Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to carbon cuts, admits
a global deal needs to ensure these are deeper and faster
Not exact matches
The Canadian public, and even many business leaders, are losing faith in free
global trade
deals — just when we
need them more than ever
The managing director of Summerhill Venture Partners on the Radian6
deal, having a vision and why Canadian companies
need to be
global companies.
Your marketing chief may be well - versed in
dealing with customers, but you also
need to hire someone who has experience interacting with investors and the
global media, says Elizabeth Saunders, senior managing director of FTI's strategic communications practice in the Chicago office.
«Georgia and our businesses are
global competitors; we
need direct air travel to provide our companies with immediate access worldwide,»
Deal said in a statement on February 6.
The
deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a
global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities
needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.
While some companies Far Eastern is looking at have to
deal with the excess capacity, others
need management changes to adapt to a
global market, he said, adding that companies broadly
need to evolve as technology advances, he said.
Airlines are among those backing the idea, in part to
deal with a projected
need for 1.5 million pilots over the next 20 years as
global demand for air travel continues to grow.
Dan Tannebaum, PwC
Global Sanctions Leader, says there
needs to be a unilateral approach to
dealing with Russia.
In a great
deal of showmanship, he gave
global markets exactly what they wanted and
needed by promising to raise the country's limits on foreign investment and lower import duties on products such as cars.
But in order to use the threat of steel tariffs as an opening gambit to broader negotiations with the
global community, the Trump administration would
need a great
deal more of a resource it's lacking: credibility.
So he doesn't
need the crippling legal blow that the European Union just
dealt to Uber's
global ambition to be the leading taxi - ish service for the digital age.
Since in some respects we will, inevitably, have economic issues that can only be
dealt with at a
global level, we do indeed
need some
global government.
We don't
need war or hatred for Muslims in order to
deal with their goal of
global conquest effectively.
At a point when the
global economy fails, for whatever reason, it will make a great
deal of difference whether countries produce the food they
need.
With a clear agenda and concrete proposals on a
global growth
deal - opening up trade, tackling tax evasion and boosting infrastructure - Britain should have been leading efforts at the G20 to reach an agreement that would transform African and low - income countries into genuine, much -
needed dynamos for the largest prize: the return to
global growth.
In addition, Mr Blair will tomorrow set out his belief in
global institutions such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), although the spokesman noted he would explain how they «
need to be updated from how they were designed immediately after world war II.to
deal with modern challenges».
And now we see the new domino effect of
global markets, as institutions fall one by one, and the problem
need to be
dealt with at a national and international level - absolutely nothing at all of any note there.
We
need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change
deal than we saw in the face of the
global financial crisis.
They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a
need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a
global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to
deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.
There is not a great
deal of hard science in Gore's book, but it is notable for his «
Global Marshall Plan», an account of what
needs to be done to save our environment.
A
deal that sees all major emitters cutting greenhouse gases will be key to driving the
needed global investment in low - carbon growth, the commission argues, calling it a «powerful macroeconomic policy instrument» that will send clear signals to businesses and investors.
The report argues that existing programs aimed at helping countries
deal with climate change don't
deal directly with gender issues, and maintains that
global financing mechanisms
need to specifically address the rights of girls.
The World Health Organization is in
need of both reform and money to give it the best chance of
dealing with potential
global health threats in future
Scientific research and natural disasters both cross international boundaries, Shin and DiEuliis agreed, which highlights the
need for international coordination and
global standards for
dealing with dual - use technologies and preparing for CBRN disasters.
And we
need leaders to
deal seriously and honestly with the crux of these talks —
global inequality and historical responsibility — and to make progress on a fair, just, equitable and transformative
global partnership to combat the ever escalating climate crisis.»
While there's no doubt that climate change, artificial intelligence, automation, technologies and the
need to accommodate an ever - expanding
global population will remain key issues, it's hard to foresee what else we'll be
dealing with by the time today's school age students enter the workforce.
For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they
need to succeed in the
global economy;
dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.
It is a
global demand... but companies think no big
need for it, althogh the
need for 13 inch e ink readers (not 6 inch) is the big
deal
Global assist hotline — You'll have access to a hotline to call in case of an emergency overseas, like if you
need someone who speaks your language to
deal with a problem.
But before you go in to seal the
deal, you
need to know what to bring to your
Global Entry interview.
«One
need only consider Abstract Expressionism, for just a moment, as just another style to see with a great
deal of clarity that, in the Post World War II period, geometric abstraction, or op art, or hard edge painting, or whatever you want to call it was, in fact, the dominant
global idiom of that era, the true cosmopolitan language of art.
But to
deal with
global warming, we will
need an entirely new energy infrastructure.
In order for us to have a world worth passing on to future generations, first and foremost, before we cope with the specifics, it appears we
need to find new ways of
dealing with those specifics, which amounts to creating a
global social contract, some sufficient set of guidelines that take us from here to a humane world that is much more sustainable than out own, a set of guidelines acceptable and accepted not just in America but everywhere.
We collectively
need to demand that there is no acceptable response to climate change other than strong emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are returned to 350ppm levels,
global temperature rise is kept (at the maximum) 2 °C and, even better, 1.5 °C — to do that, as was emphasized on numerous occasions, we
need a F.A.B. climate
deal: Fair, Ambitious, and (perhaps most importantly) Binding.
His idea of a «
Global Deal» is mainly that the developed nations
need to do (pay?)
He also made an important point about the
need to sustain integrity over the long haul in
dealing with a grand challenge like
global warming:
Current technology includes nuclear fission, which is more than capable of
dealing with
global energy
needs, and at costs lower than fossil — IF it were only deployed.
The fact that Christy and Pielke Sr. are scientists allows their skeptical positions on rapid GHG driven
global warming to be even harder to
deal with when I attempt to inform people that rapid GHG driven
global warming is happening and that humans
need to act quickly to reduce GHG emissions in order to delay and to reduce the catastrophe that lies ahead due to
global warming.
And as he pointed out we
need to develop ways to
deal with this
global threat.
In 2006, I interviewed dozens of experts on energy, climate, and the economy for a story in our ongoing Energy Challenge series, and more than a few warned then that, in the world of politics and policy, the
need to
deal with a growing
global oil crunch could well trump the
need to curb greenhouse gases and limit long - term climate risks.
In the end, though, we
need a
global deal.
Apparently being «indifferent,» synonymous with «callous» and «uncaring,» is indistinguishable from not wanting to «
deal with
global warming» because you simply do not accept CAGW or even AGW and / or don't accept there are any consequences that
need to be immediately
dealt with.
You know, even Exxon says we
need to
deal with
global warming from fossil fuel greenhouse gas emissions: http://corporate.exxonmobil.com/en/current-issues/climate-policy/climate-perspectives/engagement-to-address-climate-change
It is set to return to the spotlight within the next three years as climate envoys will
need to decide how to handle unused permits in a new
global deal they want to iron out by 2015.
Which may help explain the reluctance of some Russian members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body charged by the UN with establishing the facts on climate change, to accept that
global warming is a problem that
needs to be
dealt with.
But of far graver concern are the growing reports that the US won't be ready to sign a
global deal on climate change in Copenhagen either, given the time
needed to enact domestic climate legislation.
We still
need at least 26 countries representing at least 15 percent of
global emissions to join before the
deal will take effect.
Further, by tying a big chuck of
global development aid to climate change, developing countries will not receive the help they
need in
dealing with their very real and urgent problems, e.g.
After that we
need another 20 to 30 years to completely transform the
global energy systems into renewable solar and wind with all the necessary backup systems to
deal with the daily and seasonal intermittencies.