Sentences with phrase «be a global leader without»

You don't get to be a global leader without a global footprint.

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Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

«Unfortunately, the easiest trades of the year have been based on the leader of the free world and other people in his administration putting their foot in their mouths without understanding cause and effect as it relates to global markets.»

«I am sure that those global leaders were driven by a primitive fear that the present ambient warm weather is somehow caused by humanity; and that fear — as far as I understand the science — is equally without foundation,» he said.

As world leaders prepare to gather for the UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon's Global Climate Change Summit, this evidence calls for action to be taken to reduce disaster risk and to help communities adapt to changing and more unpredictable weather patterns, without which much more displacement will occur in the future.

But for those of us who follow Hansen, Spratt, Monbiot, and many others in the tail of a much more serious climate change story: non-linear, with positive feedbacks, tipping points, time lags and thresholds, we need a much more robust and focused scientific consensus now, without waiting years for the next IPCC reports, in time to win the crucial 08 election because the solution must be now, global and America must be a leader.

Without leaders who are willing to stand up and proclaim that we are living a non-sustainable lifestyle it will be difficult, maybe even impossible, to get humanity off this treadmill of «economic growth» and on to a realization that the economic system does not function outside of, or independent from, the global ecosystem.

It seems as if every gathering of more than two political leaders these days is being trumpeted as an opportunity to advance the fight against global warming, and when those said leaders go home without having secured any sort of promise or commitment on that front, the meeting is seen as a failure.

At the London conference, 80 Professors, 60 Doctors of Science and 40 other experts, including Piers Corbyn, brother of Britain's opposition leader, who has a first - class degree in Astrophysics, were shocked to learn that the error, first introduced a generation ago when climate scientists borrowed feedback math from electronic network analysis without really understanding it, is the reason for their exaggerated predictions of how much global warming Man may cause.

Instead, global leaders should promote nuclear — loudly and without the slightest bit of shame — because it is absolutely vital if we are to reach our emissions goals.

But it is tortuous to concede that the 2 °C limit was consistent with the science at the time it was proposed and then reject it now without even examining whether the case for 2 °C has grown scientifically stronger — and whether that strengthening case is what ultimately led global leaders to adopt 2 °C.

Without an effective resume, it would be very difficult to get through to the interview rounds unless you have the skill as well as determination of global leaders like Bill Gates and the Late Steve Jobs.

But beyond that, city leaders are pressing the federal government for transportation money because they increasingly feel their cities won't be competitive in a global economy without strong transit systems, particularly light rail.