Sentences with phrase «global environment program»

At Brown he was the founding director of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute, which he led for more than a decade.

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (tprograms; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (tPrograms (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (tprograms; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A survey by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management for the UN Environment Program shows that global investment in renewable energy projects has exceeded $ 200 billion every year since 2010.

The second phase of the program focuses on developing strategic perspectives and application to a dynamic global environment.

He is the host of the National Geographic web series Cook-Wise and the director of the healthy and sustainable food program at the Center for Health and Global Environment at Harvard.

The grant comes from the Global Environmental Facility, an independent financial organization established in 1990 by the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program, and the United Nations Development Program.

Our inquiry - based learning program fosters critical thinking, problem solving, confidence, collaboration, leadership, innovation and more — all in a global learning environment.

A growing number of camps are offering leadership training experiences for young adults, and organizations such as Global Works and Onshore Offshore Expeditions have created camping experiences that include community service programs where young people can work to improve the human condition and preserve the environment.

She was accepted into the FPR program, which launched only a few years ago because «RIKEN wanted to recruit more foreigners, to get a more global and international research environment,» she writes.

A U.N. Environment Program report released last week showed that, taken together, the NDCs only account for a third of the necessary emissions reductions needed to keep global average temperatures from heating 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels.

The United Nations Environment Program warns that global emissions of greenhouse gases are opening up a widening gap between reality and climate change goals

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

Cooney himself made 294 edits to the administration's 364 - page Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted July 24, 2003, «to exaggerate or emphasize scientific uncertainties or to deemphasize or diminish the importance of the human role in global warming,» and Cooney and the CEQ played a role in eliminating climate change sections in the EPA's draft Report on the Environment as well as its National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report.

Michele Flournoy, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting Group; Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense Banning Garrett, Director, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Stephen J. Hadley, Principal, RiceHadleyGates LLC Chuck Hagel, Chairman, Atlantic Council Mikael Hagstrom, Executive Vice President, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific, SAS Annette Heuser, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation Robert Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, US Department of State David Ignatius, Associate Editor, Washington Post James L. Jones, former National Security Advisor to President Barack Obama Robert Kagan, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution Hisham Kassem, Founding Publisher, Al - Masry Al - youm Newspaper Frederick Kempe, President & CEO, Atlantic Council Christopher A. Kojm, Chairman, US National Intelligence Council Marne Levine, Vice President of Global Public Policy, Facebook George Lund, Chairman, Torch Hill Investment Group H.E. Ashok Kumar Mirpuri, Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Singapore Moises Naim, Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief International Columnist, El Pais Barry Pavel, Director, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Paul Saffo, Managing Director of Foresight, Discern Analytics; Senior Fellow, Strategic Foresight Initiative, The Brent Scowcroft Center for International Security, Atlantic Council Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush James Steinberg, Dean, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University Philip Stephens, Associate Editor, Financial Times Christopher Williams, President, Christopher A. Williams, LLC

The United Nations Environment Program estimates that the total global emissions of mercury are between 4400 and 7500 tonnes a year.

According to a report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and launched on 18 February by the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management and International Nitrogen Initiative, nitrogen pollution causes US$ 200 - US $ 2,000 billion of damage around the world each year.

Trump signed into law last month a surprisingly strong allocation of $ 139.5 million for the Global Environment Facility, which supports programs to alleviate a host of environmental ills, including climate change, biodiversity and desertification.

Appreciate the support of the Global Environment Facility, Global Tiger Initiative, Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), Snow Leopard Conservancy, Snow Leopard Trust, United Nations Development Programme, United States Agency for International Development, World Bank, World Wildlife Fund, and others for the cause of snow leopard conservation, and invite all interested stakeholders to expand partnerships to enhance the Program.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

At UW — Madison, Holloway leads a research program in the Nelson Institute Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy and climate.

The clubs will be run in partnership with Alaska 4 - H, the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment program and faculty from UAF's School of Education and Department of English.

Proponents of NASA's Earth - studies programs said the space agency has contributed a great deal to scientists» understanding of global weather patterns and trends, including the effects of climate change on the environment.

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is NASA's hands - on science program that allows classrooms to connect with scientists and science students from around the world.

Inspired by the Earth Charter's call to involve children in changing earth's destiny, Green Cross Japan, led by its Chief Executive Officer, Tsunehiko «Tom» Kawamoto, established a global program to teach school children «not only by lecture, but by action» on ways to protect, conserve and sustain the environment.

There's also information about using data from, and sharing data with, the worldwide science and education program Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE).

The MIE program was created to recognise global educator visionaries who are using technology effectively in their teaching environment and to foster better student learning outcomes.

