Sentences with phrase «organization global project»

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Research: Risky Business Project Co-Chairs Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry Paulson, and Tom Steyer tasked the World Resources Institute, a global research organization, with an independent assessment of the economic opportunities in a transition to a clean energy economy in the United States.

Rev. Beckwith is a co-founder of the Association for Global New Thought (AGNT), an umbrella organization that oversees a growing roster of international spiritual activist projects.

FAO can coordinate, at global level, the initiatives, activities and projects on food losses waste reduction by partnering with UN agencies, other international organizations, and worldwide stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society.

McDonald's is partnering with the non-profit TechnoServe (which coordinates many coffee - related projects) and SCAN (Sustainable Commodity Assistance Network), a global consortium of 20 organizations that provide an array of support for sustainable agriculture practices.

To give the Project the rigorous scientific foundation and world - class technical support necessary for this endeavor, the organization began working with the Global ID Group, the world leaders in non-GMO testing, certification, and consulting.

Orbert Davis» Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras and Northlight Theatre are among 18 Chicago - area arts organizations that will receive funding for global projects from the Chicago - based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Yantai Jereh Group is a multi-billion dollar publicly traded global organization with a presence in over 60 countries worldwide, specializing in oil and gas services, EPCC project implementation, as well as equipment manufacturing, technological services, project implementation and turn - key engineering.

In 1996, SHRP and the Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International (HURIDOCS)- a global network of organizations concerned with information handling and documentation of human rights violations, began a three - year project to develop a «violations approach» to monitoring economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) as enumerated in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

A subsequent project involved the development, dissemination and analysis of a preliminary global questionnaire to elicit the views of scientists, engineers and health professionals as to the meaning of the right; and organization of a briefing for the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to inform its development of a General Comment on the right.

«The Ebola crisis right now is one of the clearest illustrations that [of] the link between the conditions on the ground — the lack of public health resources and infrastructure — and the importance of addressing that as a threat to global health security,» said Scott Gordon, director of the Window of Opportunity Project at PATH, an international non-profit organization working on global health innovation.

«The program is supported by a broad partnership — a global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest multidisciplinary science society, community - based organizations like libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs, and the K - 12 educators who deliver the curriculum,» said Betty Calinger, AAAS Education and Human Resources project director.

Building on previous efforts in individual regions, the world plastics organizations that signed the «Global Declaration for Solutions on Marine Litter» have agreed to focus projects to address marine litter on these six key objectives:

Project HOPE is a global health education and humanitarian assistance organization working in 36 countries worldwide.

Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

This is the second edition of the Prize, which was established in 2014 to honour and showcase outstanding ESD projects and programmes of individuals, institutions and organizations within the framework of the Global Action Programme on ESD (GAP).

The Kidlink Project (a global, teacher - volunteer organization that enables students from around the world to collaborate with each other) lists outlines, discussion questions, and activities for different Who Am I?

Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

As I went onto the Internet to find out the latest research on global warming, I came upon a call for help: Gore had set up a nonprofit organization, the Climate Project, to spread awareness and challenge citizens and governments to take action to combat global warming.

During projects sponsored by organizations such as iEARN, book shares such as The Global Read Aloud, or within - school scavenger hunts such as Edventure Quests, students can express their voices and take ownership of work through networked collaboration and building relationships with a broader global audGlobal Read Aloud, or within - school scavenger hunts such as Edventure Quests, students can express their voices and take ownership of work through networked collaboration and building relationships with a broader global audglobal audience.

Grammy - award winning cellist and composer Yo - Yo Ma met with Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty last week to discuss education initiatives under his Silk Road Project — a nonprofit arts and educational organization with a vision of creating global connections by uniting artists and audiences around the world.

Founded in 2010, we are a global nongovernmental organization that deploys landscape - scale ecosystem restoration projects and measures and reports the impact.

She has since led the organization through extensive growth and expansion — reaching more than 250,000 students and 2,000 educators from three offices nationwide since founding — and expanded programs to include global project based learning, arts and media integration, professional development and international exchange and service learning.

She is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the founder of the Global Education Conference, which brings together an online network of students, educators, and organizations to share ideas and projects related to global educGlobal Education Conference, which brings together an online network of students, educators, and organizations to share ideas and projects related to global educglobal education.

Global organizations choose the gomo learning suite for the creation and delivery of their mission critical eLearning projects.

In previous roles he has consulted on strategic planning and analytics projects for global foundations and nonprofit organizations, conducted research on nonprofit measurement and evaluation, and developed systems to support data - driven instruction in K - 12 schools.

