Not exact matches
Social entrepreneurship contests: Entrepreneurs working on solving
global problems such as hunger, poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes ann
global problems such as hunger,
poverty, energy and education now have a smorgasbord of contests from which to choose, including the Hult
Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes ann
Global Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.
They accepted the economists» argument that rapid economic growth, national and
global, is required to address the
problem of
poverty and that, with the attainment of prosperity, other
problems could be solved as well.
According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental
problems, at every scale from local to
global», and the UN has concluded that a
global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel
poverty and the worst effects of climate change.
World Bank President Jim Kim yesterday put climate change at the center of the fight against extreme
poverty, part of an effort since he began his tenure to link the two looming
global problems.
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global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health
problems and even suicides as people struggle to cope with
poverty and unemployment.
I would refer to these children as the forerunner to — «
global citizens /
global humane beings» as it is they through the new approach of education will be able to address the
global problems of
poverty, hunger, illiteracy, inequity, violence and ecological crisis.
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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 ECOSOCC.
You may write about the modern matters (Obama, financial crisis) or
global problems (
poverty, AIDs), or choose argumentative topics (Marijuana, addictions, abortions, etc.).
Directing resources to the
problem of
global poverty is a humanitarian concern.
Summing up, he says that in his view other real - time
problems, particularly
global poverty, trump whatever long - term risk is posed by man - made warming, and that the slow natural pace of society's shift away from dirty fuels like coal toward cleaner ones will take care of the
problem in any case.
... The climate issue long ago ceased to be a purely technical matter and has instead become an encompassing story that explains
global inequality,
poverty, natural disasters, war, migration, and even the
problems with capitalism.
Critically, GDRs defines both responsibility and capacity in terms of a development threshold — a level of well - being that is modestly above a
global poverty line, a threshold below which individuals are not required to bear the costs of addressing the climate
problem, and are instead allowed simply to prioritize development.
Whatever the scientific truth, which Dyson admits he isn't positive about, he doesn't think that the case for
global warming is sufficient to curtail economic development or take resources away from more pressing
problems like reducing
poverty.
that is still fairly recent that documents the steady decline in
global poverty (as well as the many
problems with social justice, equality, and freedom.
In order to eliminate
global problems like gender inequality, hunger,
poverty and disease, developing nations must have equal access to affordable energy.
Two remarkable books that came out this year — Austerity Ecology & the Collapse Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips and The End of Doom by Ronald Bailey — each makes the case that growth, technology, and accelerated modernization can solve the twin
global problems of
poverty and environmental devastation.
«So I have concluded that
global warming will most probably be a fairly minor
problem — at least compared with others such as
poverty and habitat loss — for nature as well as people.»
Unlike other
global problems with risky outcomes (
poverty, education, and war among others), climate change is unique.
In one chapter, Lomborg suggested that while he believed that climate change was real, he doubted the extreme temperature predictions, and claimed that his own cost - benefit analysis indicated that it was not the most pressing
problem facing the world compared to
poverty, disease and
global development.
In my nearly forty years of professional environmental activism, I have frequently had to rebut people on the left, for one or more reasons: their indifference to environmental
problems, their antipathy to anything that smacked of representing or strengthening the scientific establishment (which post-modernists still vilify as being inherently tainted), and their hostility to any movement or theory which was antithetical to economic growth, which they still consider imperative to solving
global poverty.
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2015 —
Global climate change will aggravate
problems such as
poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political institutions that threaten stability in a number of countries, according to a report the Defense Department sent to Congress yesterday.
However, the
problem of determining where specifically within a given causal chain to assign moral responsibility to individual members is a
problem endemic to any collective action whatsoever, from the Challenger disaster, to the BP oil spill, to
global poverty.
This represents a critical gap in the literature and an urgent national and
global public health
problem based on statistics that more than 1 in 5 children are now living below the
poverty line in the United States alone.6
Triple P is looking to tackle some of the biggest
problems facing the
global community such as
poverty and violence reduction, improving educational attainment and promoting cleaner environments.