Sentences with phrase «for global progress»

The show, curated by Sixty Eight founder Iben Bach Elmstrom and curator, writer and Base for Active Knowledge (BAK) editor Tom Clark, takes frustration as the fertile ground for artistic growth, «at the entrenched ideologies, local specificities, and claims for global progress that bind the everyday».

The achievable imperative for global progress.

Not exact matches

According to the WEF's most recent Global Gender Gap report on economic opportunity for women, Saudi Arabia ranks 137th of 142 countries — despite all that recent progress.

LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

The agreement aims to hold global warming to «well below» two degrees Celsius from the levels of the Industrial Revolution, and puts in place a system for tracking efforts to cut carbon emissions and report on progress every five years.

«Broadly, China is making progress in controlling its debt in various parts of the economy,» said Christopher Lee, managing director in the corporate ratings group and chief ratings officer for Greater China at S&P Global Ratings.

Furthermore, there are opportunities for progress on the structural side in terms of both trade and productivity if conditions permit another wave of global integration.

Ongoing structural reforms in emerging markets generally, and specifically in China, appear to be making good progress, which we see as a big plus for global growth.

As the year progressed, the consensus abandoned talk of «secular stagnation» for a new catchphrase: «global synchronous growth.»

What made him shift his focus to climate issues was the state of global climate: «I think it's really important for us to understand how serious the stakes are now given we've made no progress on this for the last 20 years.

His understanding of the project evaluation and credit assessment process undertaken by the global resource banks will add significant value to the strategies for progressing the company's project pipeline.

In charge of global monitoring, progress checks, evaluation and feedback for the projects in terms of their business development.

Airbnb Citizen advocates for progress by working together with our global community.

Progress on global energy goals slow, but strong gains in countries show promise The world is not on track to meet the global energy targets for 2030 set as part of the Sustainable Development Goals 2 May 2018

In Myanmar, Asia's odd man out and a global pariah for decades, small signs of progress mean a lot.

From September 15 — 17, 2017, Canada 2020 hosted Global Progress 2017 in Montreal, Canada for the second consecutive year.

The Global Progress 2017 Summit to feature Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Philippe Couillard, Arianna Huffington, John Podesta, Maria Elena Boschi, Reid Hoffman, Helle Thorning Schmidt, David Milliband and more at gathering hosted by Canada 2020 in partnership with the Center for American Progress, Policy Network and Volta Italia.

TORONTO, April 23, 2014 - Pension assets rose for a third successive quarter as global financial markets continued to progress during the first quarter, according to the latest survey from RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

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.

It is a condition for progress in international law and the indispensable regulation of economic, social and political relations at the global level, particularly in the fields of financial capital, taxation, migration, information and disarmament.

In any case, since anything that helps «social progress» (as they define it) is eligible for their concern, I guess they can talk about global warming, too.

These numbers from the Living Proof Project show the progress being made for global health — and how far we still have to go.

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Since its initial report in 2011, the committee has monitored global progress on food and nutrition security issues and explored three aspects in greater depth — the role of technology and innovation in agriculture, opportunities for advancing nutrition security, and the need for environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable agricultural systems.

However, there is a need for progress to meet tomorrow's agricultural, environmental and societal challenges, to be vital for public health and wellbeing and to have a major impact on global food systems.

Oyinlola Oyebode, Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School, discusses the global progress made but calls for further action to combat childhood obesity.

The Dairy Sustainability Framework (DSF) has announced the launch of five further global indicators for public reporting of the industry's progress under its 11 sustainability criteria.

The California contingency — collaborating in a premier spot in the center of the exhibition floor — expressed excitement for the first day's progress and the week ahead, with high expectations to meet their global business objectives in Bordeaux.

«Becoming a member of SAI Platform and AIM PROGRESS is an important step for us in working towards sustainability in our supply chains, particularly in sugar and dairy products», commented Massimo Selmo, Head of Global Sourcing at the Barry Callebaut Group.

Meanwhile, global businesses have also called for the simplification of food labels in order to make progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal of halving food waste by 2030.

This year World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) focuses on the progress that has been made on the implementation of the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (GSIYCF) which was adopted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF ten years ago.

It explains, «The ATNI produced a scorecard for 25 global companies according to their policies, practices and progress in seven areas.»

This initiative assesses governments against progress in implementing the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding.

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To improve maternal, infant and young child nutrition WHO's Member States have endorsed global targets for improving maternal, infant and young child nutrition and are committed to monitoring progress.

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Companies have been excluded for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these reports are posted to the Global Compact site even when they are misleading (as in the case of Nestlé), they are of little value in any case.

Companies have been delisted for failing to provide Communications on Progress, but as these are posted to the Global Compact website even if proven to be misleading, as in the case of Nestlé, they only serve a public relations purpose, says Baby Milk Action.

Sex Positions The MSI Partnership, in collaboration with Interact Worldwide, has launched a campaign to put pressure on the UK government to take the lead in ensuring that the international donor community fulfils promises made a decade ago to support global efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health and rights for all by 2015; and to lead opposition to those political and ideological forces in the USA, Europe and elsewhere that are actively seeking to undermine and even reverse progress made in the last decade.

Supporting commercial lines businesses Progress on fixed fees for costs of noise - induced hearing loss claims Support for fair compensation for mesothelioma sufferers Expansion of the Insurance Fraud Bureau's scope to commercial liability Campaigning for solutions fit for our future Our Flood Free Homes campaign Forward thinking policy for data and cyber Engaging Government to support the role of income protection Delivery of Flood Re, a world first solution for affordable flood cover Fighting fraud Partnering with Government on the Insurance Fraud Taskforce Renewing the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department Securing new insurer access to the DVLA registered owners database Influencing sensible regulation On Solvency II, we: Secured changes to secondary legislation Clarified treatment of deferred tax Negotiated a favourable calibration of the EIOPA's fundamental spread Supporting insurance businesses Pushing for sensible development of global capital standards Securing better targeted tax legislation Managing the impact of international financial reporting standards.

«Those have outsized global warming effects and also outsized human health effects,» said John Podesta, chairman of the Center for American Progress.

As former lead of the World Bank's global program for fisheries and aquaculture, he said these indicators could be very useful for institutions like the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and nongovernmental organizations that fund projects on fisheries reform in developing countries to monitor and evaluate progress.

Writing in a linked Comment, Professor Peter Byass, Umeå Centre for Global Health Research says «Undoubtedly child mortality is falling, and the world should be proud of this progress» but he adds»... Of the estimated six million under - 5 child deaths in 2015, only a small proportion were adequately documented at the individual level, with particularly low proportions evident in low - income and middle - income countries, where most childhood deaths occur... That six million under - 5 children continue to die every year in our 21st century world is unacceptable, but even worse is that we seem collectively unable to count, and hence be accountable for, most of those individual deaths.»

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The Aichi targets are part of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011 - 2020, adopted under the CBD, to assess progress in halting global biodiversity loss.

For this survey of global health, Science has joined forces with Science Translational Medicine, which examines vaccine development, strategies against emerging infections, progress in point - of - care diagnostics, and ways to promote mental health and neonatal health.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

On the eve of the international AIDS conference that begins in Vienna this Sunday, UNAIDS unveiled its Outlook report with a new vision for how to make more global progress against HIV.

Redistributing wealth is the only reality that global warming has, make the industrial nations pay for their progress, god I hate the UN

But the global market that is moving technology forward will not take the benefits of technological progress for poor people and poor countries into consideration; on the contrary, it is likely to ignore them, if only because they do not constitute a market.