Sentences with phrase «ambitious change goals»

Indeed, after signing on to help the firm pursue its ambitious change goals, I quickly discovered that the legal sector presents some distinct challenges.

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The legislation could be changed and shift the political ground once more — but GOP leadership's ambitious goal of voting on a bill before the July 4th Congressional recess just became a lot harder to achieve.

This big goal leads you to think that you need to revitalize and change your life with a new set of ambitious habits.

«We have ambitious goals to get Schedulock into the hands of all Realtors in Canada,» says Alexander Poon, Schedulock CEO and co-founder... We want to change the way real estate showings are currently arranged and managed by providing Realtors with the tools needed to increase the efficiency and security of this process.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

The reports show the progress we've made in our five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), and how we are on track to meet our ambitious 2020 sustainability goals.

Seeking systemic change rather than perpetual charity, we designed our philanthropy to achieve ambitious goals and sustainable results in a concentrated and deliberate timeframe before sunsetting the fund in 2015.

For her part, Merkel is determined to secure treaty change by the end of 2012, a goal that looks decidedly ambitious.

Unveiled late Friday by the state Public Service Commission, a cost analysis of the plan projects it could cost the state more than $ 3.6 billion through 2030 to reach ambitious clean energy goals backed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, but reductions in climate - changing greenhouse gases would create benefits worth more than $ 8 billion.

But just a few months later, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, which is both the most dramatic of those changes and the linchpin of the mayor's ambitious goal to build 80,000 units of affordable housing in the next 10 years, has encountered major stumbling blocks, calling into question its efficacy as an engine of change.

As the de Blasio administration seeks to meet its ambitious affordable housing goals and, in that effort, pass significant changes to the city's zoning rules, Diaz Jr. has emerged as the loudest opponent of the plans, further ruffling feathers at City Hall after several previous high - profile disagreements this year.

Some argue that the goals have been over ambitious and that substantial changes would have occurred anyway, although a recent economic analysis estimated that 13.6 million extra children's lives have been saved since 2001.

Fracturing monopolies, surging demand, falling oil prices and ambitious climate change mitigation goals are intersecting in Mexico, creating unprecedented challenges and opportunities for curbing greenhouse gases.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

Even by the standards of the region, home to many change - the - world techies, that's an ambitious goal.

It calls for greater coordination to adapt to climate change from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and urges Europe to lead by example, striving to meet the European Union's own ambitious climate and energy goals for 2020.

Also spurring growth in the industry is a number of pro-electric vehicle policies and incentives that have been adopted in California, in part because the state is counting on electric vehicles to help it meet its ambitious climate change goals.

Gone are Obama - era overtures to address climate change by modernizing fossil fuel use and development, and embracing ambitious renewable energy goals.

The select committee had ambitious goals and an expansive agenda during its four - year life between 2007 and 2011, and it was in the thick of the congressional climate change debate.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.

Zeng joined the Allen Institute in 2006 in search of a culture change: the institute sets out ambitious five - year goals that require teams to work collaboratively and systematically, driving a project to completion rather than piecemeal, as can happen in individual labs.

I think it is time to stop talking about change and innovation and to focus on the far more ambitious goal of achieving improvement.

Our ambitious goal is to help change that, but we can't do it alone.

Many of us have boldly committed ourselves to this ambitious project in a creative leap of faith with the goal of changing the direction of the Japanese game industry.

An assessment belied by the fact that quite a few nations met their Kyoto goals and have already achieved significant emissions reductions...; that Paris NDCs are much more inclusive and ambitious, and there is already visible action toward meeting them... the global energy economy is visibly changing now.

Its official climate adviser, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), has already said that a global 1.5 C limit would mean a more ambitious 2050 goal for the UK, in the range of 86 - 96 % below 1990 levels, as well as setting a net - zero target at some point, while the government has long accepted the need to set a net - zero goal «at an appropriate point in the future».

Leading companies elevate their climate goals in response to science September 25, 2015: More and more companies are setting ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets that align with what the latest climate science says is necessary to limit warming to below 2 °C and avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.

Renovating New York City's buildings to high - performance standards when they change hands is crucial to the City reaching its ambitious goals of an 80 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

«Without a doubt, it is in the utmost interest of a large number of countries to pursue the 1.5 - degree C target, as ambitious or idealistic it may appear to date, and to see it anchored as a binding goal...» she wrote in an article for Climate Change Responses.

