Sentences with phrase «how global governments»

These may include how fast blockchain technology is adopted by larger, more established companies, how quickly merchants become willing to accept virtual currencies, and how global governments end up dealing with the new phenomenon.

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The global consulting giant makes its living telling other companies, governments and organizations how to be more innovative, and right now McKinsey is run by a Canadian, Dominic Barton, who also heads Ottawa's Advisory Council on Economic Growth.

April 2, 2008 Governing Smarter: Leadership Roundtable on how government agents can boost accountability and help Canada compete more powerfully on the global stage - Expert Briefing Now Available

The Program applies the latest thinking in public finance and resource policy to assess how governments can improve the global competitiveness of the energy sector, improve the understanding of the need for energy market access, foster the innovation that will create the energy sector of the future, and help policymakers collaborate locally, nationally and globally.

January 03, 2008 Governing Smarter Roundtable: How government agents can boost accountability and help Canada compete more powerfully on the global stage - February 26th in Ottawa

Basically, Mr. Flaherty is looking for suggestions on how to «strengthen our economy in the face of global economic threats»; with «cost - neutral or low cost measures», focusing on «more efficient and effective spending» that builds on the «government's belief of respecting taxpayers» dollars» and «encourages private sector growth and leadership».

But this just underscores how important it is to move past simplistic assumptions, and propaganda, about the developmental nature of China's «global development finance» and ask if and how the Chinese government's provision of overseas finance, in both its concessional and commercial versions is, in fact, contributing to development outcomes both outside and inside of China.

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown — made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners — were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose.

It's called Tracking the Energy Revolution, and its 18 pages of maps, charts, and graphics tell the story of how plunging equipment costs, strong investor interest, and government and business leadership are driving a global shift to renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, and water.

The European Union's competition authorities announced a major tax ruling against Apple's tax dealings with the Irish government on Tuesday, a decision that will likely increase trans - Atlantic tension over how some of the world's largest companies pay taxes on their global operations.

His other books include Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy — and What We Can Do About It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (McGraw - Hill Professional); Freedom Manifesto: Why Free Markets are Moral and Big Government Isn't, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, August 2012); How Capitalism Will Save Us: Why Free People and Free Markets Are the Best Answer in Today's Economy, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames (Crown Business, November 2009); and Power Ambition Glory: The Stunning Parallels between Great Leaders of the Ancient World and Today... and the Lessons You Can Learn, co-authored by John Prevas (Crown Business, June 2009).

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

The government has created an online Global Calculator to help people understand how their lifestyles and energy use impact on the climate — and which underlines the importance of eating less meat.

The theme «Towards a Common Future» will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to address the shared global challenges we face and agree on actions on how to create a better future for all.

Taking the title of VP, head of global comms and policy, she will advise the firm on how to lobby the government, although Rogers is banned from becoming personally involved in lobbying the UK government on behalf of Deliveroo for two years after leaving office.

An intricate tale of «medicine, monopoly and malice», Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low - cost Aids drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 — causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths — and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back.

A statement signed by Director of Communications at the Presidency, Eugene Arhin, indicates the weeklong meeting will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to «address the shared global challenges we face, and agree actions on how to create a better future for all».

The event which begins April 16, 2018 and ends April 20, 2018 under the theme «Towards a Common Future» will afford Heads of Government in the Commonwealth the opportunity to «address the shared global challenges we face, and agree on actions on how to create a better future for all».

But the court accepted the Australian government's case that there was no definitive proof that coal from the Carmichael mine would increase global greenhouse emissions, because multiple factors affect how much coal is burned annually.

The flurry of action — at breakneck speed compared with most vaccine development — shows how a health emergency and a guaranteed global market can prod this process to move a lot faster than usual, with streamlined approvals and millions of dollars in government support.

It's apparent to me that we have very different views inside the government about what our commitments to global health and foreign assistance should look like and how they should be structured and organized.

The Indian government harshly criticized the state of science in the country this week, part of new draft assessment that examines how India can better compete in a global economy.

Assessment analysis confronts complex issues, ranging from government regulations and corruption to the ethics of publicity, including how to inform media of something like the global warming slowdown, which may not have actually happened.

AS GOVERNMENTS struggle to prevent the global financial crisis turning into a deep worldwide recession, attention is also turning to the longer - term problem: how to avoid a similar crisis happening again.

