On a global scale, we are living in daily risk of terrorist attacks.

Some alarmists declare that we need to drastically reduce energy use on a global scale, undermining the global economy.

Global tasks such as poverty reduction and the preservation of our natural environment must be addressed on a global scale, and that means that there is also need for financial instruments on a comparable scale.

The breakthrough in information technology gives us a unique opportunity to promote it on a global scale.

After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin.

Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale.

On a global scale, the renewable energy sector created 2.3 million jobs in the past few years.

We believe the best way to support these emerging voices on a global scale is to listen.

They often revolve around spies who are involved in investigating various events, often on a global scale.

The IMF is at the epicenter of large scale global coordination challenges.

The assets freeze is perhaps the most implemented of the sanctions on a global scale, and it may constitute the most effective mechanism to prevent large scale terrorist operations.

Yet other advances of the rule of law in nuclear disarmament will require cooperation on a global scale.

Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble.

Second, the externality is truly global in scale, because greenhouse gases travel around the world in a few days.

Peace, development and the protection of human rights on a global scale were the fundamental aspirations of its founders.

So, long before the industrial age we've been affecting the planet on a global scale, with just a small amount of technology.

Fortunately, if we plan for the long term on a global scale, we can find our way through these challenges.

HONG KONG During three decades of favorable global economic conditions, China created an integrated global production system unprecedented in scale and complexity.

In other words, balanced global economic growth required war, colonization, and large scale drug trafficking.

Global responsibility to assist developing nations goes far beyond the MDGs in both time and scale.

Emerging economies scale is growing, and their positioning on the global value chain is shifting rapidly.

Technology has enabled faster, more efficient just in time delivery, taking full advantage of specialization and knowledge sharing on a global scale.

2. A clear commitment to the global pricing of carbon that allows businesses to invest with confidence and at the scale required.

The interwar period, which suffered from a similar crisis of leadership, produced not only a collapse of globalization, but a devastating armed conflict on a global scale.

Unless we do something to prevent it, over the next 40 years we re facing an epidemic of neurologic diseases on a global scale.

To be effective, any tax on financial transactions would have to be implemented on a global scale, which currently does not seem realistic.

Partnerships ranged from small scale development projects with a limited number of local actors to global initiatives with large numbers of major participants.

In this crucial process, our highest priority should be our collective commitment to ensure sustainable social and economic development on a global scale.

We need to cut the spigot of single use and disposable plastics, which are entering the marine environment every day on a global scale.

Second, if it s difficult to forge consensus within one country on how best to promote growth, imagine the same argument on a global scale.

Since its inception in 1915, WILPF has worked to prevent armed conflicts and to establish the conditions for sustainable peace on a global scale.

There's a scale paradigm, which is just playing a scale up and down, memorized.

Certain technologies are still too expensive and may require a few decades of continued research and development before they can make large contributions on a global scale.

Now, science indicates that, yes, we can achieve a prosperous future within the safe operating space, if we move simultaneously, collaborating on a global level, from local to global scale, in transformative options, which build resilience on a finite planet.

After five years of global financial sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin. As Eduardo Porter of The New York Times put it,

Modelling tools. There also continues to be a great deal of progress in developing advanced atmospheric modelling tools, ranging from the local to the global scale.

Tourism is a significant economic and social force in the world, whose current scale and likely future growth have serious implications for local and global environments.

The former deals with the behaviour of soil from a small scale to a landslide scale.

On a worldwide scale, nuclear energy is thus only a small component of the global energy mix, and its share, contrary to widespread belief, is not on the rise.

From our point of view, the Conference on Disarmament has to be one of the major international instruments playing a crucial role in pursuing disarmament on a global scale.

While a borderless world is a political non starter, that figure does point to the scale of the development gains that a truly well managed system of global mobility might produce.

CAMBRIDGE When the next full scale global financial crisis hits, let it not be said that the International Monetary Fund never took a stab at forestalling it.

Only the world s political and economic heavyweights, the main industrialized countries that remain by far the biggest consumers of hydrocarbons, can initiate change on a global scale.

When capital flight forced François Mitterrand to abort his program in 1983, France s Socialists performed an abrupt volte face and embraced financial liberalization on a global scale.

Recent successes in Brazil against AIDS, in Mozambique against malaria, and in China against TB, show what can be achieved on a global scale with more resources.