Sentences with phrase «global risks facing»

However, we are the first generation with the insight of the new global risks facing humanity.

He spoke with ETF.com about the global risks faced by investors and the opportunities to be found in international markets.

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The global elite have stumbled on an emerging market sell - off that served as a reminder of the risks the global economy still faces.»

U.S. trade policy has risen to the top of the list of «biggest external risks» facing the members of the CNBC Global CFO Council.

Their assessment of the biggest risks the world faces in 2018 spans the planet, from individual countries to global trends.

S&P Global Ratings Tuesday said the economic risks facing financial institutions operating in New Zealand have heightened, partly due to continued strong growth in residential property prices.

Aside from Brexit, British banks faced «material» risks from global debt levels, asset valuations and past misconduct.

The bank also believes there are fewer imminent risks facing the global and Canadian economies, although the speed of the slowdown in Canada's previously hot housing market could become a new challenge.

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The global economy still faces significant risks from factors that we do not control.

The panels brought together more than 200 inspirational and insightful professionals from both business, academia, NGOs and the public sector to discuss what opportunities underlie five of the global, systemic risks we face.

This report is a direct product of this reality, born out of a determined belief that behind every global risk the world faces hides multiple opportunities to innovate and create better, more prosperous, and sustainable societies.

The Global Opportunity Reports aims to demonstrate that the great sustainability challenges facing societies today do not have to be seen only as risks to lifestyles and businesses as we know them.

Earlier this year, both the World Economic Forum and the Global Opportunity Network have pointed to this challenge as respectively the biggest risk and opportunity that we face.

On hand will be several of our Sector Leads and analysts to review and discuss S&P Global's research related to credit pressures facing U.S. states and local governments, with a focus on pension issues and emerging risks / trends in public finance.

Commodities were nonetheless facing some complex challenges, including a risk of expanding US / China trade sanctions that could limit global trade and growth, as well as a softening of select economic data that may have implied demand growth could be somewhat disappointing for commodities and limit further price gains.

, is published twice a year and looks at the risks facing the global financial system.

The Washington Consensus on global economic policy is dead World economy faces heightened risk of fragmentation, nationalismBuilding support for a new unifying economic paradigm to replace the discredited Washington Consensus will be an analytically challenging, politically demanding, and time - consuming process, writes Mohamed El - Erian.

In its latest Daily Insights report, BCA Research emphasizes that the tail risks facing the global economy and financial markets will hang over markets in 2012, making it another difficult year for investors.

Faced with a global glut of oil supply, markets have been largely immune to geopolitical risk.

The IMF, in its World Economic Outlook released last week, concluded that «the global recovery remains fragile» and the world economy is faced with a «recovery that is neither strong nor balanced and runs the risk of not being sustained.»

Iain Hawthorn, Global Relationship Director, Corporate Banking, HSBC Bank Plc, discusses the three key business areas food & drink companies should be investing in, as well as the biggest risks facing the industry.

Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde warned on Tuesday that his country was facing a risk of «national bankruptcy» as the global banking crisis threatened to overwhelm the island nation.

Taking into account the disastrous effects of the 2003 and 2010 heat wave events in Europe, and those of 2011 and 2012 in the USA, results show that we may be facing a serious risk of adverse impacts over larger and densely populated areas if mitigation strategies for reducing global warming are not implemented.

Those areas face «catastrophic risk» that could be increased by global warming, the company told California insurance regulators this month.

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

If the panel had said yes to an emergency declaration, however, it also faced the risk of losing public trust if MERS failed to become a serious global health problem, he notes.

The report lists 30 cities that face increased health risks from heat waves worsened by global warming, based on a combination of four factors: average number of summer days with «oppressive» summer heat, the percentage of households without central air conditioning, ground - level ozone levels, and the percentage of households below the poverty line.

«Republicans and Democrats alike already understand that climate scientists have shown we face huge risks from global warming,» said Kahan.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

The report of the Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future highlights infectious diseases as one of the biggest risks facing humankind and estimates the annual expected cost from potential pandemics at more than # 40bn.

The consequences of climate change are being felt not only in the environment, but in the entire socio - economic system and, as seen in the findings of numerous reports already available, they will impact first and foremost the poorest and weakest who, even if they are among the least responsible for global warming, are the most vulnerable because they have limited resources or live in areas at greater risk... Many of the most vulnerable societies, already facing energy problems, rely upon agriculture, the very sector most likely to suffer from climatic shifts.»

Editorial Happy 2018, a pivotal year for stepping up climate action The World Economic Forum's latest Global Risk Report places climate change as the number one threat facing the world in 2018 — a hot topic at this year's meeting of world leaders in Davos.

It's already under threat from the current global coral bleaching event and could face even higher risks if La Niña materializes.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

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So critics of A Nation at Risk and the viewpoint it embodied had a field day, years later, when the U.S. economy — seemingly oblivious to the warnings in the commission's famous report — boomed in the face of growing global competition.

Thanks to lackluster global growth, and rock - bottom interest rates in the United States — and even negative rates in other parts of the world — investors face the choice of either accepting lower income or increasing risk in their bond portfolios in the search for yield.

Since the company is extremely global with most of its sales occurring abroad, it faces currency risks.

In its latest Daily Insights report, BCA Research emphasizes that the tail risks facing the global economy and financial markets will hang over markets in 2012, making it another difficult year for investors.

Only a fool would question (or ignore) the benefits of greater / global diversification in the face of such potentially existential risks — particularly as there's no obvious long - term cost (s) to such a strategy.

Investing internationally is a great way to diversify your portfolio, but as an investor you need to know the risks and barriers that are faced in global markets.

That's one of the unbending realities about global warming, which remains a building background influence on many risks communities already face routinely.

The influencing of policy in re global warming faces a huge amount of inertia, but principles of risk mitigation tell us that we should be aggressive about shifting policy to avert possible threats, the opposite of what results from that inertia.

This characterization of the human habit of dawdling in the face of looming risks reminded me of earlier contributions here on global warming by David Ropeik, a former journalist and longtime student of risk communication.

-- Benjamin Drummond and Sara Steele's «Facing Climate Change» — Gary Braasch's «World View of Global Warming» — Camille Seaman's «Siberia is Melting» — Daniel Beltra's «Forest at Risk»

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

If average global temperatures rise by just 3 °C, then Europe's drought risk could increase to double the area faced with drying out.