«The EPA Administrator has issued a clarion call that the pressing
environmental issues of our times, especially the changing climate, must be engaged and engaged now,» said Tepper, who noted that all of Mass Audubon's work is now viewed through the lens of a warming planet.
Both exhibitions address our collective need to formulate effective and attainable solutions to the pressing sociopolitical, cultural, economic, and
environmental issues of our time.
This reflects, perhaps, the deeper challenge facing those trying to make global warming the single - topic
environmental issue of our time.
The conference aims to bring all of civil society together to discuss how we are going to address the most pressing human and
environmental issues of our time.
The climate crisis with its urgency of climate action is the most important
environmental issue of our time.
«Most scientists now regard anthropogenic (human - caused) global climate change to be the most important
environmental issue of our times.»
Climate change is the biggest and most controversial
environmental issue of our times.
DiCaprio said in a statement about his latest campaign, «Raising awareness on the most pressing
environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.»
There's a lot more info backed behind all those links above, and the state of the world's forests and how to preserve them is right up near the top of the critical and complex
environmental issues of our time.
Not exact matches
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.
ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics
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of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics
of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV
Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric
Time Series, EUR Microeconomics European
Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics
of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy
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of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics
of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV
Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric
Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European
Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics
of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy
of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics
of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology
of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.
Examples
of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact
of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels
of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility
of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions
of these conditions that decrease the level
of disposable income
of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security
of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts
of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread
of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment
of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount
of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion
of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability
of our creditors to accelerate the repayment
of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss
of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price
of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different
times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation
issues; the continued availability
of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and
environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
As we explore these
issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling
of cosmic exile and therefore to our
environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling
of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding
of religion centering on the notion
of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same
time allow us to embrace the feeling
of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.
«Keystone has never been a significant
issue from an
environmental point
of view in substance, only in symbol,» said David Goldwyn, an energy market analyst and a former head
of the State Department's energy bureau in the Obama administration, told The New York
Times.
For the first
time in Australia, state elections in Tasmania in 1989 brought five «Greens» into parliament, which resulted in them having the balance
of power with the prospect
of a major change in direction in
environmental issues in that state.
A decision to calculate the water footprint
of a product is a conscious decision to focus on one
environmental issue at a
time.
The Prince, a passionate advocate
of environmental issues, met ministers at the Department for Energy and Climate Change seven
times and those at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs five
times, the Mail newspaper reported.
In the UK, a study by Loughborough University found that during the Brexit referendum, television news bulletins in the six - week period in May and June dedicated no
time at all to
environmental issues — despite the fact that much
of UK environment policy is determined by the EU.
Cortland and Onondaga County lawmakers are expected to
issue a final vote on the
environmental impact
of the project in early June after that
time they can consider the contract.
She has led the way on the major
issues of our
time, from
environmental preservation to women's rights to attracting 21st century jobs in cutting edge industries like photonics.
Just last month, Department
of Environmental Protection electrical engineer Magdy Youssef was forced to resign after he used a city -
issued vehicle to run personal errands and commute home 19
times over four months in 2016.
He lingered on the
issue in a speech filled with snap references to national priorities, devoting more
time to the interwoven policies
of climate, energy and
environmental hazards than to war, deficits and immigration.
They also recommend conducting more research on the complex
issues that connect the use
of women's
time,
environmental degradation and competition for agricultural nutrients.
In 2004, at 29, Bromley entered graduate school at the University
of Maryland, College Park, to research socioeconomic and
environmental issues using GIS tools, while keeping his full -
time job.
A new study appearing in the June 15
issue of Environmental Science & Technology reveals that droppings from the marsh's seagulls are at least one major source
of potentially hazardous bacteria that has been hitting the beachsometimes at levels thousands
of times above the legal limit.
So, on a lot
of these
issues,
time is not on your side because [
environmental problems] can get, if not beyond repair, increasingly hard to repair.
There is still, however, a need for more research on the
issue, as the risk can be influenced by the
time of the treatment and other factors, reasons Karin Leander, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute
of Environmental Medicine.
