Sentences with phrase «important global debate»
«ExxonMobil — which recorded $ 10.5 billion in third quarter profits this year — has an obligation and a responsibility to the global community to refrain from lending their support, financial and otherwise, to bogus, non substantiated articles and publications on climate change that serve only to cloud the important global debate of rigorous peer - reviewed research and writings,» Senator Snowe said.
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Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.
For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.
It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.
Giving scholars from the global south a voice in the R2P debate is a remarkable and important achievement in and of itself.
This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era.
The opening night's Big Debate will deal with a «massive canvas», addressing «all the most important aspects of our global future» including IT, geopolitics, and the future of liberal democracy.
I think people who realize there is no real debate about its reality consider AGW one of if not the single most important global challenge.
One important point he makes that I have not seen discussed elsewhere is that the debate (such as it is) of whether global warming might be a good thing fundamentally misses the point.
Indeed Mann has a point and the blame for the «hockey - stick» becoming such an important icon of the debate really lies with the IPCC's TAR which used the «hockey - stick» as an icon for global warming.
It is important that policymakers understand the historical context of the global warming debate, what the data does — and does not — tell us about global warming, where there is consensus in the scientific community and where there is not, and what impacts global warming regulations can realistically be expected to have on the environment.
In fact, IPCC's work on the ethical limits of economic arguments is a particularly important contribution to the global climate change debate.
One is that it will simply intensify the political, ideological and, yes, moral debate that has erupted over who does and does not believe we are causing global warming, and thus move us even farther from the important scientific effort that the issue deserves.
In November, 2015, the three lead NIPCC authors — Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter, and S. Fred Singer — wrote a small book titled Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming: The NIPCC Report on Scientific Consensus revealing how no survey or study shows a «consensus» on the most important scientific issues in the climate change debate, and how most scientists do not support the alarmist claims of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Unfortunately, this is shifting the focus away from the most important element of the climate debate: the scientific reality of global warming.
Given the stakes in the current debate over global warming, the research may very well turn out to be one of the most important climate experiments of our time — if only the media would report the story.
The Climate Scientists» Register does just that by focusing solely on the most important of the climate science topics under debate — is human produced carbon dioxide leading to dangerous global warming, or not?»
Mark, who was instrumental in the establishment of DACS in 1984, joins the organisation at an important time as debate continues about the future of copyright, and the global recession and public funding cuts impact on visual artists.