Not exact matches
With these and other
changes afoot, it
's worth taking a look at current
global rankings to
see how China, the US, and other countries stack up when it comes to air quality, total energy use, and renewable contributions to power production.
Indeed, little of substance about our vast, interconnected, highly leveraged, nontransparent,
global financial system has
changed since the crisis (
see «
Are We Ready for the Next Meltdown?
Martin Moen, the director general at
Global Affairs Canada who oversees North American trade policy, told a conference in Ottawa earlier this month that it would
be «very difficult to
see a path forward» for NAFTA if the U.S. continued to insist on
changes that would constrain cross-border commerce, such as a the suggestion that the value of U.S. government contracts won by Canadian and Mexican firms should match the value of contracts American companies secure in Canada and Mexico.
I
am looking forward to
seeing how this inclusive mindset continues to grow and play out across leadership and business strategy — especially as we look into the new year toward Davos, which will focus on strengthening
global cooperation and inclusivity across regions and industries, as well as how organizations communicate differently with customers to empower those around them to
be agents of the
change, not merely products of it.
Technology
is changing businesses everywhere, but special attention now centers on service - oriented industries, which already account for more than 50 percent of
global GDP and
are likely to
see enormous opportunities for innovation in coming years.
The
global demonstration, planned in the wake of the Women's March on Washington,
is aimed at countering the «mischaracterization of science as a partisan issue» —
see climate
change, vaccines, and GMOs — and the dubious policy that has arisen as a result.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may
be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain
global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not
see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore
be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to
changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
At the same time, Trump has
been seen withdrawing America from its
global leadership role, after exiting both the Paris Agreement on climate
change and the Trans - Pacific Partnership.
«While we
see CEOs and the heads of diversity talking about it, what really matters
is what those frontline workers and everyday people think and feel about diversity because that
's where the real cultural
change is going to happen,» said Aubrey Blanche,
global head of diversity and inclusion at Atlassian.
«I
see the
Global Opportunity Report as a bold and very needed initiative, with the right attitude and scope to
change the way we perceive sustainable development from
being an added cost to
being an opportunity for growth,» says Thierry Malleret.
«We have not
seen wild
changes in behavior with people saying «I
'm not going to share any data with Facebook anymore,»»
Global Marketing VP Carolyn Everson told the site.
Brent Beardsley,
global head of wealth and asset management at Boston Consulting Group, says more wealth management firms with a wirehouse — or integrated broker — model
are looking to increase revenues from advisers by automating advice: «If you look at the big wirehouses, you'll
see the role of the adviser has
changed now that portfolio management
is increasingly
being managed centrally.
In other words,
change creates opportunity for those who
are shrewd enough to
see it — and nowhere
is this phenomenon more apparent in today's
global economy than in China.
Global equities
saw little net
change this week, but there
was a good bit of volatility midweek as political chaos intensified in Washington.
Over the course of our conversations, I came to
see Obama as a president who has grown steadily more fatalistic about the constraints on America's ability to direct
global events, even as he has, late in his presidency, accumulated a set of potentially historic foreign - policy achievements — controversial, provisional achievements, to
be sure, but achievements nonetheless: the opening to Cuba, the Paris climate -
change accord, the Trans - Pacific Partnership trade agreement, and, of course, the Iran nuclear deal.
As we
saw during the
global financial crisis, even the United States — considered the world's deepest, fairest, most liquid, best - regulated market —
is prone to extreme price swings far exceeding any lasting
changes in underlying business value.
Growth
is good, everything
is pretty good with a big jolt of stimulation coming from
changes in tax laws,» Dalio said, referring to the health of the U.S. market as well as what he
sees as an improving
global economic climate.
I really don't
see what he gains from
being indifferent and idiotic about the issue, but for the mere fact he can't make up his mind whether humans
are a cause behind
global climate
changes makes me think this guy isn't fit to run the country.
Of course, as our convictions persist and mature, we begin to
see the ways in which we
are complicit in
global wealth disparity and injustice, and we begin to think more seriously about policy, about sustainability, about making more dramatic attitude and lifestyle
changes, and about problems within some of our charities and justice groups that perpetuate a white savior complex, sometimes doing more harm than good.
I believe that if we, as followers of Jesus,
are truly going to
be living radical, missional lives of purpose, protecting the planet, healing the abused, giving water to the thirsty, feeding the starving, inventing new and better ways of doing things, and leading the way for
global change, then every year we should
see more and more Christians on this list.
«The US dairy industry
sees real value in the TPP negotiations if we
are able to open new markets, like Japan and Canada, use the TPP process to strengthen
global trading rules and secure meaningful competition policy
changes in New Zealand's dairy sector,» said Suber.
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.
This needs an edit - «You can
see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with military expenditure (less than the
global average of 2.3 %)» 2.5 %
is more than 2.3 %, so either the numbers
were incorrectly typed, or «less» needs to
be changed to «more.»
«The EU
is part of a
global system that
is finding solutions to the major
global challenges,» he said, adding: «Our people must
see the European Union as a real engine of
change in their lives.»
