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This week brought the clearest demonstration yet of Chinese tech firms» global ambitions as Didi Chuxing raised $ 4 billion in new venture funding and signaled its interest in acquiring control of the largest taxi - on - demand service in Brazil.

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Some investors in the U.K. and Europe also saw the purchase as a sign that Amazon could take its grocery ambitions global.

According to Toronto economist Bruce Little, a lack of «global ambition» could be to blame: «There's a lot of Canadian business people that start a company and as they grow, instead of saying,??? Damn, I want to be Bill Gates,» they sell it and enjoy their wealth.»

Together over the course of the past year, Uber and Lyft have spent up to $ 9 million in a vain effort to overturn the city's proposed safety measure, viewing Austin as an important test case in the broader struggle between local regulators and Silicon Valley upstarts with novel business models and global ambitions.

Stories such as these have convinced many aspiring entrepreneurs that if they don't start off with global ambitions, they're doing it wrong.

But as Brazil seeks to keep its economic momentum going, and begins to define its ambitions on the global stage in measure with its new - found clout, some question whether the 62 - year - old Rousseff will be able to handle what's heading her way.

China is slowly and fitfully lowering its financial barriers with the rest of the world, as Beijing tries to balance its desire for stability with its ambitions to have a much greater say in the global conversation about money.

The tariffs, rather than checking the country's ambitions, will likely increase its confidence on the global stage, allowing Beijing to claim the moral high ground as a supporter of multilateral, open trade.

The ambition is to reach out to thought leaders globally and inspire them to adopt the new opportunity mind - set and use the Global Opportunity Report as a GPS for strategic decision making.

Microsoft already been targeting startups through the Startup Zone (and related programs such as the Startup Accelerator), but Lewin says that was aimed at venture - backed companies with global ambitions.

As we seek to scale our tea expertise to support our global tea ambition, we have decided to move our Teavana headquarters, which currently employs 99 partners, from Atlanta to Seattle in order to more effectively leverage the talent and capabilities across our global business.

Bloomberg's Steven Arons: «Deutsche Bank AG is abandoning its ambitions to be a top global securities firm as it embarks on possibly the most sweeping overhaul yet of its struggling investment bank.

As a group, we can't move fast enough with our ambitions and growth for our packaging portfolio, and I know Josh will be central to our future and our vision to be the global leader in ultra-niche markets.»

As a global food company, the Kraft Heinz Company's ambition is to help end hunger worldwide.

In 2004, he decided to leave his position as Head of a Global Fixed Income Derivative Desk at National Australia Bank and pursue a career path that was aligned with his personal values and ambitions.

If we aim for this years best like mbappe and lemar only to then turn round and settle for last years best shows us up as being ill prepared also that we lack the ambition that clubs of arsenals global standing ought to have.

His exceptional knowledge of the retail sector means our business is now benefiting from Neal's invaluable insight and that's great news for our customers and for our company as we drive forward our ambitious global growth ambitions.»

«If, as in the past, the ambition of these sectors continues to fall behind efforts in other sectors and if action to combat climate change is further postponed, their emission shares in global CO2 emissions may rise substantially to 22 percent for international aviation and 17 percent for maritime transport by 2050,» the report said.

It's worth remembering that, as they stand, national emissions pledges won't keep global temperature rise to 2C, much less 1.5 C. (The Paris Agreement has a built - in ratchet mechanism designed to raise ambition over time.)

With the new center, we will be expanding upon our role as a global hub to help students and professionals maximize their potential, realize their career ambitions, contribute to the advancement of biomedical science and translate their ideas and discoveries into products, services and therapies that will benefit human health and well being.

The world should increase its ambition to cut roughly a further quarter off predicted 2030 global greenhouse emissions and have any chance of minimizing dangerous climate change, UN Environment said today as it released its annual Emissions Gap... read more

Hyundai is understood to have global ambitions for its new N brand, and this car would be a welcome addition in the US, as Hyundai has seemingly been focused on augmenting its crossover SUV range over the past few years.

Kobo is definitely going through some growing pains in its ambitions as a global e-reader company.

As a global investment manager, we help institutions, intermediaries and individuals meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

«This partnership with BuzzTrade is the first of its kind for FC Porto and reflects our ambition and appeal as a global brand,» said Adelino Caldeira, Vice President of FC Porto.

«As the global recognition for sustainable tourism, this is an award that accurately mirrors our goals and ambitions.

