Sentences with phrase «global deal needs»

Top climate official Christiana Figueres praises countries for committing to carbon cuts, admits a global deal needs to ensure these are deeper and faster

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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.
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