Sentences with phrase «one's global efforts»

It still has an opportunity to match that leadership in global efforts to protect forests.

It's a key part of global efforts to slow climate change.

While there are obvious implications for global efforts to combat climate change, there will also be consequences for investors.

A national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.

Fund managers and investors attending the meeting want oil and gas majors to assess how compatible their assets are with global efforts to avoid dangerous levels of warming.

Major exports of publicly owned coal would undermine global efforts to reduce carbon pollution.

Never before has there been such a concerted global effort in the fight against cancer.

Climate change needs more attention in schools and communities as well as global efforts, action and collaboration to protect the environment better than before.

Only one new drug has been introduced in 40 years, despite global efforts.

There is a large global effort to stop the deforestation of Brazilian and Indonesian forests.

A new global effort now focuses on the issue.

This is not an Australian invention but part of a massive global effort.

These decisions are going to shape global efforts to protect forests.

That's why overcoming the disproportionate exclusion of children with disabilities will take a sustained global effort.

This is an international event that launches global efforts to eliminate rabies.

Lack of progress in these countries would doom to failure global efforts to combat global warming.

Were it not for a landmark global effort in disease control — and a fair amount of luck — it would probably still be out there.

The project's goal it to both inform global efforts to eradicate hunger and raise the profile of these efforts.

We are in the midst of the greatest global effort in history to end tropical deforestation, driven largely by the importance of tropical forests for tackling climate change.

This will build trust among countries, and make it easier to track whether global efforts are collectively ambitious enough to limit global warming.

For local reduction of pollution to be effective, a coherent global effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions is needed as well.

When offsets are included — through «flexible» market mechanisms — developed countries account for as little as 35 percent of global efforts.

New efforts to track and quantify greenhouse gas emission reductions could prove a model for global efforts.

It would also represent the first concerted global effort to reverse the decline in a major natural asset — tropical forests.

Simply limiting the temperature rise to twice the «safe» level would require heroic, sustained global effort, a level of ambition that appears nowhere in evidence.

So, in the next few years, the Trump Administration is not going to have a massive impact on global efforts.

Global efforts by companies to tackle deforestation are lagging behind climate actions, with the adoption of zero deforestation policies going at a snail's pace, according to a recent report by...

Lindsey Pownall, Tesco's Corporate Responsibility Committee Chair, commented: «It is recognised that we need to work together across society to build a truly sustainable future and the business fully supports global efforts to build this future, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.»

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) is a leader in global efforts against the world's most pervasive and high impact infectious diseases, such as malaria, HIV / AIDS, Ebola, and dengue.

«Saving the species requires a coordinated global effort in the countries where elephants occur, all along the ivory smuggling routes and at the final destination in the Far East.

One of the most egregious beat - ups you'll ever read, the story was chock full of terrifying predictions about what will happen if Australia joins global efforts to limit global warming.

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña Celebrate Computer Science Education Week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today visited PS 241 in Brooklyn to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and events.

Nevertheless, two weeks in Copenhagen will yield insights into global efforts to control industrial emissions and the warming of the planet.

«Even when global efforts fail, we show that local policies can still have a positive impact,» Tol said in the statement, «making them at least a useful insurance for bad climate outcomes on the international stage.»

Global efforts need to:

Speaking at the World Nuclear Exhibition on 28 June 2016, Dr Birol said nuclear energy was at a crossroads, both in terms of the role it can play in the broader energy mix, and in global efforts towards decarbonisation of the electicity system along with a greater role for renewables.

The Biorock ® reef system has helped global efforts for the reef restoration due to positive effects on all marine life, eco-tourism and various conservation projects.

In light of recent political decisions to withdraw the nation from global efforts to address climate change, reverting to mother nature may be the...

CPBO works closely with the Law Firm Pro Bono Project, the only global effort designed to support and enhance the pro bono culture and performance of major law firms.

Jim Manzi is correct that «The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the largest existing global effort to answer such technical questions.»

Adaptive preparedness is essential, they say, because even with aggressive global efforts... Continue reading →

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition is the only global effort that unites governments, civil society and private sector, committed to improving air quality and protecting the climate in next few decades by reducing short - lived climate pollutants across sectors.

We're also advancing global efforts to phase out HFCs, a highly potent class of greenhouse gases, and to reduce aviation emissions.

Seventy - two percent of Democrats, but just 13 % of Republicans, are very concerned about the withdrawal hurting global efforts to fight climate change.

The Lib Dem leader contrasted David Cameron's criticism of domestic human rights legislation with his praise for it abroad, particularly in Libya, where the prime minister spearheaded global efforts to involve Nato in the conflict.

That absence has hampered global efforts to tackle these problems under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)-- unable to track the impact of their funding, donors are reluctant to invest.

Now activists, environmental law experts, and politics geeks are eager to see how the ruling affects global efforts to force big greenhouse gas cuts elsewhere, even in places where the legal precedent it has set won't directly apply.

This alarming show of instability is driving global efforts to redefine the kilogram, so that mass need not depend on the safety or stability of some manufactured item stored in a safe.