Sentences with phrase «on worldwide efforts»

Sensing an opportunity to capitalize on worldwide efforts to fight global warming while simultaneously protecting elements of its economy, Brazil has proposed the establishment of voluntary fund into which developed countries, companies, and other entities pay to finance a program to reduce emissions from deforestation.

Eliminating these excesses and the resultant decline in the earth's biological productivity depends on a worldwide effort to restore the earth's vegetative cover.

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Even if Facebook doesn't roll out the changes in worldwide, taking the time to maximize your efforts on Facebook is still a smart move, as it lets you get the most value from the service.

«The Coalition calls on all parties to focus their efforts in the same direction to defeat ISIS, which is our common enemy and the greatest threat to regional and worldwide peace and security.»

Snap - On continued to benefit from strong worldwide industrial activity, and management's efforts to restructure Sara Lee boosted its share price.

Over at Public Discourse, Greg Pfundstein and Meghan Grizzle report on the latest decision by the Gates Foundation to put more than $ 4 billion behind efforts to expand the use of contraceptives worldwide.

(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called for an end to violence in Syria, as well as a renewed peace effort in the Middle East, in his annual Easter Mass message from the Vatican as Christians worldwide marked the holiday.

Businesses from the Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 coalition have issued a call to action to simplify and standardise food date labels worldwide by 2020 in a bid to reduce food waste as Champions 12.3 releases a progress report on global efforts to reduce food waste.

As part of its effort to connect with the 2 million internet users worldwide, Facebook has set its sights on one large nation who has refused to lift its ban on the popular website: China.

Collectively, members represent more than 70 % of worldwide vanilla bean purchases and have initially focused their efforts on collaboration with Madagascar, which currently represents more than 80 % of world supply.

Quantitative growth, increasing demands on product diversity, and the efforts of the beverage and food industry to have their production run in a safe, economical and efficient manner ensure investment in machinery and equipment worldwide.

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo said on Monday that the Federal Government's efforts in fighting corruption and deepening good governance in the nation were being applauded worldwide.

Shortly after the medics were released, al - Islam announced an ambitious plan to safeguard Libya's archaeological sites and protect its coastal ecology — efforts on which scientists worldwide are being asked to collaborate.

Answering such questions can help scientists understand the nuances of invasive mammal impacts on islands worldwide, and then use this information to direct limited resources to the places where management efforts will have the greatest benefits for native species.

As a part of these efforts, researchers from CAAS and BGI re-sequenced 115 cucumber lines sampled from 3,342 accessions worldwide, and also conducted de novo sequencing on a wild cucumber.

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

New preclinical research on the molecular mechanisms responsible for sickle cell disease could aid efforts to develop much needed treatments for this devastating blood disorder that affects millions worldwide.

They also are hopeful it will propel the efforts to get policy changes supportive of all cadres of health workers on these issues and as a result, improve healthcare and health outcomes worldwide.

Two - dimensional materials have unique electronic properties that are considered key to adapting them for spintronics applications, and there is a very active worldwide R&D effort focused on tailoring these materials for specific uses by selectively stacking different types.

One China expert said Obama's emphasis on U.S. - China cooperation ahead of the United Nations» Copenhagen, Denmark, summit in December — where world leaders will try and hammer out a worldwide climate change treaty — could aid efforts to reach a global pact.

«Given that sharks are in decline on reefs worldwide, largely due to the shark fin trade, this information may prove integral to restoration and conservation efforts.»

In this document, openly available for download, we provide an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

A White Paper, openly available for download, provides an overview of the effort; our framework for the first draft of the atlas; descriptions of the technology and data analysis tools available to build the atlas; an introduction to the Data Coordination Platform that will host the data for researchers worldwide; a deeper look at biological systems we plan to explore and map; and details on the organization and governance of the HCA consortium and its relationships to the public (including ethical considerations regarding organ and tissue donors) and to funding support.

While the Nature Climate Change paper reports on European results, the overall effort is a part of a worldwide monitoring programme being coordinated out of the University of Vienna, Austria that extends over more than 90 mountain sites on 5 continents.

In 1999, in keeping with our mission statement of furthering enrichment efforts worldwide, The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. began offering a $ 1000 Travel Grant to be used to help the winning author attend the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment (ICEE).

In 1999, in keeping with our mission statement of furthering enrichment efforts worldwide, The Shape of Enrichment, Inc. began offering a $ 1000 Travel Grant to be use to help the winning author attend the International Conference on Environmental Enrichment (ICEE).

