Sentences with phrase «challenges of a global society»

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Global Challenges and Opportunities Track Kelly Ayotte, Former U.S. Senator Tina Fordham, Chief Global Political Analyst, Citi Susan Schwab, Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Director, Boeing, Caterpillar, FedEx, and Marriott; Strategic Adviser, Mayer Brown Josette Sheeran, President and CEO, The Asia Society Moderator: Nina Easton, Chair, MPW International and Co-chair, Global Forum, Fortune

The era of quantum computing is fast approaching and will present new challenges to the cryptography that underpins our electronically - connected, global society.

When you look at the kind of impact food loss and waste has on our environment, economy and society, it's clear why the United Nations included it among the most urgent global challenges the Sustainable Development Goals would address.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

The Center aims to build bridges between communities, societies, and nations through closer interactions between science and diplomacy and elevate the role of science in foreign policy to address national and global challenges.

«This remarkable gender gap must be closed if we are to harness all of the world's brain power to solve the myriad of challenges that face our global society.»

Britz discusses social justice as a moral norm for addressing ethical challenges in the global information society, seen as a continuation of relationships altered by information and communication technologies (ICT).

Eliza Reilly, executive director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a non-profit which seeks to strengthen student learning and interest in STEM by connecting course topics to issues of local, national and global importance, said rethinking STEM education is necessary to produce graduates equipped to tackle society's environmental, economic and political challenges.

It is time to reflect on these challenges and find solutions because the influence of HCV infection on global society is an ongoing challenge.»

«Global inequality, with its roots in the histories of imperialism and colonialism, has affected the ability of Caribbean societies to deal with the challenges of climate change.

In its annual analysis of trends in global carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal carbon dioxide emissions, the Global Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lGlobal Carbon Project (GCP) published three peer - reviewed articles identifying the challenges for society to keep global average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial lglobal average warming less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

At Queen's University we have advanced our knowledge of these layered materials and have made some major discoveries, which could help to tackle many global challenges within our society.

The gathering was the second of three in the annual «Science and Society: Global Challenges» series sponsored by Georgetown University Science in the Public Interest, AAAS and the American Chemical Society.

The collaboration with the Illuminating Engineering Society exemplifies the vision of The New Polytechnic, an emerging paradigm for teaching, learning, and research at Rensselaer, the foundation of which is the recognition that global challenges and opportunities are so great they can not be adequately addressed by even the most talented person working alone.

In order to promote the quality of the dialogue on the new roles and challenges of scientific knowledge within today's global society, in partnership with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Government, UNESCO and ICSU organised the first World Conference on Science in Budapest, Hungary in 1999.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

World Science Forum (WSF), an outcome of the 1999 World Conference on Science, is a biennial event that since 2003 has been successfully assembling scientists, decision - makers from the world of politics and industry, representatives of civil society and the media to discuss critical global issues and the contribution of science towards meeting the challenges they present.

As one of the nation's oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers, the Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address critical challenges facing our global society.

SAYAS aims to contribute towards solutions to national and global challenges facing society; provide a platform for young scientists to influence policy decisions; contribute towards the development of scientific capacity in South Africa through mentoring and role - modelling of future scientists; and foster opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations amongst young scientists.

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.

Whereas many saw the previous eight UN Millennium Development Goals (2000 - 2015) as targeting only poor countries, putting sustainability at the centre of this new program of work extends the challenge to include the consumerist societies of the global north.

Clearly many global education advocates want Americans to doubt the ability of their national civic society to deal with global challenges.

This Global Congress will also provide an opportunity to remind the world the roles that women and civil society can play in the field of road safety and challenges of the future.

«My students face daily the challenges of poverty, of immigration, of language barriers, of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type of essay on the AP English Language exam.

Reflecting on the value and significance of education in the globalized era of the 21st century requires tackling global dynamics (economic, political, cultural, social, educational, etc.) with new forms of cooperation and democratic social organization to respond to the challenge of governance in a cosmopolitan society.

