Sentences with phrase «global problems from»

The diversion of chemical precursors to these drug labs is a global problem from which Canada is not immune, says the RCMP.

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«The other problem is a lack of investment demand, which is surprising given the headwinds to global trade from protectionism» amid global trade tensions.

In 2002, Zappos solved this problem by opening its own warehouse just 17 miles from UPS Worldport, the carrier's global air - freight hub at the Louisville, Ky., airport.

Finance experts from the euro zone have weighed in on comments made by Wolfgang Schaeuble, after the German finance minister warned that debt and liquidity problems could spark the next global crisis.

These exchanges bring fresh ideas, new perspectives and different ways of approaching problems, which are all catalysts for the innovation which fuels the economy and help us meet global challenges, ranging from climate change to fossil fuel dependence and infectious diseases.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

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 annglobal 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 annGlobal Case Challenge, which awards $ 1 million in prizes annually.

He suggested the basic problem was Chinese over-production, which creates a global glut, with dumped products finding a way into the U.S. through third countries:» You put a tariff on it coming from one country, they trans - ship it through another one.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

It's a science - driven company focused on solving problems like world hunger and global warming with, for instance, drought - resistance seeds, which have been gaining market share from competitors but had to be developed over years.

«The other problem is a lack of investment demand, which is surprising given the headwinds to global trade from protectionism.

Cyber specialists say the problem with GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is their weak signals, which are transmitted from 12,500 miles above the Earth and can be disrupted with cheap jamming devices that are widely available.

«Red Thread Thinking» is a proven approach that enables you to innovate whenever it's necessary — for everything from personal problem solving to entrepreneurial aspirations to tackling larger, more complex global issues.

On the whole Bitcoin and related technologies are starting to get a lot of attention from larger players who see these technological advancements as possible solutions to global problems.

But it also corresponds to one of the key messages from previous Global Opportunity Reports: That business leaders embrace the shared value in solving some of the world's biggest problems.

«Almost all remedies proposed by global authorities to date have approached the problem from the standpoint of favoring capital as opposed to labor.

The problem is the Fed has chosen to get their water from the small 2 % inflation pond, which has been steadily shrinking over the last several decades (not global warming, but instead dropping 10 year rates).

Retail blowouts are hitting the headlines, but many of the problems date from before the global financial crisis.

Their problems follow directly from the huge stimulus policies enacted in these countries in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.

The Good Food Institute (GFI) is on the forefront of the movement to use food technology and markets to solve some of the world's biggest problems, from climate change and global hunger to antibiotic resistance and the exploitation of billions of animals annually.

«Last month, LCD, a unit within S&P Global Market Intelligence, said that assets under management in loan funds had grown to more than $ 156 billion, up from around $ 110 billion two years ago... The big, potentially market - destabilizing problem hidden in bond funds has to do with liquidity.

As you can see in the table above, which looks at the price differential between the Brent global benchmark price and the West Texas Intermediate price (the amount by which North American oil prices differ from average international prices each year), the problem is that the price differential between 2011 and 2013 was exceptional.

According to the WSJ report, the problem that the startup aims to solve stems from a fragmented trading environment across global cryptocurrency exchanges, where, for instance, the price of bitcoin can vary between platforms.

Instead of continuing to discuss the problem, we ought to present solutions: roadmaps to businesses that are better balanced, arguments that help companies and managers understand and benefit from shifting global gender balances.

My son, Cliff, who was then 18 years old, had earlier come to a deep awareness of the global problem and had prodded me from time to time to think again.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the livestock sector is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global».

Each issue has its complexities, but one of the key messages I took from the conference was that whilst we need to understand the broader issues of the global food system, we must take a bite size piece of the overarching problem and aim to solve that.

However, actions need to be taken at different levels, staring from individuals to country and global, to address this problem.

A singular focus on academics keeps kids from developing other life skills critical for success in a global economy: the ability to self - motivate, collaborate, problem - solve, and persevere when the going gets tough.

Depending on who you ask, moms who have hobbies outside their own families are responsible for everything from behavior problems to global climate change.

(One Young World is a group of delegates, all under age 27, drawn from all over the world to address critical, global problems.

However, if a more isolationist or nationalist US president emerges from the 2016 electoral process in America, and European electors give ever higher levels of support for nationalist - oriented parties, then we have little reason to expect partnership on foreign policy issues, and even fewer reasons to expect multilateral responses to global problems.

Concerns about air pollution range from the very local - many rural and suburban councils cite the nuisance caused by bonfires as their principal air pollution problem - to the truly global.

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.

That stinging comment drew laughs from listeners and knowing chuckles from weary travelers, but it rankled the Global Gateway Alliance, a nonprofit that said the airport needed public financing, not insults, to fix its problems.

Apparently, Nigeria has the resources to develop a global standard healthcare system, but the above mentioned problems have hindered the country from achieving this.

The first «World Conference on Untouchability» has prompted questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords about government policy towards the global human rights problem of caste discrimination, which afflicts almost 250 million people in countries from Japan to Nigeria.

Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.

«It's a great honor,» said Veronica Kelly, who works with the New York City Global Partners, a non-profit organization that connects municipal leaders in New York City with leaders from around the world to discuss shared problems facing their cities.

This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.

Ronen and co-authors from MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix - Marseille University tackled the problem by describing three global language networks based on bilingual tweeters, book translations, and multilingual Wikipedia edits.

«There are many, many different kinds of citizen science projects, everything from large - scale, global, data - drive, researcher - driven investigations to community - based, community - driven questions that address a critical problem, and citizen science exists in almost every scientific discipline,» said Jennifer Shirk, interim executive director of the Citizen Science Association, a nonprofit that seeks to support practitioners of citizen science.

Scientists from developed countries «must recognize the importance of having everyone at the table when we're discussing global problems,» she said.

And while the meeting was frank about the major problems facing the planet while being relatively upbeat about solving at least some of them, one side session also showed the darker side of global deliberations with a look at some of the options being offered by intentionally manipulating the Earth's climate through geoengineering from dumping iron filings into the ocean to seeding clouds and pumping «designer particles» into the stratosphere.

A United Nations report released in 2006 calls the livestock sector «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.»

Problems resulting from these deficiencies — such as blindness, anemia and death, particularly among children and women — are a major public health challenge,» said Dr. Saurabh Mehta, associate professor of global health, epidemiology and nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, and a senior author on this new research.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.