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«Stingray is well - positioned to capitalize on its global growth ambitions and consumers» embrace of curated content,» wrote National Bank Financial analyst Adam Shine.

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.

Ma has long harboured global ambitions, and there are signs the company is acting on them.

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.

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.

Global goals on energy access, renewables and efficiency will not be met without accelerated ambition Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 April 2018

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.

«The two reports we're publishing today are testament to our ambition: not just to hang on in there with a significant foot - hold in the global market, but to take an even bigger share of that market in the years to come.»

It says something about the ambitions still lingering in Whitehall corridors that a sober report on the defence budget crisis reminds us that «the UK will never again be a member of the select club of global superpowers».

«Logistically, negotiations on the agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize, and all countries will need to raise the ambition of their commitments under the agreement if we're to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and reach a goal of net - zero global warming emissions by midcentury,» said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

When it comes to tackling climate change, President Barack Obama once had grand ambitions, including forging a global deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and persuading Congress to enact legislation that would impose fees on U.S. carbon pollution.

For the world to reach the necessary ambition to achieve our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, which would keep average global temperature rises well below 2 °C and even 1.5 °C, the EU, led by the European Commission, must start supporting efforts to tackle vested interests within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Chinese farmers take over former white - owned farms in Zimbabwe to cash in on tobacco Drills show Chinese troops capable of riding shotgun on country's global ambitions

«These INDCs — or national climate action plans — represent a clear and determined down - payment on a new era of climate ambition from the global community of nations.

Our ambition is very clear: for DS to be among the global leaders in electrified cars on its market.»

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.

A new venture, Vodafone Books on Mobile, has launched in the UK with global ambitions to bring books to mobile phone users.

Whether IB can disrupt the Canadian marketplace to the same degree that they have in the US remains to be seen, however the combination of global ambition, high degree of popularity with active DIY investors and a major emphasis on technology suggests Interactive Brokers Canada may find itself in the spotlight sooner than their peers would hope.

IGIHE talked with Simone on the sidelines of African Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) that ended in Kigali last week and revealed her experience of being a woman in hospitality and the global hotel group's expansion ambitions.

-- Development of marketing plans that will help deliver on ambitions for the product in a global market.

The current Triennial, curated by Lauren Cornell and the artist Ryan Trecartin, is the third installment of an event that has quickly realized its ambition of becoming New York's leading exhibition of on - trend global contemporary art.

Your donation will secure support for the preservation of this historic venue and for the ambitions of artists demonstrating excellence in contemporary arts on a global stage.

In «The gap between ambition and action in tackling global warming,» a commentary published today in The Guardian, Sabine Fuss and Jan Minx of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change provide vital guidance to the climate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconvenglobal warming,» a commentary published today in The Guardian, Sabine Fuss and Jan Minx of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change provide vital guidance to the climate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconvenGlobal Commons and Climate Change provide vital guidance to the climate panel leadership and the countries that created this pioneering scientific body in 1988 (hopefully to provide clear - eyed insights, no matter how inconvenient).

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ACT 2015's proposals on mitigation, resilience, finance, transparency and accountability, and a mechanism to increase ambition over time strongly informed the final negotiating text at global climate talks in Paris in 2015.

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For the world to reach the necessary ambition to achieve our climate commitments under the Paris Agreement, which would keep average global temperature rises well below 2 °C and even 1.5 °C, the EU, led by the European Commission, must start supporting efforts to tackle vested interests within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, head of WWF's global climate and energy programme, and COP20 President, said: «In a year marked by extreme weather disasters and potentially the first increase in carbon emissions in four years, the paradox between what we are doing and need to be delivering is clear: countries must act with greater climate ambition, and soon, to put us on a path to a 1.5 °C future.

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.

It will be especially interesting to see how REDD + could increase the global level of ambition on tackling climate mitigation, said Sanz.

It is because of opportunities like these that many heads of state at COP21 echoed the recommendation of the Global Commission on Economy and Climate — a group of 28 economic and finance leaders led by Felipe Calderón, the former president of Mexico — and called for a mechanism to regularly review and strengthen country ambition every five years.

One outcome of the Paris Agreement is a process for periodic stocktake and review, to ensure that the global community is on track to meeting the commitments and drive the «ratchetting» of ambition.

All in all, a number of U.S. fossil - fuel development and export policy positions suggest an administration that is attempting to straddle climate and energy policy in such a way that it wins support on the progressive side for having a proactive domestic climate policy while, in effect, failing to challenge the obstacle to climate change mitigation posed by corporate energy interests and their global ambitions.

Nor, it appears, did Exxon elaborate on the link between synfuels and global warming in annual reports to shareholders filed with regulatory agencies in those early days, when synfuels remained at the heart of the company's long term ambitions.

The Seoul Mayors Forum on Climate Change opened on September 1 in the capital of the Republic of Korea, gathering nearly 40 cities, to share how cities can support national and global efforts to raise the level of global ambition and ensure a rapid entry into force of the Paris Agreement.

We believe that the Global Climate Action Summit, being held in California on 12 - 14 September 2018 presents a unique opportunity to pressure local governments and institutions to raise their ambition and do more for climate action.

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.

Reports that leading Chinese climate experts believe it is possible to limit global warming are likely to place pressure on the USA to match that ambition, despite President Obama's recent offerings in his new Climate Change Action Plan.

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.

Scale up enabling policies through the Global Climate Action Agenda and the Technical Exami - nation Process on mitigation to drive pre - 2020 mitigation ambition

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.

While the adoption of the Paris Agreement and the commitments submitted by countries represent a significant step in the fight against climate change, the amount of ambition is still insufficient to keep global warming at a level that is safe for the most vulnerable communities and critical ecosystems on the planet.

Fabius said France is scheduled to hold the «Paris Climate 2015» event with an ambition to bring the planet back on track with a global warming of less than two degree Celsius.

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.

Global goals on energy access, renewables and efficiency will not be met without accelerated ambition Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030 18 April 2018

The low level of ambition of the US, EU, Russia, China et al is why global emissions are set on a pathway much more aligned with a 4 °C to 6 °C future (~ RCP8.5) than the 2 °C of our rhetorical targets.

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.

After a spate of hires for Allen & Overy's (A&O) US practice that has seen it grow by 11 partners in the past eight months alone, new US senior partner Tim House is determined to further capitalise on the firm's ambitions and prove the global player can stamp out a successful footprint on the other side of the pond.