Sentences with phrase «change challenges public»

We will need leadership from the resolute as the increasingly clear evidence of climate change challenges public and private institutions to respond.

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These mega-projects are fraught with challenges ranging from new engineering demands to public opposition.But to look at any one pipeline or container - port controversy in isolation is to miss the big picture of inexorable change in the world economy and Canada's place within it.

«Assembling a workable public consensus on energy and climate change is the most challenging agenda item in Canadian politics today.

• The character and integrity of those with whom you are doing business • Changing technology as it impacts industries (including the banking industry) • Future changes in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare rechanges in the law or even how the law might be interpreted differently 10 years from now • Deteriorating international competiveness (as what happened to our tax code) • Emerging competitive threats • Changes in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare reChanges in industrial structure; e.g., new sources of competition • Political influence and unexpected litigation • Public sector fiscal challenges, demographic changes and challenges managing the nation's healthcare rechanges and challenges managing the nation's healthcare resources

He cautioned any twinning of the pipeline would be «transformative change» that would present «a challenge and a problem for us» but that it would be up to Kinder Morgan to bring back proposals that are defensible and in the public interest.

It challenges one to construct a narrative that can capture change that has not only private but also public significance.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

Drawing on a wealth of research (including the Minnesota Longitudinal Study of Risk & Adaptation), Paul challenged the ways we often try to predict or measure success and helped change the public conversation about the kinds of experience and environments children need from infancy to adulthood.

We are challenging the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions» decision to change the basis on which certain public sector pension benefits, including teachers» pensions, are up - rated from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

But despite this new space for a major public debate about fundamental change, serious political challenges to the system — from «Occupy» protestors, community activists, environmentalists and others — have thus far been contained by the continuing sense of a lack of viable alternatives.

On Mark's broader arguments, it is important that political movements seek to challenge and change public attitudes on issues that they think most important.

THE BRONX — A decision by Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito to allow the NYPD to implement changes to how police interact with the public — instead of passing legislation to mandate it — is wrong and will be challenged, City Council members and police reform advocates say.

The Public and Commercial Services Union, led by their Trotskyist General Secretary Mark Serwotka, challenged the plan and won on a technicality involving the staff handbook terms agreed by the last Labour Government which will now be changed.

- the challenges of financial regulation and building a stronger economy, bringing to Britain new industries and new jobs - the challenge of reforming public services and the welfare state to better serve families and communities — the challenge of finding new ways to offer people security and opportunity amid accelerating economic and social change.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings has suggested that retirement age for public officers may need to be changed after a suit was filed challenging the appointment of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor.

The BHA's Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips commented, «Recent years have seen some of the most compelling challenges to the law and policy on assisted dying in the UK and, if successful, this case could be key in affecting some change in this area.

Mr Pickles changed the law in 2012 to ensure that English parish councils could not face legal challenges for including prayers in public meetings.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

Science and technology will be critical in our efforts to tackle the most urgent societal challenges, be it climate change, food security, or public health.

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill - prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

«Given our economic challenges and the need to develop an energy strategy, I think attempting to do a climate change bill at the same time is unrealistic and frankly unadvisable,» warned Marc Morano, a spokesman for Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe (R - Okla.).

In an age when science influences every aspect of life — from the most private intimacies of sex and reproduction to the most public collective challenges of climate change and the economy — and in a time when democracy has become the dominant form of government on the planet, it is important that the voters push elected officials and candidates of all parties to explicitly state their views on the major science questions facing the nation.

In one of two manipulations used to determine why behavior changes when free will is challenged, the investigators placed time constraints around participant contributions to the public pot.

In short, we have arrived at a point where the challenges of sustainable development — including public health, infrastructure, energy and national security — require changes not only to policy but also to basic public management systems.

Combine two of the biggest planetary challenges — climate change and public health — and you've got a problem as huge as Rupert Murdoch's.

Given aging U.S. infrastructure, limited public resources and the challenges created by a changing climate, the need to understand the most cost - efficient approach to the design, construction and maintenance of structures is more important than ever.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

On top of the risk of a deadly, engineered virus leaking into public spaces, there are also the environmental dangers of climate change, nuclear war, the potential of an enormous asteroid strike wiping us out, and the problem of humanity's overpopulation of the planet, just to name a few of the biggest challenges when it comes to remaining on Earth.

But public awareness of the urgency of the climate challenge remains low even as journalists report more deeply about how global warming will alter our cities and environment and how we'll have to adapt to those changes as wildfires rage, ice sheets melt and seas rise.

«As the world faces monumental health challenges related to climate change, there is a growing need for health professionals with the knowledge and skills to respond in a meaningful way,» says Jeffrey Shaman, director of GCCHE and associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

It will lead into a lifestyle change, so it becomes more than just wearing clown pants in public; it challenges what's socially acceptable.

The movie challenges the public to reexamine values and hopefully make changes.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

Project Citizen provides resources to help students (and teachers) work through the challenge of identifying a problem, gathering information, examining solutions, developing a public policy, and implementing an action plan to effect change.

I met Lee Ju - Ho, the former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology and now a professor at the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, to understand his efforts to improve the Korean education system In the book The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley, Lee comes across as a forward - minded thinker about the challenges facing Korean education and the need to make changes to the status quo of how education is regulated, managed, and delivered.

Those who signed on to the project, a diverse group of leaders in education, philanthropy, and public service, vowed to «challenge politicians, public officials, educators, union leaders and anybody else who stands in the way of necessary change.»

The series will explore where politics and policy meet real people's lives — in a city generating change and innovation in social policy, education, and public safety — to meet national and local challenges.

February 14: Driving Change: Challenges Superintendents Face in Urban Schools Kaya Henderson, Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow and former chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools, was joined by Tommy Chang, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, and Tom Boasberg, superintendent of Denver Public Schools.

To borrow his words, he understands that we need real, subverting kind of change at the systemic level in order to make progress on the challenges of American public education.

In this video gallery, Memphis educators and community leaders sound off on how its public schools are coping with a wave of changes that challenge how the schools are run and managed — and what that all means for local control.

A new voluntary national test of eighth grade mathematics would stimulate change by raising the public's awareness of the more challenging standards all students should meet.

When so many thousands of complex institutions are spread across thousands of jurisdictions, the challenges of politics, resources, talent, and implementation are profound, and all the more so when what's being changed contains as many ingrained practices, hidebound regulatory regimes, and vested interests as public schooling.

The second wave of reform took the form of school restructuring, and combined three complementary elements: (a) a call for higher and common expectations for ALL students, (b) an emphasis on new and more challenging teaching practices, and (c) dramatic changes in the organization and management of public schools (Elmore, 1990).

Communication Planning Toolkit - Download for free Communicating the appropriate message to explain the network, college access movement and urgency for change can be challenging, especially if you are not a seasoned public relations professional and are unsure where to start.

(7/9/2014) Principals and teachers from 17 D.C. public schools are gathering this week to identify challenges they want to tackle in the coming school year and the leadership roles teachers can play in driving this positive change.

Through its successes, Pre-K Now changed the national conversation about pre-k education, and in its final report, challenged the nation's policy makers to transform public education by moving away from the current K - 12 system to pre-K-12.

We need to challenge the predominant narrative that public school districts stifle innovation and begin to provide pathways for change within districts.