Sentences with phrase «approach global problems»
I definitely believe that spirituality has an effect on our behaviour and in the way we approach global problems or global social change.
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I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.
These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.
Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.
«Red Thread Thinking» is a proven approach that enables you to innovate whenever it's necessary — for everything from personal problem solving to entrepreneurial aspirations to tackling larger, more complex global issues.
«Almost all remedies proposed by global authorities to date have approached the problem from the standpoint of favoring capital as opposed to labor.
Richard Warren, the group's head of policy, said in an email of the proposed tariffs: «This would be a unilateral and extremely blunt approach to what is a complex global problem of overcapacity in the steel sector.»
The effort to modify the global economy and the problems with this approach can be illustrated in the history of the World Bank.
«This is in line with global best practices that place emphasis on human rights driven policing, intelligence led policing, and community based policing and problem solving approach.
«Taxing sugary drinks isn't a new concept, but given the immediacy of the global obesity problem, it's time we got creative with how we approach it,» said author of the study Dr. Evan Blecher, Senior Economist at the American Cancer Society.
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 challenge is modeled on, and being coordinated with, the Grand Challenges program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which supports high - risk, high - payoff approaches to solving global health and development problems.
To solve this problem, Pielke suggested measuring environmental variables from a regional scale up to a global scale as a more inclusive way to assess environmental risks than the top - down approach used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The NRC asked the committee to summarize current scientific information on the temperature record for the past two millennia, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate temperature record to the state of scientific knowledge on global climate change.
The synergy between the two approaches allows us to tackle complex biological problems in a high throughput fashion, providing a global view to the genome of glioblastoma,» said Dr. Rabadan.
This revolutionary approach may offer a long - term soil - based solution to the global climate change problem.
Wang said the work is meant to put a global perspective on a number of aspects researchers encountered and how these modelers approached various problems differently.
Mike Wallace's talk was about the «National Research Council Report on the «Hockey Stick Controversy»... The charge to the committee, was «to summarize current information on the temperature records for the past millennium, describe the main areas of uncertainty and how significant they are, describe the principal methodologies used and any problems with these approaches, and explain how central is the debate over the paleoclimate record within the overall state of knowledge on global climate change.»
At all levels of human organization, from the global to the regional, the national and the local, there has to be mobilization and a problem - solving approach to address the challenges of sustainability.
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.
In this way, we approach the teaching - learning process from the adjacent dialectic in the multidisciplinary issues that Global Education enables us to build and diffusion of the knowledge, which causes cognitive conflicts between the different educational actors and, consequently, meaningful and pragmatic learning about the various problems of the globalized world of the XXI century.
The present work is an opinion in which we try to explain some of the reasons which led to the gradual escalation of violence in México in a way that leads us to rethink the future of the country as a problem that is not isolated and whose global effects translate into respect and safeguard human dignity; start from the premise that some of the approaches discussed here are value judgments proponent, of which the reader may or may not share, which will be logically deductible certain descriptive judgments of the events of the last decade, and how these have led to an expansion of violence.
The High School for Global Citizenship is a community of active learners and problem solvers who are engaged participants in a multidisciplinary and experiential approach to learning both in and outside of the classroom.
The program, implemented throughout our Lower School, is a hands - on, human - centered and team - based approach to tackling sticky problems — issues often related to our Isdell Center for Global Leadership's (ICGL) annual global Global Leadership's (ICGL) annual global global theme.
As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.
The problem with that approach is that successful and coherent publishing is not the sum of individual publishing rights, but rather the gestalt work presented coherently to a global audience.
In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.
Sea Hero Quest was born out of a need to approach global health problems in innovative ways.
Walt, one of the problems we have with climate mitigation is that we've never confronted such a grand issue on a global scale, so nobody is quite sure how to approach it.
Will this approach, in and of itself, solve the problems of global warming — NO.
If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicyle friendly.»
-- A pair of top - notch economists, Robert Stavins of Harvard University and Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, urge policy makers not to discard market - based approaches to global warming and other environmental problems because of the death of efforts to pass a climate bill centered on a cap - and - trade mechanism for cutting emissions.
If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»
You couldn't be more right, Andrew, with the following statement: «If we truly are to confront global warming, the approach of peak oil, and a host of looming problems, then, as Lester Brown has suggested, «The challenge is to redesign communities, making public transportation the center - piece of urban transport and making streets pedestrian and bicycle friendly.»»
Elections Canada also claimed that all political parties had «acknowledged the problem of global warming», touting the Conservative Party's hollow «made in Canada» approach.
To the extent that all of the major parties in the 2006 federal election acknowledged the problem of global warming and were taking steps to address it, though in different ways, (the Liberals, NDP, Bloc Quebecois with the Kyoto accord, and the Conservatives with a Made in Canada approach) it would be difficult to conclude that the audio statements by taking a position on global warming, were targeting one particular party or candidate or a particular party's policy.»
California is one place that could have demonstrated an approach to the energy & climate problem that could have a huge national and global impact.
Here's the problem with the Bayesian approach as we see it being used here: prior information is being used to incorporate results from previous studies for the purpose of demonstrating that later data — despite being a reduced sample size — effectively predicts global warming.
The author's approach underlines so much of the problem with the global warming / climate change debate.
This model uses a general approach for obtaining analytical solutions for global problems and can be further refined to incorporate additional parameters and variables for examining local problems.
«Whatever we do, we know we are going to have to approach this complex problem in a multi-faceted way and from a global perspective,» said Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
This is an horrendously crude approach to the problem, but it does show that we should be looking at the effect of global temperature increases of 2.7 to 3.1 C on your own calculations and preferred figures.
Every lost opportunity to build cohesion around international efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions is dire; only a concerted, global approach will be sufficient to address this problem.
That is the major problem with international climate negotiations is that most nations are approaching the negotiations has if their economic interests trump their global responsibilities.
One approach to this problem is «downscaling,» a procedure in which climate changes in large - scale atmosphere and ocean conditions predicted by a global model are used as input to a fine - scale regional model that does resolve tropical cyclones.
This post examines concretely what happened in the recently concluded Durban climate change negotiations with the goal of explicating why the lack of acceptance of duties and responsibilities, that is lack of acceptance that climate change is an ethical problem, continues to be the major barrier to achieving an adequate global approach to reduce the threat of climate change.
«Our approach promises environmental progress in reducing harmful global warming, economic progress by creating new high - tech jobs to meet emissions goals, and international progress by showing our allies that we're serious about this global problem.»
Many of them are interesting, and taken as a group, they offer up an excellent — and quick — tour of a philosophical territory that we'll have to carefully explore if ever we want a really serious approach to the problem of global climate justice.
It is urgent that we properly approach the global warming problems worldwide.
There is a much improved perspective on the global warming problem if we approach the problem in terms of the basic physics that enable the climate problem to posed as a cause - and - effect problem.