Earlier this year, in response to a high-level UN meeting on NCDs in 2011, the World Health Assembly set a global target to reduce premature NCD mortality by 25% by the year 2025.
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That is equivalent to 7% of Toyota's global production target of 7.7 million units for 2011.
In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.
By crossing national borders, the "joined-up geology" should foster international initiatives that will target global problems, such as climate change.
The global accounting powerhouse, Deloitte, is sitting between a bullet and a target in a global battle over the future of free enterprise.
He declined to comment on the scope of the investigation or whether New York Global Group was a target of the probe.
He also hopes to produce a heady 15% to 20% annual return on equity by 2014, not that far from the 25% target that global banks used to set themselves before the crisis.
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Jim Connaughton, the head of the American delegation, insists that the meeting is addressing issues that the UN has not yet broached, such as what the long-term target for global-emissions cuts should be.
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The IMB says its target of stopping global polio transmission by the end of the year will clearly not be achieved.
But it's not happening anything like fast enough to meet goals outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which talks of emissions peaking by 2020, preferably by 2015, if the target of limiting the global temperature rise to 2C from pre-industrial levels is to be met.
As it currently stands, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has set a target of limiting the rise in global mean temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.
While the U.S. delegation says it doesn't want to be an obstacle to a new agreement, Washington remains opposed to steps many other countries support, such as mandatory emissions cuts by rich nations and a target for limiting the rise in global temperatures.
PwC then asks the key question: in the light of these figures, what has to be done now to ensure emissions fall fast enough that the target of constraining the rise in global average temperatures below 2C from pre-industrial times can be met?
Central and Eastern Europe, Central and East Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean on the other hand together account for only 11 % of the global shortage of teachers required to meet the 2015 target for achieving universal primary education.
Programmes target a wide range of national, regional and global challenges such as climate change, ocean health and fisheries, disaster warning and mitigation, capacity building, and data availability and exchange.
Global X also rolled out a new ETF on Tuesday designed to target companies producing gold and only gold.
With less than 5% of the global smartphone market, there has been little incentive for app developers to target the platform.
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In the fourth quarter, the challenging global economy will continue to limit demand in developed markets although Samsung will look to target premium products for growth.
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Nor would he give a target for future revenues in China, which is only a bit player in global yacht sales.
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In order to meet its target of having 25% of active users and more than 12% of global sales from BRIC countries and emerging markets, the company has been aggressively pushing for expansion in these regions.
Slipstream the backroom with the same steady-freddy technologies that manage the global logistics of moving packages, inventory and other boxed and enveloped stuff at UPS, Walmart, Target and elsewhere.
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Ms. EILEEN CLAUSSEN (Pew Center on Global Climate Change): Many countries believed that the only thing to do was to set a target and reduce emissions, and I think the view now is different.
The Swiss National Bank surprised markets by cutting its key interest rate target by 0.25 percentage points, citing growing economic uncertainty amid sharp plunges in global equity markets and a reduced risk of inflation.
This reliance on has-been brands could explain why former Target executive Michael Francis left JC Penney after only eight months and was just named chief global brand officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG ( DWA), according to the Wall Street Journal.
Costanza Castelnuovo-Tedesco, SAP's vice president of global advertising and branding, says the company turned to mobile marketing as a way of reaching its target audience of C-level execs and "senior business decision makers, " who are early adopters of technology and are frequently on the road.
The initiative will target three priorities: promoting better equity in access, improving the quality of learning and promoting global citizenship.
His vehicle: "Global Intelligence, " precious and elusive information on the strengths, weaknesses and foibles of the brass at an acquisition target or at the client firm itself.
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