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Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011–2020

These efforts are combined with public awareness and education to increase seat-belt and helmet wearing and to reduce drinking and driving, speeding and other risks.


2020 Vision Initiative

In February 2011, the next 2020 conference will be held in New Delhi, India on the topic: Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health

ACP–EU development cooperation

Negotiations are currently ongoing for the 11th European Development Fund, which, as proposed, would cover the period 2014-2020.

Anadolu Agency

Anadolu Agency is planning to increase the number of its regional offices in Turkey to 18 from 13 and its global offices from 39 to 80 by 2020.

Beside its effective partnership with the leading news agencies (AP, ITAR-TASS, Kyodo) and their global distribution network (Getty Images, AFP Image Forum, DPA Picture Alliance, Contacto, Scanpix), AA is set to become one of the "five most influential news agencies in the world" until 2020 by broadcasting in six different languages.

Best Party

Its platform included free towels in all city swimming pools, a polar bear for the city zoo, a Disneyland at Vatnsmýri, the capital's airport and a drug-free Althing by 2020.

Braybrook College

The 18-year-old attended Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Youth Summit and Al Gore’s climate-change leadership training, and then started her own climate change organisation.

Carbon neutrality

On April 19, 2007, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced to the Labour Party annual congress that Norway's greenhouse gas emissions would be cut by 10 percent more than its Kyoto commitment by 2012, and that the government had agreed to achieve emission cuts of 30% by 2020.

Climate change in Bangladesh

Moreover, the Copenhagen Accord (COP 15) also pledges $100 million of public and private finance by 2020, mostly to developing nations.

Cumberland County, Maine

The video game Trauma Team takes place in Cumberland County in the year 2020, referencing Portland and Portland's Back Cove.

Dana Sterling

In the original Robotech timeline (on which the Sentinels and the Jack McKinney novels were based), Dana was born in 2013 and the SDF-3 departed in 2020, meaning that Dana was aged 7 years at the time.

Doha bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics

In January 2012, the Doha 2020 delegation went to Innsbruck for the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics and stated the support for the games.

Donald E. Williams, Jr.

In approving the legislation, Governor M. Jodi Rell said, "If there is a crown jewel in this bonding bill, it is the program that will continue the glorious transformation of higher education in Connecticut. That transformation began with ‘UConn 2000’ and continues today with ‘CSU 2020.’"

Energy in Austria

According to Austrian Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich Austria has a target of 34% renewable energy by 2020 and 100% self-sufficiency in energy by 2050.

Europe 2020

Europe 2020 is a 10-year strategy proposed by the European Commission on 3 March 2010 for advancement of the economy of the European Union.

Fraternité 2020

This turned out to be Fraternité 2020, which was announced by Vice-President of the Commission Maroš Šefčovič via his Twitter account already one day earlier.

Geoff Plant

Upon his exit from provincial politics, he joined the law firm of Heenan Blaikie while maintaining government appointments as senior advisor in land and resource negotiations with the Council of the Haida Nation and for Campus 2020: a review of post-secondary education.

IFSC Climbing World Championships

From 2012 the World Championships are shifted to even years with a double interest: avoiding interference with the 2013 World Games climbing event and giving a supplementary opportunity to demonstrate this sport for a possible integration in the 2020 Olympic Games.

Line 17

Line 17, Shanghai Metro, a metro line that planned to construction between 2010~2020

Line 18

Line 18, Shanghai Metro, a metro line that planned to construction between 2010~2020

Line 19

Line 19, Shanghai Metro, a metro line that planned to construction between 2010~2020

Line 5, Shanghai Metro

A branch line from the north side of Dongchuan Road will go straight at Humin Road, and cross the Huangpu River by Minpu 2nd Bridge to Fengxian District, 1st phase is from Dongchuan Road to Nanqiao Xincheng, will construction between 2010 to 2020, 2nd phase will go south to Haiwan, no timetable given.

