Sentences with phrase «global public attention»

The UN Environment Programme's Clean Seas campaign helped draw global public attention to the problem and offer solutions.

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As companies continue to seek the winning formula for attracting millennial talent, new research from global public relations firm Weber and Shandwick and KRC Research finds that CEO activism may be the key to getting the attention of today's younger workforce.

This global effort seeks to shift public attention and awareness to the power of giving; to focus on sharing rather than consumer - driven holiday shopping.

During the current global financial crisis, and through the Occupy movement, public attention has increasingly turned to the top 1 per cent who now own approximately one fifth of all personal wealth in the UK.

As thousands of people from across the UK prepare to march in London this Saturday for jobs, justice and climate as part of a global «Put People First» campaign, PCS and War on Want are drawing attention to the tax gap and the missing billions of pounds which would help to fund public services and stabilise the economy.

As climate change has become a more prominent public concern, some scientists have worried that it might distract attention from related environmental problems, such as the global loss of biodiversity.

Global Climate Disruption begins to describe something that gets the public attention.

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The issue of human - induced global warming was of concern even back then — although the public didn't pay much attention.

His creations, such as Global Myopia (Uruguayan Pavillion at the 56th Biennale di Venezia), encourage the public to slow down the pace, paying attention to the works in order to be able to get inside of them, unfolding its possible meanings, rethinking the surroundings and the society in which they live in.

Focusing on those major group exhibitions and events which jettisoned Russian artists to international attention, or introduced Russian publics to Western art stars, the book provides readers with a unique perspective into the dawning of the global art world.

As the movement gains hold, a global public is turning its attention to the space of the city and even to the meanings that skyscrapers hold.

These largely unsubstantiated claims are polarizing the public discourse on climate change and drawing attention away from climate impacts that are more directly related to global warming and ultimately much more damaging to our planetary life support system.

Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.

While this may not seem a significant message outside of Italy, by relating dress style to global warming the Italian government may have found a way to get the attention of a blasà © public.

The Festival, organized by the Global Brain Foundation, invites current and potential stewards for the ocean to join them in New York City and around the world to bring public attention to the UN's SDG Goal 14.

We believe that policymakers, the media, and the public should pay attention to scientific expert credibility and the well - vetted comprehensive assessment reports prepared by a large number of the leading scientists — in particular the new IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, along with the National Academy of Sciences (4 - volume America's Climate Choices report) and the National Climate Assessment forthcoming from the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

The graph, created by James Hansen, a leading expert on climate change at NASA, makes clear that global warming was a well - established fact that attracted wide public attention as early as 1988.

Psychologists studying climate communication make two additional (and related) points about why the warming - snow link is going to be exceedingly difficult for much of the public to accept: 1) people's confirmation biases lead them to pay skewed attention to weather events, in such a way as to confirm their preexisting beliefs about climate change (see p. 4 of this report); 2) people have mental models of «global warming» that tend to rule out wintry impacts.

It laments the increasing lack of public, political and media attention to environmental issues, especially at a time when some very crucial ones, like global warming, need urgent action.

Dr. Mann came to public attention back in 1998 when he and two colleagues published the landmark «MBH98» paper documenting average global temperatures across the centuries with a line graph whose steep uptick in recent years earned it the name «the hockey stick.»

Though not CMOS's first public statement, it was one of the most «vocal about climate change of late» due to the fact «that Canada's new Conservative government does not support the Kyoto Protocol for lower emissions of greenhouse gases, and opposed stricter emissions for a post-Kyoto agreement at a United Nations meeting in Bonn in May [2006]» and because «a small, previously invisible group of global warming sceptics called the Friends of Science are suddenly receiving attention from the Canadian government and media,» Leahy wrote.

The Guardian states: «Hansen's speech to Congress on June 23, 1988, is seen as a seminal moment in bringing the threat of global warming to the public's attention.»

Indeed, the putative threat of global warming has received more of the President's public attention than any other foreign policy issue during his second term.

Reflecting their longtime commitment to both philanthropic endeavors and environmental concerns, our founders, Richard and Rhoda Goldman, envisioned the Goldman Environmental Prize as a way to demonstrate the international nature of environmental problems, draw public attention to global issues of critical importance, reward ordinary individuals for outstanding grassroots environmental achievements, and inspire others to emulate the examples set by the Prize recipients.

As explained clearly in «The Global Climate Change Lobby,» an excellent new report from the Center for Public Integrity, corporate lobbyists and trade associations focus their attention on tampering with domestic legislative efforts, and then stand by and watch as their positions and talking points contaminate international negotiations indirectly.

Others were less sure of the science, but agreed that as popular attention to global warming mounted, releasing Natuna's greenhouse gases into the air could turn into a public relations debacle, former employees said.

With the world economy in shambles, and nearly all national governments awash in debt, there is diminishing incentive for politicians to spend scarce public funds on the much - hyped hypothetical future «threats» posed by global warming — especially when there are very real, tangible issues demanding immediate attention and funding.

Founded in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, World Water Day was created to help focus public attention on the critical water issues facing our global community.

Al Gore has used multimedia presentations to bring global warming to the public's attention to great effect: Millions of people woke up to the climate crisis thanks to the world's most famous Power Point show.

When global warming was occurring, they used that as the threat to get public and governmental attention and campaign to «prevent» it from happening.

Is NASA diverting attention from the public's growing awareness of the role of the Sun in global warming and climate change?

Having said that, we think that there is a growing attention to various kinds of data, particularly the more reliable it becomes, particularly with a new breed of general counsels who are more metric driven, more focused on public sources of data, and who are under increasing pressure to drive efficiency in what I like to call the global age of more for less.

Our innovative partnerships have helped garner national and international public attention for Indigenous child health issues, facilitated Indigenous voice in global initiatives on a social determinants approach to health, and ensured broad reach among medical professionals, educators, communities and a wide variety of organizations.