Sentences with phrase «for global development»

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Duncan Weston, CMS Executive for Global Development who also runs CMS» Graduate Recruitment programme in the UK, said:

And this growth looks set to continue, with former CMS Cameron McKenna managing partner Duncan Weston — now executive partner for global development — leading the firm's search for a tie - up in China.

Duncan Weston will retain his post as CMS executive partner for global development, with all three sitting as part of a seven - strong leadership committee that also includes the leaders of Olswang and Nabarro.

Participants in the webinars examined frameworks for global development goals and connections to health indicators, the role for health in the context of novel sustainable economic frameworks that go beyond gross domestic product, and scenarios to project climate change impacts and health outcomes.

WASHINGTON — According to a report released this week by the Center for Global Development, climate change, the popular mid-2000s issue that raised awareness of the fact that the earth's continuous rise in temperature will have catastrophic ecological effects, has apparently not been resolved, and may still be a problem.

Todd Moss is vice president for programs and senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

This post was originally published on the Center for Global Development blog.

In a new paper commissioned by the Center for Global Development, Breakthrough Institute analysts tackled the question of whether nuclear energy has a future in sub-Saharan Africa.

A recent analysis from the Center for Global Development, for instance, estimates that if $ 10 billion were invested in renewable energy technology in sub-Saharan Africa, then 30 million would gain access to electricity.

India, Pakistan, most of Africa and most of Latin America would be the areas most affected, according to the Washington - based Center for Global Development and the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

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The latter session was led by Richard with Frances Seymour from the Center for Global Development.

A recent report by the Center for Global Development finds that 60 million more Africans would gain electricity if the same $ 10 billion were invested in natural gas and not just renewables like solar.

A recent analysis from the Centre for Global Development shows that $ 10 billion invested in such renewables would help lift 20 million people in Africa out of poverty.

Insurance programs, social protection measures, and disaster risk management may enhance long - term livelihood resilience among poor and marginalized people, if policies address poverty and multidimensional inequalities [Center for Global Development, 4/1/14]

Any reasonable scenario for global development over the next century is likely to project technological change, which as we have seen in the past century would likely include changes in energy creation and consumption technologies, as well as the propagation of the kind of normal environmental policies that we have seen in the developed world in the past century, such as control of sulfur pollution.

The Center for Global Development is a US non-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on international development.

To wit: Recently, the natural gas enthusiasts at the Center for Global Development argued that the U.S. government's development finance agency, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), should make more investments in natural gas plants.

«A new paper by Todd Moss and Ben Leo from the nonprofit think tank, Center for Global Development, puts it very clearly.

The following is an abridged version of the Atoms for Africa report published last week by the Center for Global Development and co-authored by Abigail Sah, Jessica Lovering, Omaro Maseli and Aishwarya Saxena.

Here at the Center for Global Development we're concerned with how the practices of rich countries affect developing countries.

Our withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol and our record of having one of the world's highest per - capita GHG emissions gave us the dubious distinction of being the only country in the Centre for Global Development's rankings to have gone down since it first started tracking them in 2003.

Michele de Nevers is a Senior Associate at the Center for Global Development specializing in climate finance issues.

, while the U.S. Center for Global Development put Canada dead last in its ranking of the environmental records of the world's 27 richest nations.

Rachel also serves as Chair of the Breakthrough Advisory Board, co-chair of the Clean Energy Program at Third Way, and is a board member of the Center for Global Development.

It provides an outlook for global development and carbon emissions for the 21st century under current policy, including the pledges that were made for the Paris Climate Conference in December.

Global Witness was co-nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for its leading work on conflict diamonds and awarded the 2007 Commitment to Development Ideas in Action Award, sponsored jointly by Washington DC based Center for Global Development and Foreign Policy magazine.

That's the most powerful macroeconomic lever we know for global development; yet few finance ministers have ever heard of it.

After reading the story on the World Bank report, I sought more input from Kenny, who among other things is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, and here's his «Your Dot» contribution:

Read this Center for Global Development paper, «The Pentagon and Global Development,» for some background.

Per a recent study by the Center for Global Development, if all the rich countries like Canada stopped all their emissions tomorrow, «rising carbon emissions from developing countries would threaten the world with severe climate change within a single generation».

The site, created by the nonprofit Center for Global Development, is billed as «the world's best place for power - plant voyeurism.»

Number one is Southern Co., which annually releases 172 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, according to the first - ever inventory of the world's 50,000 power stations, conducted by the Centre for Global Development, a Washington - based policy think tank.

The Centre for Global Development and Innovations for Poverty Action report evidenced that across all providers there was a 60 % increase in learning gains when compared to non-PSL schools.

The much - anticipated, midline analysis by the Center for Global Development and Innovations for Poverty Action ranked Bridge student performance best among all eight PSL partners.

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Education for Global Development.

This represents a significant opportunity for the global development community to shape the future of their work in improving the lives of the world's poorest people.

- William Easterly is a senior fellow at the Washington, D.C. - based Center for Global Development and Institute for International Economics and the author of The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists» Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (MIT Press, 2001).

Under the terms of the January 2012 agreement, Isis is responsible for global development and Biogen Idec has the option to license the compound until completion of the first successful Phase 2/3 trial.

Background: The OAD was established in 2011 as a project of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as part of their decadal strategic plan to use astronomy for global development, with a special focus on Africa.

While this can make it more difficult to bring new inventions to international markets, the statement says, the opportunities created by the regional environment in Japan and China provide valuable lessons for the global development of this field.

«To follow through on these announcements would be a big deal,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest policy.

In a report commissioned by US think - tank Center for Global Development (CGD) Martin Persson and colleagues in Linköping, Sweden, and Vienna, Austria, have investigated to which extent international trade in agricultural and silvicultural products drives deforestation in seven case countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

In one sign of the change, the Center for Global Development, an influential Washington, D.C. - based think tank, has convened a panel of economists, consultants and representatives from industry and public health to make recommendations for forecasting practices.

The Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA) tool produced by the Center for Global Development, updated and released this week, shows that seven of the world's 10 dirtiest power plants are in Asia — though none in China.

«There really is something special about indigenous people's management of forests,» agrees Jonah Busch, an economist at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the analysis.