Sentences with phrase «environmental challenge the world»

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The president of the world's largest alumina producer has challenged accountants to help the resources industry come to grips with the concept of the environmental balance sheet.

Friday also capped what was a particularly dismal week for Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX), one of the world's biggest producers, after an environmental challenge in Chile halted one of its major projects.

Over the last decade we've seen enterprises springing up all over the world that are taking on tough social and environmental challenges.

Through process - driven research on financial and impact outcomes of investing and grant - making, Align enables its clients to use their resources to move the needle on the world's greatest environmental and social challenges by building investing and giving strategies that are aligned with its clients personal values.

At the 2011 Organic World Congress in Korea, the IFOAM General Assembly resolved to position the organic movement as a fundamental and core solution to the world's challenges regarding social and environmental sustainabiWorld Congress in Korea, the IFOAM General Assembly resolved to position the organic movement as a fundamental and core solution to the world's challenges regarding social and environmental sustainabiworld's challenges regarding social and environmental sustainability.

Sustainability standards address many of the world's biggest environmental and social challenges, and they have real impact.

«I think many of us feel helpless in the face of environmental challenges, and it can be hard to know how to sort through the advice about what we can do to make a meaningful contribution to a cleaner, more sustainable, healthier world,» Paul says.

There is a growing concern that the fast expanding and globalized competitive world market is causing decline in grower returns and expansion of urban development and environmental regulations causing production cost increases and challenging the viability and sustainability of producing these crops.

Meeting the world's future food and nutritional needs in a sustainable way presents critical development challenges, underscoring the urgent need for action to enhance production while minimizing the environmental footprint of rice systems and their vulnerability to climate change.

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.

The environmental challenge facing this country, and the world, is an urgent one and how best to approach it is a complex issue, Harman argues.

«The Nature Conservancy in New York applauds Governor Cuomo for his continued leadership on combating climate change, the most pressing environmental challenge facing our world,» said Jessica Ottney Mahar, the group's policy director.

In this conversation, she describes her «Green New Deal» platform, explains why she thinks that spending more public dollars could actually lower the nation's debt in the long run, and contends that only the Greens are offering real solutions to the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world.

«It is also a general attack on scientific advances aiming to meet one of the world's biggest challenges - providing safe and nutritious food for a growing global population, whilst reducing the environmental impact of production.»

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

As it is with other mega cities in the world, such as New York, New Delhi and Jakarta, the population growth in Lagos brings with it challenges, ranging from environmental to transportation and provision of a good road network, among others.

Yet Franz Litz, an analyst at the World Resources Institute, said the governor must go through a new rulemaking process with the state Department of Environmental Protection that could take time and prompt legal challenges.

MOFs are used to detect, purify and store gases, and could help solve some of the world's most challenging energy, environmental and pharmaceutical challenges — they can even pull water molecules straight from the air to provide relief from drought.

Scientist and author Tyler Volk talks about his new book CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge.

Environmentalists who have challenged the world's large Internet technology firms, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple and Amazon, to work harder to adopt clean power sources for their sprawling data centers praised Google's announcement as a hallmark for converting a long - standing environmental problem into an innovative solution.

Through iGEM, interdisciplinary teams of supervised students or community lab members throughout the world engineer genetic systems, using standardized biological parts, to tackle a broad variety of global synthetic biology challenges, from producing sustainable chemicals to detecting environmental contaminants.

One of the key challenges is how to introduce environmental regulations, even market - based regulations, in a world where many of the sectors won't respond as well because prices are controlled.»

Increased ozone and fine particles in the air are predicted to become one of the world's greatest environmental challenges

Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today.

Yet beneath this wilderness in the southeastern corner of Washington state seethes one of the world's great environmental challenges: a vast potpourri of chemical unpleasantness.

«As the world community pursues new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know who is leading and who is lagging on energy and environmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yalenvironmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at YalEnvironmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University.

That reality is what we most need to grapple with to address environmental challenges and stimulate the economies of both the developing and the developed worlds.

«Premature mortality associated with poor air quality is likely to become the world's top environmental challenge, even exceeding water and sanitation,» he adds.

Today, he is heading up one of the world's leading laboratories using nanomaterial research to pursue challenges in energy and environmental sciences, particularly in the development of the next generation of batteries.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

But the view of energy and environmental challenges can be quite different in different parts of the world, leading to sometimes significant differences in preferred policy approaches across regions.

The Ministry of the Environment, Ecology and Forest celebrated the World Day by holding a conference on the 15 June, focusing the environmental challenges of land degradation and desertification.

the challenge of simultaneously maintaining environmental and economic sustainability and how countries of the GCC are likely to be impacted by shifting preferences for low carbon energy resources in the developed world, including the economic and geopolitical stresses that may follow (forthcoming).

«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.

Prime Minister Theresa May announced the ban on Wednesday, saying «Plastic waste is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world.»

«Plastic waste is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world,» she said.

Environmental management and the challenge of achieving sustainable development is a global problem that requires looking at the political, economic, cultural, and educational phenomenas of the current paradigm, from a poly - logic phenomenology that perceive different levels of Reality which form the world and cosmos humanly known.

These are skills of three kinds: cross-cultural efficacy, an interest and positive disposition toward cultural difference; foreign language skills; and knowledge of world history, geography and global processes such as trade, international law, environmental and health challenges.

Taking account of economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, the report's forward - looking narrative describes how major challenges and change factors in the modern world will affect — and can be affected by — water resources, services and related benefits.

Now, more than ever, educators, parents, business leaders, policymakers and students have a responsibility to recognize modern needs and foster the pertinent competencies — knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior — that will enable new and existing generations to deal with the social, economic and environmental challenges that face our world.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Some of the world's leading businesses are coming together to tackle major social and environmental challenges at a unique week - long Innovation Festival.

Environmental Charter High School is ranked in the top 3 % of U.S. public high schools by U.S. News & World Report, and was chosen as one of three national finalists in President Obama's Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.

So the FAAC has started its work by keying on enhancing aviation safety, ensuring a world - class aviation workforce, balancing the industry's competitiveness and viability, securing predictable funding, and addressing environmental challenges.

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MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index is designed to identify listed companies whose core business addresses at least one of the world's social and environmental challenges, as defined by the United Nations sustainable development goals.

Hartford Global Impact NextShares Fund seeks long - term capital appreciation by investing in companies throughout the world that it believes are likely to address major social and environmental challenges.

Builders and contractors have to mind the challenges presented by Vancouver's delicate topography and environmental diversity, making sure not to harm the special wildlife habitats and mamrine life that makes our corner of the world so raw and beautiful.

Since her accident, Si Bao has continued to fight on in the face of adversity and recently gave birth to four beautiful puppies, who she immediately doted on upon their arrival into the world, trying her best to be a great mother despite the environmental and physical challenges of her situation.

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