Sentences with phrase «addressing global problems»

«We hoped to inspire others to form transatlantic collaborations in addressing global problems,» said co-organizer Stephanie Pearl, 2015 - 16 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Agriculture.

To address any global problem collaboration among all these countries is a must.

HarvestPlus is proud to congratulate 2016 World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Howarth «Howdy» Bouis, who won for his pioneering work in addressing the global problem of micronutrient deficiencies, known as hidden hunger, through biofortification.

I would refer to these children as the forerunner to — «global citizens / global humane beings» as it is they through the new approach of education will be able to address the global problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy, inequity, violence and ecological crisis.

Of course, that raises the question as to whether there aren't inherent inadequacies with a local focus if the goal is to address a global problem.

There is still more to be done to address this global problem.

Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low - Carbon Living (Island Press) explains why your individual contribution is so vital to addressing this global problem — and shows you the most effective ways to cut your own global warming emissions by 20 percent or more.

Why should a skeptic be expected to simply assume that addressing the global problem means even more empowerment of government?

Questions like «Do citizens of one nation have a right to unilaterally address global problems?»

Not exact matches

She used the lull to address problems born of politics: educating clients with anxious immigrant employees or questions about global expansion post-Brexit.

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

Currently the global steel industry is facing difficult times and over capacity, and countries need to work together to address the problem rather than resorting to protectionist measures, the Ministry statement said.

Our capitalist system has opened our eyes to address big, global problems that millennials want to help solve.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

The global trading system clearly needs fixing, but punishing Mexican exporters does nothing to address the fundamental problem of excess savings in certain countries.

He is dedicated to addressing our growing global waste crisis and founded FullCycle Energy LP to finance projects that convert our costly environmental problem into clean, valuable fuel to power communities around the world.

During the company's annual shareholder meeting in Calgary, Porter said Canada's ongoing slide in productivity behind its global peers is a major problem that needs to be addressed.

We would broadly agree with the IMF's picture of a healthier global economy, though it is more difficult to envisage politicians using the current expansion to deliver reforms to address the problems such as poor productivity and low wage growth facing many parts of the world.

Politicians and central bankers will manage the crisis of 2016 - 2017 as they have most other crises (such as 1987, 1998, 2000, 2008) by increasing spending, addressing an excess debt problem with even more debt, and pumping more «funny money» into the global financial system.

... not suggesting that every person's calling is to start a nonprofit organization to a address huge global problem.

They accepted the economists» argument that rapid economic growth, national and global, is required to address the problem of poverty and that, with the attainment of prosperity, other problems could be solved as well.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

US - based sustainable production system provider Greenbelt developed a new solution to address the global food waste problem.

However, actions need to be taken at different levels, staring from individuals to country and global, to address this problem.

(One Young World is a group of delegates, all under age 27, drawn from all over the world to address critical, global problems.

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

Up to July 2015, he worked in Parliament through the All Party Parliamentary Group APPG for East Asian Business which he chaired, the All Party Parliamentary China Group [32] of which he was the vice-Chair (special focus on Hong Kong), and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment [33] of which he was treasurer to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia and work to encourage the next generation of East Asians and other diaspora to develop the leadership skills to play a greater role in public life, in society, and business, and in harnessing the resources that East Asians have globally and locally both financial and non-financial to address global and local problems today.These groups were discontinued after the May 2015 election.

This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.

Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also threatens the nation's ability to address pressing global problems such as food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

That's because climate change is a global problem, and addressing it would require concerted action by all nations, heavy investments in carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and near - zero emissions before 2050.

Climate change is a global problem; hence global collaboration is needed to address it.

To address this massive global health problem, the U.S. Institute of Medicine formed a committee to create a set of tangible recommendations that would catalyze and focus action.

By combining classical earthquake statistics and newly developed numerical models, our contribution addresses a crucial aspect of the seismic hazard, providing an intuitive physical explanation for a global - scale problem.

That meme has now spread to the United Nations, and is driving ongoing global talks to address environmental problems, including the much - anticipated Rio +20 summit meeting that begins next week in Rio de Janeiro.

In an era of great global challenges and geopolitical tension, the scientific approach to considering problems and building knowledge can guide humanity toward peaceful solutions, Iranian physicist Yousef Sobouti said in an address at a science diplomacy event in Trieste, Italy.

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

Yet the World Bank's Global Environment Facility barely managed to put together $ 2 billion in March 1994 to address the problems caused by global change in developing counGlobal Environment Facility barely managed to put together $ 2 billion in March 1994 to address the problems caused by global change in developing counglobal change in developing countries.

However, this has to a large extent not led to immediate action to address the severity of the imminent crisis of rising global temperatures and associated problems due to the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations due to human activity.

In a global market in which Britain's best scientists are often lured overseas, «the government has not addressed the problem of retention.»

He says that during campaigns for the federal election held in July — after the massive bleaching event of earlier this year — both major political parties promised measures to protect the reef, but neither offered anything to address the «root cause of the problem, which is global warming.»

«The rapid advancement of Zika vaccine candidates into clinical trials reflects the uniquely focused and effective collaboration among scientists in the field to address this important global problem,» said Barouch.

TOKYO — The Blue Planet Prize strives to highlight both basic and applied research addressing global environmental problems, and this year's laureates represent both ends of that spectrum.

These scientists are on the verge of developing protocols that will look nothing like what was done in the past to address a serious global health problem.

ISPRA, Italy — The landscape is familiar to science policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic: To address serious global problems and to take advantage of important future discoveries, they will have to work effectively with elected officials and members of the public who have complex and sometimes conflicting values and interests.

One way to address this could be to use competitions that invite solutions to broad global problems, where researchers working in industry are invited to pitch their solutions to expert panels, and the most relevant and viable ones are given access to funding and support.

The environmental effects of climate change in our modern world are increasingly convincing, and global leaders will gather soon in a major Summit to try to address the problem.

This global bushmeat hunting crisis is a fundamentally distressing problem to address because it is intimately tied to human development challenges such as food insecurity, emergent disease risks and land - use changes [7].

«Methanogens are critical players in the global carbon cycle and have potential uses for addressing human problems,» says William W. Metcalf, a microbiologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and a member of the research team.