Sentences with phrase «global justice issue»

This is a global justice issue, because climate chaos is inherently discriminatory against the poor and the weak.

By challenging stereotypes and encouraging independent thinking, DE helps students critically explore the root causes of global justice issues and how they interlink with our everyday lives.

Several developing countries have primarily considered ethics and justice issues in regard to how climate policies affect domestic justice considerations rather than global justice issues.

But it is also the case that the strongest advocates for environmental justice in California, who support the progressive use of cap - and trade - funds, typically are strongly sympathetic with global justice issues as well.

Not exact matches

Haviland, a passionate advocate for social justice and global women's and children's health issues, says that «every business person can take on a social mission.

His areas of focus include domestic and global health issues, water, tobacco, corporate governance, farmworkers» rights and food justice.

Most of us are more immediately involved in issues of gender, ethnic pluralism, and justice than in global environmental questions.

To read more, subscribe here.Laudato Si addresses global warming and other environmental issues, as well as global development and economic justice.

This policy statement addresses the issues of global communication and justice outlined above.

They were strongly committed to global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.

It is to show that the concerns for global issues, for justice in the local community, and for the environment, are not recent issues, mere private matters that appeal to some Christians and are quite optional, but are part and parcel of the heart of the Bible itself.

She is also an award - winning blogger, an editor at A Deeper Story, a contributor for SheLoves Magazine, and a passionate advocate for global women's justice issues.

In this issue, we ask, how should processes of neoliberal globalisation make us think about global justice beyond the state?

The dinner, attended by the Jackson family, afforded the two leaders an opportunity to discuss global issues, promoting peace and justice across the world, and improving the lives of African people.

St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is proud to announce the publication of its 19th issue, «Thinking Beyond the State: Emerging Perspectives on Global Justice».

Rap, reggae, hip - hop and a combination of the three continue to create networks of global connectivity and unity that surpass the nation state and serve as popular cultural platforms for social justice issues.

This is true even though very few Americans consider global warming as an issue of religion, social justice, or poverty.

Gregg Gonsalves, an audience member who had been part of the ACT UP movement in the 1980s and 1990s and is now co-director of Yale's Global Health Justice Partnership, earned a round of applause when he argued that the safety of medical products was a public policy issue that should not be dominated by lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry.

United Nations An organization that takes on global issues, from health and justice (including the human rights) to protecting the environment and promoting world peace.

All of a sudden my general (and at times very overwhelming) interest in this massive social justice issue of global extreme poverty and gender inequality became a narrow - focused mission to help a few of Uganda's brightest young women go to college and become leaders in their communities.

By day I am a financial analyst and in my free time I do research on criminal justice issues related to global security and intelligence.

Interestingly enough, regarding climate change, there are efforts to have a resolution passed in the UN General Assembly that would ask the ICJ for an advisory opinion that would define states» obligations and responsibilities with respect to greenhouse emissions under international law (see policy brief issued by The Hague Institute for Global Justice).

While engaging my students from all over Europe on issues of social justice and civic engagement, an idea occurred to me: What if students from the Global South could convene in a similar manner and work together to come up with innovative solutions to the seemingly intractable problems that plague their nations?

The choice of this theme fosters environmental justice in the context of the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations and the UN International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, putting forward the link between local and global issues.

We help build the global citizenship skills needed to solve world issues such as human rights, gender equity, the environment, sustainable development, poverty, and global peace and justice.

SAGE Academy teachers provide an academic environment of excellence for secondary students which encourages life - long learning, respect for a diverse global community, awareness of the Earth's limited resources, and understanding of social justice issues throughout the world.

Exploring issues of social justice has always been a powerful driver for Billy Crombie and her experiences overseas made her determined to help students to become global citizens

Her recent books include: The Growing Out - of - School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future (Information Age Publishing, 2018); The Future Directions of Educational Change: Social Justice, Professional Capital, and Systems Change (Routledge, 2018); «Empowering Teachers: The Role of School - Community Partnerships» (book chapter with IEL's Reuben Jacobson in Flip the System: Changing Education from the Ground Up, 2015); Leading Educational Change: Global Issues, Challenges, and Lessons on Whole - System Reform (Teachers College Press, 2013), The Futures of School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2012, co-authored chapter with Jeffrey Henig and Paul Reville).

At the societal level, our books advance social and economic justice, shared prosperity, sustainability, and new solutions to national and global issues.

