Sentences with phrase «great global challenges»

The world's most powerful established and emerging nations — together responsible for more than 80 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions — concluded a day - long meeting after the Group of 8 summit in Japan and emerged on Wednesday with a joint statement calling climate change «one of the great global challenges of our time.»

Climate change is one of the great global challenges of our time.

About half of the «10 great global challenges» listed above are directly related to over population and the pressure that's putting on the environment and society.

In an era of great global challenges and geopolitical tension, the scientific approach to considering problems and building knowledge can guide humanity toward peaceful solutions, Iranian physicist Yousef Sobouti said in an address at a science diplomacy event in Trieste, Italy.

In a letter to Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the CEOs noted «climate change poses one of the greatest global challenges and threatens to roll back decades of development -LSB-...]

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

Indeed, the UN finally dropped environmentalism as the top rationale for its agenda, saying in the final agreement that poverty was now the «greatest global challenge facing the world today.»

Far from a being a «job killer,» it is a world - leading example of how to tackle one of the greatest global challenges of our time: building an economy that will prosper in a carbon - constrained world.

Many of us are intellectually aware that climate change is our greatest global challenge, and yet the problem may feel abstract, the imperiled landscapes remote.

We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an indispensable requirement for sustainable development.

United States of America About Blog Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today's greatest global challenges.

United States of America About Blog Ocean Conservancy is working with you to protect the ocean from today's greatest global challenges.

Not exact matches

Cyberattacks are the greatest challenge threatening global stability, the German defense minister told CNBC Saturday.

Our greatest challenges also need global responses — like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics.

According to MIT researcher Donald Sull, the single greatest challenge that global CEOs face for executing their company's strategy is failure to align.

Manoj Kashyap, PwC's Global Fintech Leader, commented that these findings, «pose a strong challenge to existing entrepreneurial and business norms by seriously questioning whether there are deep - rooted biases that are preventing greater access to funding by female entrepreneurs.»

The April 2014 Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) assesses the challenging transitions that the global financial system is currently undergoing on the path to greater stabGlobal Financial Stability Report (GFSR) assesses the challenging transitions that the global financial system is currently undergoing on the path to greater stabglobal financial system is currently undergoing on the path to greater stability.

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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.

While there are some signs of recognition such as the Fed's reduction in its estimated neutral rate from 4.5 percent to 3.0 percent during the last 2 years, the IMF's explicit use of the term secular stagnation in its World Economic Outlook, ECB president Mario Draghi's call for global coordination and greater use of fiscal policy, and Japan's indicated interest in fiscal - monetary cooperation, policymakers still have not made sufficiently radical adjustments in their world view to reflect this new reality of a world where generating adequate nominal GDP growth is likely to be the primary macroeconomic policy challenge for the next decade.

Discusses in great detail the global state of the industry and the unique challenges platforms face going forward going forward.

Not bad considering the multitude of challenges that have faced global banks over that period, including the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

We received a great response to the Global Startup Challenge - Fintech 2017 - 18.

«With the great strides we have made in our goal to be both a Quebec and Canadian player on the global stage, nevertheless we still have to deal with the reality of the current business environment in Canada, which presents real challenges to a company like ours,» the engineering giant's chief executive, Neil Bruce, said in prepared comments he made to the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations Tuesday.

This approach has allowed cyber defense programs to overcome the greatest challenge: a global shortage of cyber security talent.

These demands, however, do not challenge the existing international system and its assumptions: they want a greater share in the global economic pie.

The global system — economic, regulatory, and philanthropic — operates at a great distance from any form of natural solidarity capable of challenging its power.

Because there are always challenges in the supply chain, Hawaii Coffee says that its great partnerships with suppliers are key to its success as a global company.

Fluctuating costs caused by constantly changing global demand create a challenge for meat product producers such as Ohio's Great Lakes Smoked Meats.

Give that Fair Food Week is deliberately centred around World Food Day, it is a great response to the local, national and global challenges to food sovereignty.

Scotland Food & Drink is a unique leadership organisation - supported by the Scottish Government - tasked with growing the value of Scotland's food and drink sector, making it more profitable and delivering greater global success in a challenging and competitive market.

A 6 month voluntary position with the UN became a 4 - year mission and, in December 2015, Simon and his team were awarded the prestigious United Nations Global Innovation Challenge Award, for the initiative with the greatest «disruptive potential» for far - reaching societal change (creating a tangible impact towards eradicating global hunger and saving millions of lives every Global Innovation Challenge Award, for the initiative with the greatest «disruptive potential» for far - reaching societal change (creating a tangible impact towards eradicating global hunger and saving millions of lives every global hunger and saving millions of lives every year.)

This tells any global organisation where the biggest challenges lie, but also where any activities would have the greatest impact.

As much as we extolled the virtues of our son's emerging global citizenship, we still thought parenting would be a greater challenge for us in Kenya.

The great thing about Global Student Challenge is that it gives the students the chance to feel what it would be like to work in a construction company making high level decisions.

Global warming, it says, is the «greatest threat to the livelihoods, security and well - being of the peoples of the Pacific and one of the greatest challenges for the entire world.»

The challenge is even greater in the global context: The International Diabetes Federation estimates that by 2030, some 439 million people worldwide will have type 2 diabetes.

Global warming is one of the greatest challenges of our time.

Makhatadze's research is enabled by the vision of The New Polytechnic, an emerging paradigm for higher education which recognizes that global challenges and opportunities are so great they can not be adequately addressed by even the most talented person working alone.

It's an exciting and unique discovery that has great global commercial potential to resolve some of the most challenging human health and food concerns facing us today.»

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

The humble coca shrub has survived decades of efforts to eradicate it and global warming will not pose a greater challenge than that

While the challenges may be greater than ever, at least now our oceans are getting some long - overdue attention; only time will tell if we took action in time to stave off a global collapse of marine ecosystems.

On December 14, Peter Diamandis, chairman and CEO of X Prize, announced the launch of the Shell Ocean Discovery X Prize, a three - year global competition that challenges researchers to build better technologies for mapping what Diamandis called one of the «greatest unexplored frontiers» — Earth's seafloor.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Once thought to be the greatest challenge to global polio eradication, India has not reported a single case of polio in more than two years.

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.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

«As editor of The Lancet, Richard Horton has demonstrated great leadership by providing a voice for scientists and shining a spotlight on the global health challenges we are facing, particularly in the developing world,» said Klag.

Relyea's research is enabled by the vision of The New Polytechnic, an emerging paradigm for higher education which recognizes that global challenges and opportunities are so great they can not be adequately addressed by even the most talented person working alone.