Madrid bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics

Prior to the host city election, FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi pledged his support for Madrid's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Malvern, Toronto

On June 15, 2007, the Ontario government had released MoveOntario 2020, a plan that would fund 52 different transit projects throughout Toronto and Hamilton for the cost of $17.5 billion, including the Scarborough RT extension to Sheppard Avenue, which would meet the proposed Sheppard East LRT line, also to be funded by MoveOntario 2020.

Marymount MRT Station

Before the future Upper Thomson opens in 2020, this station is the nearest MRT station within the Thomson area.

Merlimau

Malaysian government could build a federal road from these 3 towns, Asahan, Batang Melaka and Merlimau to Segamat, This construction could start in 2015 and completed in 2020.

Michael Tomczyk

In 2000 he helped launch the BioSciences Crossroads Initiative and in 2006 co-authored (with Paul J. H. Schoemaker) a major research report entitled: “The Future of BioSciences: Four Scenarios for 2020 and Their Implications for Human Healthcare” (May 2006).

N. Chandrababu Naidu

Naidu came up with a vision document "Vision 2020" which was devised by US consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.

Naval history of Korea

The South Korean navy plans on becoming a blue-water navy by 2020 as well and is developing experimental vessels under projects like the Korean Destroyer eXperimental (KDX) program and the Dokdo class landing platform experimental.

New Jersey Transit Rail Operations

Freehold-Matawan: leased to Monmouth County Park System until 2020 as interim section of Henry Hudson Trail

Penang–Singapore High Speed Rail

On February 19, 2013, Singapore and Malaysia have officially agreed to build a high-speed rail link between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore by 2020 at a meeting between Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak in Singapore.

Project 921-3

This broad project was divided into three phases: 921/1 to launch a manned mission by 2002 in a craft that became the Shenzhou, the Project 921/2 temporary space station by 2010, and the 921/3 permanent space station by 2020.

Project Graduate

As charged by the Kentucky Postsecondary Education Act of 1997 (HB1), the CPE leads efforts to increase the education attainment of Kentucky citizens to at least the national average by 2020.

Puttgarden station

After the completion of the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link (currently forecast in 2020), Puttgarden ferry station will be closed.

Sealab

Sealab 2021, a parody of Sealab 2020 broadcast on the Cartoon Network, first aired in 2000

Sealab 2020

The series took place at Sealab, an underwater research base based on the Challenger Seamount (an underwater mountain), in the year 2020 (48 years in the future at the time of broadcast).

Shanghai marriage market

The University of Kent predicts that by the year 2020, 24 million men will be unmarried and unable to find a wife.

Terrahawks

The series is set in the year 2020, after an alien force has destroyed NASA's Mars base and Earth is under threat.

The Hungry Earth

In the episode, the Doctor—a time travelling alien played by Matt Smith—and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) land in Wales in 2020, where a drilling operation headed by Nasreen Chaudhry (Meera Syal) is drilling deep into the earth and disrupting a civilisation of Silurians who dwell beneath the earth.

Top 20 on 20

One can also vote their favorite songs by calling the station number (866-553-2020), or text messaging, Sirius XM Love moved from Sirius 3, XM 23 and Dish Network 6003 to Sirius XM Radio 17 and Dish Network 6017 as part of the May 4 channel lineup.

UMTS-TDD

In Europe, CEPT allocated the 2010-2020 MHz range for a variant of UMTS-TDD designed for unlicensed, self-provided use.

United States House of Representatives elections in Idaho, 2012

This shift in population meant that the 2nd district, currently represented by Republican Mike Simpson, would include more of Ada County beginning in 2012 and up through the 2020 Congressional election.

Vision 2020: New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan

Vision 2020 the New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan was introduced in March 2011 by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and the Director of the New York City Department of City Planning, Amanda Burden, this plan provides a framework for the next ten years of waterfront development in New York City.

Ware Tetralogy

By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting Josephson effect circuits.

Wawasan 2020

Wawasan 2020 is also the title of an article by William Greider about globalization in Malaysia.

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century

Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century is a 2002 documentary, narrated by Linda Hunt, that was aired in the United States as a two-part limited television series starting on January 6, 2020.


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