Sentences with phrase «global transition»

A time of global transition is upon us and the wisdom used by ancient cultures to achieve vibrant health against all the odds has never been more important to understand.
Its focus has been on the international negotiations but we also promote domestic approaches to climate justice that explicitly and organically expand into the project of a just global transition.
What would a fast - enough global transition cost, and how shall we pay for it?
Christian Zinglersen named as head of the new Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat at the IEA Mr Zinglersen will lead the CEM Secretariat to support an accelerated global transition to modern and clean energy sources 19 January 2017
«Downsizing imagines what might happen if, as a solution to over-population, Norwegian scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall and propose a 200 - year global transition from big to small.
A major contribution to the open participation of younger artists in the dynamic cultural development of societies in global transition, the Prize has supported the artistic development and production of new works of over 84 artists in exhibitions at the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv and the Venice Biennale.
«We need to make a swift global transition away from dirty energy and towards renewables.
This reality is felt acutely among the Minjung at the present historical juncture, with its radical global transition and uncertainty about the future.
This magazine began in October 1956 amid a time, like today, of significant global transition.
Managing a workforce without online communication, professional training and an understanding of local, interstate and global transition seems to be a foreign concept.
This exhibition offers a moving account of the shifting fates of women and girls in a period of profound global transition.
Accordingly, Johnson uses these works to explore what it means to exercise aesthetic agency during a phase of violent global transition.
The event featured a keynote address from the Honourable James Gordon Carr, the federal Minister of Natural Resources, who outlined his government's efforts to ensure Canada will compete and thrive in the ongoing global transition to a low - carbon economy.
The Prize is a major contribution to the open participation of younger artists in the dynamic cultural development of societies in global transition.
These organisations share a demand for climate justice and a just global transition that protects the rights and livelihoods of workers with a plan for the planet and a plan for workers and their communities.
The global transition to clean energy will create new and growing demand for many of the metals and minerals found in Canada.
A strong agreement on climate action in Paris could accelerate the global transition to clean energy.
Canadian miners have an opportunity to play a key role in the global transition to clean energy.
The critical problem, as Mesarovic and Pestel (1984) and Pestel (1989) saw it, was how to make a global transition from undifferentiated growth all round to organic growth in which some nations ceased to grow in the use of material resources while others grew faster.
This report outlines where such advantages exist within the energy sector and demonstrates where Australia can benefit from a domestic and global transition to low emissions energy.
Danone and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation have announced a partnership aimed at accelerating the global transition to a circular economy.
«In particular, Mexico's target to peak its emissions by 2026 and drive them down thereafter is a landmark step in the global transition to a low - carbon economy,» the White House said in a statement.
But Germany's consortium, named Projekt DEAL, plans to hold firm, and it thinks a successful outcome could help trigger what some call a «big flip,» a global transition toward open access.
We sat down with Robert Hornung, the President of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) to chat about the global transition to a low - carbon future, what needs to happen to get there and how these two thoughts are showing up at this year's conference.
We sat down with Robert Hornung, the President of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) to chat about the global transition to a low - carbon future, what needs to happen to get there and how these...
Tom Burke chairs E3G, an independent think - tank working to accelerate the global transition to a low - carbon economy.
A new report assesses the credit risks that power plants face from the global transition to an economy with lower carbon dioxide emissions and finds that some U.S. coal plants are still exposed to those risks, despite Trump administration efforts to roll back CO2 reduction rules.
This disconnect «might hinder» countries from attaching their domestic laws to the global transition that is underway.
And learn why citizens everywhere support policies that accelerate the global transition to a clean energy economy.
But NGOs hope the U.S. leader will make a different decision, urging the Obama Administration in the letter to take active leadership in protecting and restoring the world's oceans, in the global transition to a green economy, and in moving forward new international norms on safeguard the environment and promoting human rights.
The CEM is a high - level forum of many of the world's economies working together to accelerate the global transition to clean energy.
Regardless of whether the IMF report gets to exactly the right number, the report provides a very credible starting point to argue over the right value to place on fossil fuel subsidies, and will be a baseline to begin rethinking the right pace for our global transition to clean energy.
«A number of initiatives targeting the global transition away from fossil fuels have been established over the last two years, and most recently at the international climate summit in Bonn.»
The global transition to efficient appliances and equipment is key to achieving the Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) goal of doubling the global rate of energy efficiency improvement.
Become part of the global transition to renewable energy.
Global transition to clean energy and electricity security at the centre of New Zealand visit of Executive Director IEA executive director, Dr Fatih Birol, toured New Zealand to present the IEA's latest in - depth review of New Zealand energy policies and meet with government officials 21 February 2017
«We lead the global transition to connected LED lighting.
Congress should continue on the path toward doubling federal energy RD&D funding, which would fulfill a commitment the United States made along with 19 other countries to accelerate the global transition to cleaner, more affordable, more reliable energy.
«Energy technology innovation represents a crucial element of the global transition to secure, sustainable, affordable energy systems,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.
This article identifies five disruptive trends that are accelerating the global transition to clean energy.
We firmly believe that this Clean Energy Transition Programme will have a significant mitigation impact and speed up the global transition towards more sustainable energy use.
The Programme will provide cutting - edge technical support to governments whose energy policies will significantly impact the speed of a global transition toward more sustainable energy production and use, including reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and greater access to energy.
On the contrary, the global transition to clean energy will continue with or without the US because it is embedded in economic, social and technological trends that are bigger than any one country.»
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