Sentences with phrase «global societies at»

So they need resources to manage these lands for their benefit, and indirectly for the benefit of Canadian and global societies at large.

We want to be unique and yet also be one global society at the same time.

Not exact matches

Speaking at the Fortune Global Forum, Cook said that what is missing from society is that there aren't enough people willing to listen, understand, and participate.

Beth Pickens, Managing Director of Global Consumer and Retail at William Blair, explains how society has shifted from a «need culture» to a «want culture» when it comes to retail.

Cornell professor and economist Robert Frank, who wrote a book in the 1990s titled The Winner - Take - All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us, made popular the belief that a big portion of the increase in the income gap has to do with the way a global market values its best performers, be they CEOs or athletes or actual performers.

These technologies are driving profound changes impacting industries and business models as well as life, society, and the environment,» said Tim Zanni, Global and U.S. Technology Sector Leader at KPMG in the report.

An inexorable global rise in diabetes must be taken «more seriously» by society, according to the CFO at Novo Nordisk.

The Global Opportunity Network contributed with its presence at the ECCA 2015 conference to assure scientists, civil society and business participants that many opportunities and solutions are already there, waiting to be explored, measured, implemented and scaled up.

Ido Kilovaty Contributor Share on Twitter Ido Kilovaty is a Cyber Fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges and Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School.

During the Summit of the G - 7 on the Information Society (in February 1995 at Brussels) US Vice President Al Gore said that the biggest concern about the Global Information Superhighway was the protection of privacy.»

These would include very personal problems, others at the level of society, and still others that are global.

Government involvement in such activities has, however, been a global phenomenon, at least among advanced industrial societies.

All this also requires encounter and dialogue with other religions in the region that aim at discovering through their respective heritages, a common ethical ground for the basis of a new society» (Human Rights: a Global Ecumenical Agenda, WCC 1993 p. 44).

They were strongly committed to global issues of justice, to specific ministries with those at the margin of our own society, to peacemaking, and to environmental concerns.

When you look at the kind of impact food loss and waste has on our environment, economy and society, it's clear why the United Nations included it among the most urgent global challenges the Sustainable Development Goals would address.

FAO can coordinate, at global level, the initiatives, activities and projects on food losses waste reduction by partnering with UN agencies, other international organizations, and worldwide stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society.

I confess that I have become somewhat blasé about the range of exciting — I think revolutionary is probably more accurate — technologies that we are rolling out today: our work in genomics and its translation into varieties that are reaching poor farmers today; our innovative integration of long — term and multilocation trials with crop models and modern IT and communications technology to reach farmers in ways we never even imagined five years ago; our vision to create a C4 rice and see to it that Golden Rice reaches poor and hungry children; maintaining productivity gains in the face of dynamic pests and pathogens; understanding the nature of the rice grain and what makes for good quality; our many efforts to change the way rice is grown to meet the challenges of changing rural economies, changing societies, and a changing climate; and, our extraordinary array of partnerships that has placed us at the forefront of the CGIAR change process through the Global Rice Science Partnership.

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Paul Tough delivers the Fifth Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, presented by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy (CHPPP), in collaboration with the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago.

Paul will deliver the Annual Lecture on Science, Technology & Society, sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at the Harris School, University of Chicago, and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group.

Accordingly on 11 June 2009 the UK civil society organisation Baby Milk Action submitted a complaint alleging that the reports posted on the UN Global Compact Office site and launched at the joint event were misleading and that Nestlé was, in truth, responsible for egregious violations of the Global Compact Principles.

WHO governance: The conversation continues Civil society meetings related to WHO EB142, 19 - 20 January 2018 Baby Milk Action is a member of the Geneva Global Health Hub G2H2 that was launched during a civil society side event at the 69th World...

In the sophisticated, emancipated societies of the global west and north, it has been suggested that 5 % of mothers are unable to produce enough breast milk to nourish their babies at the breast.

«Last week Nestlé was courting policy makers at its Creating Shared Value Global Forum, arguing that corporations should be trusted to benefit society.

Panellists at the event, entitled Civil Society: Enabling Dissent, include Anthony Barnett founder of openDemocracy.net, global activist Kumi Naidoo, journalist / blogger Sunny Hundal and campaigner Malcolm Carroll.

