Sentences with phrase «draw global attention»

Nepal will seek an opportunity to draw global attention towards the plight of the mountains that are retreating at an alarming rate and its impact on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, in the upcoming global climate summit which takes place in Peru next month.

With that, McDormand, who won the award for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, drew global attention to «inclusion rider» — a clause that an actor puts in the contract that a production company ensures a certain level of diversity of cast and crew in a film.

Canadian brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer made headlines with this tribute to the golden age of animation, drawing global attention to their heartfelt indie project at StudioMDHR.

Each has drawn global attention and brought important contemporary art to the Santa Fe community and beyond.

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In an email from UZI NYC co-founder Mari Gustafson, the brand stated that they named the dress «refugee» as a way to draw attention to the crumbling global economy back in 2007.

(Bloomberg)-- Allegations that Cboe Global Markets Inc.'s widely used VIX benchmark is being manipulated have drawn attention from regulators.

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Mr. Page, a former Merrill Lynch banker who founded an investment company in New York, Global Energy Capital, drew attention during the summer for a speech in which he criticized the United States and other Western nations for a «hypocritical focus on ideas such as democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change» in Russia and other parts of the former Soviet Union.

But U.S. environmentalists and landowners have drawn attention to the risks of the project and its contribution to increasing global greenhouse gas emissions; in late 2015, then - president Barack Obama rejected the project.

Allegations that Cboe Global Markets Inc.'s widely used VIX benchmark is being manipulated have drawn attention from regulators.

I might be opening a can of worms here, but this is an important issue that I think will draw more and more attention as our culture becomes more global.

But it wasn't until she wrote this poignant post, «Mothers Needed to Protect the Earth,» that I really started thinking harder about harnessing the power of the Green Mom blogosphere to draw attention to climate change and to advocate changes to slow the rate of global warming.

Mr. Gore, a Democrat who has made drawing attention to global warming his signature cause, called the governor's proposed mandate «a terrific and bold action,» noting that it comes a week before the United Nations will hold a conference on climate change in Paris.

Friends of the Earth food campaigner Vicki Hird said: «Gordon Brown is right to draw attention to the need to waste less food, but he must also use his sway at the G8 to urge a rethink on global agriculture and food production.

As thousands of people from across the UK prepare to march in London this Saturday for jobs, justice and climate as part of a global «Put People First» campaign, PCS and War on Want are drawing attention to the tax gap and the missing billions of pounds which would help to fund public services and stabilise the economy.

«Politicians are already starting to, grudgingly, take notice,» said Kelly Heresy from Occupy Wall Street, a demonstration started in New York City that's drawing national and global support and attention.

The event is an outgrowth of a global movement meant to draw attention to the value of science and to encourage scientists around the world to stand up for science and commit to a renewed focus and active participation in communication and advocacy activities.

It draws attention to the effects that global warming is having in diminishing glaciers, leaving the future of polar bears decidedly uncertain.

Pope Francis's 2015 encyclical on climate change, «Laudato si»,» sought to leverage the pontiff's moral authority and draw attention to climate change as a global issue that disproportionately harms the poor.

The students from Sydney Grammar School drew global media attention this week after they said they had produced the drug Daraprim for about $ 2 a dose, a fraction of the current list price of $ 750 per dose.

Today, presenting a global image with a resolution of about 2.3 kilometers per pixel, Olkin drew attention to troughs and cliffs extending for 1,000 kilometers and canyons as deep as 10 kilometers.

Does he include all those with relevant expertise who have drawn attention to weaknesses in the current global warming paradigm?

To achieve this goal, significant attention on a global scale must be drawn to this critical issue.

This statistic draw our particular attention because when crossing with the annual report Global Employment Trends 2012 of the International Labour Organization (ILO) we can see that the Sub-Saharan region is presented as the farmer of the world with 62 % of its population being dedicated to that sector.

The Yaris Hybrid - R concept is not intended for serial production, but rather to draw attention to Toyota's 5.5 million global hybrid sales since the introduction of the Prius in 1997.

New design line include more rounded headlamps and an extra window just aft of the A-pillar, draw your attention the new exterior mirrors and the mentioned extra window, «copied» from the new Kia cee'd / K3 (click here to view) and this makes us wonder, if this new Kia cee'd / Forte are a global model, with light modifications?.

