Sentences with phrase «enact change in the world»

Learning is made more tangible and real this way, and students are also empowered by discovering that they are able to enact change in the world around them.

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It is my judgment that the reforms that a morally concerned group of elite faculty would propose, even if all were quickly enacted, would not change the course of world affairs in such a way as to avoid catastrophe for the planet.

I look forward to working with Bill de Blasio as his partner in state government to enact the changes necessary to keep our city the most dynamic and exciting place in the world.»

This beautiful book compiles interviews with influential women — from poets to scientists to business icons — on how they fought through adversity to enact change in their communities and the world at large.

Toyota has enacted this change not just to benefit performance and put some favourable numbers in the next Yaris brochure, but also to improve driveability, and real - world economy and emissions.

While countries all over the world have updated or enacted effective animal cruelty legislation, Canada has not made substantial changes to the federal animal cruelty laws that were first introduced in 1892.

He declared his rupture with the official art world in 1970, citing discouragement with the movement's failure to enact revolutionary change.

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Unfortunately, those most affected by the earliest symptoms of a climate change are typically communities most reliant upon consistent weather and the least capable of coping when such patterns change — but still the world seems to dally in enacting legislation sufficient to combat it.

The UK, alone in the entire world, has enacted climate change legislation obliging us, unilaterally, at very heavy cost, to carry out a programme of rapid and complete decarbonisation.

One important way to do that is to enact policies that offer the most vulnerable communities in the world the support they need to combat the impact of climate change and help them and the rest of the world transition to a low - carbon global economy.

Britain was the first to enact a legally binding climate change act and has always thought it was a world leader in giving a good example.

Doing so, he fails to recognize how committed the world is to further emissions of greenhouse gases that will force much more extensive climate change in the future if very strong reductions in emissions are not enacted.

You may wonder why the government finds the need to pursue such action since 1) U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have already topped out and have generally been on the decline for the past 7 - 8 years or so (from technological advances in natural gas extraction and a slow economy more so than from already - enacted government regulations and subsidies); 2) greenhouse gases from the rest of the world (primarily driven by China) have been sky - rocketing over the same period, which lessens any impacts that our emissions reduction have); and 3) even in their totality, U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have a negligible influence on local / regional / global climate change (even a immediate and permanent cessation of all our carbon dioxide emissions would likely result in a mitigation of global temperature rise of less than one - quarter of a degree C by the end of the century).

Read on to learn more about this groundbreaking organization and how it is enacting positive change in the world of architecture.

We work to educate the public about the impacts of climate change on our world and the animals and plants that live in it and to build the political will to enact solutions.

COMMUNITY — We strive to enact the change we want to see in the world, through charity at home and abroad