The quality of reporting also increased dramatically in key areas as Global environmental management system (EMS) standards and specifications and global use of Design for Environment (DfE) and Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) tools increased.
At the same time, the global use of coal would need to be reduced even more quickly.
The International Energy Agency estimates that the global use of coal will increase by 65% by 2035.
Although a Cochrane review of 21 randomised control trials concluded that kangaroo mother care significantly reduces mortality among preterm babies and is a safe and effective alternative to conventional care, global use of the technique remains low.
We need to radically reduce global use of antibiotics, and to do this we need world leaders to agree to an ambitious target to lower levels, along with restricting the use of antibiotics important to humans".
Global use of the pesticide DDT has been sharply curtailed since the 1970s, so it's natural to expect that over time, less of it would find its way into living creatures.
Chinese officials have said recently they would like to broaden the global use of the renminbi, also known as the yuan, and want to see more countries move away from relying on dollars as the worldwide currency.
The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance said global use of antimicrobials in food production at least matched that by humans, extending even to the widespread application in some areas of "last resort" antibiotics for humans – which cannot be replaced when ineffective – to animals.
According to Instagram, more than 50 percent of people who use the service are outside North America, and global use of social sites continues to rise each year, with more than 63 percent of people online logging into a social media Web site at least once a month.
Analysis firm Ovum studied global use of popular services like Whatsapp, Blackberry Messenger and Facebook chat.
Arntzen, a plant biologist, was researching global use of plant-based medicines.
