Sentences with phrase «become drivers of change»

With 90 per cent of Australians at risk of developing a chronic disease and the workplace being where most of us spend up to half our waking hours, it's only right employers become drivers of change.

Not exact matches

After Amazon debuted in 1995, ecommerce changed the role of the Internet, and websites became revenue drivers rather than just a place for branding.

At this stage of the gender revolution, some 15 years after Beijing, the agents of change want countries - national governments and cultures - to «own» the gender agenda, to become themselves the drivers of the process that will transform their own values from within so as to align them with the norms coming from UN headquarters.

There is a fundamental change underway in the underlying drivers of humanitarian crisis and of humanitarian response that will become a reality in 2025 if we consider that an essential condition that defines a «humanitarian situation» is a communications crisis.

Greenhouse gases from transportation may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change

On the current trajectory, greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trains, ships and airplanes may become one of the greatest drivers of human - induced climate change, according to a draft of the forthcoming U.N. fifth assessment report on mitigation of climate change.

Predation, an essential driver of evolutionary change, becomes impossible.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Climate change is only one of the drivers motivating agricultural innovation, but it will become more important as warming continues into the future.

The primary driver of the disease pathology, and what's mainly responsible for the memory loss, cognitive impairment, personality changes and other signs and symptoms, is that neurons in affected regions of the brain become unable to effectively metabolize glucose.

Past interns have worked with researchers who are leaders in their fields, been published by The Century Foundation, and gone on to become drivers of social change in government, journalism, academia, and more.

As has become the norm, comfort and sport modes allow drivers to tailor the damping behaviour to suit different driving styles, along with equivalent changes to steering effort, transmission and throttle response, and in the case of Eco mode, different air conditioning settings.

If that were to happen, steering fluid would leak out and the vehicle would lose lack of steering assist and therefore become harder to steer (though not impossible), which would mean more physical effort from the driver would be required at lower speeds to change direction.

This then becomes a fundamental change of the vehicle's character, and as it is one that impacts various safety systems [electronic driver aids], it needs to be validated by head office.

helps the driver become more aware of the presence of other vehicles when changing the lanes, and enhances driver confidence when backing up in busy parking lots.

The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.

Matt Ridley's broad point is that change is not something to be feared, it is a condition of our existence and a driver for humans to evolve, grow, and become ever more successful.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

«It is high time the ocean, as the primary driver of the planet's climate and attenuator of climate change, becomes a central part of climate change discussions.»

Warmista must adjust downward all historical data of new highs taken from the decades when, according to them, manmade CO2 had become the primary driver of climate change.

Contrarians looking to pin global warming on the sun can't simply point to any trend in solar radiance: they also need to quantify its effect and explain why CO2 does not consequently become an even more powerful driver of climate change.

Local news reporters cite a «war» between cyclists and drivers, as motor vehicles are regularly left parked in bike lanes, and while a perceived lack of bike lane enforcement has become a source of frustration for local cyclists, that could be about to change.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

At the same time, greenhouse gases (GHGs) from fossil fuels, together with land - use change, have become the major drivers of global climate change [10,36,37].

The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that we have entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene, where humanity has become the main driver of global change.

The report has a strong chapter on «drivers of change» — particularly in the commercial sector where clients in the form of in - house legal departments are becoming more demanding both about what they want to receive and what they are willing to pay.

But there are other major drivers of change that are starting to have some impact now and will become more significant in coming years.

Even following reduced speed guidelines, drivers may become confused by lane changes, not pay attention to the slowing traffic in front of them or drive while impaired.

While you can not change the way you drove or things that happened in the past, you can move forward with the intention of becoming a better driver.

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The main focus of the Advanced Driver Improvement course is to review and change the driving behaviors which have caused the traffic offender to receive traffic tickets, become involved in traffic crashes, or activities resulting in the suspension or revocation of their Florida License.

Real facts showing that many elderly drivers are generally become more conservative on the road thus some of them tend to change their driving habits with respect to their declining capacities.

Because (1) the evaluative cognitions that group members hold in relation to teamwork are important drivers of task engagement and ultimately group performance [5] and (2) personality is one of the most explored predictors of work related attitudes and behaviors [6]; [7] it becomes important to identify individual differences (in particular personality traits) that influence the development and change of these individual mental models.