Sentences with phrase «for societal impact»

Sustainable investing has gone mainstream, where it is gaining momentum as a financial force for societal impact.

However, evidence for societal impacts are tied to drought on ancient civilisations is much stronger — the ancient «Curse of Akkad» describing the droughts affecting the Akkadian Empire; the Mayan collapse etc. — and this is well brought out in the text.

Not exact matches

Still, with $ 6.3 trillion under management, BlackRock's call for companies to do a better job explaining not only their financial performance, but also the societal impact of their business, is a welcome one.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

Experts say that's because millennials may be more interested than older generations in societal impact — and agrihoods are designed to help them do good for the environment and their community.

«Societal stereotypes driving these gendered listings could be having a knock - on effect for the next generation of engineers, especially girls, impacting their future career choices,» the IET warns, according to The Guardian's write - up of the report.

One proposal was for a report detailing policies and goals to reduce any gender pay gap at Alphabet; another was for Alphabet to study the societal impact of hate speech and fake news enabled by Google's platforms.

A 6 month voluntary position with the UN became a 4 - year mission and, in December 2015, Simon and his team were awarded the prestigious United Nations Global Innovation Challenge Award, for the initiative with the greatest «disruptive potential» for far - reaching societal change (creating a tangible impact towards eradicating global hunger and saving millions of lives every year.)

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.

Getting there requires convincing less conscious consumers that they can have their cake and eat it, too (drive positive change and indulge their needs), and helping them learn how to choice - edit for the best personal, planetary and societal impact.

Our belief is that it is absolutely crucial for kids to start their day with a nutritious breakfast; crucial to key, long - term societal impact.

We have a world - class reputation for research excellence and are spearheading three major societal challenges that have a significant impact on global society.

The liberals, as the term is applied in these United States, put forth gun control as a treatment for the impacts of other societal ills.

Indeed, the damage resulting from impairment of drinking water services would seriously impact the quality of life of many people not only by directly harming them but also making water systems unusable for a long period of time with a risk of societal disorder (similar situation as with any accidental contamination events or natural disasters).»

The societal impact of this saddle accoutrement has intrigued historians for decades.

Rogers is an alum of Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs), which in its heyday was renowned for turning scientific research into engineering applications with a broad societal impact.

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

Genuinely acknowledging and rewarding these other key impact factors, such as societal engagement, teaching excellence, and input and deliberation at key meetings and conference participation could go a long way toward balancing the demands of academic output to publish alone, thus lessening the pressure to spend endless weekends and vacation time writing for quantity rather than quality.

We suggest these observations will have therapeutic implications for skeletal myopathies and systemic diseases such as diabetes and obesity and for the aged population, in which reduced endurance impacts mortality and activities of daily living (57); as well as societal implications in terms of altering athletic performance.

To meet these needs, the new Climate Services for Resilient Development partnership will harness the experience, unique capabilities, and resources of a broader set of societal actors and institutions, relying on collaboration between the partners and local stakeholders to ensure long - term ownership and sustainability of the partnership's impact in focus countries.

Modelling the impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is important for societal preparedness.

He has dedicated his public health career to service, volunteering and advocating for range of global, national and regional causes impacting on health, education, housing, among other societal issues and has mentored a large number of future public health professionals.

Her work has led to advances in understanding the ethical aspects of physical and mental illness research, societal implications for genetic innovation, the role of stigma in health disparities, the impact of medical student and physician health issues and optimal approaches to fostering professionalism in medicine.

Support excellent research with strong potential for delivering economic and / or societal impact

According to a National Research Council Report (See «Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts: A Workshop Report» [2008]-RRB-, damages from the most extreme solar storms could range between $ 1 trillion - $ 2 trillion within the first year and four to 10 years for full recovery.

Societal responses and underlying vulnerabilities will largely determine how severe these impacts will be for any given population.

