Sentences with phrase «built global response»

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Samsung Electronics (ssnlf) may build a U.S. plant for its home appliances business, a person familiar with the matter said, the latest global firm to consider a response to criticism about imports from new U.S. President Donald Trump.

In part this increase was due to an increase in the cash rate in light of inflationary pressures building on the back of the boom in the resource sector, as well as reflecting the increasing return to capital in Australia at that time; thereafter, interest rates declined sharply in response to the global financial crisis.

Some blame a bumbling global response and corrupt and inefficient governments ill - equipped to handle the bolus of money that came their way; others point to new genetic evidence that shows that, in addition to spreading, artemisinin resistance is popping up independently in multiple spots across the region, dooming any attempt to build a firewall.

As current trends in contemporary society demand new educational responses, and traditional systems of learning are substantially challenged and reshaped, consensus is building around the importance of developing learners well prepared to meet the demands that current and future global trends make on individuals and societies, particularly in the area of civic and social participation, and ethical behavior in a world increasingly marked by difference.

They reflect growing government confidence in the global response by tens of thousands of companies and investors and thousands of mayors and regional governments who see their own sustainable futures built upon this transformation.

At this stage the Evoque Convertible Concept is a design study only and John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director says, «We are excited to see the response to this concept as we assess the potential for building on the Evoque's exceptional success so far.»

Built in response to «global needs,» which Toyota puts mostly on Europe, the automaker developed a new six - speed manual transmission.

«Interest and momentum behind the BlackBerry PlayBook continues to build and we are thrilled with the positive response from both the developer community and our customers,» said Tyler Lessard, RIM's VP of Global Alliances & Developer Relations.

«Interest and momentum behind the BlackBerry PlayBook continues to build and we are thrilled with the positive response from both the developer community and our customers,» said Tyler Lessard, VP Global Alliances and Developer Relations at Research In Motion.

Our industry can build effective and longstanding bridges between the public and private sector, be a reliable job creator and as a global industry contribute to both climate change response and poverty alleviation.»

Forged in response to the company's global goal of reducing energy and water consumption by 20 per cent by 2020, the initiatives will build on Marriott's decades - long commitment to preserving and protecting the environment.

«We are thrilled to build a global game franchise from Batman: Arkham Asylum, which is receiving an incredible response from gamers and Batman fans around the world,» Warner Bros..

A task force assembled by the American Psychological Association hopes to spur more research on the role of the human mind in shaping the behaviors resulting in rising greenhouse - gas emissions as well as on traits that can impede an effective response to global warming and similar slow - building environmental risks.

1:06 p.m. Updated Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who for decades built the case that global warming, while laden with complexity, justified an aggressive response, has died.

5:11 p.m. Updated * Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish writer who has built a career around challenging worst - case depictions of global warming and other environmental problems, has sent short video responses to the six most - recommended reader questions from my post about «Cool It,» the documentary on his work.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

It may be possible to weather this onslaught if we begin preparing now, by building low - carbon, high - density cities away from the coasts, radically improving the efficiency of water and energy systems, boosting local and global emergency - response capacities, and adjusting to a less consumption - and waste - oriented lifestyle.

But over 75 % of the global potential in demand - side response lies in buildings, with space heating, water heating and air conditioning loads contributing the most.

I was amazed at the Government and Green responses to the serious flooding in the English Midlands a couple of years ago, when increassed rainfall due to alleged Man - made Global Warming was trumpeted as a cause for the flooding; anyone who pointed out that generations of covering flood plains with buildings, concrete and ashphalt was quite a dangerous thing to do was derided as a simpleton or an ignoramus.

Combined, these actions would have a devastating effect on the currently building but still not sufficient global response to climate change.

Victories were seen on four continents: in Bolivia a draconian response to protestors embarrassed the government, causing them to drop plans to build a road through Tipnis, an indigenous Amazonian reserve; in Myanmar, a nation not known for bowing to public demands, large protests pushed the government to cancel a massive Chinese hydroelectric project; in Borneo a three - year struggle to stop the construction of a coal plant on the coast of the Coral Triangle ended in victory for activists; in Britain plans to privatize forests created such a public outcry that the government not only pulled back but also apologized; and in the U.S. civil disobedience and massive marches pressured the Obama Administration to delay a decision on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring tar sands from Canada to a global market.

The stakeholders» engagement and global benchmarking will provide information and knowledge in the following areas: building regulations, building retrofits, district cooling, standards and labels for appliances and equipment, water reuse and irrigation, outdoor lighting, change of tariffs, demand response, and distributed solar.

The activity report includes: the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) response to Conference of the Parties (COP) guidance, including relevant COP 20 decisions and conclusions of the 41st and 42nd sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI); GEF initiatives; and GEF achievements, including in the areas of support to intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs), mitigation, adaptation, technology transfer, and enabling activities and capacity building.

It is essential to now strongly advocate a global climate emergency response, and to build a national leadership group outside conventional politics to design and implement emergency decarbonisation of the Australian economy.

Building upon IIASA's scientific foundations and agenda, this special issue has two major themes: Dealing with uncertainty in integrated analyses of human - environment systems; Social, technical and institutional transformatons in response to global sustainability challenges.

In response, Google's global privacy counsel, Peter Fleischer, said the product is being built with «users and non-users in mind.»

Led large cross-functional, global team that developed and executed a comprehensive corporate strategy in response to China's Anti - Dumping / Countervailing duty investigation of US built autos, minimizing the potential impact of significant duty exposure and balancing interests of multiple stakeholders.

«Building on top of Google Maps» global infrastructure means faster response times, the ability to scale on demand, and peace of mind knowing that your game will just work,» Jacoby adds.

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