Sentence examples for of global resources from inspiring English sources
Our use of global resources is unsustainable.
Although developing countries bear 80% of the cancer burden, only about 5% of global resources devoted to cancer are found in these countries.
They now constitute a massive diversion of global resources away from sovereign states, for no other reason than to avoid taxes.
Health protection in a 4C warmer world, he said, would require "substantial redistribution" of global resources such as food, water and energy.
At stake are also tenacious problems of overconsumption and the inequitable commandeering of global resources, neither of which will be solved merely by passing the braised tofu.
In terms of global resources, the report concludes that by 2015, nearly half of the world's population -- more than three billion people -- will be in countries lacking sufficient water, and that even more genetically modified crops or projects to desalt sea water will not substantially help.
At Voluntary Service Overseas, Jaki Walker, head of global resourcing, takes this into account by budgeting for civil unrest and compassionate flights in addition to having a centrally held contingency fund.
Jesse H. Ausubel of Rockefeller University has long been one of my core "go to" analysts of global resource issues and trends.
McKinsey & Company also forecasts that there will be a 25% increase in the scale of global resource extraction of biomass by 2020, and about a 30% increase in metal ore extraction over the same period.
"We believe around 12 weeks allows enough time for you to integrate with the local community and deliver useful work," says Jaki Walker, head of global resourcing at Voluntary Service Overseas, a charity which recruits professionals to work abroad.
The government has said it will negotiate all contracts with miners, including royalties and a recent rule requiring foreign miners to divest at least half their assets after 10 years of production — a change seen as part of a growing trend of global resource nationalism.
