Sentences with phrase «change issues in»

It is integral that agencies» roles, responsibilities and accountability for governance of climate change issues in the Torres Strait Islands is clear.

This week they are hosting a forum which brings together young professionals in the climate change, policy, and environment sector to share best practices to tackle climate change issues in their communities.

Results of the ACIA were fed into the IPCC fourth assessment process and were instrumental in raising the profile of Arctic Climate Change issues in the UNFCCC and subsequent IPCC work.

Educate civil society about climate change issues in ways that will promote and sustain a social movement about climate change.

Gordon is director of Carnegie's Energy and Climate Program, where her research focuses on oil and climate change issues in North America and globally.

The Chinese translation of the «Climate Change Reconsidered — NIPCC report» was organized by the Information Center for Global Change Studies, published in May 2013 through Science Press, with an accompanying workshop on climate change issues in Beijing on June 15, 2013.

The site seeks to help policy makers and interested citizens understand the ethical dimensions of climate change issues in contention in policy debates.

Posted in Advocacy, Capacity Development, Climatic Changes in Himalayas, Development and Climate Change, Financing, Government Policies, India, Information and Communication, International Agencies, Resilience, UNFCCC, Vulnerability Comments Off on Look Climate Change Issues in Indian Perspective Rather Blindly Following IPCC

Allvoices: Renowned environmental activist and Convener, Forum for a Sustainable Environment Dr. S Jeevananda Reddy suggested that there is a need to look in to climate change issues in Indian perspective rather than blindly following Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) model based hypothetical studies with low scientific integrity, which have their vested interests.

He said he was inspired to write the book after France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius met with TV meteorologists and asked them to highlight climate change issues in their broadcasts.

This decision underscores our belief that these ideas are stepping stone concepts to the types of systemic change necessary to address climate change issues in the building industry with the increased use of sustainably harvested wood in building structures.

PMAP also recognized Alvarez as the one responsible for creating early awareness of the global warming and climate change issues in the country.

In 2011, the US National Earth Science Teachers Association informally surveyed 555 US teachers who discuss climate change issues in the classroom.

Seven artists, filmmakers and scholars will discuss aspects of the photographic medium's changing issues in a digital age in «Photography: Before & After» Artist Lecture Series.

(Part Two of Three) To commemorate ExxonMobil's 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders set to be held today, we are releasing Part Two of our ongoing series reporting on the company's treatment of the climate change issue in its 10 - K filings to... Continue reading →

In an excerpt broadcast on radio national's The Science Show, Goldacre explains why he thinks the show's format is questionable and how, as part of the broader treatment of the climate change issue in mainstream media, it is a «gift» for the likes of Minchin.

Air pollution is considered to be the defining climate change issue in Nepal.

From the November 19, 2009, New York Times and Washington Post front - page initial news reports of hacked e-mails from the University of East Anglia (a place up until then unlikely to find itself on American newspaper's front pages)... to subsequent findings of a silly factual mistake in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment forecasting disappearing Himalayan glaciers just 25 years from now... to the disappointments of last December's international negotiations in Copenhagen... to data pointing to growing uncertainty and confusion on the climate change issue in the minds of many Americans and their public officials....

Not exact matches

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

While it's still unclear if Session's views will translate into changes in policy or enforcement, this attitude shift at the federal level doesn't align with public opinion on the issue.

«If you listen to someone and respond in a timely manner, and you eventually also make a change to address their issue, you really can make these customers your biggest advocates,» Dobronsky says.

The issue stems, in part, from year - old changes to Canada's express entry system which makes it impossible for someone in the PGWPP program to gain express entry without a Labour Market Impact Assessment, as chronicled by Nicholas Keung:

«As a Catholic Church bank, we feel strongly responsible to participate in tackling the issue of climate change,» Tommy Piemonte, the bank's sustainability research officer, said in a statement.

«The BlackBerry brand was loved and admired within the consumer community, but Research in Motion as an organization had been tainted by internal struggles, personnel changes, massive ego issues between the ownership, and stock devaluation,» remembers Roberts.

In the issue you're holding, you'll find still other stories of world - changing vision backed by fierce conviction.

The smog has a difficult time getting aired out considering Milan is in a valley, and it's made even worse when the climate is dry and warm, as it was this winter — an issue that will likely only intensify as climate change progresses.

People's behaviour will change immediately — from how they decide to seek medical attention for non-viral conditions (serious health issues may get overlooked) to how people move around within their own city, reducing spending in retail stores and restaurants.

As reiterated in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report issued on March 31, scientists estimate that we can emit no more than 500 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide in order to limit the increase in global temperature to just 2 degrees C by 2100 (and governments attending the successive climate summits have agreed in principle to this objective).

& # 9650 Domino's pizza When Domino's released its new - and - improved pizza recipe in January, the company issued a bold mea culpa, acknowledging the change had been motivated by consumers who likened its sauce to ketchup and its crust to cardboard.

I like the challenge of coming in, finding an issue and coming up with a solution, working with people to get the change in place, and then moving on.

On Tuesday, a Twitter account for Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, posted a series of tweets about climate change, an issue that President Trump has called a hoax while promising to promote the drilling and use of fossil fuels.

The notion that this change in policy could be a death knell for certain employee and employer relationships exists, but it might not be as large an issue as some believe.

Overkill is a real issue and customers are very sensitive to changes in the ways you've always done things.

Her current job, after all, affords her a platform from which she wields considerable influence in a global conversation on the world's most pressing issues — from rising income inequality to banking reforms to climate change.

A large share of Italian debt issued under domestic legislation does not have any contract terms and is regulated by an Italian law that gives the Italian Treasury ample latitude to restructure the debt... The composition of Italian public, however, is changing rapidly because in January 2013, Eurozone members started issuing bonds with standardized contract terms.

The FCC had issued a report in January saying AT&T's and Verizon's practices, known as «zero rating,» were likely anti-consumer, but that did not require them to change what they were doing.

The courier said it «has never set or changed rates for any of our millions of customers around the world in response to their politics, beliefs or positions on issues.»

They want a change that is significant in relation to a number of issues which are considered a high - priority now by at least 60 percent, and perhaps more, of Italian voters.»

The survey was issued in response to a recent report from the C.D. Howe Institute that recommended changes to EI to address imbalances in the labour market.

Fortune previously reported that the agency is making various efforts to remedy the issue, but unfortunately none of those changes had been in place at the time of Nikizad's flight.

Pao responded by issuing a detailed, heartfelt apology and pledging to make specific changes in how she and the company conduct their affairs.

Ashley Anderson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University, stated that «When people encounter an unfamiliar issue like nanotechnology, they often rely on an existing value such as religiosity or deference to science to form a judgment.»

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Obama offered no indication of whether he'll eventually issue a permit for the pipeline, whose construction has become a flashpoint in the U.S. debate about environmental policy and climate change.

Perhaps now that Equifax and Deloitte have placed an exclamation point on the entire issue and regulatory roll - back efforts are a tad less in vogue at the moment, Congress will do what needs to be done and business will be more willing to change.

It indicated when it issued its most recent delay in November that it would use the time to work with other federal regulators on potential changes to the delayed provisions.

The social rights issue is a new turn for Jana, which is known for pushing companies it invests in to make financial changes.

That doesn't encourage changes in behavior long - term, which is obviously, fundamentally what the issue is for some people.

Pharmaceutical companies are concerned about an onslaught of legislative proposals percolating in state houses around the country, among them: changes to Medicaid programs to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs, intellectual property issues, and the fight over biosimilars.

A version of this article appears in the Sept. 15, 2017 issue of Fortune with the headline «Change the World.»