The phrase "overarching target" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a main or primary goal or objective that encompasses smaller, more specific targets. Example: Our company's overarching target is to increase annual profits by 25%, and we have set smaller departmental targets to help us achieve this goal.
With global emissions still rising, it is even more unlikely that such an agreement would be compatible with the overarching target of international climate policy: to limit the global mean temperature increase to 2° Celsius above pre-industrial levels, which is considered to be the threshold to "dangerous climate change".
Avoiding 'dangerous' climate change must remain the overarching target for the UNFCCC process.
"As a result we have seen a 17% reduction in CO2 emissions over the past two years and are well on course to meet the overarching target of a 30% reduction by 2020".
Regardless of which overarching targets will be selected, the goals must be translated into measurable indicators; accountability and regular reviews of progress should be easy to perform, to share and to be understood by governments and the general public (13).
Shared overarching aim of revealing reality away from the facade?
Police said the safety of demonstrators and staff was the "overarching aim", Brighton Magistrates' Court heard.
The only exception is that in the U.S., political views alongside political Pages and Events you interact with impact your overarching personality categories that can be targeted with ads.
A UHC approach will require that individual disease targets, to some degree, become secondary to overarching health goals.
We explore the overarching research question by employing geographic and proxy means targeting through interactive analysis of wealth status and spatial issues.
This theme-related and/or target group-specific funding also leaves no room for overarching themes such as advocacy and participation that play a role in several local public health programmes regardless of the health theme.
The Group's document affirms its overarching commitment to poverty eradication and breaks the agenda down into 17 goals and 126 targets, as well as listing a select set of 'means of implementation' (the 'how') under each goal.
