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There exists today a basic, even on an occasion a ritualistic, consensus regarding the notion that democracy and human rights are the points of departure for political organization with some form of free market with varying degrees of social responsibility based on private entrepreneurship as the basis for economic activity.
With the exception of Tunisia, this can be seen to varying degrees in all of the affected countries.
It provides no tools to ensure implementation of the policies and measures needed to keep global warming “well below” two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the threshold that forms the centerpiece of the deal.
Other countries in the region, including Yemen and some of the Gulf states, have experienced varying degrees of turmoil as well.
Because educational attainment is considered a measure of merit, officials scramble to obtain advanced degrees in order to gain an advantage in the competition for power.
If so many senior Chinese officials openly flaunt fraudulent or dubious academic degrees without consequences, one can imagine how widespread other forms of corruption must be.
More than 700 graduates have attended secondary school, and more than 40 alumni are pursuing advanced degrees at universities around the world.
There will almost certainly come to be different degrees of participation in the EU.
First, governments should pledge to decarbonize their economies in order to keep global warming below the extreme danger zone of two degrees Celsius.
The Paris climate agreement includes a pledge to keep warming “well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
Thai children toil in unventilated factories, working with glass heated to 1,500 degrees Celsius.
Earnings gains have been especially strong for those with tertiary degrees, while the real wages of high-school educated workers, especially men, have fallen sharply.
Price liberalization, stabilization, and privatization were pursued since 1992 with varying degrees of commitment.
Not so much (albeit to greatly varying degrees).
Such inequalities exist, to varying degrees, in all developed countries.
In 2010, 40% of all Chinese university students were studying for science or engineering degrees, more than double the share in the US.
The same is true, to varying degrees, of Europe’s relationship with South Asia; but here the India-Pakistan conflict, a looming “post-American” Afghanistan in 2014, and uncertainty concerning Iran and the Persian Gulf have a direct security impact on the EU.
Nevertheless, the unemployment rate for those with degrees is one-third the unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma.
Participants from all over the world, including 38 heads of state and government, came together to create a plan for implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which aims to limit global warming to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
I’ve got some,” whereupon he whirled his wheelchair 180 degrees, and headed at breakneck speed to his desk.
Of course, Greece and Ireland also have their share of differences, and have weathered the crisis with different degrees of success.
To varying degrees, this divide is paralyzing Socialist parties across Europe.
Born anti-capitalist, these parties all (to greater and lesser degrees) came to accept the free market as the foundation of the economy.
Global temperatures rose and fell by no more than one degree Celsius (compared with swings of more than eight degrees Celsius during the last ice age), and resilient ecosystems met humanity’s needs.
Those weapons have various calibers and different degrees of effectiveness at different times.
As Lynn Stout of Cornell Law School has put it, they are “human beings with differing investment time frames, different interests ex ante and ex post, different degrees of diversification, and different attitudes toward sacrificing personal wealth to follow ethical rules and avoid harming others.”
A lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the group that shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Gore – told the experts that spending $800 billion over 100 years solely on mitigating emissions would reduce inevitable temperature increases by just 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century.
But the reality is that all 17 SDGs – from ending hunger and providing clean water and sanitation to conserving ecosystems – depend, to varying degrees, on how effectively we harness science and technology.
The goal is a new agreement in 2015 to prevent average global temperatures from rising by two degrees Celsius, the level that the international community has deemed “dangerous” to human society.
Godrej’s engineers observed that if the objective was only to keep food from spoiling, and not necessarily to make ice, it would be sufficient if the refrigerator cooled to a few degrees above zero centigrade.
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