He estimated that half a dozen to a dozen satellite broadband initiatives were started globally.
Yet, 500 initiatives were started by citizens and social groups over the last years to produce and consume renewable energy.
Leading up to the 2009 UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, many local informal initiatives were started to, e.g. discuss reduction of consumption and sustainability in the local community in general.
They also assume that if regional initiatives are started at a large(r) scale, an increased share of renewable energy at the national level can indeed be achieved [2].
Our internet research and data bank inquiries indicate that the lack of non-GM cultivars is being increasingly recognized as a problem in the USA and initiatives were started to develop, outside of the industrial sector, with small seed developers to breed and improve non-GM cultivars of soybean and maize again.
In fact, our study highlights a certain capacity of resilience at the very local level, i.e. the neighbourhood, where the initiatives were started and put in place by actors, primarily NGOs, whose activities were already strongly embedded in the surrounding social and cultural contexts.
Consequently, a number of fungal conservation initiatives were started to better understand fungal biodiversity; as of October 2007, 31 European countries have produced fungal Red Lists of threatened species.
Almost all ASP initiatives were started from 2012 onwards.
30 However, quality standards were already introduced in 2001 and no differences were detected between the first period and the period after the quality initiatives were started.
Although initiatives were started over the last decade to improve outcome measurement in palliative care [ 2, 4, 5] a clear roadmap or uniform approach to measuring outcomes in eol clinical care and research is lacking [ 2].
