Sentences with phrase «in global generation»

Coal only accounts for 13 percent of the increase in global generation compared to 40 percent over the previous 25 years.

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The dream grew bigger, however, and turned into a desire to create an empire for future generations of women to play a central role in the industry, Sun told CNBC's Dan Murphy at the Credit Suisse Global Megatrends Conference in Singapore.

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

As Clay reports, the sudden revelation that America's uncontested tech prowess, after generations of global leadership, may be under threat in the next couple of decades has raised alarm bells in some quarters of Washington.

Prior to Black Friday, Patagonia announced that it would donate 100 percent of its global retail and online sales from the shopping event straight to grassroots organizations that work in local communities to «protect our air, water and soil for future generations».

She was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the California Clean Energy Fund, where she explored investment opportunities to accelerate the shift to 100 % clean energy and is co-chair of the Nexus Global Energy Innovation and Environment Group and a trustee of the American Renewable Energy Institute, mobilizing the next generation of impact investors and philanthropists.

«Our mission is to empower this new generation to take greater ownership in their financial future,» the company says, «which we believe can help shrink the gap between the «haves» and the «have nots» and lead to a healthier, more robust global economy.»

«Our research shows that this generation of business leaders wants greater control over educational choices, continued exposure to peers with deep, global experience and more opportunity in their academic experience to self - analyze and self - reflect.»

«Microsoft is unable to connect with the new generation of users,» wrote Global Equities analyst Trip Chowdhry in a 2010 research note to his clients, about as damning a sentence as you can muster for a technology company.

«The architecture of the curriculum addresses the needs of a new global generation through flexibility, rigor and innovation,» he said in the statement.

«The trends are in place for you to see more natural gas,» Macaulay said about the future of global power generation.

Third, governments worldwide forged an historic climate agreement in Paris that will drive the global phase - out of fossil fuel generation over decades — and increase the demand for the technologies that can replace it.

Seeking to attract the travel - minded millennial generation, Hilton Worldwide is going smaller, cheaper, and more local with what it's calling a «hostel on steroids,» CEO Christopher Nassetta said at the Skift Global Forum in New York on Tuesday.

Early Marker: Joined board of Santander in 1989, putting her in line eventually to become the fourth generation of her family to lead the Spanish banking giant and arguably the third - most - powerful woman in global banking.

Caroline Russell, third - generation CEO of Boh Plantations, shares how Malaysia's largest tea producer first settled in misty Cameron Highlands and is now advancing into global markets.

To gain an in - depth understanding of this enigmatic and influential generation, we surveyed nearly 800 Millennials and more than 1,700 non-Millennials in the U.S. as part of our 2013 Global Consumer Sentiment Survey.

SAN JOSE, Calif. & CHICAGO, Ill. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) announced today that it has agreed to acquire Braintree, the innovative global payment platform powering the next generation of leading online and mobile - first startups, for total consideration of approximately $ 800 million in cash.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.

When disaster struck the world economy, our Government's decisive and pragmatic leadership navigated Canada through the worst global recession in a generation.

KEHKASHAN BASU Founder and President, Green Hope Participant at the ABU DHABI OPPORTUNITY PANEL When asked about the global agenda that excites her most, Kehkashan responds that «the greatest opportunity lies in the empowerment and effective engagement of future generations.»

Eclipse Inc., a third generation family owned company founded in Rockford, Illinois 106 years ago, is a global leader in the manufacture of gas combustion components and systems for industrial heating and drying applications.

Today, in partnership with M12 (the newly renamed Microsoft Ventures), we are excited to announce the N. American winner of the Innovate.AI competition, a global startup competition to find the next generation of companies building intelligent applications.

Anheuser - Busch birthed the global beer industry and Purina the worldwide pet food market; Energizer batteries and the largest car rental company, Enterprise, launched in St. Louis; and say what you want about GMO crops pending your politics, but St. Louis - based Monsanto has ensured for a generation of food production while global farmland dissipates and worldwide population numbers soar.

has emerged as a global leader in solar generation,» EcoWatch notes.

