Sentences with phrase «global commons»

And since 1992, this well - rounded understanding has earned him the distinction of having a «global common sense» approach in the mortgage business.

And so, the C&C should be supported because it is most consistent with equal entitlements to use global commons resources.

Secretary - General, in Remarks at UN Day Concert, Urges Pledge of Unity, «Seven Billion Strong», for Global Common Good (28 October 2011)

In the case of California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32), the answer flows directly from the very nature of the problem — global climate change, the ultimate global commons problem.

This is an A-level lesson on global commons.

During the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro last month, I posted a reflection by the Pace University philosopher professor Ilan Safit on whether humanity needs a new definition of citizenship, one with ecology and global commons in mind.

On the one hand, we follow the [World Trade Organization] rules, market rules, but on the other hand we should consider how to address global commons issues, externality issues.

* Recognition of the monetary and non-monetary values of public goods such as ecosystem services, education, health and global common resources such as the oceans and the atmosphere.

Fixes reference point for long - term development of commercial law in line with leading global common law courts

The Greenport Village Board of Trustees put off a vote Friday on a proposed lease with Global Common, the Garden City company looking to build a peak energy power plant on about three acres of village - owned land on Moore's Lane.

Their notion that the atmosphere is the ultimate global commons echoes Matthew Fontaine Maury, the American oceanographer who once wrote this line, which I cited in my 1992 global warming book and many times since:

The controversy surrounding environmental policy has, perhaps surprisingly, arisen not so much from the issue of conserving non-renewable commodities such as fossil fuels or industrial metals, but from the increasing scarcity or overuse of renewable natural resources, causing problems such as water and air pollution, or damage to global commons such as the atmosphere or the ozone layer.

China has also gradually come to accept global common rules and to invest in them.

The nonbinding International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities calls on countries to maintain the area around our planet as a peaceful global commons, and it sets out practical guidelines for avoiding collisions in space and for minimizing and removing debris.

«The open oceans are a major global commons and require effective international cooperation and governance,» GEO - 5's authors relate, and comprising 71 percent of the earth's surface, «the potential collapse of oceanic ecosystems requires an integrated and ecosystem - based approach to ocean governance.»

A second lesson focuses on global commons and the idea of the tragedy of the commons.

Globally — both science and governments are mobilizing to support local and regional responses in an Elinor Ostrom polycentric approach to managing global commons.

I started to write about democratic capitalism in the 1970s in an effort to explain to my overseas friends (and to myself) just what the new order was that would best promote the global common good.

My argument is that just as the Lovins have succeeded in persuading an important sector of corporate leadership that efficient use of resources is profitable, someone will need to persuade corporate leadership that all will benefit in the long run from restraint in the exploitation of the global commons.

If we keep the covenant — preserve the global common good — we will flourish; if we do not, we and the world will perish.

On the other hand, well - managed tea production landscapes can help arrest or even reverse land degradation, while providing a range of economic and ecological benefits for local communities, downstream beneficiaries, and the global commons.

This global common good, from the republican perspective, can not be other than the reduction or minimization of global domination, that is, ensuring freedom on an international scale.

What all these proposals have in common is the acknowledgement that something like the global common good exists and needs to be protected and promoted.

Global Common is responding to a request for proposals from PSEG Long Island for new energy generation on the South Folk.

Cross-cutting areas of transboundary issues and governance of the global commons, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2030 agenda

The Montreal Protocol community, with its tangible achievements, is in a position to provide strong evidence that global cooperation and concerted action are the key ingredients to secure the protection of our global commons,» he added.

The space environment, he says, must be protected as a global commons, similar to the Earth's oceans and atmosphere.

It is a unique place: parts of the Arctic are national territories, but as a whole, it is a global commons.

From its current position of strength, the best strategic course for the U.S. is to initiate a process that would affirm the use of space as a global commons where all guns are checked at the border of the mesosphere, 50 miles up.

It is part of the global commons, the genetic inheritance surely bequeathed to everyone, not just to opportunists.

But the judges disagreed, concluding that when operating the «global commons» of Antarctica the NSF must obey US law.

This is true in the sense that the atmosphere is a global commons that does not care where emissions come from, only their amount.

It is a global commons whose stewardship is the common responsibility of all people.

The High - level panel debate «Setting the stage» stimulated a debate on the future of education, drawing on the findings of the independent EFA Global Monitoring Report 2015, the regional analyses of some 120 National EFA 2015 Reviews and the publication «Rethinking Education: Towards a global common good?.»

Thus, education is for the purpose of creating global citizenss that impact from the local to the global level for the well being of all, and for the care of the global common goods.

Key concepts covered in the lesson are the definition of global governance, the causes for global governance and the global commons.

The lesson looks at the definition of global commons and examines what makes each of the 4 global commons special.

The lesson examines the economic concept of the «tragedy of the commons» and then analyses how each global common is being managed sustainable through global governance.

Institute for Global Ethics IGE is dedicated to promoting ethical action by exploring the global common ground of values, elevating awareness, and providing practical tools for making ethical decisions.

The NAIS vision foresees a future where independent school graduates will make good choices for themselves, their communities, and the world, capitalizing upon those values and skills that won't change and acquiring those new skills and values a 21st Century marketplace and global commons will demand.

Not only is this going to compromise the vision of the Web as a global commons for the free exchange of ideas because streaming video, audio, images, e-books, even Web pages, are going to be cluttered by DRM.

Massively expanding human economic activities are placing irresistible pressures on the global commons and, in many contexts, are overwhelming traditional protection and conservation approaches.

To grasp why this will take time, consider Edith Brown Weiss's sobering conclusion that «Earth has become a global commons» knowing that, as Charles Perrings explained, «If we value things at zero they'll be wasted.»

Another is Adam Nieman, whose depictions of the world's waters and atmosphere as spherical volumes constitute a real breakthrough in conveying the real meaning of a finite «global commons.»

Creatures of the global commons, from oceanic sharks and bluefin tuna to the ocean's wandering reptiles, are particularly vulnerable.