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Sustainability standards have a proven track record of delivering impacts at a global scale on the sustainability issues that matter most.
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«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.
«So how do we restore trust on the web at a global scale?
«Global Adventure»: A three - minute look at the effect the Avengers have, not just on US audiences, but on a global scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie wasGlobal Adventure»: A three - minute look at the effect the Avengers have, not just on US audiences, but on a global scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie wasglobal scale with an overview of some of the locations in which the movie was made.
On Monday, the company announced a new vice president of operations and technology: Tina Bhatnager, who has spent the last five and a half years at Twitter, where she helped scale the company's customer service team from a basement operation to a global force.
BHP Billiton said on Thursday jobs could go at its Australian coal mines as the company faces a deteriorating market, the latest sign of global miners scaling back operations due to slowing industrial activity in China.
On the global scale you are looking at, every belief is a minority.
The end - times of the late twentieth century are on a global scale, and it is not only Christians who are at risk.
It turns out that what looks like a b **** y catfight is part of the larger dream of selling people consumer products on a global scale at an advertising agency.
While the image of the large homogenized denomination is of little use in modeling the unity of the church on a world scale, this version of conciliarity has, I think, considerable potential as a model for what we might eventually seek at the global level.
And, sure, on a global scale, this may not be quite the best way to go about engaging the issue of sexually themed clothing aimed at teenagers.
In the end the original purpose of God in Christ will be realised, but not before the pattern of his death and resurrection has been repeated one last time at the climax of history — and therefore on a global scale.
In anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scale.
On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGsOn Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGson global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.
These new properties will help to redefine the brand on a global scale with the addition of its first ski resort, urban hotel and three amazing resort projects located at UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Which is wonderful because, in a year that's been a bit, well, not - at - all - good on a global scale, why shouldn't we celebrate the personal wins?
Her current gig is at ILCA, which is the International Lactation Consultant Association, where she works to market and promote breastfeeding and lactation consultant practice on a global scale.
At the Berlin Air Show ILA in 2002, the interested public could admire a full - scale mock - up of the Euro Hawk / Global Hawk, and the specialised press has reported on the deal since the early 2000s.
At its heart is the idea to make the most of the scale of the North, by better linking it together through transport improvement, creating one single economy that can compete on the global stage.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas — Venus» crust is broken up into chunks that shuffle, jostle and rotate on a global scale, researchers reported in two talks March 20 at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.
«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
She was also a 2013 - 15 Executive Branch Fellow at USAID, in the Global Development Lab, where as a fellow and now program manager, she focuses on sourcing, piloting, and scaling science and technology innovations for the developing world as part of a network of universities called the Higher Education Solution Network (HESN).
On a global scale, the heating of atmospheric molecules causes the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, to expand and stretch higher during the day; it then settles back down as it cools at night.
Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»
«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»
Unfortunately, I doubt that we will ever be able to do that on a global scale in a practical, reliable way at the required rate of tens of billions of tons per year, year after year.
At the global scale, «[a] ttacks on universities and colleges are occurring with alarming frequency,» Quinn stated in the release announcement.
«Intergovernmental work is seductive to young scientists,» says Patricio Bernal, an assistant director - general at UNESCO, because it has the potential to change things for the better, on a global scale.
«It would be good to define planetary boundaries at multiple scales — local, regional and global,» adds ecologist Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the planetary boundaries concept.
The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.
While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation priorities at global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.
By looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
The results of their study confirm that oceans are good at balancing the nitrogen cycle on a global scale.
In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.
Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.
«But, by looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»
He believes that no one has thought of combining the two theories before because it's not an intuitive idea to look at how the effects of changing patterns of ocean circulation, which occur on time scales of thousands of years, would effect global silicate weathering, which in turn controls global climate on time scales of 100s of thousands of years.
«I think this paper strengthens, substantially, the available body of literature that we have concerning the question of whether humans are having an effect on precipitation at the global scale,» Zwiers wrote in an email.
Scientists at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University have completed a comprehensive review of the literature on the mechanisms of potential coral resistance and recovery across scales from global reef areas to the microbial level within individual corals.
Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.
And what we see is both how complex climate changes can be and how profound an effect changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»
«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify fisheries impacts on sharks at a global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.
Its Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI) puts out a maximum of 3.6 megawatts sending signals at 2.8 to 10 MHz — powerful enough heat up a small (on a global scale) but measurable part of the ionosphere.
«If you look at the nutrient distributions in the oceans on a global scale, you can see regional differences,» says Dr. Browning.
For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
«While the potential exists for rapid shifts in energy systems at the regional level, energy transitions tend to occur slowly on a global scale.
«NASA is at the forefront of the scientific investigation of the dynamics of the Earth's climate on a global scale,» said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
«It's the magnitude of the problem and the impact on the global economy that makes it extremely important that capture processes be highly optimized when they are rolled out at full scale.»
At the end of the four weeks, the researchers tested all participants» episodic memory using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB) PAL, as well as their level of enjoyment and motivation, and their score on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational, and psychological functioning of adults.