Sentences with phrase «global challenges of today»

Among the many global challenges of today, one that stands out is international education reform.

The global challenges of today will require all of our creativity and a lot of capital to create meaningful impact for the generations to come.

Not exact matches

Canada and Mexico share economic traits that leave both well placed to face global challenges and capitalize on opportunities, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said today.

The 2017 Concordia Annual Summit will explore today's most pressing global challenges with the aim of building effective cross-sector partnerships and driving collective action.

Wimpy's weight - challenged midsection, he continues, is an «obvious testament to the overleveraged condition of today's global borrowers.

What led to the demise of the gold standard has relevance to today's challenge to the dollar as the global reserve currency.

George Friedman: America today is still finding its place in a new world Balance of global power hinges on how the U.S. handles its challengesBalance of global power hinges on how the U.S. handles its challenges, writes George Friedman.

We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio - cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.

Previously released videos in the series feature the judges» discussions of: (1) the latest trends in packaging design; (2) the biggest challenges facing the industry; (3) the global challenges that can be addressed by packaging innovation; and (4) how lifecycle sustainability is central to today's packaging design.

The availability of truly sustainable options is one of the most critical challenges facing today's global community.

Advocating the cross-pollination of knowledge and best practices, Lead Judge David Luttenberger, CPP — global packaging director, Mintel Group Ltd., said, «Packaging has the opportunity today to address many challenges and opportunities.

Solutions for the major challenges of today's world require global collaborations.

«Today's biggest challenge facing the packaging industry is the number of challenges the industry has,» commented Mars Global Petcare Packaging Sustainability Director Colin Yates.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.

We have no time for the culture of hopelessness that has plagued the way the EU has often attempted to address the big global challenges we face,» he will tell Tory MEPs in Brussels today.

In the face of a court challenge from a broad coalition of environmental and community groups and massive community opposition, the DEC today halted Global Companies» proposed expansion of its massive Albany oil train facility to handle tar sands oil.

It's an exciting and unique discovery that has great global commercial potential to resolve some of the most challenging human health and food concerns facing us today.»

In advance of this month's World Health Assembly and the G7 summit in June, world leaders should consider the establishment of a global biomedical research and development fund and a mechanism to address the dearth in innovation for today's most pressing global health challenges, according to Bernard Pécoul, from the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland, and colleagues in an Essay published in PLOS Medicine.

Having kicked off the week at the 48th annual World Economic Forum meeting at Davos by moderating a panel conversation around the challenges and opportunities for the «Global Science Outlook» in the coming year, I spent today in a series of fascinating discussions that highlighted the power of science to help in advancing discovery and addressing humanity's grand challenges.

In order to promote the quality of the dialogue on the new roles and challenges of scientific knowledge within today's global society, in partnership with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Hungarian Government, UNESCO and ICSU organised the first World Conference on Science in Budapest, Hungary in 1999.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

The Network of Early - career Sustainable Scientists and Engineers (NESSE) is a global interdisciplinary support network of early - career scientists who are striving to tackle today's environmental and energy challenges and help the move towards a more sustainable future.

Today, Saturday 22nd April, is Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet earth.

Since 1983 our team of the nation's finest environmental scientists have built national and global networks to investigate the complex interactions that underpin many of today's environmental challenges.

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

Today's schools are challenged with new demands of a global economy and with students who are more connected than ever before.

Through the provision of global best practice in leadership development, both NESLI and NEELI target the immediate need to equip Australian and New Zealand educators — across all divides — with the skills, knowledge and confidence to overcome the complex leadership challenges in today's learning environments.

Today, a year later, the Huracán GT3 is ready for a global challenge: it has been chosen by more than 20 customer teams, with 40 cars competing over 78 race weekends in 13 of the most prestigious GT championships worldwide: from IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the United States to Asian Championships such as SuperGT, Asian Le Mans Series and GT Asia, through Europe's major series such as Blancpain GT, ADAC GT Masters, British GT Championship, Campionato Italiano GT, International GT Open, International Endurance Series and Michelin GT3 Cup.

Winners hail from 13 countries, including United States GREENVILLE, S.C., Sept. 3, 2015 — Michelin today announced the 14 winners of the global 2016 Michelin Challenge Design, «Mobility for All...

