Sentences with phrase «global footprint while»

As the U.S. economy erodes and leasing and investment sales stall, commercial real estate brokerages are aggressively growing their global footprint while expanding business lines...

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To address this changing market, Laureate will provide $ 13 million to help Thunderbird create new online and undergraduate programs, while also expanding its global footprint.

The average American has a more than ten - square - acre footprint, while the global average is under three.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

While Moana was cheaper and profitable at $ 121M off a $ 248.8 M domestic, $ 643M global haul, Disney is confident that they don't have a Good Dinosaur disaster on their hands with Coco, especially with a $ 153.4 M global start off a 33 % foreign footprint with many major territories like the UK, Japan, Italy, Germany left to go (by comparison Good Dinosaur was at $ 131M through two weeks at the global B.O. and ended its run at $ 123M domestic, $ 332M global).

Amongst the bad news is the spread of invasive species, chemical pollution, global warming, species decline, over-logging and urban sprawl (for example in 15 years Pennsylvania has increased its «urban footprint» by 47 % while its population has increased by only 2.5 %).

Seek to maintain global stock exposure while reducing the carbon footprint of an investment portfolio

After two decades we continue to offer the best encounters in British Columbia, all while striving to minimize our global footprint, and educate those we are fortunate enough to explore our coast with.

Most of the global population got almost no ecological footprint per capita, while a global minority is sucking out the planet and the rest of the people.

While warning that modern agricultural methods are placing unprecedented demands on our natural resources, Dr. Foley's work offers hope, promise and a way forward, offering strategic solutions for increasing global food production while reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footpWhile warning that modern agricultural methods are placing unprecedented demands on our natural resources, Dr. Foley's work offers hope, promise and a way forward, offering strategic solutions for increasing global food production while reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footpwhile reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footprint.

Our number one task as a global species with an almighty footprint is how to maintain Earth's life support system while providing food and a decent quality of life to seven billion people climbing to nine or more.

In the U.S., several states are firm in their commitment to fight global warming by reducing their carbon footprint, while Europe as a whole is committed to closing a number of its coal plants.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Under President Obama, the US played the lead role in global climate negotiations since 2014, drawing China into the fold, while pushing for the historic Paris Agreement in 2015, when 196 nations pledged to reduce their carbon footprint.

In addition, the investments would alleviate global poverty and keep stagnating economies humming, while cutting humanity's global ecological footprint nearly in half by 2050 even in the face of rising populations.

While these numbers are not verifiable (there is very little data available on the fashion industry's global footprint), we do know how that the amount of resources required to produce clothes on the scale that they're currently made is enormous.

And while arguments around low carbon farming and reducing greenhouse gas emissions may be compelling in an age of Global Warming, the Moneyless Man warns that we shouldn't reduce every ethical decision to a mathematical equation over carbon footprints.

While smaller firms and solo practitioners may not have the extensive resources or global footprint as bigger law firms may have, lawyers at smaller firms or with solo practices are often more resourceful in identifying ways to handle matters which yield the same outcome.

In January 2016, Advanced Discovery furthered its global footprint with the transatlantic acquisition of Millnet, while in the same month Xact Data Discovery expanded its US coverage by taking over Salt Lake City - based Orange Legal Technologies and Everlaw closed an $ 8.1 m series A funding round led by Silicon Valley fund Andreessen Horowitz.

While the previous spate of mergers and acquisitions that combined so many of the larger firms was often in pursuit of a global footprint, few law firms have proprietary technology or ideas to protect.

For this purpose, the ambition is to build a law firm with a truly global footprint, while integrating process and technology as part of the delivery model.

«While we've had some good successes informally co-ordinating our practices, in 2013 we saw an opportunity to unite all the litigators and the e-discovery specialists across the enterprise in a formal practice management group, really leveraging the diverse views of our litigators from across our global footprint in Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and London, to think creatively about how to do things better, more efficiently, and consistently in our litigation practice,» says Pascale Elharrar, associate general counsel and managing director, litigation, BMO Financial Group and chair, litigation practice management group.

Gabriels has become real estate's leading provider of luxury real estate websites while maintaining its long - held leadership as the world leader in providing real estate technology to media companies and conglomerates, with a global footprint that covers 28 countries and 42 states in the U.S.

Gabriels has become real estate's leading provider of luxury real estate websites while maintaining its long - held leadership as the world leader world leader in providing real estate technology to media companies and conglomerates, with a global footprint that covers 28 countries.