Liz Ricketts Special Studies Hometown: Flint, Michigan Then: Co-founder of The OR, a small nonprofit challenging consumer society by educating youth about the social and environmental injustices within the global fashion industry.

Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educglobal education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in education.

Foreign language instruction is an important part of Virginia's efforts to provide challenging educational programs in its public schools and to prepare students to compete in global society.

Created in direct collaboration with Mensa, American Mensa Academy is packed with 100 + replayable levels of fun and stimulating mini-games and challenges for everyone, plus for those really looking to test their grey matter, there is a rigorous test designed to calculate your Mensa score, directly inspired by questions faced by those attempting to join the renowned global high IQ society.

A launch event for this year's Awards will take place at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 26 September with a talk by Sue Siddall, Partner at IDEO, where she will explore the role of design thinking in fostering innovation and tackling global challenges.

This international symposium takes a timely look at the potential of contemporary arts practice to critically address the challenges now facing our ever - changing global society and systems of governance.

This international symposium at IMMA takes a timely look at the potential of contemporary arts practice to critically address the challenges now facing our ever - changing global society and systems of governance.

About Images 16 Images 16 presents contemporary visual art from Africa, Asia and the Middle East focusing on global challenges and the role of the artist in society.

About half of the «10 great global challenges» listed above are directly related to over population and the pressure that's putting on the environment and society.

An enduring conundrum at the heart of the global warming issue / challenge / crisis / emergency is that the dramatic facets that matter most to society — how fast and far seas will rise, how strong hurricanes may get, how many species will vanish — are the least certain.

IER maintains that freely - functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well - being of individuals and society.

Climate Science Watch: Climate Science Watch is a non-profit public interest education and advocacy project dedicated to holding public officials accountable for the integrity and effectiveness with which they use climate science and related research in government policymaking, toward the goal of enabling society to respond effectively to the challenges posed by global warming and climate change.

All segments of our society — including industry, universities, governments, non-governmental organizations, and individual consumers — are needed to advance the search for solutions to this monumental, global challenge.

In 1990, two years after NASA scientist James E. Hansen issued his now famous warning about climate change during a congressional hearing, Lindzen started taking a publicly contrarian stance when he challenged then - senator Gore by suggesting in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society that the case for human - induced global warming was overstated and that natural climate variability could explain things just as easily.

2 Jan: UK Telegraph: Christopher Booker: Our spoiled, emasculated, de ‑ spiritualised societies in the West are in terminal decline In 2015 we witness a rare geopolitcal power shift — and in the face of every kind of new external challenge the leaders of the EU and the USA have never looked weaker or more bemused We then saw that even more meaningless «non-binding» deal in Paris, supposed to save the world from global warming.

(6) The consequences of global climate change, including increases in poverty and destabilization of economies and societies, are likely to pose long - term challenges to the national security, foreign policy, and economic interests of the United States.

The global environmental challenges of the 21st century are matched only by the growing social, technological, and economic capacities of human societies to combat them.

Minimising human impacts on our biosphere, while promoting a basic level of equity and social justice on a global basis, is a challenge beyond anything human society has ever faced,» he wrote.

The announcement by the Mahindra Group responds to one of the five «Summit Challenges» being presented to sub-national governments, business and civil society worldwide in advance of the Global Climate Action Summit.

Ed Scott (09:47:10): «Dr. Scambos: I think An Inconvenient Truth does an excellent job of outlining the science behind global warming and the challenges society faces in the coming century because of it.

(05/20/2013) Human - caused changes to our biosphere — the global total of the world's ecosystems — are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded.

It seems that Dr Lomborg in the past had attracted controversy for suggesting that the dangers of climate change are overstated, and that modern society faces other more pressing challenges such as global poverty.

While private sector development and job creation are not new aspects of development policy, there is growing recognition that global development challenges are multi-faceted and complex, requiring collaborative, multi-stakeholder alliances between all sectors of society.

Learn about the challenges of powering a global society and work on sustainable solutions to address fossil fuel shortages, life cycle energy costs, and environmental impacts.

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