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Co-organized by E11 Global, a global startups support platform, and Dubai's Step Group the challenge is being kicked off to celebrate the Year of Zayed, and aims to «empower Emirati youth with an entrepreneurial drive and prepare them to successfully contribute to the UAE's startup ecosystem.&Global, a global startups support platform, and Dubai's Step Group the challenge is being kicked off to celebrate the Year of Zayed, and aims to «empower Emirati youth with an entrepreneurial drive and prepare them to successfully contribute to the UAE's startup ecosystem.&global startups support platform, and Dubai's Step Group the challenge is being kicked off to celebrate the Year of Zayed, and aims to «empower Emirati youth with an entrepreneurial drive and prepare them to successfully contribute to the UAE's startup ecosystem
We create engaging, insightful content and experiences for brands looking to connect with the global travel industry by connecting them through the Skift ecosystem of travel industry influencers and decision makers.
The CTA is a not - for - profit organization that is working to improve the cybersecurity of our global digital ecosystem by enabling near real - time, high - quality cyber threat information sharing among companies and organizations in the cybersecurity field.
Techcircle caught up with the Infosys co-founder on the sidelines of the #Future Summit, a global digital conclave organised by the Kerala government at Kochi, where he opened up about the challenges India faces as a country, the mentorship gap in the startup ecosystem, the significance of education and country - specific innovations.
Leveraged by a blockchain - based ecosystem, the platform is designed to connect people, developers and providers, worldwide, improving global health, wellness and research.
The team will create a global free trade ecosystem by docking to all kinds of businesses of shelter and food as well as cakes and ale, so that LNC players can go to all parts of the world to pay for consumption, promoting the value of LNC in circulation.
Helvetia has shown commitment to advance the startup ecosystem by itself as well as by integrating their resources and knowledge into the platform START Global provides for founders, students, startups, investors and corporates.
The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.
We connect distinguished talents and entrepreneurs with experienced investors and mentors by creating an organic business ecosystem with lifetime valuable resources, such as high quality deal flows, global business collaborations and multidimensional investment opportunities.
NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Dan Keeler Zoellick: Promoting fair value of ecosystems In an attempt to help countries calculate the true value of their natural assets, the World Bank has launched a project that will create an ecosystem valuation...
Livestock were emphasised by several speakers as an important aspect of global food and nutrition security, forming part of stable ecosystems when incorporated properly.
Dan Armbrust, president and CEO of SEMATECH, said, «New York State, led by Andrew Cuomo, demonstrates once again the global leadership and long - term commitment necessary to spur innovation and create a complete regional ecosystem that bridges research, development and manufacturing.
This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.
A new study by a team of researchers from the Joint Research Centre, the European Commission's science and knowledge service, sheds light on another, less well - known aspect of how these ecosystems, and forests in particular, can protect our planet against global warming.
The study is the product of a new effort, co-ordinated by Oxford University, to closely track the functioning of tropical forests across the world: the Global Ecosystems Monitoring network (GEM).
To the extent possible, the federal government should continue to foster innovation by investing in research and development for the broadband ecosystem, including networks, equipment, and applications, so the United States can continue to be a leader in the global broadband economy.
By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.
These will be discussed today in New York at a summit on snow leopard conservation convened by the UN Development Programme in conjunction with the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program.
Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.
Pusceddu's findings indicate that global warming could be putting slime production into overdrive; other scientists worry that overfishing and pollution in the region may contribute to the mucus by disrupting the local ecosystem.
Honey bees carry out fundamentally vital roles in nature by providing essential ecosystem functions, including global pollination of crops and native plants.
Global warming won't just melt ice caps; it could create whole new biomes — major ecosystem types like forest, desert, grassland, and tundra — say climatologists led by John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Eventually, under global warming, the entire subalpine meadow ecosystem could eventually shift from one dominated by forbs to one dominated by woody shrubs.
Global warming above 1.5 °C elsius, the ideal limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, will change the Mediterranean region, producing ecosystems never seen throughout the last 10,000 years, a new study reports.
Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.
«The investments by the federal government go towards the innovation ecosystem, and these kinds of investments are good for the economy, good for global competitiveness.»
