Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges identified»

NEON is designed to enable the research community to ask and address their own questions on a regional to continental scale around the environmental challenges identified as relevant to understanding the effects of climate change, land - use change and invasive species patterns on the biosphere.

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Cherokee Challenge Startup competition and accelerator designed to identify, fund and develop high impact environmental business ventures

But Creating Shared Value is more than this, it about identifying the environmental and social challenges where our business and society intersect, as it is these challenges that we can most substantively help to address.

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.

Their work, which links ancient climate and archaeological data, could help modern communities identify new crops and other adaptive strategies when threatened by drought, extreme weather and other environmental challenges.

To address the challenge of identifying the majority of such «specialized metabolites» in any given plant, Dr. Nir Shahaf and other members of a team headed by Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann's Plant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called WeizMass.

The paper assesses these existing and emerging opportunities in the deep sea and identifies future deep - sea research priorities needed to address societal, environmental and governance challenges.

Now researchers face the challenge of identifying specific environmental triggers.

The team recently received second place in Harvard's President's Innovation Challenge, which identifies and promotes promising technology enterprises that have the potential for significant societal and environmental impacts.

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.

Putnam's Sustainable Investing team identifies opportunities for investing in the most effective solutions to challenges in corporate environmental, social, governance (ESG), and sustainability practices.

Media have a role to play in identifying at - risk communities, launching early reporting on environmental challenges that affect these communities, and holding local authorities accountable before crises reach Flint's or Standing Rock's magnitude.

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

Beginning in 1996, a small group of leaders from forest industry, donors, and environmental groups began to meet to consider the array of challenges facing forest conservation and began to identify common ground.

We emphasize the complexities of these types of relationships to: (1) recognize the heterogeneity of gendered and generational perspectives within and across communities, (2) acknowledge the possibilities of productive discussions that place diverse ontological and epistemological conceptualizations of human - environmental dynamics together, (3) challenge top - down solutions, institutional norms, and bureaucratic restrictions that may serve as barriers to best practices, and (4) identify multimedia and internet - based outputs that can serve both local and researcher constituents.

We identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends.

As in previous Integrated Energy Policy Report proceedings, the Committee recognizes that close coordination with federal, state, and local agencies is essential to adequately identify and address critical energy infrastructure needs and related environmental challenges.

Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food and farming.

In more recent times, the Native Title Report has led the way in identifying environmental challenges that will increasingly threaten our ability to exercise our rights.