Sentences with phrase «global issues in the areas»

It supports and inspires efforts that create and expand new frontiers for the benefit of humanity by funding innovative solutions to critical global issues in the areas of science and technology, the environment, education, and humanitarian advances.

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The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

«But they have a great capacity to give funding, which we need in all of our issue areas, particularly global health.»

Each of the main articles in this issue persuasively point out this social need for fresh and faithful anthropological insight, in the areas respectively of the family, economics and global government.

Global issues that are intrusive at the domestic level go well beyond the three topics areas that are covered in the final section of the book.

Suswam, while addressing some members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in the area, defended his government, saying that the non-payment of workers» salaries was a global issue and not peculiar to Benue state.

That shift of the coastal ocean from carbon source to sink, quantified for the first time in the Dec. 5, 2013, issue of the journal Nature, suggests coastal areas are a key component of the global carbon budget, the scientists say.

HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES TO COVER ALL 12 TOPICS IN GREAT DETAIL - I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneouslIN GREAT DETAIL - I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneouslin the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneouslin all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneously.

TOPICS: 1: Identity and culture 1: Me, my family and friends 2: Technology in everyday life 3: Free - time activities 4: Customs and festivals in French - speaking countries / communities 2: Local, national, international and global areas of interest 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region 2: Social issues 3: Global issues 4: Travel and tourism 3: Current and future study and employment 1: My studies 2: Life at school / college 3: Education post-16 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions Source for the vocab list: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/french/specifications/AQA-8658-SP-20global areas of interest 1: Home, town, neighbourhood and region 2: Social issues 3: Global issues 4: Travel and tourism 3: Current and future study and employment 1: My studies 2: Life at school / college 3: Education post-16 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions Source for the vocab list: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/french/specifications/AQA-8658-SP-20Global issues 4: Travel and tourism 3: Current and future study and employment 1: My studies 2: Life at school / college 3: Education post-16 4: Jobs, career choices and ambitions Source for the vocab list: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/french/specifications/AQA-8658-SP-2016.PDF

TED is a non-profit organization that formed in 1984 with the goal of spreading ideas in areas of technology, entertainment, and design, and has slowly evolved to include everything from global issues to academic topics.

On the other side, while there will undoubtedly be high costs to any serious attempt at mitigation, this would also require something like a global agreement (covering at least the rich world, India and China, and probably other states with large and currently poor populations) which would inevitably have to bring in issues other than greenhouse gas emissions — such as those you mention — if only because these states will say, reasonably enough, that they can not bring their populations on board without serious help in those other areas.

But impacts projected from global warming remain primarily probabilistic (for instance, rising odds of a torrential rain or heat wave in some areas) and spread in time and space, making the issue still mainly a «someday, somewhere» problem.

I have NO IDEA where either of these students stands on the issue of attribution of global warming (note the complexities of attribution are nicely summarized in a current post over at RC); none of us conducts specific research in that area and that is not what we talk about.

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

The apparent convergence in short term trends between HadCRUT4 and GISTEMP arises primarily from changes in the HadSST data over areas which already had coverage, not through addressing the global coverage issues.

But just four days later, he directly undermined his own message, when his administration issued the final permit allowing Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warming.

Why on earth Mr Lacis raves on about the ins and outs of the technical issues under discussion in the area of climate science / global warming when it is the issue of the ethical and legal aspects of Gleick's actions that are the immediate issue.

From my experience watching the climate science issue advance over the years, what I continually see is people, like yourself who have clear expertise in a specific area, believing that they understand the entire breadth of the climate change issue when, in actuality, they understand very little of the other broader elements of the global climate system that come into play.

I hate to be the Baby Ruth in the punchbowl at the celebration over John McCain's choice for a running mate, but since it's my job to follow these things, I've got to highlight one area where Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has aligned with the GOP candidate on an issue that makes many conservatives cringe: global warming.

Now the researchers plan to apply the methodology to other nations to build up a global evidence base for protected area effectiveness, to «move beyond looking at protected areas as a monolithic concept and clarify how different kinds of protected areas, and different ways of locating them in the landscape, affect deforestation and local human welfare», and to measure the impacts of protected areas on humans that live in neighbouring communities, an issue that is «subject to contentious international debate but for which there is little credible evidence to support the opposing views».