Such keystone actors among corporations, the authors say, can be defined by the following characteristics: a) they dominate global production revenues and volumes within a particular sector, b) control globally relevant segments of production, c) connect ecosystems globally through subsidiaries, and d) influence global governance processes and institutions.
«By providing new insights into the functioning and future of global environments, we hope such studies will help us keep ecosystems healthy in a fast - changing world.»
The aquarium trade and other wildlife consumers are at a crossroads forced by threats from global climate change and other anthropogenic stressors that have weakened coastal ecosystems.
IUCN's members adopted more than 100 resolutions and set a course heavy on protecting ecosystems in a world guided by the first global agreement on climate change.
Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.
The four - year UNDP project, funded with US$ 1 million from the GEF and $ US 4.196 million in co-financing, and implemented by the Snow Leopard Trust, will strengthen global transboundary efforts to conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems.
Scientific evidence is amassing that global marine ecosystems have been extensively degraded by overfishing, pollution and man - made global warming.
by Adam D. Sacks Executive Director Biodiversity for a Livable Climate On November 21 - 23, 2014 at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (Bio4Climate) presented its ground - breaking (no pun intended) conference, Restoring Ecosystems to Reverse Global Warming.
He coined the term «One Health» to describe the interdependence of healthy ecosystems, animals and people and the term has been adopted by many organizations, including the United Nations, in local and global health efforts.
As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.
By joining forces with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), we will continue to expand and accelerate the convergence of EPUB and the Open Web Platform in service of our mission to foster the global adoption of an open, accessible, and interoperable digital publishing ecosystem that enables innovation.
«In order to preserve this diverse ecosystem — recognized as one of the 25 global biodiversity «hot spots» by the Nature Conservancy — the entire pathway of the creek needs to be restored.»
Global conservation efforts like the Mesoamerican Reef Tourism Initiative have aimed to protect the reef by limiting tourist snorkeling and scuba diving to certain designated areas, and mandating that visitors wear biodegradable sunscreens and lifejackets to further reduce impact on the sensitive ecosystem.
By keeping corals alive under lethal conditions and restoring coral reefs where they can not recover naturally, we aim to restore the reef and its fisheries, to keep ecosystems from going extinct from global warming, and to protect the shoreline from vanishing under the waves.
By keeping corals alive under lethal conditions and restoring coral reefs where they can not recover naturally, we aim to restore the reef and its fisheries, to keep ecosystems from going extinct from global warming, and to protect the shoreline from vanishing under the waves.The erosion in the Gili islands is getting worse.
By 2015, analysts predict the global digital & traditional media ecosystem will reach $ 2.9 trillion, with the rapidly evolving digital media sector crossing the 50 % tipping point.
But by the fifth day of New York's stuffed contemporary art week, it was unclear just what role the Whitney Biennial still played in defining American art in a global, money - soaked ecosystem.
Overall, ecosystem - driven changes in chemistry induced climate feedbacks that increased global mean annual land surface temperatures by 1.4 and 2.7 K for the 2 × and 4 × CO2 Eocene simulations, respectively, and 2.2 K for the Cretaceous (Fig. 3 E and F).
The most recent report concluded both, that global temperatures are rising, that this is caused largely by human activities and, in addition, that for increases in global average temperature, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystems, e.g. water and food supply.
In calculating the potential of rangelands to sequester carbon to offset global climate change and improve ecosystem function we can not ignore the superior outcomes achieved by conservation award winning ranchers, those who have restored ecosystem function and productivity on degraded rangeland using adaptively managed multi-paddock, time - controlled grazing, or published research that does not refute the results achieved on these ranches.
Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.
By allowing global economic activity to run its current course, come what may, we could unintentionally threaten the lives of our children, biodiversity, global ecosystems and the integrity of Earth.
Actrully world wrong economy direction, overpopulation, bearing heavy presure ecosystem, progressing little by little global warming are attacking the human being.
He summarizes by saying «In calculating the potential of rangelands to sequester carbon to offset global climate change and improve ecosystem function we can not ignore the superior outcomes achieved by conservation award winning ranchers, those who have restored ecosystem function and productivity on degraded rangeland using adaptively managed multi-paddock, time - controlled grazing, or published research that does not refute the results achieved on these ranches.»
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