The importance of the UK to the UFC's quest for worldwide domination is illustrated by the extra effort the UFC has put into highlighting British fighters on the reality show, The Ultimate Fighter and putting on many major events in the UK.

For his efforts, and for stepping up to the plate to adapt Yann Martel's worldwide bestseller (a supposedly insurmountable task previously passed over by M. Night Shyamalan and Alfonso Cuarón), Lee is likely to land on Oscar's Best Director shortlist, following prior nominations from the Broadcast Critics and the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Reimers will act as one of 30 representatives to the commission, which supports worldwide humanitarian development and values by coordinating efforts and delivering expert advice from the federal, state, and local governments and from nongovernmental organizations on issues of education, science, communications, and culture.

The #TWIMA Poetry project was a worldwide collaboration effort to get a book published on the iBooks Store.

This initiative will be dedicated to fighting the victimization of gays and lesbians worldwide and is the latest in Daniel Loeb's efforts to achieve progress and justice for L.G.B.T. people on a global scale.

Even still, Mitsubishi plans a big sales push and increase in battery production in an effort to sell up to 48,000 PHEVs worldwide this year in markets including Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand (where it went on sale in April).

Samsung isn't resting on its laurels in 2014, but now seem even more poised than in previous years in its effort to increase Samsung market share in the worldwide tablet computer market.

The country's marketing efforts to promote its tourism worldwide have put UAE on the map as one of the most desirable tourist locations that offers numerous tourist attractions and attractive hotel packages.

 Since moving to Bali June 2004 nearly 1000 articles and TV news stories about his swimming efforts to improve the lives of others have appeared in national and international media, including hundreds of articles and videos on the worldwide net — every news story speaks about the American ocean swimmer who lives on the resort island of Bali.

Ubisoft have given up some more information on Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, the game will be shipping in late 2010 and is actually being developed by several Ubisoft studio's at the same time; «Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is a worldwide production effort led by the Ubisoft Montreal Studio in collaboration -LSB-...]

SCEA president and CEO, Shawn Layden writes «In an effort to meet the considerable worldwide demand, and to ensure that all gamers worldwide have the opportunity to play the game on day one, we have chosen to postpone the launch of the game by two weeks to allow for extra manufacturing time.»

After the Switch launched last March and quickly became a worldwide phenomenon, a lot of Nintendo fans believed that the company should focus all of its efforts exclusively on the new systems by getting rid...

According Layden, the decision was made «In an effort to meet the considerable worldwide demand, and to ensure that all gamers worldwide have the opportunity to play the game on day one».

To shed light on the issue, UK nonprofit WaterAid commissioned a unique photo series for its Deliver Life campaign, an effort to help deliver clean water to women and newborns worldwide.

So my take - home message from the Cartagena Dialogue meeting was that we should redouble efforts to secure a worldwide legal treaty on climate — but that we should not wait for it to be signed before we get on with the serious business of decarbonising our economies.

Consider just how much commercial cred fracked gas & oil had 10 yrs ago, and then look at the current worldwide research efforts both on methane hydrates» extraction and also on coal - seam gasification.

In his resignation letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki - moon, Pachauri said he'd planned to step down on Nov. 2 last year after the release of the final portion of the panel's fifth climate report, but «close friends and colleagues advised me against that action and to continue with outreach efforts worldwide.»

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

As the mathematics of the mass balance does not lie, there is simply no question that the dimwitted efforts of the Western world will have no impact on worldwide CO2 emissions.

Requires the EPA Administrator to report to Congress by July 1, 2013, and every four years thereafter, on an analysis of: (1) key findings based on the latest scientific information relevant to global climate change; (2) capabilities to monitor and verify GHG reductions on a worldwide basis; and (3) the status of worldwide efforts for reducing GHG emission, preventing dangerous atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, preventing significant irreversible consequences of climate change, and reducing vulnerability to the impacts of climate change.

Coordination efforts are focused on standardizing measurement techniques to improve fog - related data comparison from projects worldwide.

The founding director of the department and cochair of Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Chris Field, remarked, «Greg's research has had an enormous international impact on the science of global ecology and on enhancing conservation efforts, particularly in tropical forests worldwide.

More bans worldwide on possessing or selling shark fins, as well as significant education efforts about the importance of sharks are as important as any changes in fishing practices.

Baker McKenzie also invests in communities where its people live and work and is a pioneer in teaming with its clients on corporate social responsibility efforts worldwide.