A mathematical knitters group is working on a coral reef quilt for a competition to draw attention to global warming.

Friday's «Innovation Showdown» competition between animal welfare finalists — the Brandywine Valley SPCA and Animal Care Centers of NYC (ACC)-- to present their unique ideas to save lives also drew attention from attendees and a celebrity and expert panel of judges that included Daymond John («Shark Tank,» NY Times Bestselling Author, Founder / CEO of FUBU, and Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship under the Obama administration), Jackson Galaxy (cat behaviorist, author, entrepreneur, founder of the Jackson Galaxy Foundation, and host of «My Cat from Hell»), and Susanne Kogut (Executive Director for the Petco Foundation).

This drew widespread attention from global powers, who look to exploit that for personal gain.

A product of the Cultural Revoltuion, his early works, such as Hospital Series and Mask Series, drew the global art world's attention to Chinese contemporary art.

Shonibare draws on this entangled history to direct attention to the global connections that unite individuals and communities worldwide.

The show cleverly draws attention to the international mix of art on view as it relates to the variety of global visitors often found exploring the city's unique urban promenade.

The apocalyptic narrative looks less convincing in the context of global economic meltdown, and the works feels like a weak art in - joke, a flailing attempt to draw attention.

These largely unsubstantiated claims are polarizing the public discourse on climate change and drawing attention away from climate impacts that are more directly related to global warming and ultimately much more damaging to our planetary life support system.

My attention was drawn in August to a draft version of a paper by Phil Klotzbach and colleagues that discussed the differences between global temperature products.

Environmental groups ran ads in Alaskan newspapers during the Obama administration's Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic in Anchorage to draw attention to the issue.

On June 5th, World Environment Day drew attention to the issue of global food waste.

There are alternatives I don't think I convinced either of my two audiences that fossil fuels are going to disappear overnight, but once I drew their attention to recent declines in Chinese coal production and a stall in global carbon emissions they did appear to concede that basing future investment decisions simply on past patterns of consumption might not be the wisest of strategies.

This analytical report draws attention to the global energy access situation and highlights that three billion people still rely on traditional biomass and coal; with a striking two million deaths per year associated with indoor burning of solid fuels in unventilated kitchens.

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley About 18 months ago, as soon as I heard of Dr. Richard Müller's Berkeley Earth Temperature project, I sent an email to several skeptical scientists drawing their attention to his statement that he considered his team's attempt to verify how much «global warming» had occurred since 1750 to be one of the most important pieces of research ever to be conducted in the history of science.

You may have heard something about tonight's «Earth Hour» (this is not the weekend you want to visit Vegas), in which the World Wildlife Fund co-opted my team's quarterback to promote a global power - down in order to draw attention to evil human consumption.

This brochure published on the occasion of the Rio +20 Conference highlights the roles of the Rio Conventions» processes involved in biodiversity, combating desertification / land degradation and climate change as important contributors to the global sustainable development agenda, drawing attention to successes and future opportunities.

This publication on the occasion of the Rio +20 conference highlights the roles of the Rio conventions» processes involved in biodiversity, combating desertification / land degradation and climate change as important contributors to the global sustainable development agenda, drawing attention to successes and future opportunities.

That's because in 2007, he was one of the first scientists to draw attention to the mysterious slowdown in global warming.

Focusing on forests helps draw attention to the importance of creating a green economy at the local, regional and global levels.

Reflecting their longtime commitment to both philanthropic endeavors and environmental concerns, our founders, Richard and Rhoda Goldman, envisioned the Goldman Environmental Prize as a way to demonstrate the international nature of environmental problems, draw public attention to global issues of critical importance, reward ordinary individuals for outstanding grassroots environmental achievements, and inspire others to emulate the examples set by the Prize recipients.

It is part of a larger effort to boost the moral case for action by drawing attention to what McKibben calls global warming's «terrifying new math.»

Since for a while now emissions have been barrelling along and nothing's happened significantly global - warming wise (but the planet is happily greening), I imagine they're reluctant draw attention to that.

The UN Environment Programme's Clean Seas campaign helped draw global public attention to the problem and offer solutions.

One paper I just took a look at is Church et al., «Sea - level rise at tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean islands,» Global and Planetary Change 53:155 - 168 (2006), which says, among other things, «Mörner et al. (2004) and Mörner (2004) recently drew attention to the potential vulnerability of the Maldives.