It is our ambition to pro-actively contribute to the local healthcare infrastructure and provide a state - of - the - art holistic diagnosis, treatment and care centre giving residents, as well as regional and international visitors, access to global standard family healthcare in a luxurious and serene setting.»

Egencia, the corporate travel division of the Expedia group, today announced their strategy for 2017 and beyond, as well as a new global organisation to support their ambition to be the «most business traveller centric company in the world».

As Parties to Montreal Protocol negotiate a global agreement for an HFC phase - down this year, several safety standards and building codes are threatening to limit the climate ambition and effectiveness of this agreement by blocking the uptake of low global warming potential (GWP), energy efficient alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon (HFC)- based cooling around the world.

The 10 Club members currently account for more than 40 percent of global investments in renewable energy, and could serve as an inspiration for how countries can ramp up their level of ambition.

The Roadmap includes a box discussing the global impact of the increased level of ambition of moving to the IEA B2DS, which is a scenario that falls within the category of the IPCC «well - below 2C» scenarios but it hasn't been used as the basis for the detailed quantitative analysis in the Roadmap.

When I am proven right, the Climate Change Department will be swept away; Britain's annual deficit will fall by a fifth; the bat - blatting, bird - blending windmills that scar our green and pleasant land will go; the world will refocus on real environmental problems like deforestation on land, overfishing at sea and pollution of the air; the U.N.'s ambition to turn itself into a grim, global dictatorship with overriding powers of taxation and economic and environmental intervention will be thwarted; and the aim of science to supplant true religion as the world's new, dismal, cheerless credo will be deservedly, decisively, definitively defeated.

Both carbon budgets assume international shipping cuts its emissions at the same rate as the rest of the global economy — implying ambition far in excess of the 50 % by 2050 «compromise» currently under discussion.

As the world's second - biggest emitter of carbon dioxide pollution, the U.S. could render the global treaty meaningless, at a time when scientists are urging nations to quickly raise their ambition, or risk an escalating climate crisis.

It's a global club which sees nation states as significant obstacles to their ambition, but not permanent impediments.

The Seoul Mayors Forum culminated with a presentation of the Seoul Communiqué, presented by Mayor Park Won Soon of Seoul on behalf of the nearly 40 attending cities and towns that came together to state their commitments as local governments and push for greater global ambition.

LISBON, May 3, 2018: Faster progress is possible on global energy goals, but only with greater political ambition and discipline, as the key takeaway of delegates at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum, which closes today in Lisbon, Portugal.

Bolt allows his commenters to refer to the United Nations as the «United Nazis» and regularly joins the «one world government» conspiracy theorists while pulling quotes out of context to insinuate «warmists» have ambitions of totalitarian «global management».

In decision 1 / CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima — Paris Action Agenda, as well as the urgent need to scale up the global response to climate change and support greater ambition from governments.

These trainings will focus on the role of financial markets in driving the transformation towards a low - carbon climate resilient economy, as it is fundamental to the efficient implementation of global ambitions in the post-Paris Agreement phase.

Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

Underlying the politics of global warming is the big lie — the fabrication of the narrative as a stalking horse for ambitions to transform economies and society.

He also said, «The agreement and the decisions surrounding it needs to be a long term development plan providing the policies, pathways and finance for triggering a peaking of global emissions in 10 years» time followed by a deep, decarbonisation of the global economy by the second half of the century — a development plan that crucially also supports the growth as well as the climate ambitions of developing countries.»

Internationally, climate action is also accelerating as several countries have stepped up their ambition to reduce emissions and install more clean energy, helping to fill the global leadership void left by the US.

Governments also have an important role in the global climate negotiations to push developed countries to increase their ambition targets as well as their financing capacity and deliver to address urgent concerns of the looming impacts of climate change on their people.

«As someone who personally experienced central planning and attempts to organise the whole of society by directives from above, I feel obliged to warn against the arguments and ambitions of the believers in the global warming doctrine.

However, even with reductions in other gases, the level of ambition illustrated in the interactive is representative of what is needed to keep global temperatures «well below» 2 °C and aim for 1.5 °C, as the Paris Climate Agreement calls for.

Commenting on the news, BLP's Managing Partner Lisa Mayhew said: «This is a significant milestone for us as we continue to realise our ambitions as a global Real Estate and Infrastructure powerhouse.

RR has selected Deutsche AM, a global infrastructure investment manager, as a long - term partner to support RM's growth ambitions in the harbour towage sector.

The article describes some of the lessons taught by the Coudert experience, such as the risk for firms with global ambition and threats to middle - sized firms from consolidation by others.