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Still, barring a breakthrough in United Nations negotiations in the near future and a reversal in current emissions trends, meeting that two-degree target is well-nigh impossible.
According to the current paradigm, the global target is defined within scientific categories and understood as an absolute upper limit.
If social services are cut too far while instability is on the rise, popular resentment could lead to waves of protectionism, especially if (or when) the current boom is followed by a bust of some severity.
For the current global capitalist system to survive, it must satisfy the needs and aspirations of its participants.
The Basic Committee on Banking Supervision has established capital-adequacy requirements for the international banking system, but these did not prevent the current banking crisis in Southeast Asia.
Just as the economist Lester Thurow famously declared at Davos in 1988 that “GATT is dead,” the current refrain is that the WTO is Monty Python’s parrot.
This is a daunting task, given the EU’s current structure.
Moreover, in 1988 the US had a net domestic saving rate of 5.6% of national income – only slightly below the 6.3% average of the final three decades of the twentieth century, but nearly four times the current rate.
Back then, the US was spending $270 billion on defense – less than half the $700 billion authorized in the current budget, which now outstrips the combined military outlays of China, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.
If current trends continue, the number of people living with diabetes in Mexico is expected to increase from 11.5 million to 16 million – over 10% of the population – between 2016 and 2035.
To do that, we will need to strengthen current health systems, educate and empower frontline health-care workers, and maximize cost-saving technologies.
But whether the world manages to curb climate change ultimately will depend on the willingness of the largest current and historical emitters of greenhouse gases to fulfill their moral and ethical responsibility to take strong action.
The “anything is possible” sensation of the Tahrir Square rebellion had faded, and now two candidates whom the protesters deeply opposed, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi, and Ahmed Shafiq, a factotum of the old regime (and of the current military government), prepared to face off in the second round.
By contrast, their greatest failures have come from funding grandiose projects that benefit the current elite, but do not properly balance environmental, social, and development priorities.
Although researchers are committed to finding new ways to reduce and replace animal testing, current technology cannot yet replace many types of animal research.
In fact, even if the US were not attempting to normalize relations, Russia’s current economic woes probably would have doomed its long-standing – and already much-reduced – support for the Castro government.
Many of these reforms are outlined in the current government’s own “Long-Term Strategy for 2020.”
Given current political constraints, developing a TTIP with maximum impact will not be easy, and it will require some creative thinking – like that which facilitated the Paris climate agreement last December.
Much of the current talk about the draft’s various provisions thus misses the point.
The current state of affairs does not bode well for the situation in Syria, where all of the region’s powers have a stake.
The current recovery appears to be similarly slow in creating jobs.
First, the United States, the European Union, the Gulf countries, and East Asian states should establish a flexible fund under WHO leadership to combat the current Ebola epidemic, probably at an initial level of $50-$100 million, pending further developments.
But another finding has also started to influence the current debate on growth: poor people within a country are less happy than rich people.
Migration from developing countries partly reflects a problem that also triggered the current financial crisis: international capital flowed in the wrong direction.
In Safaricom’s current list of new product priorities to expand financial inclusion, saving-and-loan products are ranked almost last.
Even under the current system, many angel investors lose money.
The current “Normandy format” (Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and France) clearly is not enough.
A complete ban on all nuclear explosions would hamper the upgrading of existing nuclear arsenals and the development of new weapons, diminishing the capabilities of both current and potential nuclear-armed states.
India’s Decade of DecayNEW DELHI – Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been in office since 2004, recently held what was only the second press conference of his current five-year term, which is rapidly approaching an inglorious end.
That has happened only once – when Helmut Kohl of the CDU replaced Helmut Schmidt of the SPD as chancellor in 1982 – and it would be extremely unlikely in a parliament that is as fragmented as the current Bundestag.
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