"major global issues" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to significant problems or challenges that affect the whole world. Example: Climate change, poverty, and political instability are all major global issues that require immediate attention and action from world leaders.
We have also needed to revert to moral ways of talking to do justice to the major global issues facing us.
Once an inward-looking society, Brazil now faces the challenge of projecting its own interests and voice around the world on the major global issues of our time.
Despite China's newfound confidence, the American official said, China still does not want to be seen as a lone spoiler on major global issues.
But some experts say Mr. Geithner is also trying to earn the confidence of the leadership so that Washington can find more ways to cooperate on major global issues.
The issue will also be on the agenda when President Barack Obama and other heads of the Group of 8 traditional industrial powers meet in Deauville, France, next week to discuss major global issues, the official said.
Above all, the British government needs to stop telling the public it is protecting us from the worst of the European project - and start making the positive case that we only punch our weight through Europe if we want our voice to count on major global issues of the age.
The terrorist attack in Mumbai Bombayy) in late November reminded the world that terrorism remained a major global issue.
It's an amazing example of the story of a major global issue being told in a very small way, in this case through a dead lizard.
Jim Higgs, Great Barrier Reef fisheries technical adviser at WWF, said the survival of sawfish in Northern Australia was a major global issue.
Transparency International (TI) chair Huguette Labelle says corruption remains a major global issue, highlighted by widespread demonstrations in 2011 This yearar we have seen corruption on protestor's banners be they rich or poor.
But how? Saskya Huggins, one of the volunteers who has organised the Osney hydro project in Oxford, said "when you get an opportunity like this that helps tackle a major global issue, albeit in a small way, and raises significant funds for your own community, you grab it with both hands".