That's partly because the country «has emerged as a global leader in solar generation,» EcoWatch notes.

Sapphire Ventures is a growth - stage investor in the next - generation of global category leaders in enterprise and consumer technology.

MARKET COMPARISONS: wind market share of all new power by region; U.S. wind in global landscape; U.S. wind generation.

Canada is poised to become a global leader in the next generation of clean technology applications.

Launched in 2012, the MaRS Cleantech Fund aims to provide early - stage funding to companies developing next - generation clean technology breakthroughs with global markets, deep intellectual property and capital - lean business models.

«This survey revealed that the entrepreneurial spirit resides in all of us and across all generations of workers» said Jeffrey Quinn, Vice President, Global Monster Insights.

Schwarzman Scholars is a highly selective, one - year master's program at Tsinghua University in Beijing that is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for the challenges of the future.

The next 30 years will see the total value of global high net worth wealth transferred down through generations estimated to reach nearly US$ 16trn — the largest transfer of wealth in history.

Marwan Forzley is the Co-Founder and CEO of Veem, a next - generation global payment provider which enables businesses to quickly and securely send and receive payments in local currency.

Approximately 90 percent of the generation's members say they either engage in ESG investment strategies or want to, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research.

As a member of the Global Positioning Strategy (GPS) Project Panel, I had the pleasure of working with a group of «next generation» leaders who are not the «usual suspects» in Canadian foreign policy, but who work in areas that connect deeply with international policy and Canada's place in the world.

With the surge in the number of Generation Y and Generation Z workers, who are anticipated to make up an estimated 50 percent of the global workforce by 2020, coworking seems to be an inevitable trend.

«A new venture launched in Cambridge is leveraging the experiences of a «super-network» of serial investors to help new generations of early - stage startups avoid common pitfalls and reach global potential.»

By supporting organizations and programs that will leave our world in better shape for the next generation, we are confident that LexCorp can help to create a stable and properous global economy of the future.

Day two of the Generation Energy situated «Canada's Energy Team» in the international context, focusing in on Canada's role in the global energy market and its position as a force to drive forward the international fight against climate change.

The MaRS Innovation mission is to put Canada on the global innovation stage, by better connecting research with industry and strengthening Canada's competitive capacity in knowledge based businesses — in short, to launch a new generation of robust, high - growth Canadian companies that will become global market leaders.

How do you empower women in these communities and how do you prevent the creation of a global lost generation?

He hopes Medicine by Design's collaboration with Rotman will help cultivate a new generation of bioscience entrepreneurs who will strengthen Toronto as a global hub for stem cell - based therapies and help Canada realize its full potential in the field.

In the first quarter, both S&P Global Ratings and Moody's Investors Service upgraded Barrick's credit rating, citing significant improvements in free cash flow generation and liquidity, supported by the company's low - cost portfolio and favourable geopolitical risk profilIn the first quarter, both S&P Global Ratings and Moody's Investors Service upgraded Barrick's credit rating, citing significant improvements in free cash flow generation and liquidity, supported by the company's low - cost portfolio and favourable geopolitical risk profilin free cash flow generation and liquidity, supported by the company's low - cost portfolio and favourable geopolitical risk profile.

By 2025, millennials (those born after 1980) will comprise three quarters of the global workforce and according to Pew Research, in the US, they will overtake the baby boomer generation by... Read more

Previously rare in the politics of the nation - state, a concern not just with punishment but with reconciliation has sprouted up dramatically in global politics over the past generation.

In the wrong hands it can wreak a destruction both global and personal that can take generations to reverse.

The global - virtual model will over generations inform and inspire new local models, and maybe we'll once again look like the kind of organic people and community that simply gather and love in the Hope.

Video number 4 from the Jet Set Vision Trip in Taiwan all goes down during a cab ride through Taipei as Ray Chang and I talk about how second generation immigrant churches in America can be involved in God's global mission.

They think our obligation to be sparing in our use of resources and to avoid making the environment unhealthy, for the sake of future generations, requires us to combat global warming.

From today's news: «Gates will give a $ 100,000 grant to whoever can invent the «next generation condom» through The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health.