Sentences with phrase «business climate where»

In a real estate business climate where products cover every niche available, one area has been surprisingly lacking: accounting for real estate investment companies.

These qualities are important, but are they enough to lead successfully in a business climate where volatility and change have become the norm?

Not exact matches

«That is particularly important given the current business climate, where keeping debt service under control is a priority,» says David Markovchich, director of business development for the Authority.

While Apple has not gone as far as Salesforce in opposing the bill in Indiana, where it operates two stores, the iPhone maker has expressed its concerns earlier this year about whether that bill and others like it would undermine existing civil rights law and damage the business climate of those states.

The endgame: A virtuous cycle where healthier cities breed healthier businesses — in other words, an ideal climate for the banking industry.

Six «opportunity sessions» followed, where executives explored business opportunities and solutions related to five global risks, including climate change, poverty and rising inequality, and escalating conflict and instability.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Markets were particularly surprised by data for Germany, where the widely watched Ifo Business Climate Index fell almost to a two - year low in October.

Another area where today's business investments have a direct relationship to tomorrow's climate impacts is in long - term capital expenditures, which will live well into the middle of the century and beyond.

She also provided a link to a video of her joint presentation with Suncor CEO Steve Williams at the recent Business and Climate Summit in London, UK, where they spoke articulately about the work being done in Alberta.

The company has been aggressive in product placement, marketing and community outreach to retain business during an economic climate where customers» budgets are tight.

And now Variety comes out of nowhere with this report where the numbers just don't seem to make sense in the current climate, especially for ESPN for reasons already mentioned including the existing Fight Pass business model.

Wendy will get Washington off our backs and help restore an economic climate where small businesses can invest and create jobs,» Paladino said.

New York is falling behind competitive states in the Midwest, where GOP governors and legislatures have used their political capital to improve the fiscal and business climate and attract jobs.

The idea behind the contest is to help create a more entrepreneurial climate in a region where the pace of new business creation was lagging behind the nation, and also to create an image of Buffalo as a good place to start a business.

By partnering with the Governor and members of the Independent Democratic Conference, we've reduced income and property taxes, brought spending under control and made real progress in creating a climate where businesses can create new jobs for hardworking people,» Skelos said.

In this new climate, where politicians are either calling for direct interference in corporate affairs, or running campaigns that put extreme public pressure on businesses to change their operations, businesses will increasingly have to find ways to defend themselves.

«Where I think we could do a much better job for the people of central New York is using the resources of the state government to create a business environment and climate where businesses want to stay here,» Wilson Where I think we could do a much better job for the people of central New York is using the resources of the state government to create a business environment and climate where businesses want to stay here,» Wilson where businesses want to stay here,» Wilson said.

The Tax Foundation provides rankings on a state's business climate, where in 2013 New York finished last.

In using the model to assess the ocean - carbon sink, the researchers assumed a «business as usual» carbon dioxide emissions trajectory, the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 scenario found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for 2006 - 2010, where emissions continue to rise throughout the 21st century.

To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon emissions: one where atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5] emission scenarios, respectively).

The researchers studied all 571 European cities to assess the likely impact of flooding, drought and heatwaves in the latter half of the century, under a climate model where average temperatures rise between 2.6 C and 4.8 C - the current widely accepted business - as - usual trajectory.

Warning signs of climate distress and volatile fuel costs are leading people to question where their power comes from and how rising energy costs will affect their communities and businesses.

Prior to becoming chancellor, Dr. Mone was a Professor of Management in the UWM Lubar School of Business where he also served as the Chancellor's Designee for Strategic Planning and Campus Climate from 2011 - 2014.

In France, where the market was affected by the electoral climate, business retreated 3.1 %.

There are additional risks related to commodity investments due to large institutional purchases or sales, changes in exchange rates, government regulation, world events, economic and political conditions in the countries where energy companies are located or do business, and risks for environmental damage claims, as well as natural and technological factors such as severe weather, unusual climate change, and development and depletions of alternative resources.

It also boasts a business centre and a modest garden where you can lounge in the pleasant Phuket climate.

Located in the heart of the Tianhe Business District our Guangzhou Hotel is connected to the Metro & adjacent to the Pearl River New City.We're just 5 minutes from the Guangzhou East Railway Station & 15 minutes from Guangzhou International Exhibition Centre, Hotel is right next to the Grandview Mall, where you'll delight in more than750 shops & restaurants.Guest rooms & suites feature luxurious bedding, individual climate controls & high - speed Internet access.Catch up with colleagues at our Man Ho restaurant serving the best of traditional Cantonese cuisine or relax in our lobby lounge.

