Sentences with phrase «global problems in»

TERI aims to create «an environment that is enabling, dynamic and inspiring for the development of solutions to global problems in the fields of energy, environment and current patterns of development, which are largely unsustainable» (check out http://www.teriin.org).

In the next 50 years, even the lower limit of impending climate change — an additional global mean warming of 1 degree Celsius above the last decade — is far beyond the range of climate variability experienced during the past thousand years and poses global problems in planning for and adapting to it.

We face global problems in American militarism and impending environmental collapse.

For the past 10 years, Harvard GSE Innovation and Ventures in Education (HIVE) has provided a space for students and alumni to share new ideas, gain access to resources and networks, and develop solutions to global problems in education.

The organized theft of copper from homes and building sites has become a global problem in recent years, but German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has struck back by marking their copper wires with DNA.

Fake or low - quality medicines and food supplements are an ongoing global problem in underdeveloped nations, although technology - savvy places, such as the United States, are also not immune.

«Our finding quantifies the extent to which air pollution is a global problem in our global economy,» he says.

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I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

«ICBMs create a problem because they enable a country to break out of a regional context and move toward potential global impact,» Pike, who now directs GlobalSecurity.org, wrote in 1998.

This is a highly marginal tonnage in the global alumina market and symptomatic of the problems facing all the companies attempting to assess the alumina price.

In that encyclical, the Pope described climate change as a «global problem with grave implications.»

My guess is that one of these problems will cause a more pronounced problem in the global economy in the coming years and force real change.

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.

«The problem for China is compounded by the fact that, unlike Japan, the vast majority of Chinese have not participated in this boom,» says George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, a global intelligence company.

Zhang attacked this problem by creating Tmall Global, which debuted in 2014.

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.

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.

«Oil isn't Canada's only problem,» says Steven Englander, global head of G10 currency strategy at Citibank in New York.

«We have an inflation problem right now,» said Landry's Inc. founder and CEO Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire who owns and operates more than 450 restaurants across 40 unique brands, in an interview at the Milken Global Conference.

«China now appears to be the largest e-waste dumping site in the world,» claims a report published in April by the global think - tank Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP).

Counterfeit goods remain a big problem for global retailers, especially in Asia, the chief executive officer of Adidas told CNBC Thursday.

Yes, it started out making electric cars, but only because personal transportation is the lowest - hanging fruit in tackling the global energy and emissions problem.

The global communications firm's identified a significant «authenticity gap» between consumers and brands, with nearly 3 in 4 of the 12,000 surveyed consumers feeling that companies have a credibility problem.

A: The venue is compelling and captivating and encourages global thinkers who are working to solve the world's toughest problems in the toughest areas.

«Interest rates aren't anticipated to pose a problem for the economy or equity markets this year,» Mike Bell, global market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said in the quarterly report out Tuesday.

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

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 workerIn 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 workerin 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.

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

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»).

During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, global leaders discussed solutions for a must - solve problem.

«The small difference I had hoped to make in consumers» lives has suddenly become an opportunity to help solve a global problem.»

Speaking of tech, Fortune is looking for a few good companies harnessing the power of technology in new and innovative ways to tackle pressing global problems.

Nearly 50 years later, problems like rising global temperatures, melting Arctic sea ice, and the demographics putting pressure on food production and resources like forests, can make you want to scream or bury your head in the sand.

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Certainly at the heart of the problem is China's out - sized contribution to excess global capacity, which neutralizes the productivity gains documented in the WaPo piece (excess capacity is roughly unutilized production).

«Obesity and poor nutrition are global public health problems,» CEO Michael Johnson said in a statement.

Problems in China, the world's second largest economy, can crimp global growth, a big concern at a time when weak oil prices and geopolitical concerns are also clouding the outlook.

1957: JLW begins its global expansion by opening offices in Australia, overcoming an initial prognosis of «outlook favorable but problems formidable.»

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.

'' [The Award] highlights our collaborative excellence in harnessing our advanced technology platform and innovation to help solve global problems.

On the more positive side, America's budget problems are fixable — and not so terrible when viewed in a long - term global context.

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ANNE STEEN, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: The fact that our students are global thinkers, global problem - solvers and the fact that they speak some of the critical languages is very attractive to the employers who work in the intel community.

The global circumstances that Canada operates in are complex, and the problems we are facing are materializing in developed economies all over the world.

Here's the problem with that analysis — KXL isn't really a level shift in the supply curve, and thus the authors don't actually make the case for there to be any global price effect associated with the pipeline.

Although manufacturing overcapacity is certainly a problem, much of it is in areas in which global demand has simply collapsed, and isn't coming back, and so a cheaper currency would have little impact beyond temporarily reducing excess inventory, which is not enough of a benefit to justify the many costs of a weaker currency.

Increasing need for more knowledge, more advisement on problem - solving, more modifications and customizations, more participants in buyer networks, and more complex global environments all point towards why buying cycles are getting longer.

The global trading system clearly needs fixing, but punishing Mexican exporters does nothing to address the fundamental problem of excess savings in certain countries.