the House around this issue has come from two lawmakers from the south end of that state — Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo and Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat.

But efforts to tease out the impact of human - driven global warming in the region are complicated by the big influence around the Bering Sea of natural variations in ocean conditions, including the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.

Indeed, it's extremely difficult to imagine an effort of the necessary scale until we've escaped the Kyoto annexes and established a global regime that assigns properly differentiated commitments around the world.

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

(5) explains the cause of the slowdown in global warming after around 2000 — cooling from increased Eastern SO2 emissions offset the warming caused by Western Clean Air efforts, resulting in a net slowdown in the rate of decreasing global SO2 emissions.

Our lab is actively developing global atmospheric climate models with roughly 50 and 25 km grid spacing (even finer models are being run very experimentally), and there are a number of related efforts around the world.

Their efforts cover a range of activities, from lobbying to political contributions to media campaigns that attempt to discredit the scientific consensus around global warming.

Around two - thirds of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stem from energy production and use, which puts the energy sector at the core of efforts to combat climate change.

Edited by Bob Burton, CoalWire is CoalSwarm's weekly news bulletin that summarizes the most significant developments affecting the global coal industry and highlights the efforts of groups around the world working on coal - related issues.

Opening of the Drake Passage surely affected ocean circulation around Antarctica, but efforts to find a significant effect on global temperature have relied on speculation about possible effects on atmospheric CO2 [37].

As these arrive, scientists and research institutes around the world will quickly tabulate them, and normalize them, and calculate their implied impact on global temperatures, and inevitably draw conclusions about which countries are doing their fair share and which are free riding on the efforts of others.

As they do, scientists and institutes around the world are tabulating the pledges, normalizing them, calculating their implied aggregate impact on global temperature, and — inevitably — drawing conclusions about which countries are doing their «fair share» and which are free riding on the efforts of others.

After laying the groundwork with our lively and comprehensive around - the - clock coverage at COP21 in Paris (November 29 - December 12, 2015), we're dedicating a portion of our site and our daily coverage to reportage and essays from journalists, academics, and policymakers as we identify the policies and personalities that will determine, for good or ill, all global efforts to legislate this existential threat.

Alex Dimitrief General Counsel and Senior Vice President General Electric Company October 3, 2016 Alex Dimitrief, general counsel and senior vice president for General Electric Company and his colleague Kate O'Leary, global executive litigation counsel and head of GE's pro bono coordinating committee, discuss GE's pro bono program, its pro bono efforts around the world, Alex's goal of 100 % participation, and much more.

With a potential viewership of hundreds of millions around the world, Huawei will be leveraging the tournament to establish itself as a global consumer brand and to promote its concerted effort to integrate cloud solutions into all of its upcoming smart phones and devices.

Speaking to Bitcoin Magazine, Perianne Boring, founder and president of the chamber said the Global Blockchain Forum is an international initiative that will coordinate efforts with leading blockchain industry trade associations around the world to establish global industry best practices and stanGlobal Blockchain Forum is an international initiative that will coordinate efforts with leading blockchain industry trade associations around the world to establish global industry best practices and stanglobal industry best practices and standards.

In an effort to provide a detailed view of the attitudes and concerns of workers around the globe, Towers Watson carried out a Global Workforce Study on employees across a range of industries in 26 markets.

In every country around the world, adult individuals working at organizations receiving global health assistance will be prohibited from advocating for their completely legal rights as a condition of U.S. support for their global health efforts.

Even though President Obama lifted the global gag rule more than four years ago, we are still fighting efforts from politicians who want to impose this draconian measure that harms women's health by further restricting the availability of family planning and other reproductive health services around the world.