Sentences with phrase «given global drive»

Not exact matches

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

The uncertainty created by a tumultuous global economy and uncertainty about the future means B2B buyers give extra attention to driving down costs and putting more pressure on reducing price whenever they can.

The 145 - year - old company also used the 8.8 festival to host a Super Brand Day promotion, which gives Sainsbury's top placement on Alibaba's e-commerce sites while driving traffic to its Tmall Global storefront.

Given that agriculture, along with the deforestation associated with it, drives 24 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, we are dependent upon farmers to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting climate change.

Bourbon gives YTD 2017 boost to Suntory's alcohol sales - results Suntory's Bourbon brands have driven YTD growth as strong global demand for Jim Beam and Maker's Mark continued.

Meeting young people starting out with career goals similar to my own has given me the courage and drive to keep exploring global food security as I continue my undergraduate degree.

This, combined with rising global demand for food «gives Australia a great opportunity to drive jobs and investment growth for the future,» he said.

This global effort seeks to shift public attention and awareness to the power of giving; to focus on sharing rather than consumer - driven holiday shopping.

«Understandably, the goal of national global competitiveness has given considerable impetus to the drive to raise educational standards,» it states.

On Monday, the Center for Public Integrity and open - governance group Global Integrity released the 2015 State Integrity Investigation, a comprehensive, data - driven assessment of the systems in place to deter corruption in state government, and gave New York a D - grade, a drop from the previous 2012 State Integrity Investigation, when New York received a D.

«This gives the global community great concern about the commitment of Nigeria to the anti-corruption drive.

While a strong El Niño has given global temperatures a boost, the bulk of that heat comes from the manmade global warming driven by increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

Driven by the belief that strong writing skills give voices to young people, Weinstein is building a vibrant global community where young voices can be heard on a diverse range of subjects.

The LC is the first car to be developed on Lexus» new front engine / rear - wheel drive Global Architecture — Luxury (GA - L) platform, which gives Lexus the ability to take design and performance to another level — fundamental to its future direction as more emotionally driven brand.

«Our decision to give this striking new sedan an unconventional name means it will stand out even further from the established crowd, driving Kia sales in what is a new segment of the global automotive market for Kia,» he added.

Although no reason was given for ending the program, the MPAA said «These repeat infringers are the ones who drive ongoing and problematic P2P piracy,» Steven Fabrizio, executive vice president and global general counsel at the MPAA, said in a statement.

3) Given the fall in global trade, export - driven nations are getting hit hard.

«Given that the ease of redeeming and earning points / miles are two the of the top three factors driving satisfaction across all hotel loyalty / rewards programs, it's important to recognize the power of perception when it comes to program benefits,» said Rick Garlick, global travel and hospitality practice lead at J.D. Power.

Their «Give Blood Today» campaign inspired a global blood drive in support of COG forces and wounded civilians.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Given continued assertions that human - driven global warming could be playing a role in the havoc down south, it's also worth revisiting something that Walker S. Ashley, a meteorologist at Northern Illinois University, said last week on Dot Earth:

I am very well aware and have previously blogged that there are multiple factors that determine the degree of ice lost any given year — but the literature is clear that even in 2007, global warming played «a large part» (see «What drove the dramatic retreat of arctic sea ice during summer 2007?

Updated, Feb. 8, 10:00 p.m. Given Florida's special vulnerability to rising seas and other consequences of human - driven global warming (which I first wrote about in 1988), it's not surprising that one of the first efforts to break the partisan impasse in the House around this issue has come from two lawmakers from the south end of that state — Republican Representative Carlos Curbelo and Representative Ted Deutch, a Democrat.

Given that multiple catastrophes driven partly if not entirely by anthropogenic global warming have already occurred, I don't see what is «imaginary» about it.

«It is a mystery that has given cover to forces arrayed against the reality of human - driven global warming.

Addressing the atmospheric concentrations of GHGs, Saudi Arabia cautioned against «giving policy makers the message that CO2 drives global warming» and further highlighted that not all CO2 emissions result from fossil fuel combustion.

Steve Fitzpatrick says: «It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.»

It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.

BONN, Germany — The Trump administration made its debut at a United Nations conference on climate change on Monday by giving a full - throated defense of fossil fuels and nuclear energy as answers to driving down global greenhouse gas emissions.

Tax records show that the Mercers have given a little over $ 19 million to a variety of conservative groups, including at least three that reject the scientific consensus around fossil fuel - driven climate change: the Heartland Institute in Illinois, as well as the CO2 Alliance and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.

Global warming may make the world's inhabitants cranky and stressed, drive them crazy, give them cancer and even worsen their suffering from sexual dysfunction, according to a new government report on climate change — but the scientists say more money is needed before they can be certain.

I believe the IPCC plans all call for a black box solution where we develop a technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or ocean to drive the CO2 levels or to at least slow the rise of CO2 and give us more time to make fundamental changes in the way we live to limit global warming to some arbitrary level.