Program Focus Kagel offers students a small, neighborhood school environment with the option of a bilingual program to prepare for an increasingly global sProgram Focus Kagel offers students a small, neighborhood school environment with the option of a bilingual program to prepare for an increasingly global sprogram to prepare for an increasingly global society.

GREEN SCHOOLS ® is a certification program by e-EcoSolutions environmental consultancy firm with the support of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the Ministry of Environment, and the Global Coalition of Green Schools - Lebanon Chapter.

Through rigorous bilingual academic content, structured yet nurturing classroom environments, and a wide range of after - school and extracurricular programs, DC Bilingual is creating well - rounded global leaders who will impact the world for decades to come.

To help our students prepare for success as global citizens, Brooklyn Prospect High School strives to develop a love of learning by pairing students with excellent teachers in a college preparatory environment using the pillars of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program.

The mission of Gray Collegiate Academy is to provide a safe academic environment that will facilitate academic success through technology, independent and group learning, innovative techniques and enrichment programs to enhance lifelong learning in becoming 21st century global thinkers.

As Porter describes it, the First Word program, on the subject of authors going global, «is just that — a first word, a deep conversation in a newly changing environment that is only beginning to reveal some of its potentials and its pitfalls.»

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, June 14, 2016 — American Humane, the country's first national humane organization, and the first to create historic protections for animals on farms and ranches, film and television, and other environments where animals live in human care, is announcing today the launch of a global program dedicated to helping ensure the welfare and humane treatment of the remarkable, endangered and disappearing animals living in the world's zoos and aquariums.

Condé Nast Traveler - Gold List - Best for Food - 2008 The Guide Magazine - The Annual Guide Awards - Excellent Integration with the Environment - 2007 & 2008 Condé Nast Traveler - Reader's Travel Awards - No. 19 Best Overseas Leisure Hotel in Asia & The Indian Subcontinent - 2007 Travel + Leisure - World's Best Award - Top 50 Hotels - 2007 PATA Grand Award - Social and Environment Conscience Program - Six Senses Resorts & Spas, Thailand - 2007 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards - The Finalist, Global Tourism Business Award - 2007

Conrad Bali Resort & Spa has achieved the prestigious Green Globe Certified status under the global Certification Program to recognize their commitment to operating at the world's highest environment standard.

The KCAI printmaking program will provide you with a deep understanding of the processes, creative concepts and issues that inform contemporary printmaking and art in a global creative environment.

The artist residency program engages international artists in projects focused on the environment, global warming, and sustainable living.

The report, prepared over three years by 90 experts, was produced by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the United Nations Environment Program (news release).

WFA's «Information Council for the Environment» that Gelbspan so widely touts as smoking gun evidence of a top - down industry directive «to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact «lasted just six months ** [See Author's 12/19/14 note below] in its entirety, with the actual PR tour being restricted to just three cities in May of 1991 and maybe a single 60 - second national radio ad on Rush Limbaugh's program at that time.

In its opening statement, HSI leadership cited the recent GEO - 5 report from the United Nations Environment Program, which celebrated the IWC's transition from a body devoted to whaling to a global force for protecting whales and encouraging non-consumptive practices such as whale watching.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (March 22, 2016)-- As the next step in their global alliance to accelerate the integration of human health and wellness in the built environment, Delos ™, the pioneer of Wellness Real Estate ™, and Lendlease, one of the world's leading integrated infrastructure and real estate groups, today announced their collaboration to advance the WELL Core & Shell Certification and pre-Certification programs as a pathway to WELL ready workplaces for building tenants.

IWC 64 in Panama City follows closely upon the launch at Rio +20 of GEO - 5, the Global Environmental Report of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).

The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018 report, compiled by BNEF, the United Nations Environment Program, and the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre, said solar power led all renewable sources, accounting for 98 GW — or 38 % — of new global power generation capacity installed lastGlobal Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018 report, compiled by BNEF, the United Nations Environment Program, and the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre, said solar power led all renewable sources, accounting for 98 GW — or 38 % — of new global power generation capacity installed lastglobal power generation capacity installed last year.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and dEnvironment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and denvironment and development.

Global Green USA works in partnership with public agencies, communities, design innovators, and other nonprofits to create innovative and replicable policies, programs and procedures that make sustainability the standard during the planning, design, construction and operation of a built environment.

This policy document aims to detail the recent progress of the Global Environment Facility to mainstream gender in climate funds programming and implementation.

The importance of ABCs to global environmental problems led the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to form the international ABC program.

«The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environmEnvironment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environmentenvironment.»

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro - electric projects) was $ 270.2 billion in 2014, nearly 17 % higher than the previous year, according to the latest edition of an annual report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economic (DTIE) in cooperation with Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and produced in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

On the subject of the evils of being financed by Big Business: On March 31st Guardian environment editor John Vidal published an article quoting the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, to the effect that temperatures are due rise 5 - 7 °C this century.