Sentences with phrase «industry think tank»

The council, comprised of 19 independent industry leaders, was formed by the Mortgage Bankers Association as an industry think tank to identify changes in the $ 12 trillion real estate finance industry over the next five to 10 years.

Oddly, according to insurance industry think tank LIMRA, only one to two percent of term life policyholders actually take advantage of this option — a mind - boggling statistic.

(The industry think tank Coin Center in Washington, D.C. promptly issued a statement that «ether is not a security,» rebutting Gensler's argument.)

Throughout the entire conference there will be industry think tanks and tech tables lead by the best of the youth and travel industry.

The conclusions of most recent studies are that the MWP was on average cooler than today, but The Great Global Warming Swindle, blogs and industry think tanks say otherwise, often based on graphs like this.

So as much as we want to ignore the conspiracy theorists, the fossil industry think tanks and the right - wing tea party crowd, we must also recognize climategate as a history lesson not to be forgotten.

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It has been based on the production of lies developed by the fossil fuel industry through industry - funded conservative think - tanks, laundered through conservative foundations, spun and repeated by right - wing media outlets, and adopted as ideology by the Republican Party.

And, again, this is the core example of the evolution of environmental bullshit: a long history of industry creation of lies; conservative funding of think - tanks, front groups and the echo chamber; the development of an ideological imperative of denialism; and then the necessity of completely groundless bullshit to shore up the lies.

The potential payoff in the parts sector can not be underestimated, notes Peter Frise, CEO of AUTO21, an industry think - tank based at the University of Windsor.

A new think tank dedicated to the development of Blockchain and cryptocurrency industries called the Institute for Blockchain Innovation has been formed by US and Canadian companies and investors in the space.

I'm a Chief Innovation Officer trying to build one, just like hundreds of my colleagues in government, industry, academia and the non-profit / think tank world.

In October, the Climate Leadership Team — an advisory group appointed by the government representing municipalities, First Nations, industry, academia, and think tanks — submitted its recommendations to the premier.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2015 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — To protect Main Street from predatory lending, today a coalition of nonprofit and industry lenders, credit marketplaces, brokers, think tanks, and small business advocates launched the Small Business Borrowers» Bill of Rights at a special event in Washington DC.

The Ideas Industry is an interesting look at how the marketplace for ideas is shifting due to the emergence of for - profit think tanks and ideas entrepreneurs.

Think tanks and industry watchdogs Rogue players can give your industry a bad reputation, but formal definitions, guidelines, and regulations improve credibility and direct negative sentiment toward individual companies instead of the industry as a whole.

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an independent Prairie - based think - tank, analyzed the Statistics Canada reports for all 20 industries the national agency tracks and found that federal public servants» wages rose by 59 %, far outpacing the average worker.

In its opposition to the tariffs, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) had not only the backing of the majority of the solar industry, but also enlisted the aid of right - wing think tanks including the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, as well as a host of manufacturing interests and large energy consumers.

A recent analysis by industry watcher IHS and French think tank Futuribles suggests a likely culprit: a trend toward more urban living.

Nonetheless, denial of that evidence is a sizable, well - financed industry Conservative think tanks have produced scores of studies that try to discredit the data, the methodology and, not least, the motives of those who report the obvious.

Profit and nonprofit «think tanks,» research institutes both public and private, the laboratories of industries, and many other institutions are at work providing the ideas and the inventions that will affect all of us tomorrow.

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The process by which parliamentary candidates are chosen was also reformed so that trade unionists could be frozen out and replaced by young Blairites — people whose soft hands demonstrated the fact they had never worked in industry, or indeed anywhere except in think tanks or parliament.

What role do think - tanks and the arms industry lobby play?

These contributors represent major stakeholder groups, such as associations, think tanks, corporate government affairs offices, interest groups, the media, and key industry organizations in Washington, D.C..

But not everyone thinks it's the best solution to upstate's continued lagging economy.EJ McMahon, President of the fiscally conservative think tank the Empire Center, says the building of resort style casinos won't generate as many jobs as some other industries, like opening up the state's vast shale resources to hydro fracking.

We at Strategic Thinkers Network (STRANEK), a policy think tank whose mission is to provide practical recommendations on issues of politics and governance for the benefit of Ghana have microscopically been following events surrounding the deal which, particularly has received the widespread condemnation from industry experts and civil society.

