The Amphibian Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union ( IUCN ) is spearheading efforts to implement a comprehensive global strategy for amphibian conservation.

Cooperation with other emerging powers remain a top priority in Brazil's global diplomatic strategy.

Using the SAFE strategy ( acronym for surgery for in-growing or in-turned lashes, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements ), the World Health Organisation aims for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 ( GET 2020 initiative ).

The rationale was that the name change would help the pursuit of a global strategy.

ECMWF ’ s strategy underlines its commitment to maintaining the current rapid rate of improvement of its global medium-range forecasts and products.

" In early 2001 Massoud employed a new strategy of local military pressure and global political appeals.

Hedge funds utilizing a global macro investing strategy take sizable positions in share, bond or currency markets in anticipation of global macroeconomic events in order to generate a risk-adjusted return.

Sony meanwhile, put their decision down to a need to review their global strategy in the face of a fast-changing worldwide economic climate.

* In international marketing, standardization refers to a uniform global or regional product strategy which capitalizes on both the commonalities in customer needs across countries and the passing-on of cost savings to the customer via lower prices, thus following a product-driven orientation of achieving lower costs through mass production.

In early 2001 Massoud employed a new strategy of local military pressure and global political appeals.

The phrase evil empire was applied to the Soviet Union especially by U. S. President Ronald Reagan, who took an aggressive, hard-line stance that favored matching and exceeding the Soviet Union's strategic and global military capabilities, in calling for a rollback strategy that would, in his words, write the final pages of the history of the Soviet Union.

Raeder thought Hitler was so fixated on wiping out the Soviet regime that he did not realise that a larger, global strategy could easily have tipped the balance in Germany's favour.

The advent of a global war, the absence of a unified Allied strategy and the complexity of allocating resources between Europe and Asia had not yet been agreed – and soon gave rise to mutual suspicions between the Western Allies and Soviet Russia.

The IISS publishes The Military Balance, an annual assessment of nations ' military capabilities ; the Armed Conflict Database ; Survival, a journal on global politics and strategy ; Strategic Survey, the annual review of world affairs ; the Adelphi Papers series of monographs ; and Strategic Comments, online analysis of topical issues in international affairs.

In a series of speeches in late 2001 and 2002, Bush expanded on his view of American foreign policy and global intervention, declaring that the United States should actively support democratic governments around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the threat of terrorism, and that the United States had the right to act unilaterally in its own security interests, without the approval of international bodies such as the United Nations.

The Reagan Doctrine was a strategy orchestrated and implemented by the United States under the Reagan Administration to oppose the global influence of the Soviet Union during the final years of the Cold War.

Hitler's strategy for war is usually thought to be that laid out in Mein Kampf, although there is a historigraphic debate regarding whether Hitler intended global or merely European conquest, or whether he even had a plan for war in advance.

* The US Army War College Strategic Studies Institute publishes several dozen papers and books yearly focusing on current and future military strategy and policy, national security, and global and regional strategic issues.

* Carbon Stocks: Carbon emissions from deforestation account for an estimated 20 % of global carbon emissions, so in protecting the worlds carbon stocks greenhouse gas emissions are reduced and longterm land cover change is prevented, which is an effective strategy in the struggle against global warming.

A global indexing strategy may outperform one based only on home market indexes because there may be less correlation between the returns of companies operating in different markets than between companies operating in the same market.

Maxtor entered and became dominant in consumer business as result of a brilliant product and marketing strategy for " OneTouch " line, which was a brainchild and creation of Keyur Patel, its turnaround executive / investor in charge and Mike Cordano, who headed global sales.

On 3 November 2009, the GM board called off the Magna deal after coming to the conclusion that Opel and Vauxhall Motors was crucial to GM's global strategy.

The global integration of economies effected by these agreements has resulted in a gradual shift of the composition of wealth among the elites in many large industrial states, from industrial activities, whose proceeds derived mostly from domestic sales, to financial activities, whose profits are stem from substantial investments in foreign trade, including developing markets.

The arrival of global chain stores in recent years has strikingly changed its character, and in a first effort to stem these changes, the City of Paris ( which has called this trend " banalisation ") initially decided in 2007 to prohibit the Swedish clothing chain H & M from opening a store on the Avenue ; however, a large H & M store opened two years later at 88 Champs-Élysées.

