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To kick-start that process, the Global Climate Action Summit and its partners have issued a wide array of new challenges, including zero-waste goals in cities, a target of 500 companies adopting science-based targets, and initiatives to accelerate
uptake
of zero-emission vehicles.
Spending just $25 million annually to create stoves that better fit household cooking habits, and identifying how to maximize community-wide adoption of cleaner cooking solutions, would likely improve
uptake
of clean stoves by 10-20%, suggesting that approximately 60,000 to 120,000 lives could be saved every year.
Without at least partial public financing, the
uptake
of these new technologies will be slow and uneven.
A safe nature-based option for enhancing the biosphere’s carbon
uptake
would be to increase the number of trees on the planet.
Fumonisin also interferes with the cellular
uptake
of folic acid, a vitamin that reduces the risk of neural tube defects in developing fetuses, and thus can cause folic acid deficiency – and defects such as spina bifida – even when one’s diet contains what otherwise would be sufficient amounts of the vitamin.
Reduced
uptake
of smoking by children would save lives chiefly after 2050.
Other countries should also adopt national strategies to accelerate the
uptake
of the new technologies.
As in the US, tax policies must foster the
uptake
of the new technologies.
The impact of the rapid
uptake
in renewable energy could have consequences as profound as those unleashed by the Industrial Revolution.
Today, we have more knowledge than ever about how best to manage land and vegetation to reduce emissions and maximize carbon
uptake
in reliable and verifiable ways.
These include a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse-gas emissions, subsidies for research and development on sustainable technologies, feed-in tariffs and regulatory incentives for renewable energy, consumer subsidies and other inducements for the
uptake
of new “green” technologies, and implementation of “green” infrastructure programs, such as mass transit.
One of the newest studies, by Gabriel Demombynes and Sofia Trommlerova, shows that Kenya’s infant mortality (deaths under the age of one year) has plummeted in recent years, and attributes a significant part of the gain to the massive
uptake
of anti-malaria bed nets.
This system would not only spur innovation; it would also help to increase
uptake
of new and existing diagnostics.
Third, a readily available and effective antidote exists for those at risk: non-radioactive iodine, available in tablets or liquid, which blocks the
uptake
of I-131 into the thyroid gland.
This, together with funding shortages and cultural factors (such as a lack of male involvement in reproductive-health issues), contribute to low contraceptive uptake, with only 58% of women in Kenya who should be using modern contraceptives actually doing so.
In close cooperation with the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, BioNTech’s success augurs a rapid
uptake
of widespread vaccination in Europe and the United States.
Given its global uptake, it has the potential to ensure that reforms reflecting this recognition are “locked in” across countries, including those whose governments might otherwise be reluctant to implement them.
But if AI’s potential to do good globally is to be fully realized, proponents must focus less on the hype and more on the obstacles that are preventing its
uptake.
In the case of Alipay in China and Mercado Pago in Latin America, these systems were initially designed to accelerate the
uptake
of e-commerce platforms, but over time evolved into mobile-payments systems used offline and throughout the entire economy.
Despite relatively high levels of system
uptake
and enthusiasm among district officials, the program failed to bring about durable improvements in service delivery.
In Europe’s agriculture sector, the rate of
uptake
of digital technologies currently lags behind what’s happening in other major industries, owing to margin constraints on farm equipment and a relative lack of investment capacity.
And the high
uptake
of these schemes by African governments illustrates the resource shortages they face.
Unfortunately, by the time The Lancet retracted the paper in 2010, it had breathed new life into the anti-vaccine movement, fueling rising mistrust of the MMR vaccine and declining vaccine
uptake.
Discussions about the
uptake
of the vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) – the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease – may provide an important opportunity.
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