Sentences with phrase «global crisis of»

On climate change as a security threat: In an October debate, Sanders said climate change was the greatest threat to U.S. national security: «The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable.

While the agreement must still be ratified by individual nations, it is a significant step toward dealing with the global crisis of toxic mercury.

«The scientific community is telling us that if we do not address the global crisis of climate change, transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy, the planet that we're going to be leaving our kids and our grandchildren may well not be habitable,» Sanders said.

Over two years ago, world leaders convened in Paris to tackle the global crisis of climate change.

But seen the environmental global CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL plankton will be bred in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course in the seas and oceans so that sea - organisms / life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisoning.

The global crisis of 2008 created many concerns about the housing market.

Iceland scores high on international assessments, but in the global crisis of 2008 — 2009 it became an economic basket case with a national debt equal to 850 percent of its gross domestic product.

The roots of the global crisis of access to water aren't in the absence of physical supply, but associated with the poverty, sociopolitical and economic inequality, and water management policies inefficient.

The Brazil that was immune to the effects of the global crisis of 2008 shows at present signs of economic deterioration characterized by low GDP growth and the return of inflation, which could mean the existence of a process of economic stagnation with inflation (stagflation).

The current global crisis of depressive illness has a simple root cause: a failure of treatment.

«The global crisis of 2013 led to a reduction of 40 % in receivables and the unilateral national minimum wages foisted on states increased expenditure by average of 70 %.

Is the global crisis of modern government and institutions an opportunity for non-Western cultures to draw from their own traditions to govern themselves?

It has helped to plunge the world into the global crisis of management in which we seem unable to utilize the world's resources without massive environmental deterioration.

(4) Because it is the only true answer to the global crisis of energy - production - consumption, although it is that.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

I am not sure that what happened last week is proof of anything I've been saying, but I do think that the framework I have used over the past decade has been useful, at least to me, in understanding both the rebalancing process in China and the events that led up to the global crisis of 2007 - 08.

We have seen a lot of this before the global crisis of 2007 - 08, and the seemingly obvious conclusion it that the tendency to increase the savings rate beyond the productive needs of the economy was balanced at least in part by a surge in speculative and unproductive investments.

«This highly anticipated sixth edition has been revised to include an in - depth analysis of the first global crisis of the twenty - first century.

Having been called upon by global leaders to use its technology to address the global crises of climate change and poverty, Cisco opts to pursue sustainability...

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.

Geithner, who served under President Barack Obama as secretary of the treasury as the U.S. struggled to rebound from the global financial crisis, said the current political climate could lead to a «diminished capacity to make sensible economic choices.»

You can grab a pair of figure - flattering, moisture - wicking leggings at the same time that you support ongoing (and sustainable) solutions to the global water crisis.

«After a strong rebound in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, the pace of activity in the emerging markets has faded,» says Stephen King, HSBC's chief economist in the report.

Wall St villains now saviours Wall Street fund managers - the very people blamed for the sub prime crisis that sparked the global economic meltdown - will be given an almost free ride to buy $ US1 trillion worth of toxic assets crippling the financial system.

Expanded Gorgon cost to hit $ 50bn, Barnett claims The cost of the massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas venture is thought to have ballooned to as much as $ US32 billion ($ 50 billion) after Premier Colin Barnett yesterday labelled it one of the key projects that could help WA weather the global financial crisis.

Lane talked of Canada's need to restore its place in global supply chains after the Great Recession and how a stronger currency «battered» exporters after the financial crisis.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

The global economy is set for one of its best years since the financial crisis, but recession risks are increasing, said UBS Chairman Axel Weber.

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.

Though America navigated the post-2008 global financial crisis era better than many nations, our stagnant employment market is a sign of our enduring problems.

Investors remain very wary after the global financial crisis, the CEO of a mammoth asset manager said Tuesday.

Shirakawa's doubts kept the BOJ firmly focused on interest rates, rather than the size of its balance sheet, even after it had driven its policy rate down close to zero after the global financial crisis.

The unrelenting global financial press compared the unusually extreme trading volatility to every terrible episode in modern financial history — the Asian financial crisis in the mid-1990s, the Black Monday of 1987, and the Black Monday of 1929.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

Such indoor farming — ranging from skyscraper greenhouses to in vitro meat — is altering our definition of agriculture and creating technologies that could stave off a global food crisis.

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?

This has been a major feature of the market post the global financial crisis.

Government data shows the number of migrant workers rose 0.4 % in 2015, the weakest increase since the global financial crisis in 2009.

In 2015, one of the company's engineers approached Gebbia with a proposal for how the company could use its software and matching capabilities to help with the global humanitarian crisis.

«Europe has seen the strongest improvement among all regions in its outlook balance since 2011, when the region accounted for almost the entire global negative outlook bias — largely as a result of the eurozone crisis,» he said.

He had been drawn in to the construction - materials business by an intriguing product puzzle and found himself in an $ 11 billion industry that bore the onus of helping fend off a global crisis.

The BoJ has been the least expansionary of major central banks since the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis, Evans said, adding that its planned balance - sheet increase this year pales by comparison with the $ 1 trillion of assets that the U.S. Federal Reserve is slated to purchase.

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.

In 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis, the Fed and its global counterparts signed the so - called «Basel III» accords, under which all countries agreed to raise the minimum level of capital banks must hold to 8 % of their risk - adjusted assets.

The household name had logged four consecutive years of consolidated net losses, punished by the global financial crisis in 2008 and losses in its consumer product divisions such as the flat - panel TV units.

Although there were signs of economic recovery in advanced economies, the organization said that the crisis - related global jobs gap «continues to widen.»

The selection of the new BOJ leadership comes at a crucial time for Japanese and global markets, which have been rattled in recent weeks on expectations major central banks will whittle down their crisis - mode stimulus.

The founder and managing partner of the FullCycle Energy fund doesn't just focus on small problems: he harnesses new technology to solve global crises.

So both are paradoxically true: rising inequality is indeed a crisis of Neoliberal Global State Capitalism, and so is the rise of the supposed «solution,» the insatiable plundering State in service to its fiefdoms and private Financial Power Elites (the Plutocracy).

Eight years after a devastating recession opened an era of loose U.S. monetary policy, the Federal Reserve was set on Wednesday to raise rates for the first time since 2006, in a sign the world's largest economy had overcome most of the wounds of the global financial crisis.