The novel might be easily dismissed as standard pulp fare if it had not presaged concepts popularized decades later: the sexual revolution, green consumerism, strong AI, full-immersion virtual reality as a surgical procedure ( like The Matrix ), desktop molecular manufacturing, global warming, and stem cell therapies.

The efforts to stem a global economic crisis did little to stabilize the domestic situation in Indonesia, however.

In the last decades or so, both global warming and stem cells have placed the opinions of the scientific community in the forefront of political debate.

Other politicized issues include global warming, curing autism, separation of church and state, same-sex marriage, elimination of poverty, war, gun control, welfare, capital punishment, and embryonic stem cell research.

They criticized the Bush administration for reducing funding for scientific research, setting restrictions on stem cell research, ignoring scientific consensus on critical issues such as global warming, and hampering cooperation with foreign scientists by employing deterring immigration and visa practices.

A total of 50, 417 first hematopoietic stem cell transplants were reported as taking place worldwide in 2006, according to a global survey of 1327 centers in 71 countries conducted by the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation.

Carmona accused the Bush Administration of preventing him from speaking out on certain public health issues such as embryonic stem cell research, global climate change, emergency contraception, and abstinence-only sex education, where the Administration's political stance conflicted with scientific and medical opinion .< ref >

The global economic crisis has had less impact on imports because the sector is more diversified than exports.

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

In 2010, the value of the Armenian Dram ( AMD ) was artificially kept high during the height of the global economic crisis.

As of 2009, construction has been postponed indefinitely due to the global economic crisis.

The global financial crisis started to apply downward pressure on growth and employment in the last quarter of 2008.

During the course of 2009, the grim forecasts for the effects of the global crisis on the Bulgarian economy largely materialized.

As of September 2011, Canada's national unemployment rate stood at 7. 1 %, as the economy continues its recovery from the effects of the 2007-2010 global financial crisis.

After a decade of impressive growth rates, Chile began to experience a moderate economic downturn in 1999, brought on by unfavorable global economic conditions related to the Asian financial crisis, which began in 1997.

However, by 2009, it has been reported that $ 21 billion had been lost from the pension system to the global financial crisis.

Faced with an international economic downturn the government announced a $ 4 billion economic stimulus plan to spur employment and growth, and despite the global financial crisis, aimed for an expansion of between 2 percent and 3 percent of GDP for 2009.

This reflected the exposure of Cyprus to the global recession and European sovereign debt crisis.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

* Observer 24 April 2005 Seabed supplies a cure for global warming crisis

The crisis was precipitated by a number of external shocks, including the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, a sharp drop in global oil prices in 1997-98, and international emerging market instability in 1997-98.

Egypt faced the long term supply-and demand-side repercussions of the global financial crisis on the national economy.

Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic ( not demographic ) designation coined by Fast Company for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the 2008 – 2012 global financial crisis.

Due to reforms and liberalization of economy policy Georgia shows exceptional resilience to external shocks – Russian invasion in 2008 and global financial crisis.

Colom stated that the situation is the combined result of a number of factors, including a severe drought and global warming, which have reduced the domestic food supply, and the Global financial crisis, which has reduced Guatemala's ability to import food.

The global insurance industry was sufficiently capitalised to withstand the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 and most insurance companies restored their capital to pre-crisis levels by the end of 2010.

Jordan has a developed banking sector that attracts investors due to conservative bank policies that enabled the country to weather the global financial crisis of 2009.

The advent of the global financial crisis in 2008 has caused a resurgence in Keynesian thought.

The global economic crisis hit the Lesotho economy hard through loss of textile exports and jobs in the sector due largely to the economic slowdown in the United States which is a major export destination, reduced diamond mining and exports, including weak prices for diamonds ; drop in SACU revenues due to the economic slowdown in the South African economy, and reduction in worker remittances due to weakening of the South African economy and contraction of the mining sector and related job losses in South Africa.

Although Macau was hit hard by the 1997 – 98 Asian financial crisis and the global downturn in 2001, its economy grew approximately 13. 1 % annually on average between 2001 and 2006.

The global crisis had little impact on the country due to Macedonian banks ' stringent rules.