Sentences with phrase «percent of global efforts»

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

Not exact matches

Thanks to the efforts of their global team of designers, engineers and thinkers, Rootstrap alumni have a 2,600 percent increase in their chances of getting funded compared to the average startup.

Plenty of facts have been bandied about in an effort to clarify the TPPâ $ ™ s significance: 12 Pacific Rim countries, 800 million people, 36 percent of global GDP -LSB-...]

Thanks to national immunization efforts like these, global measles deaths have fallen more than 80 percent since 2000, saving a total of over 20 million lives.

China's push to become a major maker of solar panels has driven down global prices by close to 90 percent over the past decade, helping international efforts to curb emissions of planet - warming greenhouse gases.

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

But cutting global (GHG) emissions by 50 percent by 2050 is a major challenge that would require curbs on the smokestacks of power generators and the tailpipes of vehicles as well as a halt to deforestation, among other efforts.

But thanks to conservation and restoration efforts, 26 percent of the total area has been reforested since November of 1999, according to the Global Restoration Network.

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

A new national survey conducted by The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and researchers at Yale University found that fewer than 1 in 3 Americans, and 40 percent of Catholics, are aware of Pope Francis's efforts to publicize global warming as a priority issue for the Catholic Church.

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

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.

Their efforts have been successful, as evidenced by the «consensus gap» whereby the public believe scientists are split on the cause of global warming; a stark contrast to the reality of the 97 percent consensus.

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.

The Independent Institute ($ 2.65 million) «hasn't done much on the issue since 2009 or so,» according to a source familiar with the organization, who added: «Maybe two percent of the Institute's effort is on Global Warming, maybe seven percent if you count all environmental issues.»

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported, «In the high - stakes conflict over U.S. climate - change policy, groups that deny or cast doubt on global warming brought in $ 7.2 million from 2003 to 2010... «Powerful funders are supporting the campaign to deny scientific findings about global warming,» reported Robert J. Brulle...» In the eighth paragraph, the Inquirer noted the response by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute, who observed that many of the groups «support other causes as well» and, in some cases, spend «less than 10 percent of their funding... on climate - related efforts.»

The World Bank Group estimates that widespread global cooperation on carbon trading could bring down the costs of international climate mitigation efforts by up to 32 percent by 2030.

A New York Times / CBS News poll conducted shortly before the agreement was reached found that 66 percent of Americans think the United States should «join an international treaty requiring America to reduce emissions in an effort to fight global warming.»

LONDON - The cost of efforts to avoid dangerous global warming may be 170 percent higher than 2007 estimates, a report for the UN's climate agency said on Thursday.

A Breakthrough analysis found that rebound effects as high as 60 percent (the IEA's high - end scenario) will have significant implications for global climate mitigation efforts, requiring as much as 13 percent more clean energy supply by 2035 to meet higher global energy demand — equivalent to the total energy consumption of 19 Australias.

Then you have hurdles like certification, after - sales support and even specific regional labeling requirements to clear before thinking of a global rollout, and at the moment, the Xiaomi Mi MIX, with its record - breaking 91.3 percent screen - to - body ratio, isn't deemed worth the effort.