Sentences with phrase «global governance as»

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«The successful candidate will have prior experience as GC or deputy GC of a multi-billion dollar public company responsible for all legal matters (including corporate & other regulatory matters, board governance, legal aspects of M&A, legal aspects of commercial contracts, litigation & dispute resolution, privacy, employment contracts, global public policy, etc.).»

The scandal comes at a bad time for Japanese business as a whole, as prime minister Shinzo Abe is trying to drum up global investor confidence by touting improved corporate governance standards.

Such efforts have become more prominent under Xi as the Chinese president vows to take on a leadership role in global affairs from trade to climate change to cyberspace governance.

Thus, the California Public Employees» Retirement System's Global Principles of Accountable Corporate Governance recommends that a company's board should be chaired by an independent director, as does the Council of Institutional Investors.

From 2001 through 2015, he served as a director of IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), a global industrial company with key growth platforms in Fluid Metering Technology and Health & Science Technology segments, where he chaired the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Audit Committee and served on the Compensation Committee.

December 23, 2016 - Global Proxy Watch recognizes CCGG Executive Director Stephen Erlichman as one of the «10 people around the world who have had the most impact on corporate governance» in 2016.

While Russia and China have publicly embraced multipolarity together, their views on global governance and sovereignty diverge, as do their approaches to rearranging the current international order.

Adam Segal, who researches China's internet policy at the Council of Foreign Relations, compares the conference as an ideological counterpart to ones like the Global Conference on CyberSpace (GCCS), an annual gathering that draws policymakers worldwide to discuss internet governance within the framework of Western - style democracy.

This is especially important as the potential in Canada - Korea relations moves beyond the purely bilateral sphere of the past 50 years to more cooperation on international issues of common concern, such as the health of the global economy, effective global governance in the G20 and elsewhere, and preserving a peaceful and secure Asia Pacific region.

San Francisco, Calif. (November 24, 2015)-- Glass Lewis, the leading independent provider of global governance services, named Aaron Bertinetti as the Vice President of Research and Engagement, and Michael Vogele as the Senior Director of North American Research.

From 2008 — 2012 he chaired the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management and from 2012 to present has served as vice chair of the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School.

The report cites the rise of Asia, particularly of China and India, as a key «game changer» in the global economic and governance landscape.

LIMERICK, IRELAND (27 March 2018)-- Glass Lewis, the leading independent provider of global governance and engagement support services, announced enhancements to its Proxy Paper research service as part of a new partnership with Dutch firm DirectorInsight.

LIMERICK, IRELAND (27 March 2018)-- Glass Lewis, the leading independent provider of global governance and engagement support services, announced enhancements to its Proxy Paper research service as part of a new partnership with Dutch -LSB-...]

As an «informal global political regime», global governance has proven remarkably efficient in the last fifteen to twenty years in changing the language of governments, academia, the media, and NGOs, and in setting new political and cultural goals (such as «sustainability» and «good governance»), thereby creating a new global culture that quietly transforms all cultures from within (see IIS 279 - 81As an «informal global political regime», global governance has proven remarkably efficient in the last fifteen to twenty years in changing the language of governments, academia, the media, and NGOs, and in setting new political and cultural goals (such as «sustainability» and «good governance»), thereby creating a new global culture that quietly transforms all cultures from within (see IIS 279 - 81as «sustainability» and «good governance»), thereby creating a new global culture that quietly transforms all cultures from within (see IIS 279 - 81).

Would it not be that the West and the institutions of global governance, having closed themselves to transcendence, have stopped searching for what is real, true and good for humanity as a whole and for each individual person, and therefore prove unable to forge any genuine consensus?

Consensus, accords and other soft agreements (such as the 1994 Cairo consensus or the recent Copenhagen Accord), while not being «legally binding», do substantially determine the direction of global governance, establish a «global normative framework», are often «enforced» - effectively implemented, as if political and cultural agreements had become more «binding» than hard law.

Global governance then took a Copernican turn, away from the paradigms of western modernity (such as national sovereignty and interest, the primacy of reason, growth, progress, representative democracy, the authority of government, western universal values, hierarchies), towards a new postmodern ethic.

-LSB-...] Global governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - basedGlobal governance can be «described» as the new global political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - basedglobal political regime which informally came about in the course of the post-Cold War conference process of the United Nations (1990 - 96), when a new «global consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - basedglobal consensus» was built, not primarily by governments themselves but through a historical and strategic partnership between the UN and so - called «non-state actors», mainly powerful western - based NGOs.

As IIS often highlighted it, the UN consensus - building exercise of the 1990s, which set the framework in which global governance operates today, hijacked humanity's universal aspirations at the end of the Cold War.

Global governance increasingly interprets gender equality as being explicitly inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights.

Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.

But it threatens their own culture insofar as regional integration is largely instrumentalised as a step towards global governance with a postmodern (and therefore neo-Western) global ethic.

actively participated in the global food sovereignty movement by attending conferences of La Via Campesina and the International Planning Committee on Food Sovereignty, as well as participated in global food security governance negotiations at the World Committee on Food Security;

China, the world's largest importer and consumer of timber products, has emerged as a leader in global environmental governance.

Elements of her research have been published in the Journal of Military Ethics, Global Governance, UBC Journal of International Affairs and others, as well as chapters in edited volumes.

