A. Objectives. The goal of this reform is to deliver on the President's directives to (1) streamline our guidance for Federal awards to ease administrative burden and (2) strengthen oversight over Federal funds to reduce risks of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rising population growth can lessen our quality of life because it: 1  destroys resources, such as water and forests, needed to sustain us. 2  slows the dynamics of a healthy economy. 3  decreases the level of biodiversity upon which we depend.  read 1  article. learn more.  get 1  involved. educator resources.
The change in global climate, according to scientific consensus, is a result of cumulative carbon pollution over the past 200 years, or since the Industrial Revolution began. There has been an escalation of this pollution in the past 20 â 40 years due to increased population and industrial activity. The first goal is to reduce carbon emissions. If we can do this, there should be a commensurate decrease in the accelerating rate of climate change.