Sentences with phrase «out of a global effort»

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This means working out what they can emit, as part of a real effort to limit global temperature rise.

The plan is China's contribution to a global effort to stamp out the common practice of multinationals altering the price put on labor, services or intangible asset transfers within global operations to allow firms to divert profits to low - tax countries.

«During the first quarter, we continued to focus our efforts on the global roll out of the BlackBerry 10 platform,» chief executive Thorsten Heins said in a release.

That spirit of generosity and reaching out to a variety of stakeholders also was noted by Sanjay Ghoshal, senior director and global head, Packaging, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd.: ``... the one thing that really has struck me is the effort to create value across the supply chain instead of staying with either the brand owner or the consumer or the distributor.»

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

and also join the global campaign for a toxic - free world by reading the FAQ Sheet, Towards Healthy Environments for Children: Frequently asked questions about breastfeeding in a contaminated environment which emerged out of the combined efforts of breastfeeding and environmental health and justice groups in addressing breastfeeding in a contaminated environment.

The push for drug liberalisation comes as part of a global trend toward a more liberal stance on narcotics, following half a century of expensive and broadly ineffective efforts to wipe out the drug trade.

Trump's company pulled out of a proposed $ 250 - million tower project in the Georgian Black Sea resort town of Batumi, the latest effort by the president - elect to defuse charges that his global businesses will cause conflicts of interest once he enters the White House.

In the case of the Human Cell Atlas, a global effort to identify the body's 30 trillion cells, the Initiative is providing funding to help scientists carry out their cell mapping projects, but it also has hired a team to develop a data coordination platform so that the atlas of participants can collaborate and pool data more efficiently.

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

This has created a growing pessimism within the scientific community, with the Guardian reporting that almost nine out of 10 climate scientists don't believe political efforts to restrict global warming to 2º Celsius will succeed.

As China accounts for almost one - fifth of global catch volume, it has made great efforts to carry out conservation and management of fisheries resources by adopting and practicing various measures over the past three decades.

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.

And this is on top of ongoing efforts by the administration aimed at «preventing scientists who believe there might be such a link [between global warming and more intense hurricanes] from speaking out.»

The effort isn't entirely out of character for the brand — it already donates 1 percent of its daily global sales to environmental organizations, which amounted to $ 7.1 million in its latest fiscal year.

As on other Fiestas, nothing seemed to have been thrown out to make the car lighter or cheaper in some effort to get an extra fraction of 1 mpg, so the plastics were good for the segment, and there weren't any parts that seemed like they were picked out of some global parts bin to save money.

«During the first quarter, we continued to focus our efforts on the global roll out of the BlackBerry 10 platform,» said Thorsten Heins, President and CEO of BlackBerry.

Reaching that level of success means increasing your reach, making the effort to reach out on a global scale.

After spending the first quarter continuing to «focus our efforts on the global roll out of the BlackBerry 10 platform,» which Heins claims the company is still in the early stages of, the company intends to «invest in BlackBerry 10 smartphone launches» for the remainder of fiscal 2014, as well as investing in BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 and its cross platform version of BlackBerry Messenger.

A Los Angeles Times article few days ago provided a fresh look at the tussle over global warming in classrooms, focusing on a move by the National Center for Science Education to add a substantial climate component to its longstanding effort to keep ideology and religion out of classes on biology and evolution.

It also doesn't help that there are almost no grass roots mobilization efforts being carried out by national environmental groups over the issue of global warming other than 350.org.

One such effort is Global Population Speak Out, a Web - based initiative pushed by a variegated network of scientists and campaigners.

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.

This Tuesday, I'll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it.

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.

Considering recent news about the Exxon corporation sending out document retention request letters against those who accuse it of hoodwinking its shareholders about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming, there is perhaps some chance that my work may be used as a guide on «who» needs to preserve «what» in such efforts.

The reason I highlighted the damage cost estimates and that they are trivial in context of global GDP over the 21st century, is to point out that we are wasting an enormous amount of time, effort and money researching something that is not important.

