Sentences with phrase «environmental challenges of today»

Part co-working space, part accelerator and part social lab, its mission is to foster and accelerate the impact of an ambitious community of business people and citizens whose vision is to solve together the economic, social and environmental challenges of today.

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MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

With the size and complexity of many of today's most pressing social and environmental problems, governments and communities struggle to overcome the challenges we face.

TORONTO, Dec. 12, 2014 — MaRS and Virgin Unite Canada, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, announced today that they have joined forces to support Canadian entrepreneurs tackling social and environmental challenges.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), as part of a coalition of food, farm and oil industry groups, filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court asking that it reverse the DC Circuit Court's August 2012 decision to dismiss its challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent ethanol («E15») to be sold for cars manufactured in the 2007 model year or later.

We are going to need their innovation and creative problem - solving to help solve the multitude of environmental challenges facing us today and in the future.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

In fact, recycling, reusing and using raw materials from the waste we generate are some of the environmental challenge that we face today.

With the backdrop of massive peat land fires sending carbon into the atmosphere and the fast - approaching U.N. climate talks, environmental advocates expect today's visit between Indonesian President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo and President Obama to touch on climate change and deforestation challenges.

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.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

The Network of Early - career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers (NESSE) is a global interdisciplinary support network of early - career scientists who are striving to tackle today's environmental and energy challenges and help the move towards a more sustainable future.

Today, Saturday 22nd April, is Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet earth.

Since 1983 our team of the nation's finest environmental scientists have built national and global networks to investigate the complex interactions that underpin many of today's environmental challenges.

Great innovation has purpose behind it and what better purpose than to solve some of the significant social and environmental challenges we face today.

«The Volt is symbolic of GM's strong commitment to the future... just the kind of technology innovation that our industry needs to respond to today's and tomorrow's energy and environmental challenges.»

It also challenges visitors to engage with environmental issues and consider the land as a space of conquest, exploration, and contemplation — issues still very pertinent today.

Intrigued that a mixture of land and liquid in a perlemoen shell can speak of who we were as a species at a crucial stage in our evolution, Parton explores what paint is today and what it may tell to those in the future about us, as we stand at the cusp of an environmental challenge that will determine our legacy.

This curated exhibition of new work by our current 3D Design students will explore how today's most pressing challenges — such as social and economic inequalities, rampant material consumption, and environmental degradation — can become subjects for critical and poetic reflection in design objects.

Today I'd like to focus on just one of those challenges, and among environmental dangers it is surely the most serious of all.

One of the great challenges in assessing the meaning of changes in Arctic climate and other environmental conditions is putting today's observations in long - term context.

... [T] o help in resolving what is possibly the most serious challenge the world faces today: the intensifying conflict between the indispensable goals of environmental protection and economic development.

IER maintains that freely - functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well - being of individuals and society.

PENN TODAY — KCEP Senior Fellow Steve Viscelli talks safety, economic implications, and environmental challenges of driverless trucks.

Climate change is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing society today.

«The report found that the Russian - sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russia Today) «r [an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,» which «is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies»] profitability.

Business leaders today are faced with the challenge of modest economic recovery while trying to manage the triple bottom line of financial, social, and environmental sustainability.

Students in our program want to be part of the solution to the environmental challenges we face today and in the future; they seek to gain skills and knowledge that will allow them to become leaders in innovations for sustainable living.

The study by Heartland Institute, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) says «mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.»

Today, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA), an early adopter of the 2030 Challenge for Products, published a comprehensive set of industry average environmental impacts, including GHG emissions, for concrete.

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»

This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress and economic instability?

Antarctica Today and Tomorrow will address the environmental challenges facing Antarctica and the Southern Ocean and discuss the opportunity posed by the creation of an East Antarctic Marine Protected Area.

Given his appointment of Scott Pruitt as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- a man with a long history of challenging health - based environmental regulations in court - President Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order, released today, is noEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA)- a man with a long history of challenging health - based environmental regulations in court - President Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order, released today, is noenvironmental regulations in court - President Trump's Energy Independence Executive Order, released today, is not unexpected.

May further called plastic pollution «one of the most significant environmental challenges facing the world today.»

Today, shale drillers face a perfect storm of economic challenges, environmental headaches, and stiff competition from the wind sector and other forms of renewable energy.

Together, we are helping more and more businesses meet the corporate sustainability goals of today while helping solve tomorrow's biggest environmental challenges.

And while it's hard not to detect a slight smell of cheese throughout, by splicing in real - life news reports of oil spills, air pollution, and scenes of climate change, it seems that such a revamping of the 20 - year - old television show would actually be quite relevant in light of the environmental challenges we face today.