Sentences with phrase «world lack access»

Approximately 3 billion people around the world lack access to modern energy, and cook over open flames that billow...

How many people around the world lack access to electricity and safe household fuels?

Amid all this talk of energy demand, the IEA also emphasises another of its estimates: 1.4 billion people across the world lack any access to electricity and 2.7 billion still use wood or other biomass to cook.

A billion people around the world lack access to health care.

Not exact matches

But instead of bringing expansive, overwhelming menus to people in smaller cities, Good Uncle wants to cook and sell just a few items from the world's most iconic restaurants — the two most popular salads from a place like Sweetgreen, for example, or the most popular pizza from Roberta's in Brooklyn — in smaller, non-NFL cities, like New Haven or Syracuse, places that have dense populations but lack easy access to great food.

Lacking access to the American market, many entrepreneurs are flocking to other areas of the world where they believe their companies have a greater chance at success.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Clean the World recycles partially used bars of soap and bottled amenities from resorts in the United States and distributes the new soap and hygiene kits to communities that lack access to these essential items.

There is a glaring lack of access to financial services in several parts of the world.

While these loans aren't going to tank the world financial system, lack of access to credit could hurt automobile manufacturers as their consumer base runs out of money to pay for new cars.

According to the World Bank, universal financial access is vital to reducing poverty, and lack of access to credit plays a significant...

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The churches of the world are a global communication system through which the voices of those rendered voiceless because they lack access to the media can be raised to question societal trends that may be antithetical to justice, freedom and human dignity.

There are 220 million women around the world who say they wish to avoid pregnancies but lack access to any effective contraceptives, counseling, or services.

Nearly 1 billion people in the world today lack access to adequate water and 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation.

If you're really a feminist, why not spend less time thinking about yourself and more time thinking about the women around the world who lack lifesaving access to the modern medicine you have the first - world privilege of refusing?

The same remote consultation services could also be made available to millions of people around the world who lack access to medical specialists, Komarneni says.

You've talked about how more than two decades ago the World Health Organization highlighted the serious lack of biomedical innovation and access to medical devices, particularly for developing countries.

The number of people who lack access to clean water has been cut nearly in half since 2000, though at 550 million, or around 8 percent of the world's population, there is still much room for improvement.

Astronomers around the world volunteered labor and telescope time to monitor the star across the electromagnetic spectrum, giving us access to spectral information we lacked during the dips observed by the Kepler mission.

-- Nell Fox, Seattle, WA Today fully one - sixth of the world's human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people — mostly kids — die each year from water - borne diseases.

Brodman pointed out that the U.S. lags behind the rest of the world in mobile Internet usage, because most cell phones here lack the tools to access the Internet (the iPhone being one exception, of course).

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

These reasons include (i) the fact that South Africa has become the largest recipient of individual asylum - seekers in the world; (ii) asylum being lacking in many respects, and (iii) the huge influx of applications from individuals intent on abusing the asylum management system.29 This is a rationale behind disadvantaging genuine refugees and asylum - seekers from accessing national resources and / or not being afforded effective protection that South Africa committed itself to achieve.30

The event is giving pupils the opportunity to learn about the issues faced by many children around the world trying to access an education while living in zones affected by conflict, natural disasters or extreme poverty, and who lack the basic tools and teachers they need to learn.

Every year, more than 50 million births are unregistered in the developing world, excluding China, resulting in many of those children's lack of access to education, health care, and other social services, concludes a report by unicef.

This basic lack of qualified teachers has been identified by UNESCO as the major barrier to providing access to quality education for all the world's children.

«The persistent lack of access to world - class educational resources and technology in far too many communities is at the heart of this issue,» Duncan wrote on the Brown Center Chalkboard, a blog of the Brookings Institution.

Photo credits: EU / ECHO / Jonathan Hyams Global business leaders have joined forces to provide access to cut - price technology that will improve school system effectiveness and learning outcomes for some of the 330 million children around the world who lack basic skills for the knowledge economy of the future.

«And there's still millions of girls around the world who aren't getting an education, not just because of the lack of resources or not having access to schools... there are cultural barriers that are keeping young girls down.»

In world (cue movie voiceover) where writers lack no resource to aid their craft, where writer - geared software, word count trackers, Wikipedia, the Internet, and social media provide ease, access, and tips galore, this should make book writing a virtually seamless process, right?

You've shown why Android isn't ready to be considered an iPad alternative, based on the lack of apps, but there are Windows tablets out there in the world with access to more «apps» than the iPad could ever hope for.

This builds on Kobo's overall goal to bring eReading to everyone around the world, with eReading materials that serve countries lacking broad access to localized digital content.

Due to the lack of access that many students around the world have to a professional persuasive essay writing service like ours, a declining GPA is a common problem.

Providing PlayBook users access to Google's Android Market would fill a glaring hole that analysts claimed RIM must address for the tablet to gain traction against the competition: access to a big swath of applications and content that RIM's Blackberry App World, which currently includes only 20,000 applications, lacks.

Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide (New York Times) Between the skills gap and lack of access to the internet, Detroit residents are hurting without access to the digital world.

The best rewards and sign - up bonuses in the world can't make up for having a checking account that lacks features you need or that charges you high fees to access your money.

Sometimes, a leashed - only existence can prompt leash reactivity and aggression, as the dog is frustrated from lack of access: leash walks do not offer the same opportunity for dogs to sniff and experience their worlds.

Guests also have access to both of the villa's next - door world - class beachfront hotels and their full - service beaches, restaurants, spas, salons, shops, tennis courts, golf courses, miles of hiking and biking trails, etc. making this property a rare, one - of - a-kind vacation destination and where you'll want to spend your time relaxing instead of having to pack up and drive to and from all the activities that most vacation homes lack and which will rival the Island experience of your dreams.

For frequent flyers of American Airlines, the AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard is the go - to card for Admirals Club access and a boost toward elite status; however, other travelers may find the rewards and the benefits on the card lacking.

Due to its secluded location and lack of road access to the outside world (it is only accessible by boat from the other villages around the lake), Santa Cruz retains a very charming, tranquil and authentic feel and it's one of the most isolated villages on the lake with few tourist visitors compared to the other villages.

Sporting Ubisoft's largest ever open world environment, the Ghost Recon: Wildlands closed beta only allowed us access to one of the 12 (ish) zones that comprise the Bolivian country, and judging by the equally huge amount of (and limited access to) weaponry and story content I think it's safe to say this game will rarely lack for things to do.

In a perfect world of perfect internet access I would be less pissed about the lack of true singleplayer offline support.

That said; the lack of multiplayer access due to the 3DS hardware can feel like gamers are being presented with an incomplete copy, so if you already have the NES versions of Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros: The Lost Worlds on your 3DS I wouldn't see much point in buying the same game again.

For the millions of citizens in some of the most economically challenged countries in the world, lack of funding for major programs, no access to loans, and financial instability affects daily life in horrendous ways.

I think I wrote this earlier, but again, reflect on the fact that economic necessity forces the majority of people in this country to live crammed into cities and suburbs, without access to fresh air, open space, or anything but the merest vestige of a natural landscape (and conditions are worse in much of the rest of the world), while lack of exercise & a diet of processed foods has created an epidemic of obesity and its consequent diseases.

As the Nobel Committee notes in its press release: «The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids.»

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

The International Energy Agency estimates that more than 1.2 billion people, or 14 percent of the world's population, lack access to electricity, and twice that many, 2.6 billion, live without clean cooking facilities.

Sub-Saharan Africa, where more people lack access to electrical power than any other major world region, is a focal point for associated efforts.