Mora also underscored our joint efforts, saying, «[the MOU with Global Footprint Network] isn't simply to carry out scientific studies on Nariño's Ecological Footprint and biocapacity, but also to direct our province with concrete actions on how to build a green economy that takes ecological limits into account and move back the date of Earth Overshoot Day, so that our actions with natural resources in the region are sustainable.»

Since science is the pursuit of truth and AGW advocacy is anything but; it stands to reason that all efforts to keep the debate out of the scientific arena must be made by the global warming orthodoxy to keep the fraud alive.

Among others, those commitments included the Wallace Global Fund targeting one percent of its total investment portfolio to energy access efforts in Sub-Sahara Africa and the IKEA Foundation rolling out six new grants totaling over $ 40 million to support energy access work in Asia and Africa.

If we delay «all hands on deck» global mitigation efforts any more than 10 years, that goal too will be out - of - touch with reality.

«This Tuesday, I'll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it,» the president said.

The latest massive effort in paleoclimatology is the PAGES 2k project which has produced a global temperature reconstruction for the past two millennia - check out my article on it here: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/07/08/2261531/most-comprehensive-paleoclimate-reconstruction-confirms-hockey-stick/ Their results look identical to the original «hockey stick» reconstruction of 1999.

Each country will have taken a range of factors into account when working out how much to pledge, Oxfam previously told Carbon Brief: from how much of its existing budget can be channelled towards climate change efforts, to how much political will it has for a new global climate deal in 2015.

Gradually, in the months after K15 came out, the evidence kept mounting that Tom Karl constantly had his «thumb on the scale» — in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy.

As part of this effort, the «Global Strategy Group, a D.C. - based crisis management public relations firm working on behalf of Edison Electric Institute, APS's trade association, tried to secretly shop stories to local media outlets aimed at smearing a local solar panel company's employee, who lashed out at APS in an email to his customers» reported the Arizona Capitol Times.

Scrapping the effort to reform this law is a huge missed opportunity in a country where, if managed well, revenues from mining could offer a critical route out of poverty and contribute to stability,» said Nathaniel Dyer, Congo team leader at Global Witness.

It may also be that developed countries have to admit that several of the developing countries, even if they haven't yet pulled out all the stops, are much closer to their fair share of the global effort than their developed country friends.

First, the setup for Ron's article: Back late 2009, in my efforts to figure out where the infamous «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» phrase came from — the line spelled out in Al Gore's movie and in Ross Gelbspan's book «The Heat is On», which they portray as a sinister top - down industry directive that skeptic climate scientists are paid to follow — I ran across Naomi Oreskes» widely repeated Powerpoint presentation from 2008 where she said the leaked memo set containing that phrase was in the archives of the American Meteorological Society (AMS).

For the sake of every honest and concerned citizen out there who has been insulted by the condescension of the Global Warming Priesthood, please keep up your remarkable efforts — and thank you.

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.

Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the international Paris climate agreement severs another of America's increasingly sparse ties to the global community, and is a trigger to redouble efforts to tackle climate change in Europe, Friends of the Earth Europe has responded.

After the disastrous 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, Paris marks something of a last - ditch effort to prevent the global environmental crisis from spiraling out of control.

The problem with global warming is that will take a lot of effort to reverse and in reality, time is running out on the return on investment and cost / benefit ratios.

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Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), as laid out in Article 3 and 4 of the Paris Agreement, require developed countries signatory to the agreement to communicate «ambitious efforts» to achieve the purpose of the Paris Agreement (keeping average global warming below 1.5 / well below 2 degrees celsius).

In his official statement, Soon wrote that he has «been the target of attacks in the press by various radical environmental and politically motivated groups» and that the «effort should be seen for what it is: a shameless attempt to silence my scientific research and writings, and to make an example out of me as a warning to any other researcher who may dare question in the slightest their fervently held orthodoxy of anthropogenic global warming.»

The document «expressly laid out a budget and how to hire some scientists, to train them to speak about uncertainty and get out there in the mix,» since exploiting the media's tendancy towards balance of the «he said, she said» kind was central to the effort to foster the idea that the scientific community was divided on the impact of global warming.

On Tuesday, President Obama laid out his comprehensive plan to cut carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it.

In a White House Web video released Saturday, Obama said he'll use the speech to «lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change and lead global efforts to fight it.»