This legislation, which has the backing of the newspaper industry and has been the subject of numerous editorials, would have immense implications for news outlets, good government groups, think tanks, and other organizations focused on transparency.

Signatories include MPs from both sides of the chamber, social housing associations including Clarion and Peabody, «neoliberal» think tanks like the Adam Smith Institute, housing campaigning groups PricedOut and London YIMBY, and business groups such as the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

A company that has got no experience in the industry and is not recognised by the regulatory authority in this country, that is the NPA, is being sole - sourced to manage a tank farm that contains our national strategic and security stocks, that begs a lot of questions and I think we need a better explanation from BOST».

«Conservative think tanks, conservative media, corporations, and industry associations (especially for the fossil fuels industry)-- domains dominated by conservative white males — have spearheaded the attacks on climate science and policy from the late 1980s to the present,» McCright and Dunlap concluded in their study.

Realising that companies may find it difficult to tease out findings that are relevant to them, the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, an independent think - tank funded by industry and the government, has offered to help guide them through the maze of data.

In one sign of the change, the Center for Global Development, an influential Washington, D.C. - based think tank, has convened a panel of economists, consultants and representatives from industry and public health to make recommendations for forecasting practices.

Hollibaugh and Abin think it might be possible for industry to maintain large cultures of their bacteria in simple holding tanks, feed it oxidized antimony and collect the antimony trioxide crystals as they form naturally.

Pruitt then appointed as science advisers a number of researchers whose work is funded by industry, energy lobbying groups and conservative think tanks, while forcing out academics from major research institutions.

Together with Berin Szoka of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think - tank also based in Washington DC, Dunstan has created the outlines of an economic model that would see private industry taking responsibility for removing space debris.

Bob Whelan, the chief executive of the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, a think - tank funded by government and industry, says that the report «overturns a great deal of political dogma we've been subjected to over the past 10 years».

The U.S. Department of Energy needs to improve how it runs a sprawling network of 17 national research laboratories, with less micromanagement and more ties to industry, according to a new report from an unusual coalition of think tanks.

Many of the candidates being considered for the science advisory panel have connections to the fossil fuel industry or conservative think tanks

Industry - funded think tanks like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, both long known for their climate skepticism, have both recently been promoting GMOs.

Founded by Houston Methodist and ExxonMobil, the Pumps and Pipes think tank is a collaborative summit that brings leaders in energy, space and medicine together to solve parallel challenges in their industries.

As we detailed in our report «Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine,» oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have become kingpins of climate denial, funneling tens of millions of dollars to front groups and think tanks that oppose climate and clean energy policies.

In 1998, as the United States was considering signing the international Kyoto Protocol treaty to limit global greenhouse gas emissions, Southern was part of an initiative called the Global Science Communications Team that brought together industry, public relations and think tank leaders to devise a plan to confuse the public about the state of climate science.

The Heartland Institute, a think tank with ties to the fossil fuel industry, paid to promote this paper in Science Bulletin, a journal published by the Chinese National Academy of Sciences.

Governments, think - tanks, industry & academia will have to work together to surmount this challenge

The Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC) is a think tank consisting of industry leaders from the cancer immunotherapy space.

Everything's Cool (Unrated) Cautionary documentary exposes the efforts of the fossil fuel industry lobby and conservative think tanks to manufacture an artificial debate about global warming in the face of irrefutable proof of the phenomenon provided by responsible members of the scientific community.

The IRP's reports have been used by and referred to by international organizations, national governments, think - tanks and research organizations, academia, industry and civil society, in their discussions and planning for new policies that take into consideration resource efficient and sustainable consumption and production.

ALEC convenes legislators, corporate lobbyists, and right - wing think tanks to vote as equals, behind closed doors, on «model bills» that benefit ALEC's corporate members, industry funders, and right - wing allies.

Tucked into the safety of a right - wing «think tank,» the Malloy we have come to know couldn't resist the opportunity to attack teachers and their unions while accepting the accolades of the corporate education reform industry.

At times taking stabs at the ineffectiveness and greed of the pharmaceutical industry and making light of very real think tanks who believe in the superiority of some individuals over others, the book is a fast - paced thrill ride of pandemic proportions.