Lamm says Rives met the ABA's selection criteria in at least four key areas: He has significant management experience, including the areas of finance and budgeting; he is held in high regard by people who previously worked for him; he has a strong focus on global issues; and he has experience dealing with membership issues and delivering services.

This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Global Practice Guide Series which features substantive overviews of laws, practice areas, and legal and business issues in jurisdictions around the globe.

This issue describes innovations in three areas of the profession: a new virtual law school program that is global in scope and impact, a law firm using a new practice model to provide legal services in a flexible way, and an individual lawyer's initiative to form a national business referral network.

Faculty Peter K. Rosen, Global Practice Chair of Insurance Coverage, Latham & Watkins LLP (Los Angeles) Robert D. Allen, Principal, The Allen Law Group PLLC (Dallas) Michael Conley, Co-Managing Principal of Insurance Recovery, Offit Kurman PA (Philadelphia) Course Description Our panel of top insurance litigators address a range of attorney fee and legal billing issues that arise in the tripartite insurance relationship in all types of liability coverage areas.

Kaori Yamada specialises in all areas of competition law, including global cartel defence, merger reviews, investigations on unilateral conducts, competitor cooperation, and various vertical issues across a broad range of industries, in particular the chemical, consumer goods, telecom, technology, energy, transport and healthcare sectors.

«Our research suggests that in - house lawyers are underestimating an important area of risk,» says Rod Clayton, co-head of global crisis and issues at Weber Shandwick.

Generali Global Assistance's Travel Insurance division, CSA Travel Protection, today issued the following statement regarding the ongoing power outage situation that is affecting travelers in the Outer Banks area of North Carolina as it relates to its insurance policies for the vacation rental space.

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Professional Experience Peanuts Worldwide (New York, NY) 1996 — Present Supervisor, Product Development Department -LRB-[Insert Start Date]-- Present) • Lead and manage a five - person team in all aspects and procedures of quality assurance administration for over 50,000 new product designs on an annual basis with annual retail sales in excess of $ 1 billion • Oversee the development and maintenance on high - profile global relationships, including MetLife and the worldwide use of Snoopy to establish brand identity • Supervised product development staff on a daily basis, focusing on high - quality process execution, creative implementation, and professional customer relations • Work closely with IT department and other business areas to troubleshoot various technical issues with computers and company - wide systems both for internal and client use, along with the launch of new digital company - wide approval system

City Group (New York, NY) 1995 — 1997 Consultant — Unix Administrator • Senior System Administrator in for Solaris and Aix environment and application development area • Systems included Sun Ultra Enterprise 450, 420R, 4500, and 6500 running on Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6 and Aix 4.3.2 • Development environment composed of mostly Sun equipment including Sun StorEdge A5200, A5100, D1000 arrays using Veritas and SDS volume managers • Backed up systems with Legato Networker using BoxHill, Qualstar, and Sun StorEdge L9 tape stackers • Utilized Jrun, WebSphere, WebLogic, Actuate Report Server, iPlanet, and Netscape Enterprise • Senior Unix SA solely responsible for the application development area supporting Solaris, Aix and Linux platform • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using Jumpstart to global distributed network • Installed new and trial software, maintained server stability, backed up system using Legato Networker, debugged system problems such as network connectivity, and packaged developers» software released to production • Project work involved getting specification from users, recommending appropriate system, submitting purchase order to purchasing, ensuring arrival of new system, building the system to Sotheby's standard, and installing necessary software for the user • Built and configured IBM and Sun servers installing Aix 4.0 and Solar 2.5 - 2.6 operating system and Oracle 7 • Performed backup and Recovery using ADSM and Tape backup • Automated disk monitoring and routine tasks utilizing Bourne Shell scripting and cronjobs • Served as liaison between vendors on resolving hardware and software issues • Monitored servers using Tivoli Storage Software • Trained and mentored Junior systems Administrators and operators

After listening to presentations on global, regional and national tobacco control issues, she asked how local communities like hers, where smoking rates can be as high as 80 per cent in some areas, could get their stories out — of their challenges and their successes — more broadly.