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.
Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, population growth and increases in consumption in many parts of the world have increased humanity's ecological burden on the planet, even though there has not been an equal corresponding increase in the Earth's bounty of natural resources.