As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the UAs a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, Professor Yu has a number of honorary titles at many universities and was selected as one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the Uas one of the «30 most influential figures in the past 30 years since the reform in China» in 2008 and ranked in the «2011 Global Top 100 Thinkers» by Foreign Policy in the US.

(The latter can be regarded as an ideal system of global governance, as well as a dystopia for national democracies).

It represents our most recent — and most enduring — experiment in global governance, as a place for states to convene, as the setter of international norms, and as a provider of key services, from emergency relief to human rights monitors and peacekeepers.

For a nation that was waiting for a messianic vision and direction from his government, President Buhari does not have the privilege or the right to remain silent on issues such as the current fuel scarcity (save for a one - page press release signed by him), the Mainagate, the NNPC $ 25bn contract scandal, the continued Fulani herdsmen attack on communities, despite their being listed as the fourth deadliest terror group in the Global Terrorism Index, and the full report of the Presidential Panel of Inquiry set up to investigate a former Secretary to Government of the Federation, Lawal Babachir, and a former DG, National Intelligence Agency, Ayo Oke, because beyond election, the validation of the legitimacy of any government through good governance rests on this core element which is communicating.

In 1947, ahead of the foundation of the United Nations, he co-founded the Parliamentary Group for World Government, which as All Party Parliamentary Group for World Governance (APPGWG) counts today (2008) 167 members and meets regularly to provide a forum for debate on global governance issues in the UK PGovernance (APPGWG) counts today (2008) 167 members and meets regularly to provide a forum for debate on global governance issues in the UK Pgovernance issues in the UK Parliament.

Cross-cutting areas of transboundary issues and governance of the global commons, such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2030 agenda

The white paper depicts China's vision for Antarctica as pursuing an approach of peaceful use of Antarctica, safeguarding the stability of the Antarctic Treaty System, elevating Antarctic infrastructure and support capabilities, enhancing scientific investigation and research capability, while calling for strengthened Antarctic environmental protection and coordinating global governance of the continent.

The report, the State of Civil Society 2011, available at StateOfCivilSociety.org, concludes that in the face of connected economic, environmental, political and social crises, the institutions of global governance have been revealed as lacking.

The challenge is to recognize the legitimacy of the global polity as an outer layer of a nested system of affiliation that reaches across regions and places to build processes of democratic global governance for managing our collective affairs on this planet.

She is also a faculty affiliate of Center for Global Change and Governance, Urban Studies, Women Studies, Urban Education, Institute on Education Law and Policy, as well as the Institute of Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience.

As an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCAs an African grass roots organization that has demonstrated the success of its holistic approach to the interrelated problems of environmental degradation, poverty and women's rights, and governance, we have established The Green Belt Movement International (www.greenbeltmovement.org) to ensure that the work of the GBM in Kenya expands and is sustained, facilitate the sharing of the work with other parts of Africa and beyond, to institutionalize the work and experiences of GBM so future generations can continue to learn and be empowered by this example and to continue to support important global campaigns and struggles that represent the linkage between the environment, democracy and peace, such as the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCas the Congo Forest Basin Ecosystem and The African Union's ECOSOCC.

Zuma, on a state visit to France, said that he and Hollande have committed to «strengthening co-operation on regional and global peace and security as well as global governance issues.»

In previous works, she has proposed questions on the global arms race, patriarchy as governance, and the dysfunctional union of art and capitalist commodity.

And the report, in a big shift from 20th - century strategies, puts little emphasis on lofty but unrealistic approaches relying on global governance or carbon pricing as the means to transform the world's energy menu.

Those supporting global governance of environmental issues are celebrating the Lacey Act as model legislation.

They say their findings, which focused on the effect titling had on forest clearing and disturbance in the Peruvian Amazon between 2002 and 2005, suggest that the increasing trend towards decentralized forest governance via granting indigenous groups and other local communities formal legal title to their lands could play a key role in global efforts to slow both tropical forest destruction, which the researchers note is responsible for about the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions as the transportation sector, and climate change.»

This is tatamount to a rejection of democracy as a form of human governance on grounds of being intrinsically inadequate to counter the global warming evidence GISS claims to be there, in their US data.

«Strong was using the U.N. as a platform to sell a global environment crisis and the Global Governance Agenda.&global environment crisis and the Global Governance Agenda.&Global Governance Agenda.»

From these studies, a complex range of factors, including behavioural economics (Grothmann and Patt, 2005), national aspirations and socio - political goals (Haddad, 2005), governance, civil and political rights and literacy, economic well - being and stability, demographic structure, global interconnectivity, institutional stability and well - being, and natural resource dependence (Adger and Vincent, 2005), are all emerging as powerful determinants of vulnerability and the capacity to adapt to climate change.

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Global food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food secGlobal food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food secglobal food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food security.

India joins IEA family, a major milestone for global energy governance The International Energy Agency welcomed India as an Association country on Thursday, expanding its partnership for a more secure and sustainable energy future with the world's third - largest energy consumer 30 March 2017

As the global climate warms, at - risk communities need to improve governance of wildfire issues, including landscape management, while also strengthening regional and international measures for cooperation, Goldammer tells Pacific Standard.

Such experiments should be judged on their scientific merit, as well as the broader governance and ethics concerns around solar geoengineering, which should include potential biodiversity responses when the intention is to inform solar geoengineering deployment at the global scale.