It describes some of the recent drought conditions, compares observed drought and modeled drought conditions from 1950 (observed was roughly 20 %) to 2000 (observed was roughly 30 %), then makes projections based upon climate models and the business as usual SRES A2 scenario where roughly 50 % of the world's land will be experiencing drought by 2100 at any given time.

Climate models show that by the end of this century, under a business - as - usual emissions scenario where there is no constraint in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions pumped into the atmosphere that ratio could climb to 50:1.

In a place where climate change is already inducing ever more annual droughts, this business in the name of mitigating climate change is in fact causing a double effect on people.

By Jeffrey Ball and Charles Forelle Officials gather in Copenhagen this week for an international climate summit, but business leaders are focusing even more on Washington, where the Obama administration is expected Monday to formally declare carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.

In a world where climate change is increasingly on the agenda and global emissions continue to grow, your customers, investors and staff are looking to your business to act responsibly.

As an expert at the Tehran Oil Refinery, Mohammad Ali Hosseinpour changed how he thought about the environment after attending the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Istanbul in 2013, where he learned what the climate crisis meant for him and how he could inspire CEOs and business leaders to implement solClimate Reality Leadership Corps training in Istanbul in 2013, where he learned what the climate crisis meant for him and how he could inspire CEOs and business leaders to implement solclimate crisis meant for him and how he could inspire CEOs and business leaders to implement solutions.

C2ES co-hosts the annual Climate Leadership Conference, where hundreds of sustainability, energy, and climate professionals from the public, private and non-profit sectors get the latest on policy and business solClimate Leadership Conference, where hundreds of sustainability, energy, and climate professionals from the public, private and non-profit sectors get the latest on policy and business solclimate professionals from the public, private and non-profit sectors get the latest on policy and business solutions.

A particularly important step, the expert panel said, was for companies to explain how their businesses would be affected in a world where nations are acting together to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero, the ultimate goal of the Paris climate treaty.

The Climate Solutions annual dinner has become the premier event in Oregon where business leaders, elected officials, and clean energy advocates gather to celebrate successes and discuss pending challenges.

American leaders used the flagship U.S. Climate Action Center - a first of its kind pavilion for American cities, states and businesses - as the base of their operations during the two weeks of negotiations, where they held 44 events before thousands of in - person attendees and more watching from around the world.

I am increasingly of the view that the only strategy left is one of full - spectrum prioritization, where pretty much every political and policy lever, every business decision, every economic strategy is put at the service of climate mitigation and resilience.

Every business has to be able to answer the question that soon will be heading their way thanks to Mark Carney's Financial Stability Board climate disclosure recommendations: what is your plan for a scenario where full decarbonization occurs over the coming decades?

Under a long history of «cooperative federalism», where energy, transportation, and land use decisions are made on a local level, coalitions like «Under 2 Coalition» for states, cities and regions and the «We Mean Business» initiative for companies have shaped climate policies.

Where finance, business, technology, and policy leaders meet to drive climate investment and ambition

To this end, high level diplomatic climate talks can be leveraged as opportunities to negotiate friendlier business environments for U.S. industry in developing regions and as an argument for much - needed corporate tax reform in the U.S. to stimulate investment in regions where advanced technologies are critical but the investment climate is perilous.

Climate science may be a good subject for people trying to reform the scientific publishing business (with non-free printed pares in a day where authors more and more let their articles freely available on the net, citation index conditioning partly a career of professor who can advance by researching, or more of more quickly by managing PhD teams, or by media interest, or consulting (political or private) business.

Average climate conditions give a starting point for understanding what grows where, tourist destinations and other business opportunities.

For some time now, real and measurable progress has been made at the state and local levels, and in the private sector where building design and planning, innovation, equity, policy, business, and climate change intersect.

Maplecroft's head of environment, James Allan, said that identifying where the risks of climate change were going to be highest was «now an imperative for both business and governments.»

In a week where the UN called all businesses to step up to the mark and go Climate Neutral Now, we are delighted to see our partners at The Co-operative Bank announcing that their operations remain «Beyond Carbon Neutral» for the eighth consecutive year.

Once they've committed to Climate Neutrality, businesses we work with say it becomes easy to see where offsetting fits into the hierarchy of actions to tackle climate Climate Neutrality, businesses we work with say it becomes easy to see where offsetting fits into the hierarchy of actions to tackle climate climate change.

Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run - up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.