Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges at»

Prior to joining the EDF in 2006, Diane spent 20 years developing and supporting scientifically sound bipartisan solutions to environmental challenges at Environmental Protection Agency, where she managed billions of dollars and thousands of employees.

Scientific evidence has now accumulated that indicates a further need for management of some environmental challenges at the global level.

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

Not exact matches

But as Virgin grew through the years, so did our ideas about how to treat employees well, and how to take environmental impact into account, and by 2004, I had come to realize that we at the Virgin Group had a chance to tackle the challenges our society faces in a new, entrepreneurial way.

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.

WASHINGTON, Sep. 19 / CSRwire / - RESOLVE, known for forging sustainable solutions to critical environmental, social, and health challenges appointed new governors and strategic partners at its annual meeting today.

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 sustainability.

Tesco will be joining The Recycling Panel, led by Prismm Environmental, to discuss the challenges, opportunities and innovations facing the packaging market as it moves to become better at recycling.

At the launch of the U.S. Food Waste Challenge in June 2013, USDA and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a goal of 400 participants in the Challenge by 2015 and 1,000 by 2020.

Mass Audubon challenges the Baker Administration and the Massachusetts legislature to restore environmental funding to a minimum of 1 % of the total operating budget (currently it is only at about 0.6 %), and to restore full funding for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, which remains about $ 100,000 too low.

Speaking at a sensitization workshop on 2017 Water Technology and Environmental Control Exhibition and Conference (WATEC) held at Ikeja, Governor Ambode identified the need for residents to adopt a willful approach to the payment of taxes as a means of addressing fundamental challenges confronting the State and accelerating development in all sectors and sections.

During his service as Mayor of the City of Syracuse and at the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation, he has displayed a keen understanding of the challenges facing local governments and the ability to implement innovative solutions.

Although Entergy filed a lawsuit challenging DEC's finding of «adverse» environmental impact, the decision has been upheld and the DEC is moving forward with a trial - type hearing to determine whether closed - cycle cooling must be installed at Indian Point.

The Delaware Riverkeeper, Maya K. van Rossum, told lawmakers at the news conference how her group and several municipalities had used the environmental clause in Pennsylvania's Constitution to challenge a pro-fracking law that would have pre-empted local zoning and imposed a gag order on health professionals.

«If the Legislature is unable or unwilling to tackle the unprecedented environmental challenges we face, they should at least get out of the way so local people can solve their own problems.»

Therefore if the Welsh Government wants its preferred route for the M4 to be built, then it must survive a legal challenge, produce a convincing environmental assessment, win a majority at the next Assembly elections, convince its own Assembly Members of its merits, then face a public inquiry.

At the heart of the legal challenge to the loan is an effort from environmental groups to «invalidate» the state's plan.

New York is taking steps to file a legal challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at blocking the designation of a water disposal site near the coast of eastern Long Island.

Also at 10 a.m., Rebuild NY Now, a broad - based coalition seeking to raise public awareness about the challenges facing New York State's infrastructure, along with Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and other local elected officials, members of organized labor, environmental organizations, Chambers of Commerce and private local businesses, will be holding a press conference.

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.

«A special thanks to our Parks and Environmental Facilities departments and our partners at the Westchester Green Business Challenge.»

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

Annette Fredette, 4FRI planning team leader at the Forest Service's Flagstaff office, said forcing discussion among different interests throughout the National Environmental Policy Act process is «both the challenge and the value» of the initiative.

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.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - making.

«This study takes an integrated approach that addresses the need to advance Arctic environmental research at the system level, a challenge that has been recognized by the broad scientific community as necessary to improve predictions of future change,» said Cox.

«The planetary boundaries framework is not a useful guide for policy or environmental management in any concrete sense, as it does not capture the challenges involved in most of the environmental problems it lists,» argues geographer Linus Blomqvist, policy associate at the institute's Conservation Program and co-author of the review.

The challenge to create a sustainable food supply for the growing population is so large that all efforts are needed, says Johan Rockström, professor of environmental science and sustainability at Stockholm University in Sweden.

Debate about the border wall advocated by President Trump to run along the southern border of the United States has focused on the structure's security effectiveness and cost, but experts at the AAAS Science Diplomacy 2017 conference described a huge set of interrelated challenges in the region, including multiple environmental concerns that have often been confronted bilaterally.

Seeds from the same plant germinate at different times to hedge against environmental challenges that plants have faced through history.

But how a single system exhibits both the necessary precision and flexibility to achieve this — particularly in the face of developmental and environmental challenges — remained unclear,» said Richard Mann, PhD, principal investigator at Columbia's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute and the paper's senior author.

Spearheaded by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, findings from this study are published in the April 4 issue of Current Biology, which establishes that translin is an essential integrator of sleep and metabolic state, with important implications for understanding the neural mechanism underlying sleep deprivation in response to environmental challenges.

«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.

In a recent paper in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Shapira, who studies the gut microbes of the nematode C. elegans, reviews evidence that demonstrates how microbiotas affect and contribute to host evolution, either by evolving along with the host, or by stepping in at critical moments to help the host adapt to a new environmental challenge.

«These organisms are very good at living in difficult environmental conditions with limited carbon sources, so fighting them could become a challenging proposition.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

Wynne was the chief author of a joint report, Biodiversity Challenge, published by environmental groups at the end of last year, which proposed more than 500 targets for the conservation of species and habitats.

How to leverage this information is the challenge,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the U of I and the lead author on the research.

«With about a billion tonnes of water stored in ponds in Alberta, removing naphthenic acids is one of the largest environmental challenges in Canada,» said Tim Leshuk, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering at Waterloo.

Scientists at these sites increase the understanding of complex ecosystems and give society the knowledge and tools to address environmental challenges.

Research at EMSL, located on the PNNL campus, focuses principally on developing a molecular - level understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that underlie the nations» most critical environmental and energy challenges.

Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, challenged the findings.

Sponsors: DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Genomics: GTL program and Biogeochemistry Grand Challenge at PNNL.

With the Agreement now ratified and in force, the next challenge is actually meeting its ambition, says the study's lead author Dr Glen Peters, senior researcher at the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo (CICERO) and project manager of the Global Carbon Project.

He also led a Laboratory Objective at in the field of Chemical Imaging of Dynamic Systems aimed at developing unique capabilities addressing challenges in the materials, chemical, biological, and environmental sciences.

«With about a billion tonnes of water stored in ponds in Alberta, removing naphthenic acids is one of the largest environmental challenges in Canada,» says Tim Leshuk, a PhD candidate in chemical engineering at Waterloo and lead author of this paper.

«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.