Sentences with phrase «other global initiatives»

Stephens says the new Biomed Central journal will have a similar approach, allowing researchers to comment on the «robustness» of methods, statistics, or data, and patients to focus on the applications, offering comments on whether the work may be useful in other global initiatives, for example.

Then a number of other global initiatives started just a few weeks after.

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On Tuesday night, the Internet lit up with big news: Facebook, along with a partnership of six other companies, launched a new global initiative called Internet.org.

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Other highlights for the year included the introduction of GVBOT's Pillar Partners, the expansion of the Company of Young Professionals program to Richmond, North Vancouver, and the Tri-Cities, a new advocacy initiative with the Canadian Global Cities Council, and the WE FOR SHE Conference on gender diversity.

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The National Bank of Egypt has joined over 200 other financial services firms, stakeholders, and regulators in technology firm R3's global blockchain initiative.

With growth expected at 20 % for the next half - decade and likely beyond, given the potential for Teavana in the $ 90B global tea market and other initiatives to increase the size of each patron's check, a price of 30x earnings today will look like a bargain in a few years.

According to Walmart's Global Responsibility Report, the retailer has diverted 77 % of waste from unsold food, other unsold products, and materials from landfill through a variety of initiatives including food donations, repurposing products, and composting.

Examples mentioned included the company's programs for spotting and taking down counterfeit - product listings from its online shopping sites, initiatives to simplify the trademark - registration process, reductions in the time it takes to remove counterfeit products, closer partnerships with global law enforcement authorities and governments, and the imposition of a variety of penalties against offending merchants, among others.

Most Rev Justin Welby will join 17 other global leaders and experts to provide the Secretary - General with advice on mediation initiatives and back specific mediation efforts around the world.

None of them foster the kind of entrepreneurial and scientific innovation that success in the global economy demands; most establish a religion hostile not only to individual initiative but to religious freedom, the education of women, and other indispensable aspects of modern society.

You can choose to be listed in IFOAM Global Online PGS Database and you can also choose to make your answers to the SEF available on the website, so that other PGS initiatives can see what you've done and hopefully offer comments.

FAO can coordinate, at global level, the initiatives, activities and projects on food losses waste reduction by partnering with UN agencies, other international organizations, and worldwide stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society.

If Canada succeeds in its own new front - of - pack labelling initiative, this could incentivize other countries to follow suit, setting in motion a global cascade similar to what occurred with cigarette packaging: From simple warnings, to stomach - churning photos, to plain, nondescript packaging.

At Ogilvy, Mr. Fisch helped launch the widely acclaimed global IBM Software campaign amongst other strategic advertising initiatives.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

In response to the HIV pandemic and other new evidence, WHO and UNICEF collaborated on an effort to update the Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative materials and promote the initiative in the context of the Global Strategy for Infant and young child feeding.

The three day event draws on elements of the WABA Global Forum III event originally planned for Quebec City in June 2010, the World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) campaigns past and present, the World Breastfeeding Trends initiative (WBTi) and others.

Champions 12.3 will complement and build upon ongoing successful UN programs to reduce food loss and waste including SAVE FOOD and Think.Eat.Save, efforts such as EU FUSIONS and the global Food Loss & Waste Protocol, private sector action like the Consumer Goods Forum's Food Waste Resolution, and other initiatives.

He said, «with my global outreach initiative which is creating a new epic movement, I have been travelling out of my kingdom to visit other nations around the world to share our own stories, delivering academic lectures, re-charting the leading role of Yoruba nation in the world and to reignite the immortal Yoruba spirit of enlightenment as the glowing fountain of knowledge that gave birth to the world civilisation».

The work found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

The new study, led by Professor Scott, found that the most cost effective strategy for the tourism industry to meet the United Nations» recommended targets of reducing carbon emissions, includes a combination of strategic energy saving and renewable energy initiatives within the industry and buying carbon offsets from other parts of the global economy where emission reductions can be done at less cost.

• In support of these and other initiatives, including continuing cooperation on nuclear power, Prime Minister Singh and President Obama agreed the Governments of India and the United States will continue to engage regularly through the new U.S. - India Agriculture Dialogue, the U.S. - India Energy Dialogue and the U.S. - India Global Climate Change Dialogue.

But effective communication also will be essential for building public interest and support for initiatives in climate change and other global issues.

We are pivotal partners in many other initiatives that impact the global scientific community.

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

We welcome the opportunity to develop long - term and successful alliances with other groups through tailored partnerships, high - value research initiatives and global leadership projects.

