Sentences with phrase «global north»

While the draft outcome released this morning for negotiation next week will likely be met with applause by Global North governments and their corporate board room backers, it fails to deliver meaningfully toward the systemic transition climate change requires.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino plans an announcement Tuesday morning about his pitch to try and land the second global North American headquarters for Amazon.

At the core of this failure are the obstinate negotiating positions of the U.S. and other Global North governments who are bent on deregulating the global rules applying to them and advancing the financial needs of big business over the survival needs of people.

If you live in the industrialized global North — spending your days at an office desk, perhaps, or running around suburbs or cities, your trusty iPhone never more than a few inches away — you could be forgiven for thinking tropical forests have little do with your daily life (other than providing fodder for vacation daydreams, of course).

His research interests include the nature and implications of engagements between Global South and Global North entities that create and constitute the global higher education policy infrastructure.

«The success of the Manchester — Beijing route, and the new direct flights to Seattle opening up later this year, reinforces our shared vision of having a super-connected global north bringing the Northern Powerhouse to the world and the world to the Northern Powerhouse.»

And while Global North obstructionism mired these talks in delays, obstruction and censorship, Global South leaders prevailed in securing a clear path forward for the conflict of interest movement, ensuring the issue will be front and center next year.»

«Awakening» these aging assets was one of the topics discussed at the CoreNet Global North American Summit last week in Washington, D.C..

Whether it's finance or technology, loss and damage or differentiation, the positions reflected in this text are heavily biased towards the U.S., Japan, EU and other Global North countries, and the emissions - intensive industries they represent.

But the church could take a much bolder step, tapping a pontiff that represents its future in the «Global South» rather than its past in the «Global North.»

The interviewer asked Pope Francis about the relationship between the «ancient» Churches of the developed world, the global North, and the «young» Churches of the developing world, including the global South.

Media is used to impose the culture and power of the wealthy nations from the global North.

«There are huge differences between the global south, who see things getting better, compared to the global north, and particularly the U.S., where we get down to 31 % who see things being better five years from now,» he said.

There are a lot of crops besides quinoa that the global north loves to eat because they are «healthy» and for which the farmers and middle men of the global south get shafted.

we explore evidence on parenting leave design and policies, relating mainly to high income countries (especially in the Global North), focusing particularly on how to deliver the greatest benefits for young children (pre-natal up to 8) in terms of their learning and health, and in relation to the prevention of, and response to, domestic violence and child maltreatment.

Practitioners and policy makers from the Global North may find alienating the emphasis on «non-violent» fathering (maybe in some communities in the Global South «violent» fathering is the norm — but surely in many others it is not?)

The Full Report presents 20 case studies primarily from the Global North with some from the Global South, plus a catalogue of additional projects and discussion of key issues.

«All of these factors are common problems, though they differ in severity, across the Global North and also — though not measured in the FIFI study — across the Global South,» explains Adrienne Burgess.

The normalisation of climate security issues may open windows of opportunity for new kinds of emergency interventions, most likely by the Global North in regions of the Global South.

Many had extremely positive visions of politics in the Global North, lauding the US for its wealth, free and fair elections and being «at peace».

Despite the fact that in her presentation she is clear of the influx of aid workers and researchers from the Global North coming into communities in the DRC to question abuse survivors (she reveals, for example, that only oral permission is obtained because the act of signing a document has taken on the meaning that the signer is entitled to some form of aid), she believes that US military personnel should be direct (and, it would seem, demanding) about the subject of sexual assault.

Indeed, there is a well - developed trend in the Global North to focus on the issue of rape in the DRC (see Eve Ensler's call for an end to report - making of rape in the Congo and a move towards action, titled «Over»).

If my Google search was any indication (registering a disturbing 4,640,000 hits for the term), the sensationalist phrase stuck among members of the civil society and aid agencies in the Global North.

According to Professor Judith Stephenson: «Bringing together natural and social scientists with people from different organisations and communities in the global South and global North is essential to improve understanding of the interactions between consumption, demographic change and the climate, and to devise more scientifically and politically integrated solutions for global health.»

Moreover, don't forget that at least one other part of the global north where wildfires sometimes burn atop permafrost — namely, Canada — is also having a busy 2015 wildfire year.

New research published Wednesday in the journal Nature reaffirms that key regions of the globe that have been a source of major climate worry to researchers — such as the Amazon rainforest and the forests of the global north — are exquisitely sensitive to swings in climate.

That this is the note on which the film ends lends a conclusive element to what in its early stages seems to be a more free - form narrative careening between depictions of place and circulation which is notable in its exclusion of the global north as a central point of reference.

Embrace and implement common but differentiated responsibilities to solve the climate crisis between the global North and global South;

Unsustainable consumption and production reverses development gains in the global North and the global South: Women and men of industrialized nations have a responsibility to educate themselves, examine their worldviews, commit to action, and lead by example.

Whereas many saw the previous eight UN Millennium Development Goals (2000 - 2015) as targeting only poor countries, putting sustainability at the centre of this new program of work extends the challenge to include the consumerist societies of the global north.

«Even though the level of technological development might not have reached the same levels in Africa as it has in the Global North, its effect can not be ignored,» writes Dominique Dryding.

I am currently partnering with the United Nations Association of Greater Boston to develop a Model United Nations curriculum focused on migration, an important phenomenon that is currently relevant in both the Global North and South.

This is because «if we are to do the work of global citizenship education, we must include perspectives, resources, and ideas generated by people beyond the Global North.»

Their qualitative study of refugee parents in two schools in a declining northeastern city reveals that even in situations of material deprivation, public schools in the global North are more than capable of educating all of their students if they are able to accommodate new cultures of «space - making» and «identity - staking» for immigrant parents in their children's schools.

We reinforce the current, oppressive power dynamic between the Global North and the Global South, and we allow others to continue propogating racism and white supremacy.

«Why are white people and people from the Global North the loudest voice and most prominent authority on brown countries and cultures from the Global South?

Once again, white people from the Global North are being handed the pen that gets to write the present and future for brown countries in the Global South.

GNR Presents: also subtly reflects on the concept of a Global North and South in its presentation of pieces by Latin American artists Vik Muniz and Alexandre Arrechea, who pay tribute to New York City in their depictions of iconic buildings including the Guggenheim Museum and the Chrysler Building.

GNR Presents: convenes a cross-generational group of artists, from the Global North and South, whose works reflect on formal concerns such as the role of color, spatiality, and the public.

Like other historically grounded exhibitions in the Global North such as documenta or the Whitney Biennial, the Carnegie International involves years of careful planning, negotiation, and curatorial consideration, all of which produce great anticipation in the field about who will be included and why.

Challenging the common assumption of the importance of a marketplace for any art scene, SAW offers glimpses of an alternative to the systematic financialization of art that defines most art arenas in the Global North.

Work presented in the exhibition specifically addresses human migration and nationalism in the Mediterranean area, investigating the dual nature of this geographic feature to the extent that it connects and separates, acting as both a junction as well as a barrier between the Global North and South.