Governments are now trying to figure out how to phase them out in order to slow down global warming.

The Hot Topic: What We Can Do About Global Warming By Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King (Harcourt) In The Hot Topic, former science advisor to the British government Sir David King teams up with veteran science writer Gabrielle Walker to offer perhaps the most thoughtful and scientifically rigorous work to date on how we got the Earth into this fix, and how we can help get it out.

Recently, for example, my government class discussed how, faced with a mountain of scientific data, anybody — including politicians — would refute global warming, or the role that humanity plays in its occurrence.

«The results will help us understand how we can further support young people to be responsible global citizens, capable of taking part in local, regional and global decision making and debate,» said the Scottish government spokeswoman.

Anyway, if such unprecedented monetary stimulus was absolutely necessary to reflate the global economy (as every government / central bank has insisted), how exactly would they argue a withdrawal of this stimulus wouldn't have an equal & opposite deflationary impact?!

Financial Shock (Updated Edition), (Paperback): Global Panic and Government Bailouts — How We Got Here and What Must Be Done to Fix It

How the decisions by consumers, producers, and the government determine domestic and global prosperity

In particular we analyzed a data set from Global Footprint Network — a research group dedicated to helping leaders in government and finance quantify how much people take from nature and how much nature has to give.

And how might they be improved in order to provide a means for scientists and governments to collaborate successfully to assess information and provide useful insights to policy makers, while maintaining the confidence of the global public?

It is in the social sciences and in the humanities where questions are addressed about how governments and corporations might best mitigate and adapt to the causes and consequences of global warming.

The governments of China and India obviously don't care how the Bush Administration defines global warming... they have hundreds of millions of incredibly poor people who are finally getting a taste of economic prosperity and have that as their near - term priority.

Now that global warming is underway, how do government meteorologists and hydrologists use ensemble forecasting to account for increasing potentials for high intensity rainfall in fall and winter months?

One last thing just look at how many Politicians Governments support the Global Warming Claims.

Taken together, these initiatives to combat global warming now cover areas that include half the U.S. population, and state governments are already considering how to harmonize regional trading systems with each other, as well as with the European Union's emissions - trading scheme.

So it turns out that the answer to our confusion (see earlier post) of how the government proposed to hike up taxes and keep fuel prices even was that they would adjust the base fuel price downward, predicated on the recent plummet of global crude prices.

It's easy to find out U.K. targets for emissions reduction in tonnes or percentages, but who can tell me by how many degrees Centigrade is the government expecting to mitigate global warming by year 2050 or 2100?

With the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), the Australian government's Global Initiative on Forests and Carbon (GIFC) and other funds catalyzing REDD activities on the ground, and the clock already ticking on the UNFCCC's countdown to a decision at Copenhagen, the next two years offer a unique opportunity to shape how the worlds forests can join the fight to mitigate climate change.

«Since 2001, Global Witness has exposed how Liberian logging companies actively organise and oversee the importation of arms for both the Liberian government and Liberian government - backed rebel groups in neighbouring countries (10),» says Blondel.

The email, dated 3 June 2002, reveals how White House officials wanted the CEI's help to play down the impact of a report last summer by the government's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in which the US admitted for the first time that humans are contributing to global warming.

How dangerous it is to question the ruling paradigm of human caused global warming, a once interesting idea that the United Nations latched onto with all the enthusiasm of a fox in a hen coop, simultaneously drawing the interest of various national governments, and dragging with it many unwitting but eager scientifically credentialed sycophants.

Climate Week NYC 2018 will gather global leaders in business and government in New York City from September 24 - 30 to demonstrate how continued investment in clean energy can drive innovation, jobs and prosperity.

«Government Interventions in Markets Are Often Not Justified and Yield Dismal Results How a Court Threw Out a Major Obama Environmental Regulation and EPA Refused to Say How Global Temperatures Would Change under the Paris Treaty»

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We see how «scientific» data is telegraphed by leading government global warming institutions to promote specific policy objectives.

This value is the government's best estimate of how much society gains over the long haul by cutting each ton of the heat - trapping carbon - dioxide emissions scientists have linked to global warming.

• Global temperatures are likely to rise by 0.3 C to 4.8 C, by the end of the century depending on how much governments control carbon emissions.