Sentences with phrase «at thinktank»

Glada Lahn, a senior research fellow at thinktank Chatham House, says the water issues often affect more than one country at a time, making international cooperation even more important:

Open Left, a new project at the thinktank Demos to provide a forum for rethinking political values and ideas, is launched today.

Speaking during a question - and - answer session at a thinktank in Brussels last month, he said: «Well let's just take one test — the exact same benefits.

Matthew Rhodes, strategy director at the thinktank, said: «Restoring public trust on immigration has to be a priority for all the main parties ahead of the general election.

In his eight months outside the cabinet, Purnell has worked at the thinktank Demos building up ideas at the Open Left project and has become increasingly attracted to the work of London Citizens.

Not exact matches

The Centre for London thinktank estimated that at the end of 2013 there were up to 300,000 workers being paid less than they should be.

The centre - left thinktank's study, which challenges the orthodoxy of pursuing a stable inflation rate at the expense of everything else, envisages a major improvement in employment among 18 - to 24 - year - olds and those aged between 50 and 64.

Ahead of a major foreign policy speech at Chatham House thinktank in London on 24 April, the tension in the team over how to respond to the SNP issue came to a head.

«I'm not going to try and out - bid any other politician on toughness, saying «let's just bang them up for longer, let's have more isolation, and once they're out they're on their own,» he told an audience at the Centre for Social Justice thinktank.

Also speaking at the launch was Richard Barbrook from digital futures thinktank Cybersalon, who said that Corbyn's team contacted his organisation some weeks ago to ask them to help prepare the digital democracy manifesto.

The New Economics Foundation (NEF), an independent economic thinktank, compared people buying food at a supermarket with a local farmers» market, and found twice the money stayed in the community when people bought locally.

Sarah Veale, head of equalities and employment rights at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), viscerally condemned the report and the thinktank itself.

A dramatic increase in unemployed poverty has been spared at the cost of a rise in the number of «working poor», the IPPR thinktank has suggested.

At a packed rally hosted by the Progress thinktank, Ms Blears also renewed her implicit criticism of Gordon Brown originally made to the Independent on Sunday, in which she said the prime minister needed to demonstrate more «emotional intelligence».

«The problem is not just that it [the House of Lords] is too big but that it will continue to grow,» said Lewis Baston, senior research fellow at the academic thinktank Democratic Audit.

The debate came as the centre - left thinktank the Fabian Society released research which showed that Britain could see a near doubling of the number of black and Asian MPs at the next election, taking the total from 15 to at least 25.

Farron's move in a letter to a constituent released at the weekend came as the IPPR thinktank published new research showing the proposed decarbonisation target need not increase energy prices, and the government's alternative of relying on gas will boost bills by as much as # 15.

The independent review, to be led by the intelligence and military thinktank the Royal United Services Institute, will look at the proportionality of the data gathered for surveillance purposes and the legal framework in which this happens.

Nick Clegg will use a speech at the Centre for European Reform thinktank today to accuse Ukip's MEPs of being «lazy».

Tony Dolphin, senior economist at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank, called for ministers to use the tax system to boost the economy in the short - term.

It's Adam Lent, head of the action and research centre at the RSA thinktank and a former head of economics at the TUC.

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

James Lloyd, an expert in long - term care funding at the Social Market Foundation thinktank, said creating a fair and properly funded system would need the political parties to agree and for everyone, both young and old, to contribute financially.

Reaction on Twitter to speech at Tory party conference worse than response to Ed Miliband, finds thinktank

«They can, for example, become more brittle, susceptible to cracking or less able to cope with temperature extremes,» said Anthony Froggatt, senior research fellow at London - based thinktank Chatham House.

But Jonathan Simons, head of the education at the right - leaning thinktank Policy Exchange, said drastic falls in Ofsted grades are usually caused by major events such as a change in pupil cohorts, heads leaving, an exodus of teachers or a financial crisis.

At least, that's what Alexandra Mandel from digital nomad thinktank BeUnsettled thinks of when she pictures working remotely:

I'm sure your readers are aware that The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a thoroughly discredited Exxon - funded thinktank listed with the rest of the $ 16 million dollars worth at / / www.exxonsecrets.org/html/listorganizations.

For decades, the fossil fuel industry and so - called «free market» ideologues at conservative thinktanks have misled the public on the science and the risks of climate change.

... «The conservative thinktanks are really the spearhead of the conservative assault on climate change,» said Riley Dunlap, * a sociologist at Oklahoma State University who studies environmental politics.

In one of the largest literature reviews on the topic yet, the American thinktank the Breakthrough Institute has concluded that at an economy - wide level the rebound effect could have a serious impact.

While working at the Breakthrough Institution, a U.S. - based thinktank, I studied the effect of renewables on climate change.

Thanks to the lobbying work of the coal and oil companies, and the vast army of thinktanks, PR consultants and astroturfers they have sponsored, thanks too to the domination of the airwaves by loony right shock jocks, the debate over issues like this has become so mad that any progress at all is little short of a miracle.

I think the language of catastrophism, chaos, doom — whatever you like to call it — has actually sobered up, in the UK at least, having peaked about three or four years ago when newspapers such as The Independent ran dramatic front pages on a regular basis, a new umbrella body for activists called Stop Climate Chaos came into existence, Roland Emmerich had the Atlantic Ocean freezing in an instant in The Day After tomorrow, and a leading thinktank lambasted a portion of the British press for indulging in «climate porn».

Curry is to be the featured speaker on this subject at a National Press Club event tomorrow hosted by the Marshall Institute; a right - wing thinktank that has spread misinformation about the dangers of smoking, ozone depletion, acid rain, DDT, and now climate change.

Via Joe Romm at Climate Progress this report by Thomas Sterner and Martin Persson from the leading US environmental thinktank, Resources for the Future *, endorsing the key conclusions of the Stern Review.

Dustin Benton senior policy adviser at green thinktank Green Alliance, which published a report on CCS rollout last year, tells Carbon Brief:

Assuming China's emissions continue to rise at the current rate of about three per cent a year for the next sixteen years, the country will be emitting around 16 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year by 2030, according to thinktank Climate Action Tracker.

As special global counsel at A&O, he has continued to play a key role as head of its Global Law Intelligence Unit, a thinktank launched by the firm in 2010 that has carried out major research projects examining the impact of Brexit and the global financial crisis.

The Desire 310 is priced at around Rs. 11000 in the Indian market, and for that price point, this is a pretty good smartphone for someone concerned about the brand value more than what is included within the device, because in comparison to this, there are quite a lot of smartphone which have a better camera, although the design of the Desire 310 is quite an attraction, thanks to the HTC's design thinktank.