During each workshop, sessions were led by experts on standards, project - based learning, global Shakespeare, and service learning projects for students, to name a few, from the Department of Education, regional universities, and non-profit organizations.

Siobhan Dowd (pronounced Shivorn) was named one of the «top 100 Irish - Americans» for her global anti-censorship work with the writers» organization Dowd also co-founded the English PEN's readers and writers program, which brings authors into underprivileged schools, prisons young offender institutions and community projects.

Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn — filmmakers behind the documentary «Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret,» which examines how the animal agriculture industry dwarfs all other causes of global climate change (and other ills), and how the most prominent environmental nonprofit organizations look the other way, and worse — discuss their respective backgrounds and how they teamed up for this project.

To achieve this goal, the company partnered with NativeEnergy, an organization that aims to combat global warming through the support of Native American, farmer - owned and charitable renewable energy projects.

For more than two decades, PADI has partnered with Project AWARE ® — a global nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting our ocean planet — one dive at a time.

These projects highlight how the organization creates a truly global perspective on what curators and artists are thinking, researching, and producing today.

After the residency program, we hold a network event for the artists to have an opportunity to arrange their further project with other domestic and global creative art organizations.

Headed by President and Artistic Director Anne Pasternak, this once local organization has now expanded to a global enterprise, with a 3.5 million dollar annual budget and a board of directors dedicated to the commissioning and presentation of artist projects across the globe.

And while the fair was global in scope, the regional focus was also strong, as was the presence of thoughtful projects by local non-profit organizations.

Joining the organization after recently moving to Philadelphia, Thomas currently designs and teaches a Global Contemporary Art curriculum at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, while furthering an already distinguished career of independent and internationally recognized curatorial and publication projects.

The 21 - day Drawdown EcoChallenge takes place April 4 - 25 and is offered in collaboration with Project Drawdown, a nonprofit organization led by Paul Hawken that facilitates the research of the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming in the next 30 years.

The multi-model comparisons have been performed under the auspices of the WCRP — The World Climate Research Program, and small nimble organizations such as the Global Carbon Project (GCP) have been instrumental on synthesizing new knowledge about CO2 - emissions and the carbon cycle efficiently and with a minimum of bureaucratic overhead.

Also, we (my organization, Kids vs. Global Warming) are going to be holding training sessions in February - May of this year to train kids from San Francisco to San Diego to be leaders in give a version of my presentation, to green their schools, start activism projects (like SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Project), and lead a GWAT (global warming action team) in their sGlobal Warming) are going to be holding training sessions in February - May of this year to train kids from San Francisco to San Diego to be leaders in give a version of my presentation, to green their schools, start activism projects (like SLAP, Sea Level Awareness Project), and lead a GWAT (global warming action team) in their sglobal warming action team) in their school.

The plaintiffs argued that carbon dioxide emissions from projects funded by the two organizations are hurting these cities economically: «global warming, the suit argued, influences Santa Monica's water supply, the sea level near Oakland's airport and the snow on Rocky Mountain ski slopes» near Boulder, Colorado, according to the LAT story.

It is now a project of three organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, The Heartland Institute, and Science and Environmental Policy Project project of three organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, The Heartland Institute, and Science and Environmental Policy Project Project (SEPP).

The scholarly reports produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international network of climate scientists sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), and The Heartland Institute.

ExxonMobil has partnered with leading universities and scientific organizations worldwide to advance such research, including as the lead sponsor of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford University and more recently as a sponsor of MIT's Energy Initiative.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

Kristin's experience and solid credentials in concept development and strategic planning, experience design, traditional and online marketing, communications strategy development, brand, PR, fundraising and project management, are a welcome addition to the Global Possibilities organization.

Bullfrog Power, Canada's leading green energy provider, is announcing that CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, the not - for - profit organization that houses the world's largest collection of self - disclosed corporate environmental data and founder of the global disclosure platform, has accredited Bullfrog Power as its first Canada - focused renewable energy partner.

NIPCC is a project of three independent nonprofit organizations: Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CO2 Science), and The Heartland Insproject of three independent nonprofit organizations: Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CO2 Science), and The Heartland InsProject (SEPP), Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CO2 Science), and The Heartland Institute.

About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.

Singer, a leading scientific skeptic of anthropocentric global warming (AGW), is an atmospheric physicist, and founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), an organization that began challenging the published findings of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in the 1990s.

Supporting emission reduction projects through the purchase of CERs helps accelerate the global reduction of emissions, gives organizations the opportunity to reinforce their leadership position vis - à - vis climate change and brings sustainable development benefits to communities located in developing countries.