«The study raises an important
issue, how climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment
of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the
time to be stably isolated,» Daniel Hirsch, director
of the Program on
Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University
of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email.
February 2, 2006 Gene variation increases SIDS risk in African Americans About five percent
of deaths from SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) in African Americans can be traced to defects in one gene, and half
of those deaths result from a common genetic variation that increases an infant's risk
of developing an abnormal heart rhythm during
times of environmental stress, a research team based at the University
of Chicago reports in the February 2006,
issue of the Journal
of Clinical Investigation.
«At the same
time, we need to give all students a coherent view
of the processes
of life so that they'll understand
issues in their own lives and communities —
issues like health,
environmental protection, and biosecurity.»
We live in convulsed
times in terms
of environmental depletion, violence and diseases; and we young scientist are called to help to address all these
issues and pursue for a better world.
The imbalances that created your digestive health
issues have been created over
time by
issues like stress, poor diet, antibiotics, lack
of exercise, allergies, yeast, fatty acid deficiencies,
environmental toxins, and more.
The Prince
of Wales, a veteran
environmental campaigner, has been aware
of issues around synthetic fibres for a long
time.
THE EPOCH
TIMES — Aug 23 — Dating service Kisscafe was created to «attract and inform» a large network
of people on
environmental issues.
I think that documentaries on
environmental issues are mostly a waste
of time the same people watch them.
Each unit pack includes: - 7 engaging lesson plans (one for each 10 - word section, plus a revision / sentence - building lesson for the end
of the unit), written by qualified teachers and covering all 4 key skills - Ideas for adapting each lesson to suit your class, including extension activities, suggestions for differentiation, homework activities and substitutions for low - tech classrooms - Full
timings and guidance for teachers to help you access all the resources easily - Printable resources to complement the lessons and save you
time This unit pack is for Languagenut's Unit 23 - The environment, covering
environmental issues, recycling, pollution, energy and ordinal numbrs.
Firstly, the one key lesson that I've seen
time and
time again throughout all
of our projects is that the most effective way to engage and excite children about
environmental issues like energy saving is to allow them to take the lead.
An annual celebration
of Earth Day should not be the only
time during the school year when you devote significant classroom
time to exploring
issues of environmental awareness and stewardship.
Many children are spending less and less
time outdoors; this in turn leads to a reduced affinity with nature and, ultimately, disengagement from
environmental issues and a lack
of appreciation for biodiversity.
«First -
time luxury buyers tend to place a high value on exterior styling, affordability and
environmental issues, and that's what we have created with the new Acura ILX,» commented Jon Ikeda, Chief
of the Acura Design Studio.
She has nineteen years
of experience covering
environmental issues, including fifteen years at the Los Angeles
Times.
Today marks the 42nd annual Earth Day, which is a
time for each
of us to help our planet and raise awareness for
environmental issues.
The Wall Street Journal reported that in 2014 «
environmental and social
issues have accounted for 56 %
of shareholder proposals, representing a majority for the first
time.»
In this context, Brits appear to have become slightly less aware
of the
issues while away — 79 % said they consider
environmental issues during their holiday compared with 81 % last
time.
Her videos and installations explore the intersection between reality, perception, technology and
time, as an investigation for finding new ways
of seeing that innovatively address some
of the current socio - cultural and
environmental issues.
At this significant
time of commemoration and self - reflection in Ireland, these artists» practices engage in profound ways with different publics in exploring pressing social, political and
environmental issues current in 21st century Ireland.
«It is a total environment that acts as a broadcasting tower for the
issues of our
time — the ethical and aesthetic questions that frame this moment, those
of human,
environmental, and social entropy — and does so in a way that is immersive, making the viewer a fully participatory protagonist
of the work.»
To my satisfaction, the
Times published my letter to the editor on this (responding to the «Eco-tecture»
issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism
of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff
of the sacrifice or changes in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters
of the
environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff»
of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definition).
A larger mystery than either missing carbon or the influence
of clouds / water vapor on climate change models is why the physical and life science community and the (in theory) science - based climate change advocates have not taken the
time to adequately consult the evidence or experts (albeit exceptions certainly do exist) on communication about
environmental issues, risk, or
environmental and health literacy.