The 1977 Tbilisi Declaration established a framework for formal and non-formal EE activities at the local, national, and international levels and provided «fundamental principles for the proposals» in Agenda 21 and a set of other documents and global initiatives that followed.

«As a student in the program this year, Nicole has not only excelled academically, but taken initiative and collaborated with others to make this a memorable year for all in the program, facilitating many conversations between students and global leaders of thought and practice, all while keeping a focus in sharpening the professional skills that will help her advance educational opportunity in Brazil upon graduation.»

Last semester, Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights visited the Askwith Forum to talk about Speak Truth To Power, a global initiative that uses the experiences of courageous defenders from around the world to educate students and others about human rights, and urge them to take action.

With other schools, the initiative has looked at issues around compassion, the brain and learning, global education, and the role technology plays in helping children learn from one another.

Global Education Week (also known in some countries as One World Week) supports teachers, youth leaders, young people and any other formal and non-formal educational actors to engage in education for global citizenship; and enhances the effectiveness of this endeavour nationally and throughout Europe, through co-ordination of initiatives and sharing of best pracGlobal Education Week (also known in some countries as One World Week) supports teachers, youth leaders, young people and any other formal and non-formal educational actors to engage in education for global citizenship; and enhances the effectiveness of this endeavour nationally and throughout Europe, through co-ordination of initiatives and sharing of best pracglobal citizenship; and enhances the effectiveness of this endeavour nationally and throughout Europe, through co-ordination of initiatives and sharing of best practices.

This effort combines the power of EV, PHEV and other emissions - reducing technologies with corporate initiatives designed to preserve and sustain the global environment.

Just a speck of its fortune these days goes for public libraries compared to other praiseworthy causes such as malaria prevention in developing countries, and the foundation is phasing out its global libraries initiative.

We continue to focus on our global impact with international initiatives like HarperCollins Mexico, Thomas Nelson Brasil, and others including working with many international publishing partners around the world.

Other AgMIP initiatives include global gridded modeling, data and information technology (IT) tool development, simulation of crop pests and diseases, site - based crop - climate sensitivity studies, and aggregation and scaling.

Amazon is ramping up its investment in podcasts and other radio - style shows to expand the types of programming it offers via Audible... Audible has recruited well - known comedians, along with radio and podcast producers for the initiative, and job postings suggest a significant global push... http://bloom.bg/1QNHHd5

At those talks, in Milan in 2003, Mr. Watson listed a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, which he said were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy — a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»

On April 19th from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm the United Nations University in partnership with HP, Dell and several other technology companies and UN agencies is hosting an event to introduce a new global public - private initiative «Solving the E-Waste Problem (StEP).»

Taken together, these initiatives to combat global warming now cover areas that include half the U.S. population, and state governments are already considering how to harmonize regional trading systems with each other, as well as with the European Union's emissions - trading scheme.

What about a global initiative to plant of trees and other vegetation to begin to help absorbing excess CO2?

The subsecretary of Environmental Management and Green Growth of Nariño, Ricardo Mora, reached out to Global Footprint Network for technical support about using the Ecological Footprint and other sustainability metrics to advance strategic initiatives in the Nariño province.

This technical document presents the latest estimates of the emissions gap in 2020 and provides plentiful information, including about current (2010) and projected (2020) levels of global greenhouse gas emissions, both in the absence of additional policies and consistent with national pledge implementation; the implications of starting decided emission reductions now or in the coming decades; agricultural development policies that can help increase yields, reduce fertilizer usage and bring about other benefits, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases; and, international cooperative initiatives that, while potentially overlapping with pledges, can complement them and help bridge the emissions gap.

On the other hand if we just fight at the global level we can spend an awfully long time fighting the broad initiatives whilst the ground is being taken from our feet at home.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

According to Lopes, of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, and other initiatives have helped overcome the biggest challenge — getting countries to understand the importance of these seeds.

In his opening argument, Joe Nocera, columnist for the New York Times, asserts that fracking and other energy capturing initiatives at home improve our global security by ending our dependence on foreign oil.

Other sessions will focus on public - private support for EU directives, energy efficiency benefits, plug load potential, transportation, finance, global cooling initiatives and scaling impact through the SEforALL Energy Efficiency Accelerator platform.

Listing a variety of initiatives begun by states and communities, Dr. Watson said they were like «laboratories where new and creative ideas and methods can be applied and shared with others and inform federal policy, a truly bottom - up approach to addressing global climate change.»