Sentences with phrase «global resources means»

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According to Lou Shachter and Rich Cheatham of BTS, a global professional services firm who has worked with companies like AT&T and Chevron, collaboration means «leveraging internal resources on behalf of the customers» as a means of execution and «ensuring successful achievement of each element of the account plan.»

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

The obvious practical meaning of all this is that the fundamental problems we face today — nuclear war, population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use of scarce world resources — are global in scope.

We also understand the priorities of the global seafood industry, which means listening to consumer concerns about management of fish resources.

Putting oil money at the service of development in Africa means tackling the increasingly criminalized character of political leaders and their global networks of resource extraction, not peddling yet another package of technocratic reforms.

In response, these countries ramp up their energy production via the only means available to them based on their resources — means that tend to either pollute the environment or contribute to global warming.

Estimates of reserves (profitable to extract at current prices) and resources (potentially recoverable with advanced technology and / or at higher prices) are the mean of estimates of Energy Information Administration (EIA)[7], German Advisory Council (GAC)[8], and Global Energy Assessment (GEA)[9].

This resource explores what harvest can really mean to people through looking at global food distribution and equity.

We believe global justice means equal rights for all including future generations, through access to resources, knowledge and decision making.

Corn's largest use is actually in animal feed, meaning that demand for this resource is tied to demand for protein intake and global population growth.

The primary and most literal conception of what it means to dig investigates the labor of unearthing natural resources and material data and its relation to a global economy that valorizes service and information industries.

: Re sunshades, yes, what LG said at 14, plus, the shades do nothing to reduce the ocean acidification... why would we want to expend the energy and resources to treat a symptom of planetary CO2 poisoning and take all the risks that LG describes when it pretty clear that the best approach is a wildly ambitious conversion to very low emission energy / transportation / agriculture systems **** concurrent with, and achieved by the same means, *** a wildly ambitious global program of CO2 sequestration / removal... and... under *** 300 ppm *** in 20 — 100 years, at most?

• If global civilization can not continue to adjust to these climate changes in an evolutionary manner, then revolutionary means (economic depression, famine, mass migration, unilateral seizure of resources, unilateral efforts at geo - engineering) leave us and our descendants vulnerable to perpetual warfare, with ever - increasing chances of unrestrained nuclear exchanges.

They're the only practical means of rapidly addressing two crises — global warming and our dependence on finite energy resources largely derived from the world's most volatile regions.

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.»

The long - term trend is for the sea ice to continue melting due to global warming, meaning the scramble to access these resources will only intensify.

At a time when the land, water, and energy resources necessary to feed a global population of 6.9 billion are increasingly limited - and when at least 1 billion people remain chronically hungry - food losses mean a waste of those resources and a failure of our food system to meet the needs of the poor.

«De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation....

Estimates of reserves (profitable to extract at current prices) and resources (potentially recoverable with advanced technology and / or at higher prices) are the mean of estimates of Energy Information Administration (EIA)[7], German Advisory Council (GAC)[8], and Global Energy Assessment (GEA)[9].

short answer A bad idea, since (i) they produce CO2 (partly responsible for the rise in global warming), (ii) there is a limited amount of fossil fuel from which we make valuable materials such as lubricants and plastics, (iii) fossil fuel resources are finite, so burning them means we are consuming a resource we can never replace, and (iv) we can actually build new industries and create many new jobs developing renewable sources of energy instead of burning fossil fuels.

Today, more than 1/3 of our nation depends on this fuel source for electricity, meaning when oil and gas companies let it escape into the atmosphere, it not only accelerates global warming, it also results in massive amounts of wasted resources and diminishes our energy independence.

There were several comments about fracking, the newly discovered oil and gas resources and what it means for global GHG emissions.

In 1998 — the year after Titanic made audiences sob around the world and DiCaprio an international superstar — the 23 - year - old launched the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation with an eye toward increasing «global awareness of environmental issues,» — which has meant everything from keeping a calendar of current campaigns and partnering with the Natural Resources Defense Council to distributing grants and producing The 11th Hour.

Turning to the global picture, meeting our two - degree commitment in a cost - effective way means leaving all unconventional oil and 82 per cent of unconventional gas resources in the ground, according to the model.

Michelle explained that it takes a lot of effort to find some of the pearls in SEC filings that she and her team have uncovered over the years — «things like Freddie Mac's lush employment agreement with its new CFO or Chesapeake Energy's $ 12.1 million map collection» — and that Morningstar's global reach and the resources that they've committed to growing footnoted will mean that she can hire additional staff to grow the publication.

As a trainee, it means you'll get access to a truly global perspective, unmatched resources and get to work on the biggest deals with the most high - profile clients.

By that, I mean the transition from knowledge hoarding to knowledge sharing — or wikinomics — in which a «new kind of business is emerging, one that opens its doors to the world, co-innovates with everyone (especially customers), shares resources that were previously closely guarded, harnesses the power of mass collaboration, and behaves not as a multinational but as something new: a truly global firm,» as Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams put it in their book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

Setting up a legal entity in Cyprus to take advantage of all that the Cyprus jurisdiction has to offer to the international investor / businessperson, means that we must be able to provide our clients with access to global legal resources, in order to meet all needs related to cross border transactions, something that we do through a network of firms we cooperate with.