Sentences with phrase «global policy makers»

The token sale market to date is estimated to have generated proceeds of up to $ 6B USD and is the subject of focus for many global policy makers and regulators.

It also works to educate global policy makers on the technical and operational issues related to online abuse and messaging.

Global policy makers have warned that investors should be cautious given the lack of broad regulatory oversight.

«There have been a number of positive initiatives to bring standards to the cryptocurrency sector around token sales (also known as ICOs) and tokens, and GDF has brought together some of the biggest industry players and influencers to move this agenda forward with global policy makers and regulators», stated Simon Taylor, former Barclay's Bank blockchain development lead, who heads up the GDF initiative.

Not exact matches

In this week's communication, policy makers highlighted an unusually complicated global landscape.

The question that should be on the mind of every political leader and policy - maker in the country is: how do we prepare for this evolutionary change to the global economy?

Policy makers called the uncertainties facing the Canadian economy «significant,» a reference to the possibility that Donald Trump will upend the global trading system.

But as Bloomberg reports, Bank of England policy maker Adam Posen responded by calling the BIS's take on inflationary threats to the global economy total «nonsense.»

The decision comes as policy makers including IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde warn of a global trade conflict that could undermine the broadest world recovery in years.

China's slowdown won't get bad enough to do serious global damage, but growth in the U.S. and elsewhere won't be nearly as robust as business leaders and policy makers have hoped.

Minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) January meeting showed policy makers had become more confident about the domestic outlook, thanks in part to a synchronized upturn in the global economy.

In today's rapidly evolving global economy, monetary policy makers can not ignore the international dimension.

The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.

It is exactly because of this global uncertainty and a secular decline in global growth that Canadian policy makers need to look at what can be done internally in Canada to strengthen growth.

Chinese authorities had been propping up the yuan, contributing to an almost $ 300 billion drop in foreign - exchange reserves over the last four quarters, as policy makers sought to deter capital outflows and encourage global usage of the currency.

In Europe, policy - makers do not want their financial sector tax - hobbled, unable to complete with global financial leviathans.

To begin, it might behoove analysts and policy makers to do a thought experiment by disassociating the term «development» from such concepts as China's «global development finance» or even from the name of the China Development Bank itself.

Still, the price that sends policy makers in New Delhi and Mumbai into paroxysm isn't that of global capital, but of a commodity: oil.

The Conference Board of Canada's Global Commerce Centre has embarked on a research series to explore the magnitude of services in Canada's global commerce picture and help bridge the gap on this issue between policy - makers, businesses, and the pGlobal Commerce Centre has embarked on a research series to explore the magnitude of services in Canada's global commerce picture and help bridge the gap on this issue between policy - makers, businesses, and the pglobal commerce picture and help bridge the gap on this issue between policy - makers, businesses, and the public.

Mr. Vehovec is currently chair of the Mindfirst Energy Series and the M1 Global Energy Advisory Council comprised of leading business executives, policy makers and scholars.

When the global economy crashed in 2008, policy - makers knew they could harness that impulse to spark a rebound.

Last week, policy makers at the central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), tinkered with the currency without providing much indication to the market about its endgame — one factor in the China market selloff that spurred a global stock rout.

There is not doubt that Larry Summers is excited by October G - 20 and IMF meetings as the top policy makers meet to discuss the state of the world economy and other significant global interests.

Despite preemptive military action, the post - «victory» occupation of Iraq and global involvements elsewhere, America's present policy makers and public officials insist that the term «empire» simply does not apply.

Boston, MA About Blog The MHTF seeks to generate and disseminate high quality scientific research; surface key issues for critical discussion, consensus building and policy advocacy; support emerging professionals in maternal newborn health; and connect researchers, policy makers, providers and other stakeholders in the global maternal newborn health field.

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Practitioners and policy makers from the Global North may find alienating the emphasis on «non-violent» fathering (maybe in some communities in the Global South «violent» fathering is the norm — but surely in many others it is not?)

Global Summit on Ending Corporate Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline Registrations are being accepted now for this June 2011 conference in Dallas, Texas, that will assemble, for the first time, an international group of leading policy makers, attorneys, educators, children's rights activists, and researchers from multiple disciplines (e.g., anthropology, criminology, history, medicine psychology, social work, and sociology) as well as other interested individuals who concur that corporal punishment of children is an unsuitable and potentially damaging way to discipline and teach children.

In 2012 policy makers adopted an implementation plan for the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding first adopted in 2002 and need to deliver on this commitment.

«Last week Nestlé was courting policy makers at its Creating Shared Value Global Forum, arguing that corporations should be trusted to benefit society.

SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy.

MADISON, WISCONSIN — Some scientists and policy - makers claim forests can absorb enough carbon dioxide to cut the risk of further global warming.

To avoid multiple climate tipping points, policy makers need to act now to stop global CO2 emissions by 2050 and meet the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, a new study has said.

Jaffe and a new breed of global air detectives are delivering a sobering message to policy makers everywhere: Carbon dioxide, the predominant driver of global warming, is not the only industrial by - product whose effects can be felt around the world.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Given the interconnectedness of global challenges, policy - makers must also build solid frameworks with human and financial support to coordinate multidisciplinary research to optimize local coherence, minimize duplication, and avoid maladapted practices.

International scientific organizations, such as AAAS or SPIE, should take the lead in harmonizing these structures in a very collaborative way, as well as the ethical norms and intellectual property policies that surround them, thus making science more accessible to laymen and policy - makers for a purer and standardized global research environment.

The task we set ourselves was a synthesis of all the new findings so that coral scientists, conservationists and policy makers could get a really good over-view of what research areas are most promising as global climate continues to change.

This will give policy makers a comprehensive picture of where there's been a lack of funding relative to the impact of the disease and help to set global research investment priorities,» Dr Clarke adds.

As temperatures rise due to global warming, she believes that study findings present health care professionals with an opportunity for targeted interventions and policy makers with the need to develop mitigation strategies to protect those most vulnerable to heat.

The committee has prepared a report that, in my view, provides policy makers and the scientific community with a critical view of surface temperature reconstructions and how they are evolving over time, as well as a good sense of how important our understanding of the paleoclimate temperature record is within the overall state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 % over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

It includes information submitted by a wide range of UN agencies on human, socio - economic and environmental impacts as part of a drive to provide a more comprehensive, UN-wide policy brief for decision makers on the interplay between weather, climate and water and the UN global goals.

In so doing, he works closely with policy - maker teams up to Chief Science Adviser and Ministerial level, while forging strong ties with representatives of global media associations and membership organisations.

The Polaris Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate change.

This large uncertainty makes it difficult for a cautious policy maker to avoid either: (1) allowing warming to exceed the agreed target; or (2) cutting global emissions more than is required to satisfy the agreed target, and their associated societal costs.

The public, press and policy makers have been repeatedly told that three claims have widespread scientific support: Global temperature has risen about a degree since the late 19th century; levels of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere have increased by about 30 percent over the same period; and CO2 should contribute to future warming.

The GWI supports companies, governments, policy - makers and the medical establishment in their quest to positively impact global health and wellness through research, education and the championing of disease prevention, stress reduction and the enhancement of overall quality of life for all.