Sentences with phrase «global society require»
The demands of today's global society require a new approach to preparing our nation's youth for college, careers, and citizenship.
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5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»
If the global society emerges, it will require humanity to develop a new consciousness and a new form of spirituality.
He concludes that if a successful global society is to emerge, it will require humanity to develop a new consciousness and a new form of spirituality.
The realization of the global society will require from the whole of humanity creative thinking, self - sacrificing endeavor of the highest order, and all the mutual goodwill of which we are capable.
This redirection would require more participation by civil society as well as by government than global corporate capitalism now allows.
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).
The transition to an ecologically sustainable society requires reduced consumption of goods, the efficient recycling of materials, a move away from the use of fossil fuels to the use of renewable sources of energy, zero global population growth, a reduced standard of living for the rich, an increased standard of living for the poor and an appeal to quality of life instead of materialism.
«Adequate management of agricultural and forestry land uses are amongst the lowest - cost actions that can reduce global warming, and most actions are either neutral cost or of positive net profit to society, requiring no substantial capital investment,» the report says.
«While climate change is a major threat, more research is required before society attempts global geoengineering solutions.»
The Polaris Climate Change Observatory regional platforms will provide the public, policy makers, industry and civil society with a forum for interaction and for developing the collaborative actions required for an adapted response to global development in the face of climate change.
The growing complexity of modern living, for individual, communities and societies, also suggests that the solutions to our problems will be also be complex: in a structurally imbalanced world, the imperative of reconciling diverse perspectives and interests, in local settings with sometimes global implications, will require young people to become adept in handling tensions, dilemmas and trade - offs.
To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.
Today we live in an increasingly global world requiring educators not only to teach children about math and science, but also how to be citizens of the world, according to Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) research member and MIT senior lecturer.
This requires a radical change in the ontological models of sustainable development, global citizenship education and world - society.
Reflecting on the value and significance of education in the globalized era of the 21st century requires tackling global dynamics (economic, political, cultural, social, educational, etc.) with new forms of cooperation and democratic social organization to respond to the challenge of governance in a cosmopolitan society.
Today's students require the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to participate as citizens in a global society.
5:10 p.m. — 6:00 p.m. Robert Hagstrom Author, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Legg Mason Topic: «Investing: The Last Liberal Art» 6:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CFA Society of Nebraska / Value Investor Conference Dinner 2012 Reception Sponsored by Morningstar Note Location Change: Omaha Marriott (10220 Regency Circle) Separate Registration Required Keynote Speaker: Tom Russo Topic: «Global Value Investing»
By underlining the power of artistic engagement to communicate, on a human scale, the urgency of global climate change, the event hopes to inspire and envision the cultural shift required to build a sustainable society.
Unfortunately whilst certain political commentators / manipulators and leaders sow confusion about the issue of climate change and anthropogenic emissions, and also state that taking formal action would be «bad for our economy», the firm policy required at global / regional level, the correct signal to society / industry and the global action needed will not happen.
«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»
As a number of scientific articles have shown, most recently by Kevin Anderson and Alice Bows in the Journal of the Royal Society, limiting the world to 2 °C warming most likely requires peaking total global carbon emissions in the next 5 - 10 years followed by immediate reductions to near - zero by 2050 (see Anderson and Bows emission trajectory options here, via David Roberts, and by David Hone here).
In recent years, the secretariat also supports the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, agreed by governments to signal that successful climate action requires strong support from a wide range of actors, including regions, cities, business, investors and all parts of civil society.
Scientific understanding is required to help society address numerous threats facing this global common.
While private sector development and job creation are not new aspects of development policy, there is growing recognition that global development challenges are multi-faceted and complex, requiring collaborative, multi-stakeholder alliances between all sectors of society.
Finally, a global initiative hosted by the United Nations and led by high profile policymakers, including US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, has recommended the liberalization of the regulation of legal services in order to allow nonlawyers and community - based organizations and advocacy groups to provide legal services to the poor, stating that «it is likely to improve access to justice for the poor substantially while imposing relatively few costs on society,» and that a «major attraction» of such liberalization is that it may require «fewer government or donor expenditures.»