But meeting more ambitious climate goals will be extremely challenging and require a step change in the pace of decarbonization and efficiency.

A detailed analysis of the pledges made for the Paris Agreement on climate change finds that the era of fossil fuels appears far from over and underscores the challenge of reaching more ambitious climate goals.

The State's building stock is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, and this Challenge underscores the State's work with these consumers to address climate change and support the Governor's ambitious energy goals.»

The Paris Agreement was a major step forward for international cooperation on tackling climate change; not only did Parties agree to the ambitious mitigation goal of limiting average global temperature increase to well below 2 °C, but they also agreed to a wide array of processes and tools aimed at achieving this goal.

The Maldives and Costa Rica are the first countries to adopt a carbon reduction goal more ambitious than that of Plan B. 5 Achim Steiner, Executive Director of UNEP, describes climate neutrality as «an idea whose time has come, driven by the urgent need to address climate change but also the abundant economic opportunities emerging for those willing to embrace a transition to a Green Economy.»

Transforming the enormous and slow - to - change automotive industry is an ambitious goal, and finally approaching success is very gratifying.

To achieve such ambitious goals, cities will need to implement major changes to their energy systems by 2030.

About Science Based Targets A partnership between CDP, WRI, WWF and the UN Global Compact, the Science Based Targets initiative works with companies to set ambitious emission reduction targets, consistent with the global effort to keep temperatures well below the 2 - degree threshold, a key goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.

«I personally believe climate change is a challenge of such magnitude and urgency that we need a president who will set ambitious goals,» she said in a video posted to her campaign website.

Companies that set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction efforts today will gain a competitive advantage in the years to come, for a few reasons: Gains in efficiency lead to cost savings; credible targets bolster a company's reputation; ambitious goals spur innovation and transformational change, which can unlock opportunities for growth; and science - based targets will help companies stay ahead of shifting public policies.

Capping 23 years of intense research, debate and negotiation, the Paris summit of the UN Framework on Climate Change Convention asserts that a good INDC should be «ambitious, leading to transformation in carbon - intensive sectors and industry; transparent, so that stakeholders can track progress and ensure countries meet their stated goals; and equitable, so that each country does its fair share to address climate change.&Change Convention asserts that a good INDC should be «ambitious, leading to transformation in carbon - intensive sectors and industry; transparent, so that stakeholders can track progress and ensure countries meet their stated goals; and equitable, so that each country does its fair share to address climate change.&change.»

The President's Climate Action Plan released in 2013 reported partial progress toward this goal and set out an ambitious set of policies and programs for promoting clean energy and improving our infrastructure and assisting communities across the nation to be more climate change - resilient.

Even in light of the recent policy work in the US energy sector, the ambitious goals and approaches to carbon emissions reductions coming out of global climate summits, and an increasing awareness of the various environmental issues we're facing, any changes we're making in our habits, systems, and policies feel like they're too little, too late.

The expectation has been that parties to the protocol would eventually agree on a second commitment period after 2012 which would set more ambitious targets for reducing emissions consistent with the goals outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and other scientific bodies, for achieving some measure of climate safety such as stabilizing temperature increase caused by greenhouse gas emissions at 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F) over pre-industrial levels.

While many scientists and climate change activists hailed December's Paris agreement as a historic step forward for international efforts to limit global warming, the landmark accord rests on a highly dubious assumption: to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global average temperature to less than 2 °C (much less the more ambitious goal of 1.5 °C), we don't just need to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to essentially zero by the end of this century.

We have broad, ambitious goals of tackling international IP and how we want to change the industry.

The team had an ambitious goal to re-invent the browser, it was quickly learned that bookmarking has really changed.

At Beam, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to change banking forever by 2030.

Results - Focused professional with 25 + years» success driving improvements across a broad range of global industries; Adept in translating ambitious business goals into practical solutions; Proven talent for driving acceptance and alignment for change across an organization; Experienced leader for development and delivery of process and technology solutions.

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«We have ambitious goals to get Schedulock into the hands of all Realtors in Canada,» says Alexander Poon, Schedulock CEO and co-founder... We want to change the way real estate showings are currently arranged and managed by providing Realtors with the tools needed to increase the efficiency and security of this process.