He has argued that in view of the global race for development, a Ghanaian president needs time to implement his programmes and also plan the economy At International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) conference on the theme «Democracy Justice and Development in Africa: 50 Years after Independence», former president Kufuor criticized the framers of the Constitution for failing to undertake adequate research before deciding on the duration for Presidency.

There is a strong argument that the cultural resources made available online should be treated as a global cultural «commons» that supports the self - development of the individual and the artistic and intellectual development of human society at large.

The courses taught at GSU include International Communication, Chinese Media, Politics and Society, and Communication in Global Contexts.

He also responded to the call of the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations led by Parliamentarians for Global Action to lead them in the preparatory meetings and dialogue at New York, USA, of the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court.

He and his team rolled out the global race narrative at his October party conference speech, and for the first time since the Big Society, the PM and his advisers in No 10 felt they had a key message.

Moderator's Remarks from Al Appleton, former Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection and Senior Fellow at the Cooper Union: When we talk about addressing global warming, we're talking about disentangling 21st century society from fossil fuel.

Judge Rothstein serves on the Judicial Advisory Board of the American Society of International Law, the Board of the Rule of Law Initiative of the ABA, the Judicial Advisory Board of the Sedona Conference ®; the Board of the Institute of Judicial Administration at NYU Law School, and the Board of the Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School.

Farmer, a Harvard professor who co-founded the nonprofit Partners in Health, explained at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene meeting in Philadelphia, how that reaction should be an asset in the global battle for better health.

«Taxing sugary drinks isn't a new concept, but given the immediacy of the global obesity problem, it's time we got creative with how we approach it,» said author of the study Dr. Evan Blecher, Senior Economist at the American Cancer Society.

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

AGU is at the heart of a global network of societies and individuals in the geophysical sciences.

The crippling toll of the disease on patients, family and society at large makes it a global health crisis of frightening proportions.

The increased emphasis among survey respondents mirrors a global trend: Eighty - six percent of citizens worldwide believe that companies need to place at least as much emphasis on society's interests as they do on business interests, according to a 2010 study by Edelman Global Public Relations (www.goodpurposecommunityglobal trend: Eighty - six percent of citizens worldwide believe that companies need to place at least as much emphasis on society's interests as they do on business interests, according to a 2010 study by Edelman Global Public Relations (www.goodpurposecommunityGlobal Public Relations (www.goodpurposecommunity.com).

«We found children at a very early age — from the most conservative to the most liberal societies — quickly internalize this myth that girls are vulnerable and boys are strong and independent,» said Robert Blum, director of the Global Early Adolescent Study based at Johns Hopkins University.

DENVER — Even as governments worldwide have largely failed to limit emissions of global warming gases, the decline of fossil fuel production may reduce those emissions significantly, experts said yesterday during a panel discussion at the Geological Society of America meeting.

With global collaborations, we can identify strategic future investments in marine protected areas, and track progress towards better outcomes,» said Dr. Emily Darling, Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society, who leads a global coral reef monitoring program.

At Queen's University we have advanced our knowledge of these layered materials and have made some major discoveries, which could help to tackle many global challenges within our society.

Scientists typically look at four different possible futures, ranging from an uber - green society to a worst - case scenario, in which no action is taken to combat global warming.

The collaboration with the Illuminating Engineering Society exemplifies the vision of The New Polytechnic, an emerging paradigm for teaching, learning, and research at Rensselaer, the foundation of which is the recognition that global challenges and opportunities are so great they can not be adequately addressed by even the most talented person working alone.

Deepak is perfectly suited to be at the helm of this growing global society.»

Next week, at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, the world's largest gathering of brain researchers, several of them will sit down together again to discuss science funding in an era of global brain projects.

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.»

The animation is the result of a collaboration between the Centre for Genomics and Global Health, MalariaGEN and the Sanger Institute, and was designed to accompany the Sanger Institute's exhibit «Beyond the Genome» at this year's Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.

Very good, they would say, at doing very bad things in terms of undercutting public understanding of what many see as an existential threat to modern society and the global economy.

At risk of going beyond the theme of this thread, I offer up excerpts from it because I think Orr's review speaks indirectly to the larger issue of how we as humans and as a global society are reacting to the findings of the earth sciences regarding anthropogenic global warming, climate disruption, and their ensuing ecological and socio - economic consequences: