Sentences with phrase «global discussion about»

Our head isn't in the sand: ETC Group has been encouraging global discussion about geoengineering for nearly a decade.

With actual implementation of the project nowhere on the horizon, Dongtan has been recast as a valuable contribution to the global discussion about ecocity design, a «knowledge transfer» in the words of one project manager.

This Guam research contributes to the ongoing global discussions about the role of afforestation for revegetating tropical degraded habitats.

Not exact matches

Center for Disease Control Director Tom Frieden participates in a discussion about «Zika, the Olympics, and Global Health Security: A Marathon Against a Microbe» at New America July 13, 2016 in Washington, DC.

And it would be hard to compile any list of the best business books of the year without mentioning Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty - First Century — which «sparked a fantastic global discussion this year about inequality,» Gates writes.

GLOBAL M&A: My colleague Geoffrey Colvin led an eye - opening discussion this morning about companies hoping to take their domestic business international.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

In this first chapter of Extra Credit, S&P Global Ratings» Managing Directors Robin Prunty and Horacio Aldrete and Senior Director Lisa Schroeer talk about the relaunch of Extra Credit and what type of credit discussions you can expect for the upcoming year.

The minutes of the Fed's Jan. 30 - 31 discussions showed that officials were more optimistic about the economy than they had been in December, noting a stronger U.S. and global economy and rising expectations that tax cuts would boost growth.

Even though I know nothing about the iron ore market, and certainly not as much as the CEO of Fortescue, I know arithmetic, and even before I heard Minack's discussion of the global increase in production, I simply could not get the arithmetic that connected Chinese interest rates with Australian iron ore exports to work otherwise.

Commenting on the global economy, Gundlach noted that the discussion used to be about basket cases like Argentina and other developing countries.

When launched our global asset management company for affluent and high net worth individuals, families and institutions that wanted to invest alongside us, we made sure our initial Form ADV disclosures contained discussions about some of the risks.

Within MF Global, Mr. Corzine welcomed discussion about his bet and his reasons for it, though some senior managers said they feared confronting such a prominent figure.

The two met during a three - daylong series of discussions at the Vatican about the fourth annual international conference called Unite to Cure: A Global Health Care Initiative.

(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

Boston, MA About Blog The MHTF seeks to generate and disseminate high quality scientific research; surface key issues for critical discussion, consensus building and policy advocacy; support emerging professionals in maternal newborn health; and connect researchers, policy makers, providers and other stakeholders in the global maternal newborn health field.

The discussions will focus on five theses about the development of the wine sector until 2034 which are the results of a global market survey commissioned by ProWein.

She set up The Positive Birth Movement (PBM), a global network of antenatal discussion groups, with the aim of improving childbirth and giving women better access to support and information, not anticipating the huge appetite among women for more positive messages about birth.

With all the discussion about global climate change effects, new research shows that another kind of climate is an important factor in regional pinyon pine tree recovery after drought events — the microclimate.

In recent years, there has been a lot of discussion about the global increase in the abundance of gelatinous zooplankton populations.

«The paper adds a long - overdue global analysis to the ongoing discussion about the root causes leading to tree mortality across a wide range of trees,» said Dawson, who is familiar with the research but was not involved in it.

The discussion about the European and maybe global job market has begun, and some companies might want to find employees on an international basis.»

That's the take - home message from a global survey of Ph.D. and master's students published today, which adds to the meager but growing literature on the subject and corroborates anecdotal evidence and discussion about the topic from recent years, including a number of personal tragedies and numerous testimonials and concerns expressed on social media and elsewhere.

As discussions about global climate change take place in both the scientific sector and the policy realm, Enzo Sauma is in a good position to bridge the two worlds.

I had just been in a discussion of climate change on a messageboard where someone had triumphantly put up links to various blogs (including one that you noted here) drawing conclusions about the cause of the global warming here on earth on the basis of these recent measurements of Mars's south polar cap!

I think your discussion about anthropogenic global warming is a little «off topic» in this blog entry, which is about due diligence in climate science, but with the permission of those running the blog, I'd like to explore it a little further.

Re: 98 Satellite data: Some weeks ago I had a discussion with my American «Deny - aleban» nephew about global warming, and I came across some points of interest, which I think somebody should take a closer look into: I wrote this to him: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9m66ktqf28mghs/Pil1.pdf?dl=0 and the point of interest starts at page 6, where I write about the 98 - thing.

Unnoticed by the public, there is a serious discussion about research integrity within the global science community.

San Francisco, CA About Blog A place for the discussion of automation, additive manufacturing, robotics, AI, and all the other tools we've created to enable a global paradise free of menial labor.

San Francisco About Blog EE Times connects the global electronics community through news, analysis, education, and peer - to - peer discussion around technology, business, products and design.

About Blog The purpose of The Global Commission on Drug Policy is to bring to the international level an informed, science - based discussion about human and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and socieAbout Blog The purpose of The Global Commission on Drug Policy is to bring to the international level an informed, science - based discussion about human and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and socieabout human and effective ways to reduce the harm caused by drugs to people and societies.

It is a guide about how to incorporate discussion of global issues such as gender, climate change and poverty into your subject area.

By Dr. Joanne Robinson, Director of Professional Learning, Education Leadership Canada CEO, International School Leadership ONTARIO PRINCIPALS» COUNCIL Universally, we are having a lot of discussion about the needs of our 21st Century graduates in order for them to survive and thrive in changing global societies.

Universally, we are having a lot of discussion about the needs of our 21st Century graduates in order for them to survive and thrive in changing global societies.

Mr. Jones follows this discussion with a short pre-assessment to find out what students already know about the important facts, laws, and principles that form the content of this unit on Business Forms and The Global Economy.

Join authors, journalists and other thought leaders for a discussion about local and global threats to book culture, authentic media, free speech, copyright laws and independent scholarship.

Kaufman spoke about Copia's global expansion into Australia and Spain — and alluded to some big news that will hopefully be launched in time for next month's O'Reilly Media Tools of Change publishing event — as well the popular reception of the annotation feature that lets authors enter the discussion and post commentary inside the pages of readers» books, almost creating a «director's cut» out of books, much the way that JK Rowling has granted her fans insider access into the creation of the Harry Potter books by adding additional notes and comments on the series.

This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era.

Peter also speaks with Cathay Pacific Airways CEO John Slosar for frank discussions about the state of the global aviation industry.

A multi-purpose platform, GTEF not only brings together international government and industry leaders, experts, scholars and related industry partners to engage in discussions and debates about opportunities and challenges in the global tourism economy; it also provides the perfect environment for stakeholders in the tourism and related industries to explore the real opportunities that underlie China's international and regional integration policies, to network and to engage in business - matching and privately - scheduled meetings that are conducive to business leads and new partnerships.

Global About Blog The Employment Law Worldview Blog aims to interest and educate, to stimulate discussion, to provoke and sometimes just to amuse HR and other practitioners around the world.

San Francisco, CA About Blog A place for the discussion of automation, additive manufacturing, robotics, AI, and all the other tools we've created to enable a global paradise free of menial labor.

Meanwhile, PIERRE ALEXANDER DE LOOZ activates the secret Vogue history of CY TWOMBLY photographed by HORST P. HORST; publisher LORD GEORGE WEIDENFELD divulges the historical foundation of the global networking imperative in an interview with HANS ULRICH OBRIST; architect ARNO BRANDLHUBER asks how we can build architecture in the form of a discussion; artist MATTHEW BARNEY previews the Detroit chapter of his opera Ancient Evenings; designer RICK OWENS talks with CARSON CHAN about the discrete, the lurid, and the total aesthetic; director PAUL SCHRADER and king of disco GIORGIO MORODER crystallize 30 years of AMERICAN GIGOLO; artist ANDRO WEKUA stares us down with a 21st - century scenography;

This Thursday the stage was set for a panel discussion at the Astrup Fearnley Museum about the private museum initiatives in a global / local context.

Durham's work offers a vital perspective on present - day discussions about the relationship between the local and the global; the interface between art and activism; and the history of sculpture as a medium tactically and conceptually entwined with everyday life.

By invoking seemingly antagonistic art - historical models — from the technological experiments of Russian constructivism to the base materialism of Bataillean surrealism and the cybernetic systems aesthetics of Jack Burnham, as well as the entropic geographies of Robert Smithson — «Foreign in a Domestic Sense» participates in contemporary discussions regarding the power of things and materials to operate beyond the scope and frame of the human, while insisting on an urgent geopolitical awareness about the conditions of Puerto Rico and kindred territories in the global south.

One interesting point relevant to policy about bets focused on global average temperature (GAT)-- it appears from this discussion that there is unanimous agreement among those who disagree on what future GAT will be that there is no need to discount for policy interventions.

Any discussion of global warming, whether in a news story or debate over policy or Gallup poll question, ideally should start with clarity about what's being discussed.

What we need to have is an intelligent discussion about environmental priorities, rather than global warming hysteria.