Sentences with phrase «global agenda setting»
The next three years, 2013 to 2015, will demonstrate another circus of UN global agenda setting and reactions from the civil society and rest of the stakeholders.
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(i) Does the concerted, global regulatory reform agenda mean that there is now more scope than in the past for sound risk management practices to be set up prior to full liberalisation?
He hopes to use his week - long trip to Chile and Peru to put the issue on the global agenda and set the stage for a church meeting next year on the Amazon and the people who live there.
In global climate change research in particular, natural scientists still tend to set the research agenda, and social scientists are often involved only after the natural scientists «have analyzed a process and come up with solutions, and need social scientists to help sell those solutions to society,» Hackmann said.
The first includes those that put a higher value on cities based on economic - financial prowess, and strong global agenda - setting power in political and cultural matters.
LONDON, United Kingdom — Despite this city's reputation as a world - class incubator for emerging fashion talent, London designers capable of channelling agenda - setting creativity into viable, global businesses are rare.
The 1977 Tbilisi Declaration established a framework for formal and non-formal EE activities at the local, national, and international levels and provided «fundamental principles for the proposals» in Agenda 21 and a set of other documents and global initiatives that followed.
In 2015, building on the experience of the Millennium Development Goals, States will craft a new and ambitious global development agenda and set action - oriented Sustainable Development Goals.
The science was sometimes squishy, the curriculum often felt driven by those trying to set a moral agenda, and schools had too much else to do, like close the academic gap between high - and low - income kids, and the skills gap between US kids and some of their global counterparts.
(Repeats story which ran earlier on Thursday without changes to text) By Nathan Layne and Thomas Wilson WASHINGTON / TOKYO, April 30 (Reuters)- In the 1980s when Sony and Toshiba were setting the agenda in the global TV and memory chip markets Japan was bristling with confidence as a hub of technological innovation.
The Executive Council that Kenya has been appointed to is the governing body that brings together 154 member countries into a single global tourism organisation and sets and drives the agenda for the global tourism sector.
Set within an immersive wall painting the installation «Ahy - kon - uh - klas - tik» combines a trans - historical selection of works from the Van Abbemuseum's collection, sculpture and assemblages by Brook Andrew, rarely seen documents and publications from the museum's library as well as the artist's own extensive archives that focus on popular and official documents relating to colonial and stereotyped agendas of the global south.
I think you are slowly but surely setting somewhat of the agenda in the communication of global warming.
Strong's persistent calls for an international mobilization to combat environmental calamities, even when they are exaggerated (population growth) or scientifically unproven (global warming), have set the world's environmental agenda.»
«The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, that promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development within the United Nations system and that serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.»
The trap was set in the late 1970s or thereabouts when the environmental movement first realised that doing something about global warming would play to quite a number of its social agendas.
«Climate Cover - up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a remarkable deconstruction of what he argues is a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign whose goal is to set the agenda in climate policy by discrediting legitimate science and manipulating public perceptions of the scientific evidence... I have no doubt that Climate Cover - up is going to stir up controversy, particularly in the United States where many of these strategies were deployed and fine - tuned.»
«Contributing to combating climate change and respecting planetary boundaries in the way we do business is a priority for us,» said Marie - Claire Daveu, Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of International Institutional Affairs, Kering, «The Science Based Targets initiative is enabling the business community to set meaningful and measurable goals to ensure that we align with the 2 °C global agenda and Kering is proud that our own GHG reduction ambitions have been validated by the initiative.»
In effect Kaya misdirects the reader to believe that all CO2 emissions are anthropogenic, thus setting the agenda for his fallacious and untrue argument, independent of the premiss «CO2 causes catastrophic global warming».
In 1974, he founded the Worldwatch Institute, one of the first think tanks to focus on the global environmental situation (its agenda - setting yearly reports, State of the World, remain required reading among the green set).
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), officially known as Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a set of seventeen aspirational «global Goals».
AI will be on the agenda at this week's LegalWeek CONNECT conference, with a panel featuring Baker McKenzie partner Ben Allgrove, Norton Rose Fulbright global head of technology and innovation Mike Rebeiro and Winston & Strawn CIO David Cunningham set to discuss whether law firms are jumping in too quickly for fear of being left behind.
This role will assist in setting the company - wide privacy agenda in light of the evolving global privacy landscape, providing commercially focused, accurate, effective and timely legal advice, analysis and support to the business on a broad range of commercial, regulatory, strategic, and compliance matters.