FSP also partners with food - focused organizations, offering a venue for local leaders, young and old, to educate the community about food justice issues and inspire us to make the most informed consumer decisions possible within the global foodshed we are a part of.

Mr. Nodal states, «The Citizen Artists have employed a collaborative process with a multidisciplinary approach, involving all creative disciplines in collaboration with politicians, environmental activists, scientists, and community organizers to help individuals and communities understand and face the challenges of environmental justice, global environmental degradation, and for the last eight years, US indifference to environmental issues facing our world.

«As the world in which we live becomes more pluralistic — and issues such as global peace, environmental health and economic justice become more urgent — institutions with strong interfaith and intercultural commitments such as the Rothko Chapel become increasingly important.»

Both of their longstanding, diverse practices have touched on themes of sustainability ranging from micro to global scales, and have covered issues of equality, place, justice, health, and access.

«Issues of justice and human rights are central to any effective transition to global sustainability.»

As a philosophy professor teaching a course in environmental ethics, I want to do justice to the issue of global warming — at least, as best I can given my layperson status when it comes to climatology.

Although these are difficult matters, at a minimum, given the history of the situation, the vital importance of the global warming issue, the available information, and so forth, I think the following would be necessary to do justice to the phrase «in the public good»:

The new course will also be six sessions, with sessions exploring food systems — from how agriculture contributes to climate change and how climate change affects global food supply, to food justice and food politics issues, to the health of our bodies and the health of ecosystems.

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The Warsaw agenda includes numerous topics that raise profound ethical and justice issues which not only must be faced to achieve a global climate change solution but which are also increasingly at the center of the most contentious issues in the international climate negotiations.

The Poverty of Global Climate Change is a briefing on climate change as a justice issue that is also offered by the NCC's Eco-Justice Working Group.

Voluntary simplicity must call people to a broader vision — a vision that sees the connections between ecological and social decline; between environmental and social justice, between personal choices and global issues — that emerges as a prophetic, compassionate response to today's world.

Once a global ghg atmospheric goal is determined, a nation's ghg emissions reduction target is also necessarily implicitly a position on the nation's fair share of safe global ghg emissions, an issue of distributive justice and ethics at its core.

Several countries including Bolivia, Fiji, South Africa, Kenya, and Uganda have asserted that domestic justice issues need to be considered to reduce domestic poverty in setting national climate policies although they have not offered an equity framework to operationalize this idea at the global scale.

As we have frequently reported in EthicandClimate.org over the last several years, (See articles on the website on the US media in the Index), the US media has been utterly ignoring the climate change justice issues that increasingly have become the most contentious issues in dispute in the international search for a global solution to climate change.

These issues include: (a) the need to determine when the obligation of any nation is triggered, (b) difficulties in determining which adaptation and compensation needs are attributable to human - induced warming versus natural variability, (c) challenges in allocating responsibilities among all nations that have emitted ghg above their fair share of safe global emissions, (e) challenges in prioritizing limited funds among all adaptation and compensation needs, (f) needs to set funding priorities in consultation with those who are vulnerable to climate change impacts as a matter of procedural justice, and (e) the need to consider the capacity of some nations to fund adaptation and compensation needs.

While Clinton supports reducing greenhouse gas emissions, tackling environmental justice issues, and boosting clean energy, Trump is still calling global warming a «hoax» and threatening to shut down the EPA.

Setting a ghg emissions target based upon distributive justice requires consideration of facts determined by looking backward, such as levels of historical ghg emissions, and issues determined by looking forward, such as what amount of the global commons should each individual be entitled to for personal use.

Ignoring these issues will likely continue to be responsible for the lack of media coverage of these issues, despite the fact that there is an enormous need at the international level for nations to respond to climate change at levels consistent with what justice requires of them if a global solution to climate is become viable.

Yet, unless the ethical and justice issues raised by climate change are seriously considered by nations when they formulate their international emissions reductions commitments under the UNFCCC, the international community is not likely to find a global solution to prevent potential enormous damages from human - induced warming (See, On The Practical Need To Examine Climate Change Policy Issues Through An Ethicalissues raised by climate change are seriously considered by nations when they formulate their international emissions reductions commitments under the UNFCCC, the international community is not likely to find a global solution to prevent potential enormous damages from human - induced warming (See, On The Practical Need To Examine Climate Change Policy Issues Through An EthicalIssues Through An Ethical Lens)

Further, it will help address climate justice issues resulting from global warming.