This year has been declared the International Year of Biodiversity and it is also hoped that a major UN report this summer, on the economics of ecosystems and biodiversity, will encourage governments to devote more funds to conservation.
Based off of its research, the Manhattan Institute report is now urging the city to devote more funds to specifically supporting unsheltered people on the streets to reduce that statistic.
Since 2012, India's sports ministry has devoted more funding and more attention to supporting the country's most promising athletes through better training, financial assistance, upgraded training facilities, and even foreign coaches, imported to up the national game.
That's just the way it is". But in the weeks since, both leaders have amended their wish list and are now also pushing to use the looming spending showdown to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program and devote more federal funding to cash-strapped pensions and programs targeting opioid abuse.
He said he also wanted to devote more energy to fund-raising, faculty recruitment and, possibly, a strategic plan for the school, which has 5,950 undergraduates and graduate students.
A member of the museum's board, Donna Dubinsky, co-founder and chief executive of the hand-held-device maker Handspring, says she plans to devote more time to fund-raising for the museum once Handspring's recently announced sale to Palm is completed.
Melinda Gates called upon governments and pharmaceutical companies to devote more time, energy, and funding to research and development.
Willetts has been on the job only a few days, so he offered no concrete policy changes and he failed to answer a question on whether Britain should devote more of its science funding to the top universities or more widely spread the wealth, as has been the recent practice.
The short-termism of America and Britain may not actually be a good thing Mr Hutton was right, and ahead of the game, to argue for better auditing and for institutional investors such as pension funds to devote more effort to corporate governance.
