Sentences with phrase «only global effort»

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.

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.

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Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

The Co-operation Agreement, which has subsisted, which we have approved, can only enhance the global effort to preserve the peace in our region.

How efforts to block refugees and asylum - seekers from Europe have only made the global migration crisis more complex and harrowing

«There are currently more questions surrounding Zika than answers — and only through a coordinated global research effort will we find the answers we desperately need.»

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

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Socglobal collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal SocGlobal Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

The generously funded, graduate - only university welcomed the arrival of a prominent U.S. science administrator to oversee its research and innovation efforts and also announced the winning global teams for its first three research centers.

Communities in Africa and Thailand that worked together on HIV - prevention efforts saw not only a rise in HIV screening but a drop in new infections, according to a new study in the peer - reviewed journal The Lancet Global Health.

As a result, these experts say efforts to combat climate change must focus not only on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming but also on adjusting to the changes already underway.

Harshman's involvement in a number of global competency professional development efforts in the Midwest in places like Ohio and Illinois not only keep him busy, but, «energized by the creativity and interest to teach students about their interdependency with and responsibility to people they may never meet and places they may never go.»

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

You not only gain access to a huge global network, but you get extensive market coverage, with minimal effort, at low cost.

I've been criticized by some environmentalists in recent years for writing that the long - term picture (more CO2 = warmer world = less ice = higher seas and lots of climatic and ecological changes) is the only aspect of human - caused global warming that is solidly established, and that efforts to link dramatic weather - related events to the human influence on climate could backfire should nature wiggle the other way for awhile.

That's because when you really look at it, you will see that even a massive global effort to build thousands of new nuclear power plants would have only a modest impact on GHG emissions and even that impact won't occur for decades.

Unless Global Warming has only been a problem since January 2001 (date of a certain inauguration), please keep the political commentary out of postings... it's beneath this fine effort.

I've read, in the mainstream media, about various local efforts to plan for sea level rise but these articles only mention the global sea level rise estimates.

If «equity» is defined as the human right to sustainable development, then only two approaches to a global fair - shares reference framework — cumulative per - capita budget sharing and «responsibility and capacity index» based effort sharing — are at all promising, and the BASIC paper clearly moves these two approaches forward.

Whether they will be able to recruit enough people to join them, and whether their combined efforts will be enough to head off the most serious effects of global warming, are open questions that can only be answered by future developments.

As a geologist, I am highly frustrated by the asymmetry of research effort concentrated not only on the rather abstract notion of global average temperature almost to the exclusion of the other important climatic variables, but further obsessive and myopic self - flagellation over the human influence on trace CO2 levels.

Given the time period until new leases are required, and that new leases are only required in a scenario incompatible with the United States» commitment to taking actions consistent with limiting global warming to levels well below 2 °C while pursuing efforts to keep warming to no more than 1.5 °C, it makes sense to continue the moratorium for the foreseeable future.

The US, the worlds largest contributor to the global problem aren't interested, and other countries are only making a small effort, and the general masses don't care, so where is this message going?

Trump has pledged to eliminate what he considers unnecessary regulations, chipping away at decades of efforts not only to control global warming but clean air and water rules as well.

Stabilizing the climate system will require a heroic global effort, but the point here is only to show that, at least at the level of technologies and practices, such an effort can do more than merely succeed; that it can succeed well, and open into futures that we can actually bear to contemplate.

But, there's always the possibility that we'll end up with it only producing new ways for some of the participants to provide another faux report with faux information, provided by faux science in an effort to keep the pressure on that anthropogenic global warming is real.

In Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two - week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6 - degree - Celsius (1 - degree - Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past century.

Every lost opportunity to build cohesion around international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is dire; only a concerted, global approach will be sufficient to address this problem.

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

This is the only way to regain its positive and constructive role for the global effort to tackle climate change.

Del Genio sums it up: «What we at GISS bring to this effort is not only a useful tool — our global climate model and many of the people who develop it — but also a scientific perspective grounded in many years of thinking about Earth's climate and Solar System climates that we hope will complement the different perspectives of the other NExSS teams.»

My suspicion is that their efforts will only end up making the case for global warming air - tight.

These cumulative additional emissions savings would not only be a meaningful contribution toward a global effort to help limit some of the worst consequences of climate change; it can be done cost - effectively.

Today, I feature a perfect case in point where an article writer attempted to call out the «problem» of stupid rationale in the global warming issue, but his efforts only result in an undesirable appearance hugely undermining the overall point of his article.

Malaysia said Australia «has no credibility to negotiate anything» on climate, China reaffirmed that Kyoto must be at the centre of global efforts, and the Philippines tressed the UN was the only game in town.

The statement developed by Virginia - based organization Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) urged for «a more balanced and durable multilateral framework guiding and strengthening national efforts to address climate change,» committing to not only reduce emissions but also establish «strong transparency to hold countries accountable,» facilitate international carbon pricing, and «decarboniz [e] the global economy.»

To expand the coverage of global gridded reanalyses, the 20th Century Reanalysis Project is an effort led by PSD and the CIRES at the University of Colorado to produce a reanalysis dataset spanning the entire twentieth century, assimilating only surface observations of synoptic pressure, monthly sea surface temperature and sea ice distribution.

IMO, the effort should be transferred from discussing temperatures ad nauseam (which is only relevant to reducing the uncertainty in just one of the four key inputs to cost - benefit analyses) to working on a robust policy — i.e. a «no regrets» policy (one that will cut global GHG emissions at no cost or negative cost).

Even Obama's broader climate plan is only one piece of an even bigger global effort.

Forty years of social and political efforts to recycle packaging, for example, have only succeeded in eliminating one year of average global plastics demand growth.

Dealing with Congress and federal agencies, Mr. Bookbinder helped lead efforts on both global warming legislation and greenhouse gas regulation under the Clean Air Act, and has testified in front of House and Senate committees on these issues (and may be the only person ever invited by both Barbara Boxer and James Inhofe).

Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will only know in a few years whether December's Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the beginning of a global effort to counter it.

A petition backing the increased catch limit has garnered more than 3,000 signatures — a number that may not seem like a lot if compared to similar efforts in the United States and Europe, but, Koryürek said, definitely a success for Turkey, where a petition supporting efforts to stop global warming drew only 300.

It not only made him a celebrity in the marine and conservation community but inspired global efforts to ban shark - finning.

Your efforts were not time wasted, but necessary to counter the concerted disinformation campaign by the deniers and skeptics who only need to sow doubt in the mind of the public about the scientific research on global warming.

That leaves voluntary efforts, inadequate thought they may be, as the only hope for slowing the global growth of CO2 emissions in the near term.

Not only did it make many newspaper headlines [New Research Questions Uniqueness of Recent Warming, Past Climate Change Questioned etc.] when it first appeared, it also was raised in the US Senate as a reason for the US not to join the global climate protection efforts.

The Science Based Targets initiative, a joint effort of CDP, WRI, WWF and UN Global Compact, works with companies to set science - based emissions targets and only approves corporate targets that meet its strict criteria.

Alibaba has not made big efforts in developing Yahoo China's businesses, as it only focuses on its proprietary brands, Feng Lin, an analyst at the Hangzhou - based China e-Business Research Center, told the Global Times.

Beyond its global effort to bolster its content moderation by hiring more reviewers, it says it routinely removes hate speech content in the country, including Wirathu's account (although this only happened in late February), and that it has developed and promoted localized guidelines for using Facebook.