Sentences with phrase «global concern»

A new study has revealed more about the mechanisms behind this process — knowledge that could prove useful in crop production in light of global concerns around food and water security.

The growing global concerns about obesity and diabetes have lead to reduce sugar and calories in the products.

Finally, Chinese researchers at home or away face global concerns about their science that are rooted in the country's evaluation system.

Each lesson exposes students to the ways in which the major religious traditions of the world approach global concerns.

This shift towards digital comes at a time when climate change is an almost global concern.

Despite global concerns about the Chinese economy, the recruitment sector in the country has yet to suffer any material impact.

An issue of global concern is the anticipated shortage of agricultural output to meet the steady rise in human population.

But as global concern about climate change has grown in recent years, REDD + has taken on an explicit climate focus, with an emphasis on reducing emissions and compensation linked to verified reductions.

«Extensive deforestation in Indonesia is a cause for global concern as it contributes substantially to land - based global carbon emissions and potentially high rates of biodiversity loss,» explained Asst Prof Carrasco.

Teachers can also help students grapple with global concerns by focusing on what's happening at the local level, Bohmann says, and by highlighting positive efforts already under way.

In the wake of growing global concern over decreasing shark populations and degrading health of marine ecosystems, Humane Society International India has petitioned leading airlines in India to end their role in the international trade in shark fins.

The United Nations (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to address global concerns about climate change and global warming.

Innovations in sustainability are a key area where Bitcoin miners can help increase their profit margins while also addressing growing global concerns over increasing energy use needed to mine them.

Tom Holert focuses on Tillmans's relationship with politics and society, with particular emphasis on events of the last 15 years and the way Tillmans uses images and methods of distribution to examine global concerns such as migration and identity politics.

Such blooms are of increasing global concern and can severely reduce the amount of oxygen available to living things, kill fish and alter food webs.

Thornton Dial's highly original works provide compelling commentary on the most pervasive challenges of our time — from reflections on race and class struggle in America to haunting meditations on events of contemporary global concern.

Rivers said the industry recognizes that given global concerns about climate change, a good domestic climate policy is necessary to provide the «social licence» to be able to sell Alberta's oil outside the country or even outside the province.

The first photographer to win the Turner Prize, in 2000, his practice is characterised by constant investigation into the boundaries of the photographic medium and has evolved to encompass video, digital slide projections, publications and recorded music in order to examine global concerns such as migration and identity politics.

Shaken by shale oil production in the United States, softening demand from China and Europe, and rising global concern about climate change, Canada's tar...

While specifically focused on the visual culture and new modes of viewing Guyana, the exhibition also frames Guyana, «fixed or unfixed homeland,» as symbolic of larger pressing global concerns of our 21st century — the tensions between place and placeless - ness, nationality and belonging, immigrant and citizen.

With support from JGI, kids in the clubs undertake local projects to improve the environment where they live, as well as examining more global concerns.

Today, it's the most popular such site in the country, and a top global concern — a business that relies on advertisers (most of them his competitors) reaching millions of people looking for love.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide is one of the largest global concerns we have.

Jehne is a systems thinker with a plan for addressing many global concerns through the soil carbon sponge, and working with natural hydrological cycles and processes.

Cape Town's recent water shortage crisis has raised global concern about the threat of water scarcity.

1) Always treat reports of clusters of unexpected and unexplained deaths with at least a «high index of suspicion» that the cause may be something of potential global concern.

It is true that China's economy is slowing down, but lower growth rate in the country should not be a reason for global concern since the pace of growth is «as much by design as by accident,» noted the article, written by British businessman Martin Gilbert, who is the founder and CEO of Aberdeen Asset Management.

Markets kicked off 2016 amid a flurry of perceived global concerns, fueling a selloff in risk assets and amplifying volatility.

The U.S. software firm debuted even as Brexit, interest rates and other global concerns have stalled most new listings.

Since that time, while many internal divisions persist, the United Church of Canada has been able to get on with other things, including great global concerns of social justice that must have a certain priority over personal morality and church polity.

Transformation, for Cobb, includes renewal, but fosters broader societal engagements and even global concerns.

More generally, education holds the key to greater empowerment of women and marginalized populations, and will be the principle weapon in the fight against global concerns such as poverty, injustice and inequality.

U.S. - Iranian research teams have collaborated to address serious global concerns, such as public health, climate change, biodiversity, earthquake management, and water and sanitation.

McQuarrie's complex screenplay — based on a story co-written by Drew Pearce — may not have much to do with current global concerns, but he makes you care enough about the characters to directly affect your pulse and respiratory system.

These works are reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel's 16th - century genre scenes, yet de Balincourt's paintings depict contemporary, mostly Western people engaged in acts of war, protest, or leisure to comment on and critique particularly American societal norms and to explore the space where leisure and global concerns collide.

Whatever your views on globalization and the future, the 3 - D works in the exhibition are designed to question, probe global concerns, posit solutions and provoke a reaction.

They illustrate the new development policy for the Middlesbrough Collection, which is focussed on art produced by artists from diverse backgrounds, which addresses issues of global concern relevant to the people of Middlesbrough and the Tees Valley.

The paper discusses the immediate and urgent global concerns of developmental needs, energy, and climate change while... Keep Reading

Horses are a possible alternative for vehicles such as school buses and refuse trucks, say groups eager to pick up on global concerns about eco-friendly transport.

New regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants and mounting global concern over coal's climate footprint also cast a shadow over the industry's long - term future.

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«Our data captured widespread global concern for the social and geopolitical changes that cast many nations into uncertainty and turmoil,» says John Gerzema, chief executive of BAV Consulting.

Despite making China a focus of global concern because it became the single largest energy user and carbon emitter, China's 2010 per capita energy use (1.85 metric tons of oil equivalent, toe) was actually still below the world average (1.87 toe)[87,88].

He assured Canadians that any suggestion that this change means that Canada's stance on such vital global concerns as human rights or nuclear disarmament would diminish was «extremist fear mongering.»

Although, I'm not sure they preclude Bill Gates from commenting, during a Q&A session, on the difficulties of using data to solve certain global concerns without paying homage.

Cyber attacks are the now the biggest threat to business in the eyes of investors, mirroring growing global concern from business leaders,...

Amid global concerns that cryptocurrencies may be used for criminal purposes and money laundering, the G20 summit has highlighted for a discussion to be held on these viewpoints.

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