Sentences with phrase «drive global change»

Global change science has focused on the emergence of industrial processes over the past three centuries as the critical period within which anthropogenic global change processes, including land use, became significant forces driving global changes in the Earth System (14 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 18).

It also highlights the key trends driving global change, their associated risks and investment opportunities, and how they are likely to affect the adoption of Sustainable Capitalism.

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Recognizing that carbon emissions resulting from consumption of these fuels is driving catastrophic global climate change, my role as leader of the company is to ensure that Virgin provides financial support to non-profit groups that are exploring renewable energy and seeking market - based solutions to climate change, like the Carbon War Room.

These technologies are driving profound changes impacting industries and business models as well as life, society, and the environment,» said Tim Zanni, Global and U.S. Technology Sector Leader at KPMG in the report.

What's more, the business environment has changed today, Hochberg says, driven primarily by the Internet and the potential for global commerce.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

For these reasons, Uber is Fortune's most important private company of 2016, a global bully that is ferociously fighting competitors with names like Lyft, Didi, and Ola, even while it is changing assumptions about everything from drunk driving to seamless payment for services rendered.

Along with these kinds of changes, and the growing popularity of autonomous driving, the consistent design of services and experiences from within the car and beyond will become much more important to car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai - based design director of BMW Group's (bmwyy) global creative consultancy Designworks.

The concept requires sweeping changes in global regulation, not to mention wealthy early adopters who love to drive and fly.

Indeed, this past November the French government pinned a knighthood on him, not for his ability to drive profits but for his vociferous global campaigning to rein in climate change.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

We believe a step - up in risk aversion has led to a structural rise in precautionary savings, further dragging down bond yields across the curve — a trend that won't quickly change, as we write in our Global macro outlook The safety premium driving low rates.

CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE How to drive change and move smartly into new businesses Global Challenges and Opportunities Track Wendy Clark, President and CEO, DDB North America Stacey Cunningham, COO, NYSE Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, Industry Platforms, IBM Additional speakers to be announced Moderator: Beth Kowitt, Senior Writer and Co-chair, MPW Next Gen, FCHANGE How to drive change and move smartly into new businesses Global Challenges and Opportunities Track Wendy Clark, President and CEO, DDB North America Stacey Cunningham, COO, NYSE Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, Industry Platforms, IBM Additional speakers to be announced Moderator: Beth Kowitt, Senior Writer and Co-chair, MPW Next Gen, Fchange and move smartly into new businesses Global Challenges and Opportunities Track Wendy Clark, President and CEO, DDB North America Stacey Cunningham, COO, NYSE Bridget van Kralingen, Senior Vice President, Industry Platforms, IBM Additional speakers to be announced Moderator: Beth Kowitt, Senior Writer and Co-chair, MPW Next Gen, Fortune

Morgan Stanley's Global Sports and Entertainment Division (GSE) has been driving efforts to change eye - opening statistics like these.

In this current age of corporate activism, global retail giant Amazon has been on the front lines for equality in Washington state, leveraging the company's wealth and influence to drive historic social change.

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, broad changes in global investor risk sentiment were important drivers of currency movements, at times driving more than 50 percent of the fluctuations, according to BlackRock analysis.

The key to understanding the implications of global reserve changes is knowing that these changes are mostly driven by attempts to manipulate exchange rates.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

The International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) prediction for global growth of 3.1 % in 2016 remained subdued, and though it still expects a gradual recovery to follow, the IMF envisages this pickup will be driven almost entirely by emerging economies, as advanced economies grapple with headwinds such as changing demographics and declining productivity.

Contact the Global Impact team about our initiatives to drive positive social and environmental change.

S&P Global Platts examines the key forces driving commoditization in the LNG industry, and the actions industry stakeholders are taking to capture opportunities in the changing business landscape.

The drive to «stop» global warming — relabeled climate change — does not depend on facts on the ground.

Global capitalism drives tremendous political changes, but it can not usher in an end of politics.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

CHINA — China's leading dairy producer Yili Group will continue to boost product quality, with changing tastes driving changes in the global market, said its executive president on 25 January during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The global energy sector is in the midst of a significant transition, driven by new technologies, changing consumer preferences, and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Growth of the global infant food formulation market is primarily driven by increasing health - related concerns and changing mind - set of modern - day consumers to switch to alternative healthy options.

Growing consumer awareness and demographic changes drive current boom in the global probiotic industry.

Tetley has a long - standing relationship with the Ethical Tea Partnership - an organization that drives change and helps create a thriving global tea sector that is socially just and environmentally sustainable.

A new «politics driven» diplomatic approach is required to tackle global warming, the Foreign Office's special representative for climate change said yesterday.

Tony Blair has praised Britain's role as a global leader on climate change, but insisted he would not penalise people driving cars or taking cheap flights in a bid to save the planet.

Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, will be in the driving seat of a new global alliance of cities to tackle climate change, despite the EU having pioneered the idea of coordinating mayors to fight global warming.

The driving focus of the shadow defence team is to develop a defence policy fit for modern times, responsive to a dramatically changing world which enables us to maintain a position of global influence.

If so, the interaction between hydrofracturing and ice - cliff collapse could drive global sea level much higher than projected in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s 2013 assessment report and in a 2014 study led by Kopp.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

The emergence dates calculated by the model matched the historical records, strongly suggesting that global warming has driven the changes in emergence timing.

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

The drive to curb carbon emissions has waned further in the wake of financial meltdowns, global instability, and slumping public confidence in the science of climate change.

«Some of the global changes we're confronting are driven by microbiomes,» she says.

Jet engine exhaust emits carbon dioxide, which drives climate change by warming the atmosphere, leading to increasing global temperatures, rising seas and extreme weather.

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched a Green Partnership, reaffirming their countries» strong commitment to taking vigorous action to combat climate change, ensuring their mutual energy security, working towards global food security, and building a clean energy economy that will drive investment, job creation, and economic growth throughout the 21st century.

Climate change made Hurricane Harvey more powerful and increased its deadly flooding, according to new research released as major storms may be driving more Americans to worry about global warming.

The environmental impacts of alternative energy need to be balanced against the impacts of the energy they replace, such as fossil fuels driving global climate change, Schimel said.

«We can reduce health and climate change costs while reducing the dangerous carbon pollution driving global warming.»

«Formation of coastal sea ice in North Pacific drives ocean circulation, climate: New understanding of changes in North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years could lead to better global climate models.»

And the demand for cooling is being driven both by climate change and global population growth.

However, the simulations indicate that the sea - ice driven precipitation changes resemble the global rainfall patterns observed during that drought, leaving the possibility that Arctic sea - ice loss could have played a role in the recent drought.

«Driving factors behind changes between local and global carbon cycles.»

In terms of global demand, preliminary data from 2009 suggest that China overtook the United States to become the largest user of energy, and China drives much of the change predicted by the IEA.

Discussions on whether temperature or water availability is driving the strength of these variations in the land carbon sink have been highly contested with these year - to - year changes of the carbon balance seemingly related to global or tropical temperatures.