It remains to
be seen whether the nature and the depth of feeling that resulted in a «leave» vote will now translate to a decline in public support for international development and a desire to
change the nature of the UK's role on the
global stage.
The
changes to our planet as a result of
global warming
are apparent for all to
see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that
are virtually disappearing.
Since these set of ocean currents
are known to influence
global climate, the researchers
were interested to
see if it correlated with rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and how such a correlation could
change over time.
Although no single fire, no matter how severe, can
be concretely linked to
global climate
change, the climatic conditions
seen in Colorado this year fit the kind of pattern scientists expect to
see in the future.
«The fact that we don't
see the presently understood meteorological signature of
global warming in
changing outbreak statistics leaves two possibilities: either the recent increases
are not due to a warming climate, or a warming climate has implications for tornado activity that we don't understand.
They
are also the key factors that permit us to tackle some of the vexing, even life - threatening
global problems we face — climate
change, loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of our marine environment (
see Next Wave's recent feature for further information).
«I would
be most interested in
seeing into the future to determine what effects
global warming, weather
change, overpopulation and scarcity of clean drinking water [have] in store for humanity,» Bennett wrote.
And at high
global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter
are seeing less ice year after year — a
change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.
The growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a
changing climate
is increasingly
seen as a major risk for the
global economy.
Indeed, simply reading an article that affirmed the power of scientific progress to successfully address
global issues such as climate
change (vs. reading an article which questioned its efficacy in doing so)
was enough to significantly increase the degree to which participants
saw order in the world.
The indications of climate
change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of
global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals
are likely to
be clearly
seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.
A quick look at the proposed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change carbon budget to keep
global warming below 2 °C, alongside the fossil fuel reserves held by the industry,
is enough to
see that the two aren't compatible.
Documenting these sites now
is critical, Fisher said, because «accelerating rates of
global change are threatening our patrimony in ways we've never
seen before.»
New measurements by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies indicate that 2012
was the ninth warmest year since 1880, and that the past decade or so has
seen some of the warmest years in the last 132 years.One way to illustrate
changes in
global atmospheric temperatures
is by looking at how far temperatures stray from «normal», or a baseline.
The patterns of the
changes in magnetic field strength over 48 hours
seen in these two events
were so similar to those recorded in a ground sensor during the Carrington event that the first event must not have
been global in its reach either, the team reports in the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate.
And what we
see is both how complex climate
changes can
be and how profound an effect
changing patterns of ocean circulation can have on
global climate states, if looked at on a geological time scale.»
«MAVEN's findings reveal what
is happening in Mars» atmosphere now, but over time this type of loss contributed to the
global change from a wetter environment to the dry planet we
see today,» said Rahmati.
It can
be seen in the following images, captured largely by photographer Gary Braasch and published in his book Earth Under Fire: How
Global Warming
Is Changing the World (University of California Press, 2007), which chronicles some of the impacts of climate
change around the world:
«To
see very large increases in extremely low snow years within the occurrence of that [Copenhagen] target suggests that there could
be substantial impacts from climate
change even if that
global warming target
is achieved,» Diffenbaugh said.
It
is easier for Republicans to acknowledge climate
change,» while they
see global warming as a more loaded term with broader implications.
To
see how
global climate
change is affecting the bees, the researchers amassed a data set consisting of some 423,000 observations, dating back to 1901, of 67 bumble bee species in North America and Europe.
The Kyoto Protocol
is seen as an important first step towards a truly
global emission reduction regime that will stabilize GHG emissions, and can provide the architecture for the future international agreement on climate
change.
«Although many of these effects
are already
seen, their progression in the absence of climate
change mitigation will greatly amplify existing
global health challenges and inequalities,» they warn.
Fact # 1: Carbon Dioxide
is a Heat - Trapping Gas Fact # 2: We
Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Y
Are Adding More Carbon Dioxide to the Atmosphere All the Time Fact # 3: Temperatures
are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level is Rising Fact # 5: Climate Change Can be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Y
are Rising Fact # 4: Sea Level
is Rising Fact # 5: Climate
Change Can
be Natural, but What's Happening Now Can't be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Ye
be Natural, but What
's Happening Now Can't
be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «Global Warming» and «Climate Change» Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Ye
be Explained by Natural Forces Fact # 6: The Terms «
Global Warming» and «Climate
Change»
Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already See The Effects of Climate Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Y
Are Almost Interchangeable Fact # 7: We Can Already
See The Effects of Climate
Change Fact # 8: Large Regions of The World
Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10: Global Warming is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always Be Warmer Than This Y
Are Seeing a Significant Increase In Extreme Weather Events, Including Torrential Rainstorms, Heat Waves And Droughts Fact # 9: Frost and Snowstorms Will Still Happen in a Warmer World Fact # 10:
Global Warming
is a Long - Term Trend; It Doesn't Mean Next Year Will Always
Be Warmer Than This Ye
Be Warmer Than This Year
With Arctic ice retreating more and more as local summers heat up, exposing ever more cold northern waters to warming sunshine — along with a host of other regional
changes — it remains to
be seen exactly how sensitive
global climate really
is.
A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential
changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future
global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we
see the heaviest rainfall
is set to shift.