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  1. NAE Website - EngineerGirl 2022 Writing Contest Winners Show How Engineering Can Help Meet United Nations' Sustainable .... new window
    ... Contest Winners Show How Engineering Can Help Meet United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thu, June ... engineering can help humanity meet one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to the ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...United-Nations-Sustainable-Development-Goals- - 127K
  2. NAE Website - Engineering for the Developing World new window
    ... defined as the "Millennium Development Goals" by the United Nations General Assembly on September 18, 2000 (United Nations Development Programme, 2003). In the next two decades, ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7524/EngineeringfortheDevelopingWorld - 143K
  3. NAE Website - JAMES SMITH McDONNELL 1899-1980 new window
    ... war and at the same time supporting the United Nations. On the contrary, these are complementary concepts. They ... devoted much of his life to fostering the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From 1965 ...
    https://www.nae.edu/215773/JAMES-SMITH-McDONNELL-18991980 - 159K
  4. NAE Website - WALTER GORDON WHITMAN 1895-1974 new window
    ... State Department, the Department of Defense, and the United Nations, died at the age of seventy-eight in ... 1953. In 1955 Professor Whitman was appointed by United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to the position of ...
    https://www.nae.edu/189514/WALTER-GORDON-WHITMAN-18951974 - 154K
  5. NAE Website - New Energy Technologies: Necessities and Opportunities new window
    ... agriculture--that are potentially affected by climate change (United Nations Development Programme et al., 2000). For example, 70 ... triple in size over the next 50 years (United Nations Population Fund, 2002). For the poor of the ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...EnergyTechnologiesNecessitiesandOpportunities - 140K
  6. NAE Website - Megacities and the Developing World new window
    ... rapid growth of megacities, currently defined by the United Nations (UN) as cities of over 10 million people. ... Chamie, F. Lo, J. I. Uitto, eds. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. Niath, I. 1996. Urbanization in India- ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7529/MegacitiesandtheDevelopingWorld - 144K
  7. NAE Website - Climate Systems Engineering new window
    ... prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system” (United Nations, 1992). In addition to CO 2 , the greenhouse ... commit to the protocol were given a pass (United Nations, 1997). The Kyoto agreement requires the United States ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7481/ClimateSystemsEngineering - 132K
  8. NAE Website - JOSEPH T. LING 1919–2006 new window
    ... academic, industrial, and governmental organizations worldwide—including the United Nations Environment Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...
    https://www.nae.edu/187701/JOSEPH-T-LING-19192006 - 161K
  9. NAE Website - Impacts on Resources and Climate of Projected Economic and Population Growth Patterns new window
    ... in the Copenhagen-Cancún pledges agreed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (UN 2009, ... 638–653, doi: 10.1002/jame.2004. UN [United Nations]. 2009. Copenhagen Accord. United Nations Framework Convention on ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...ected-Economic-and-Population-Growth-Patterns - 154K
  10. NAE Website - Living with a Changing Water Environment new window
    ... times of drought. Climate Change In 2007, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its ... increases and rainfall distributions continue to change. The United Nations estimates that 700 million people suffer from water ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7740/LivingwithaChangingWaterEnvironment - 145K
  11. NAE Website - OTTO NEIL MILLER 1909-1988 new window
    ... Action, the San Francisco Opera Association, and the United Nations Association of the United States of America. He was chairman of the United Nations' twenty-fifth anniversary observance in 1970. In addition, ...
    https://www.nae.edu/189110/OTTO-NEIL-MILLER-19091988 - 161K
  12. NAE Website - James Smith McDonnell new window
    ... war and at the same time supporting the United Nations. On the contrary, these are complementary concepts. They ... devoted much of his life to fostering the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. From 1965 ...
    https://www.nae.edu/238078/James-Smith-McDonnell - 127K
  13. NAE Website - Remote Sensing of the Earth: Implications for Groundwater in Darfur new window
    ... plague half the world’s population, and the United Nations (UN) estimates that 1.8 million people die ... Climate Aridity Index Map. UN Conference on Desertification. United Nations Environment Program, Nairobi, Kenya, August 29–September 9, ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...goftheEarthImplicationsforGroundwaterinDarfur - 143K
  14. NAE Website - Decision Strategies for Addressing Complex, "Messy" Problems new window
    ... waste at Yucca Mountain or signing onto a United Nations agreement about climate change. In the case of ... a global policy agenda centered on top-down, United Nations–sponsored international agreements; targets and timetables for emissions ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...ategies-for-Addressing-Complex-Messy-Problems - 166K
  15. NAE Website - VEN TE CHOW 1919-1981 new window
    ... Application of Earth Resources; an adviser to the United Nations Secretariat on water resources development in developing countries; ... de Electricidad for the Government of Mexico; the United Nations Expert Adviser to the Government of Serbia, Yugoslavia; ...
    https://www.nae.edu/215686/VEN-TE-CHOW-19191981 - 157K
  16. NAE Website - Two or Three Degrees: CO2 Emissions and Global Temperature Impacts new window
    ... predicted in 1990, the reference year that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change chose for climate ... of climate targets. Science 339:280–282. UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change]. 2006. United Nations ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...2sub-Emissions-and-Global-Temperature-Impacts - 141K
  17. NAE Website - Long-Term Trends in Global Passenger Mobility new window
    ... as suggested by the medium variant of the United Nations population projections (2004), gross world product would rise ... population. Transportation Research A 34(3): 171–205. United Nations. 2004. World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision Population ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7646/Long-TermTrendsinGlobalPassengerMobility - 143K
  18. NAE Website - Hybrid Cities: A Basis for Hope new window
    ... to grow to 8.1 billion by 2030 (United Nations, 2001). Projections show that almost all of this ... Progress, Change, and Sustainability. Boston: The Boston Foundation. United Nations. 2001. World Population Prospects: The 2000 Revision. New ...
    https://www.nae.edu/7471/HybridCitiesABasisforHope - 139K
  19. NAE Website - MAIA: Opportunities and Challenges Associated with a Small, Cost-Capped Satellite Mission new window
    ... and chemical compositions. But, as noted in the United Nations Urban Air Quality Management Toolbook (UNEP 2005, p. ... Human Health. Washington: US Environmental Protection Agency. UNEP [United Nations Environment Program]. 2005. Urban Air Quality Management Toolbook. ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...ted-with-a-Small-CostCapped-Satellite-Mission - 153K
  20. NAE Website - A Call to the Engineering Community to Address Human Trafficking new window
    ... Seafood Slavery. Washington: Center for American Progress. UNODC [United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime]. 2000. United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Vienna. Vest CM. ...
    https://www.nae.edu/...eering-Community-to-Address-Human-Trafficking - 147K
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