Sentences with phrase «global crisis around»

I know it will take massive change for us as a species to survive let alone thrive in the converging global crisis around climate, food, water, fuel and the economy.

Not exact matches

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Around 150 employees of national kitchen and laundry appliance retailer Kleenmaid Group face an uncertain future as administrators are appointed to the company after the global financial crisis hits sales and margins.

As candy lovers around the world contribute to a global chocolate deficit, one chocolatier has a simple solution to the brewing crisis.

During the 2008 - 09 slide, it was the other way around; then, as soon as the global financial crisis was contained and energy traders could see the level at which global demand would bottom out, the price trend reversed itself.

Coupled with other bumps on the road (think the eurozone crisis and slow global growth) the overall effect, he added, «has been economic growth around 2 percent, and only a very gradual improvement in labor markets.»

Around five years after Rogers wrote that, the 2008 - 2009 global economic crisis delivered what should have been a crowbar - to - the - head message about debt: Too much debt is bad.

As we have said in past commentaries, the historic levels of quantitative easing following the global financial crisis — that is the expansion of the Fed's balance sheet from around $ 900 billion to nearly $ 4.5 trillion today — was one of the most dominant market - shaping forces over the last decade.

He is dedicated to addressing our growing global waste crisis and founded FullCycle Energy LP to finance projects that convert our costly environmental problem into clean, valuable fuel to power communities around the world.

The nimbleness that helped China steer around the worst of the global crisis is confronting political paralysis of the kind more often seen in Japan, Europe and the U.S..

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

The ongoing debt crisis in the EU has recently been dwarfed by the global outcry revolving around the much - despised Trump administration and its draconic trade policies.

As if all that wasn't enough, there were discussions on #BlackLivesMatter, the impact of global warming on the poorest in our world and the refugee crisis — giving voices to the Silent Stars around the world.

I guess that in a world where 39,000 children die each day from preventable disease, where around 90,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq, where the current global food crisis causes a child to die every seven seconds, where 47 million Americans can not afford basic healthcare, and where women and children continue to be murdered in Darfur — nothing says «God is pro-life» better than a bunch of wet democrats.

The controversial «Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace» makes the international financial crisis, still unfolding around us in slow motion, the occasion for a renewed call for a «global political authority.»

«Hunger is the world's most solvable crisis and as a global restaurant company, we know that our surplus food donations will help the nearly 800 million hungry people around the world.

Mr. Ayiku noted that fake news «is also a global crisis» and countries around the world are taking particular interest in it while others are also formulating laws to check fake news.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

He expands: «There is no doubt that, even now, around the world, the contribution he made to solving the global financial crisis and avoiding a depression is already, outside of Britain, very well understood.

There is no doubt that, even now, around the world, the contribution he made to solving the global financial crisis and avoiding a depression, that's already, outside of Britain, very well understood.

The global financial crisis of 2008 saw banks around the world bailed out to the tune of billions by governments worried that the entire financial system was in meltdown.

«Increasing demand for seafood has contributed to a global fisheries crisis, with consequences for marine ecosystems around the world,» Österblom adds.

Archer is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees, who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage, and betray each other for personal gain.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

In this workshop, students learn about shelter - what it is, how it varies around the world and what makes it adequate - and the global situation, including the world slum crisis.

A combination of bond - buying programs by central banks, negative - and zero - interest - rate policies, and continued fears that a new global crisis may be around the corner (a hard path to Brexit being the latest source of such concern) have held the pedal down on the flight to safety.

So, look, this is another area where, if you remember, the value investors got it wrong around the time of the global financial crisis.

hotel.info, the leading online hotel reservation service with more than 210,000 hotels around the world, is reacting to the global economic crisis by targeting small and medium - sized businesses.

Through disparate yet interlinking imagery, Akomfrah weaves together cruel visions of the past with current issues around global migration, the refugee crisis, slavery, and ecological concerns.

In his intriguing series Refuge, Kevin Chin's new paintings are inspired by the global migrant crisis, the resurgence of political parties like One Nation and Reclaim Australia, the US election of Trump, and the continuing debate around nationalism, belonging and alienation.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

«It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis, not only because of the CO2 involved but also because of the water consumed in the process.»

However: there can be no doubt about the fact that people in general must be more aware of the global ecological crisis that has been building up around us, and all over the internet and the printed press throughout the past few years.

With the exception of a drop in global emissions around the time of the 2009 financial crisis, which heavily depressed overall business activity, the BP figure of 0.1 % growth in CO2 is the lowest for 25 years.

To put that in perspective, global emissions declined by just 1 percent for a single year after the 2008 financial crisis, during a brutal recession when factories and buildings around the world were idling.

It all started with a school presentation and today Plant - for - the - Planet is a global movement with an ambitious goal: to fight the climate crisis by planting trees around the world.

At the Garrison Institute, we believe our current ecological crisis is also a spiritual crisis — one that asks us to both deepen our emotional, intuitive, and embodied ways of relating to the earth and to expand our collective sense of perspective, meaning, and solidarity around the global crisis.

Around global warming then, at the current juncture in history, we can say that there are those who have primary moral responsibility for causing climate catastrophe, a much larger group of those who have secondary ethical responsibility for climate catastrophe, and a still larger group who are bystanders in terms of causality of global warming to date but will need to assume some responsibility in solving the climate crisis.

And that's what Andrew Revkin did, week in, week out: He took the words out of Michael Mann's mouth and served them up to impressionable readers of the New York Times and opportunist politicians around the world champing at the bit to inaugurate a vast global regulatory body to confiscate trillions of dollars of your hard - earned wealth in the cause of «saving the planet» from an imaginary crisis concocted by a few dozen thuggish ideologues.

We have a worldwide CO2 global warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can

To draw attention to the global water crisis and encourage people to limit how much water they use, an arts group is painting hundreds of water tanks around the city this summer.

We have a worldwide CO2 global warming crisis and American politicians are running around trying to throw money at coal - to - liquid production that as the graph shows, does nothing to reduce carbon emissions IF they can figure out how to sequester the CO2 and over DOUBLES if there is no sequestration.

As an international organization committed to fighting the climate crisis on a global scale, Climate Reality holds trainings in many different locations around the world so people everywhere can join us in working to solve the climate crisis.

Since I brought it up solely in reaction to Cockburn, may I suggest that a good topic for a column or set of comments would be around the question «Which approaches to addressing or solving the Global Warming crisis are more just and democratic?»

He said cereal stocks had been declining for more than a decade but now stood at around 57 days, which made global food supplies vulnerable to an international crisis or big natural disaster such as a drought or flood.

The unemployment crisis is a source of bottomless suffering around the world, and the millions upon millions of jobs that would be created by global emergency climate mobilization are anything but incidental.

Though Nitzkowski agrees the office had integration issues, he says the biggest problem was the shift in the market: Global banks started pulling out of the Japanese real estate market around the time the subprime crisis began in the United States in 2007 and the local banks started handling most Japan securitization work, pitching them mainly to domestic, rather than international, investors.

The global travel insurance and travel assistance provider set up around - the - clock crisis units following the earthquake to identify customers on site, provide them with the help they need, and support their families back home.

Keeping a smaller currency constantly pegged to a larger national one, to a regional one or even to a global reserve currency, is a difficult task which many central banks around the world have failed to do in the past in times of crisis.