Sentences with phrase «laggards on»

GCP called out banks as laggards on zero deforestation, echoing campaigns that targeted financial institutions like HSBC and pension funds, which underwrite deforestation by lending to, and investing in, plantation and logging companies.

Once laggards on clean energy, cities and states across the Southeast are taking significant steps to develop smart, clean energy plans — with more than 47 Southeast cities and 2 states pledging to accelerate clean energy development to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

We also must be careful not to give it too much credit either, as most of the world's political leaders were laggards on the issue of climate change long before Climategate arose.

Already a laggard on business enterprise R&D (BERD), Canada has fallen from 15th to last place among the 16 international peers and receives a «D» grade.

I'm a laggard on many technologies and trends.

For years, Alberta was seen as a laggard on environmental issues, but our province appears to have turned a corner.

The new British Columbia government wants the province to shed its status as a laggard on education funding and poverty reduction.

Dublin remains the main profit engine, enjoying 46 % EBITDAR margins, followed by the UK (on 36 % margins), with the Regional Ireland portfolio the laggard on sub-22 % margins.

Urgenda had argued that the Netherlands had slipped from being a leader to a laggard on climate change.

America remains a serious laggard on climate action.

Smith also notes that the repercussions extend beyond the debate over any given pipeline — under Harper, the Canadian government has become a global laggard on basic climate science.

Or, to be more blunt, it shows beyond doubt that Australia is now a laggard on climate action.

On the bonus side, however, the biggest increases went to two of those laggard on the base - pay side.

Not exact matches

MSCI on Wednesday gave Snap one of its lowest grades of corporate governance, a «B,» labeling it a «laggard» on such measures.

In this environment, all eyes will be on Ford, a laggard for Wall Street — but with a stock price that looks cheap relative to its peers.

The economic slowdown that still grips much of the globe is keeping a damper on many industries — the moguls heavily invested in commodities or energy were more likely to be laggards this year — but telecom, real estate and consumer staples performed well and pushed many members» net worth higher.

Sewing also confronts a decision on scaling back the investment bank — both Deutsche Bank's biggest source of revenue and a perennial laggard against U.S. giants — and winning over long - suffering shareholders.

Shares in T - Mobile and Sprint (s) tumbled Monday as investors betting on industry consolidation — and higher cell - phone prices — bid down the two U.S. laggards.

Restaurants are often laggards when it comes to adopting new technology, but rising labor costs due to higher minimum wage and labor shortages coupled with food inflation has some looking to solutions that can provide some relief from the increased pressure on already tight margins.

In other words, P&G's strategy of shrinking by dumping laggards and promoting its most profitable brands is failing to generate more cash on every dollar of assets.

Companies considered laggards in embedding and exploiting organizational purpose, on the other hand, report lower levels of customer satisfaction and employee engagement.

Laggards included the CRRC Corporation, a state - owned train maker whose shares fell 5.7 percent on heavy trading, and Ping An Insurance, which closed down 4 percent.

On the call, Munoz said the current managers need more time after inheriting an industry laggard from previous leaders.

Because of its heavy weighting in Apple ($ AAPL), which has been undergoing the healthy price correction we predicted back on November 5 of last year, the Nasdaq 100 Index (large - cap sibling of the Nasdaq Composite) has been a complete laggard in 2013.

I'm in the Laggard Quintile of the «longshot odds» Bell Curve; never had your balls / brains, and my adventures always seemed to end with me flat on my back, staring up at the lights.

GM is one laggard worth touching on, given its size in the portfolio.

A bullish bias is based largely on Bond yields bottoming out, NOT TOPPING, along with Advance / Decline being back at new all - time highs while various former underperforming laggard sectors like Healthcare, have begun to outperform.

While axing a tax on the fuel Albertans produce is popular, much of the energy sector appears reasonably happy a provincial government is doing things to erase Alberta's old image as an environmental laggard; last month, oil sands heavyweights Suncor and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. talked up Alberta's new environmental efforts to European investors, and their executives joined Notley on stage when the climate change plan and carbon tax were first announced.

Another sociological explanation of the phenomenon is that the traditional functions of the clergy are not adjusted to the needs of the modern world and that the responsibility for the prevailing uncertainty must be placed on the Church as a cultural laggard which has not kept up with the times.

Ferrari Vettel 6 — Raikkonen 4 Race: Raikkonen Kimi Raikkonen showed he was no «laggard» by sticking his Ferrari on the front row and, but for the late race tyre dramas, looked like he had enough in hand to fend off the fast - charging Valtteri Bottas.

Even GOP officials admit that Cuomo has built a formidable political machine, though they're quick to claim he's vulnerable based on his record that includes deteriorating subway service on his watch and a laggard upstate economy.

Quinn's view is that the bill would add an additional financial burden on small businesses at a time when they are already suffering in a laggard economy.

Poland could halve its demand for coal by 2030 with a shift to renewable energies that would end its image as a laggard in European Union efforts to slow climate change, a study showed on Friday.

European companies are laggards in spending on research and development — but a new report offers a few upward trends.

Environmentalists welcome de Boer because they see him pushing laggards forward on climate change.

That fraction of the innovation curve that Rogers calls laggards [12] and I will call traditionalists is still richly represented on most appointments and promotions committees, amongst peer reviewers, and on NIH study sections, NSF review panels, and the like.

The setting is asked to be the visual representation of the decay of father - son relationships stretching into eternity; the question of whether Cain's transgression is an indelible mark on the soul, passed from generation to generation, finds a weak foundation here in what is essentially a broad and laggard melodrama packed with unconvincing highs and unmoving lows.

But when policy intervenes to reshape the teacher's priorities, it is invariably on behalf of the laggards, for they are the beneficiaries of major governmental efforts — such as NCLB and IDEA — to advance the education of youngsters who face difficulties and to reward schools and teachers that accomplish this.

If one governmental entity steps up, this reduces the burden on the laggard.

Today, as legislators see it, dual enrollment offers something for everyone: academic enrichment for kids who have maxed out the honors and accelerated classes their schools offer; a glimpse of college rigor for high school laggards; and a leg up on a career for those who enroll in trade programs.

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

But, today, I just want to point to three measures from Leaders & Laggards that help to offer a more holistic take on the quality of a state's school system.

Last week, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released its 2014 report Leaders & Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness.

A new report, Leaders & Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attempts to affect change by ranking states on their performance and policy environment.

The resulting report, Leaders and Laggards: A State - by - State Report Card on K - 12 Educational Effectiveness, ranked states on important indicators such as rigor of standards and teacher effectiveness.

A second iteration of Leaders and Laggards was released in 2009, which focused on the states that led the way in educational innovation.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

Witlin also argues that L.A. Unified has also failed to provide its teachers provide meaningful and specific feedback on performance as required under Stull, and help laggard teachers improve their instruction.

As with the oft - rehashed posturing by traditionalists that reformers «bash» and «demonize» teachers, the claim that reformers don't listen to teachers is based on the unwillingness of traditionalists to admit these facts: That there are laggard instructors in our classrooms who shouldn't be there.

That the traditional teacher compensation system, focused on rewarding teachers based on seniority and degree attainment, is ineffective in spurring student achievement fails to reward good - to - great teachers and keeps laggards in classrooms to continue educational malpractice.