To be eligible for funding through the IvP 2016 call, all proposals must be aligned to SFI's legal remit and must also either be aligned to one of the 14 priority research areas (see below) or to any other research area where there is convincing evidence that there will be significant potential for economic and / or societal impact in Ireland.

Where we still have a lot of uncertainties is on what the biological consequences will be and since we do not know exactly the impact for some organisms, it is difficult to estimate the biogeochemical and societal impact.

For this Programme, scientific excellence is both necessary and paramount but is not sufficient in isolation; applications must also be able to clearly articulate the potential for economic and societal impaFor this Programme, scientific excellence is both necessary and paramount but is not sufficient in isolation; applications must also be able to clearly articulate the potential for economic and societal impafor economic and societal impact.

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.

This latest study, conducted by researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the City University of New York (CUNY), highlights the importance of considering societal changes when trying to determine future climate impacts.

In this webinar, join California Secretary of Education Dave Long and a pair of leading environmental experts for an examination of effective green policies and actions you can take today to deliver a positive economic, ecological, and societal impact for your students and schools.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

For the third priority, discipline guidance, Bradley explains the societal impact of the disproportionately high suspension and dropout rates among poor and minority students.

Extensive Federal requirements and guidance call for transportation planners to evaluate potential economic, community, and environmental impacts of transportation programs; examine past trends and future projections for travel demand for people, goods, and information; and address societal issues such as community values and goals.

Curator Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico City) developed the concept for Manifesta 9, addressing the social and societal impact of the recent past in Limburg.

The transformative impacts of societal change have opened new, transcultural, possibilities for female artists working today.

In these times of diversity and multicultural experience, the artist's image is both a cypher for the human condition as well as the foundation for complex iconography in which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individual.

Specific examples of additional impacts include a reduction in capital equipment acquisitions across the entire lab with computing alone sliding from $ 7 million to $ 3 million, the elimination of NCAR's lidar research facility as well as the extra-solar planet program, delays in computer modeling and prediction efforts for both weather and climate, reductions in the solar coronal observing program, a reduction in the number of post doctoral appointments, reduction of the societal impacts program, and widespread deferred maintenance and delays in equipment and instrument acquisition and replacement.

But my belief is that these actions push and promote the idea that we should not take things for granted, which on a societal level does have an impact.»

Here's a small snippet in which Henk - Jan Brinkman, senior adviser for economic policy at the World Food Program, describes how even a short food shock can create long - lasting societal and economic impacts.

When the UNEP - led Partnership for Clean Fuel and Vehicles (PFCV)-- with the involvement of car manufacturers, car manufacturer associations and petrol corporations — launched in 2002, about half of the world's countries still used leaded petrol, causing massive health and societal impacts.

Extreme rainfall events have important societal impacts: for example, by causing flooding, replenishing reservoirs, and affecting agricultural yields.

To meet urgent societal needs for useful information on sea level, WCRP has implemented the theme «Sea Level Rise and Regional Impacts», as one of its cross-cutting science questions, or Grand Challenges (GC), involving a cross section of core projects and working groups.

After a community - wide review, the SSC carefully considered all review comments to revise the Science Plan for publication.pecific Research Challenges that emphasize strengthened ties to the broader Earth science community and relevance to societal impacts.

It underscores the critical impact of societal changes on forests, particularly demographic changes, globalization and increasing demand for food, fiber and fuel.

Otherwise, we should use the reanalyeses for these impact studies, with, as one set of applications, perturbations prescribed in the impact models to assess at what level of change in climate statistics would result in a negative threshold being crossed in one or more key societal and / or environmental resources.

Modelling exercises can shed lights on the Earth System impacts of different farming systems and on the prospects for smallholder farming evolution under global societal and environmental change.

Climate services are boundary organizations that provide and facilitate knowledge about climate, climate change and climate impacts for planning, decision making and general societal understanding of the climate system.

Societal decision making also accounts for equity — who gains and who loses — and for the impacts of the measures on other factors that are not represented in monetary terms.