Sentences with phrase «global citizens of»

«We are global citizens of the world, and we need to access that global - ness,» Reiman said.

The new global compact on development requires a new generation of active global citizens of all ages in all countries, developing and sharing the attitudes, knowledge and behaviours which are essential for a sustainable planet.

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The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerospace.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

An argument sometimes used to defend the strength of the housing market is that foreign investors, predominantly wealthy Chinese citizens, are buying property here because Canada is a safe haven in a turbulent global economy.

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Last year, the U.S. Federal Reserve earned about $ 70 billion just by providing its citizens (or, in the case of the C - note, a global criminal elite) with physical money.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road — it's the path to becoming a global citizen.

The former global operations CIO at Barclays landed on our 40 Under 40 list last year for his impressive background, quick achievements as CIO of Nike, and his advocacy and influence in the gay community (Watson is out, and was the first non-U.S. citizen to score a seat on the board of GLAAD).

21st Century Fox (fox) is the latest global company to weigh in on President Trump's controversial executive order that has banned citizens of seven predominately Muslim nations from visiting the U.S. for 90 days and halted the Syrian refugee program for 120 days.

It still points towards the positive trend that we've seen in payroll growth over the last several months and the last couple of years actually,» said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank.

Each of these risks is of significant interest to the risk management sector — and to governments and citizens round the world We were told that our task was to transform these risks into opportunities and that our contributions would find their way into the 2014 Global Opportunity Report that DNV GL co-produces.

As we step into the future, we need more and better collaboration locally, regionally, and globally between millennials from around the world as we form the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars, parents, and, of course, global citizens.

As 2017 comes to a close, understanding where the US government draws the line on crypto taxes is essential for those wishing to toe the line as responsible US citizens; it's also important for citizens of the growing crypto community and the future of the global economy.

«[I] f your view of the world is having a balance of interests, a competitive marketplace, equal providers, equal parties coming to the table — whether it's a supply chain or a network of things like sending money back and forth or citizens working to solve village - level, regional or global level — this is technology can help implement that.»

A new approach has to start from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximise the welfare of citizens, not to pursue some abstract concept of the global good.

The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»

Looking ahead, Korea and a Canada can continue to provide each other with «gateway» partnerships — linking the dynamism of Korea and Asia with the strengths of Canada and North American business — that promote economic growth and prosperity for our citizens, build a safer world, and ensure a strong global economy with effective governance systems.

Such will be the case of Estonia's proposed e-Residency Project, powered by the Nation itself, and expected to be a platform that builds a digital nation for global citizens.

The «Beyond the Border» and Regulatory Cooperation action plans promise to create an even more robust economic relationship and strengthen our global competitiveness to the benefit of our citizens on both sides of the border.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

The way forward is to increase the volume and quality of our exports and increase the skills and work ethic of our citizens — not to close ourselves off from a leadership role in global trade.

The members of the Business Council of Canada are strongly committed to Canada's success in the global economy, to the creation of new opportunities for our citizens and to breaking down barriers that prevent Canadians from reaching their full potential.

Apex Capital Partners Corp. is a founding member of the Global Investor Immigration Council, a non-partisan, not - for - profit organization addressing the opportunities and challenges of the movement of immigrant investors and global citGlobal Investor Immigration Council, a non-partisan, not - for - profit organization addressing the opportunities and challenges of the movement of immigrant investors and global citglobal citizens.

It's not only global temperatures that are rising though, the good citizens of Highwood are split and tempers are flaring.

Online, more than 11,000 Global Citizens have called on world leaders to help the millions of people affected by extreme weather around the world in the past year.

This opportunity is only eligible for Global Citizens who are at least 18 years old and can volunteer for at least a week (ideally a minimum of two weeks) in Puerto Rico or Texas between now and Dec. 31, 2018.

There is this idea that these people are not really good citizens of the country,» said Albert W. Hickman, a research associate at the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

Some economists assure them that by doing this they will eventually share in the global prosperity, but thus far, and for the foreseeable future, this does not apply to most of their citizens.

By making global poverty a concern of U.S. citizens, the One Campaign makes it a concern of U.S. leaders.

Like that of the NRA, the One Campaign's goal is to communicate to political leaders that there is a large bloc of citizens behind it — in this case, citizens committed to addressing global poverty.

It is the alliance of this theory with corporate, short - term interests, and the desire of many citizens to make no sacrifices that undergird the current unsustainable global system.

They are citizens not of one country but of the whole world.51 The church and theology are criticized in terms of how they function in the global scene.

Why do they lump the gospel of Jesus Christ with faving lower taxes (not caring for the poor), deny global warming (not being good stewards for the environment), refuse reasonable gun control (being common sense good citizens)?

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

As a global community, we need global citizens for whom a smattering of «foreign relations» and «global economics» is entirely inadequate.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

They have had limited success, but they have forced the world to see that the policies of our global leaders are bitterly rejected by masses of citizens.

If it is ethically unacceptable to have the world controlled by transnational corporations alone, and if we can not trust global political authority to represent the interests of ordinary citizens, ethicists are under pressure to devise alternative images of a desirable future.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

The standards of environmental protection — and reduction of environmental footprint specified by Nicholas Meat — are a credit to the company as an efficient, sustainable and overall good corporate citizen,» said Global Water & Energy (GW&E) Vice President, Mr. Ian Page.

Responding to the Davos announcement, he said: «It is immensely satisfying that the global outcry against food waste, echoing throughout the supply chain, from farmers down to citizens, has now been amplified and crystallised by the United Nations in the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals.

We see a major part of our role in the international movement is to put pressure on our government and Australian - owned companies to be better global citizens, and to do that we need all of you to join us and work collectively for radical food system transformation.

From galas honoring champions of conservation to intimate gatherings of concerned global citizens, the Rainforest Alliance hosts events that enable you to support our mission and make a difference.

If the PL reverts to the indigenous and the exclusive English or the UK citizens only, in managerial management and players recruiting level it was initially in the early days of the playing of the English football at division 1 — 4 levels, what is going to happen to the global appeal status and vast amount of money accrued to the PL which it has now attained?

• Our students develop a lifelong love of learning and become world citizens who care about their local and global communities.

«Global philanthropic support for efforts to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts totaled $ 283 million in 2013... 288 foundations awarded nearly 2,000 grants in support of more than 1,200 organizations working for peace, justice, diplomacy, and national and global security, from conducting research on the prevention of nuclear terrorism to supporting citizen journalism in Global philanthropic support for efforts to prevent, mitigate, and resolve conflicts totaled $ 283 million in 2013... 288 foundations awarded nearly 2,000 grants in support of more than 1,200 organizations working for peace, justice, diplomacy, and national and global security, from conducting research on the prevention of nuclear terrorism to supporting citizen journalism in global security, from conducting research on the prevention of nuclear terrorism to supporting citizen journalism in Egypt.

Baby Milk Action is the UK member of IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network), a global network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries that has been working since 1980 to stop misleading marketing by the baby feeding industry.

As a global citizen concerned with infant health, I noted with great appreciation your statement on the occasion of the 2005 World Breastfeeding Week indicating UNICEF's continued commitment to the implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

The global network is called IBFAN (the International Baby Food Action Network) a network of over 270 citizens groups in more than 160 countries.