His annual Global Ebook Report, Wischenbart attempts to create a picture of one of the most challenging elements of the world publishing scene today.

8th Annual Value Investor Conference Agenda - 2011 Tom Gayner President and CIO, Markel Corp Topic: Challenges in Investing Charles Brandes Founder and Chairman, Brandes Investment Partners, Author Topic: Value Investing Today Bill Child Chairman, R.C. Willey Home Furnishings (a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway) Topic: «How to Build a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The R.C. Willey Story» Robert Hagstrom Author and Portfolio Mgr, Legg Mason Growth Trust Topic: «Go Big: The Investment Case for US Multinationals» Chuck Akre Managing Member and CEO Akre Capital Topic: «Finding Outstanding Investments» Pat Dorsey Author, Director of Research - Sanibel Captiva Trust Topic: «10 Years, 100 Analysts and 2,000 Stocks: Learning From Experience» Tom Russo Partner, Gardner Russo & Gardner Topic: «Global Value Equity Investing» Robert Cialdini Professor and NYT Best Selling Author, Yes!

Today marks the release of a new Sonic Dash update which features a new global challenge.

From today until the 5th of August, Sonic Dash users can contribute to a global challenge.

Featuring essays and unpublished texts by critics in contemporary and media arts, including Joan Fontcuberta, Derrick de Kerckhove, Suzanne Paquet, Fred Ritchin, and David Tomas, the publication was designed to challenge a re-examination of what photography is today, in a time when communication and transmission of visual data in cyberspace, the boundaries of virtual reality, and the Internet as a global public space proliferate images and reflect an imaginal reshaping of the world.

«Facing today's complex local and global challenges, the ICA's outspoken voice is needed more than ever, and by placing artists and ideas at the heart of all our programming decisions, I believe the ICA has all the tools to be that unique, utopian model — simply one of the most progressive organisations for the 21st century.»

In December 2009 Livia launched with Eco-Age, The Green Carpet Challenge (GCC (r)-RRB- which today is recognised as one of the leading global promoters of the beauty of ethical fashion and sustainability.

Presenting a range of speakers, this year's program will feature a number of stimulating talks focusing on a global range of topics from the art world today, including a Latin American art - market panel «Challenges and Opportunities in Brazil and Mexico» and the «Biennial of the Americas» talk.

Artists Sonia Boyce RA, Dr Kimathi Donkor and Jacob V Joyce join arts practitioner and academic Dr Michael McMillan to discuss whether black artists today are expected to challenge global and national issues of race and representation.

In honor of the New Year, and in the spirit of sharing inspiration with the NWEI community as we contemplate making changes in the year ahead, today we share an excerpt from Duane Elgin's Voluntary Simplicity and the New Global Challenge, which is included in NWEI's Voluntary Simplicity discussion course.

Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China — a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.

David Roberts at Grist today posted on the need to move this sweeping global challenge out of the traditional niche of environmentalism.

Adam Nossiter, «For Congo Children, Food Today Means None Tomorrow,» New York Times, 2 January 2012; Deutsche Welthungerhilfe, IFPRI, and Concern Worldwide, 2011 Global Hunger Index: The Challenge of Hunger: Taming Price Spikes and Excessive Food Price Volatility (Bonn, Washington, DC; and Dublin: 2011), p. 17.

IER maintains that freely - functioning energy markets provide the most efficient and effective solutions to today's global energy and environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well - being of individuals and society.

He is vilified in some quarters today only because he has challenged cherished orthodoxy that is inconsistent with the idea of a grand maximum explanation for global warming.

Press Trust of India: India will work with global community to meet the challenges of climate change, Government today said and spelt out local action plans to tackle the warming.

«The report found that the Russian - sponsored news agency RT (formerly Russia Today) «r [an] anti-fracking programing, highlighting environmental issues and the impacts on public health,» which «is likely reflective of the Russian Government's concern about the impact of fracking and the U.S. natural gas production on the global energy market and the potential challenges to [Russian energy companies»] profitability.

The study by Heartland Institute, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) says «mankind will be much better off in the year 2100 than it is today and therefore able to adapt to whatever challenges climate change presents.»

This sort of global co ‑ operation can lead to the solutions needed to address today's energy challenges.

«The world's most high - profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is» undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today» and» a challenge humanity must confront», in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby.»