Sentences with phrase «large change in the sector»

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This bizarre anecdote is a microcosm of a much larger trend common to the technology sector: harnessing the power of a name — or in some cases, a name change.

These concerns might recently have been exacerbated by changes in the pattern of corporate financing: in countries in which the swap spread has increased the most — the US and UK — growth in private sector bond issuance has been relatively large, while net equity issuance has been low (or even negative as in the United States).

It's a big ask, but these steps by the largest players behind the venture capital sector are the only way to achieve industry - level change to the VC industry's gender imbalance in any reasonable time frame.

While energy companies are the most frequent targets of climate activism, a new report by GRAIN shows that large food corporations — especially in the meat and dairy sector — are huge contributors to global climate change.

A specialist in strategy and business leadership driving transformational change, Collins has a successful background in implementing business improvement platforms across market sectors within SMEs and large scale PLCs.

In light of significant change in the Australian plastics and chemicals industry, Chemistry Australia (the peak industry body for Australia's second largest manufacturing sector) wanted to identify new strategic directions and opportunities for the industrIn light of significant change in the Australian plastics and chemicals industry, Chemistry Australia (the peak industry body for Australia's second largest manufacturing sector) wanted to identify new strategic directions and opportunities for the industrin the Australian plastics and chemicals industry, Chemistry Australia (the peak industry body for Australia's second largest manufacturing sector) wanted to identify new strategic directions and opportunities for the industry.

Trump, who has called climate change a «hoax,» has re-committed the U.S. to coal energy, which was the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S. until being eclipsed by the transportation sector last year.

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector by one half by 2050,» says lead author Felix Creutzig, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

This piece, originally featured in Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2011, discusses how large - scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

This process led to a reduction in some of the portfolio's larger sector - level overweights and resulted in changes to industry - level exposures.

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Building on a history of working together to reduce air emissions, Canada and the U.S., commit to take action to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, the world's largest industrial methane source, in support of achieving our respective international climate change commitments.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

Economic impact estimates completed over the past 20 years vary in their coverage of subsets of economic sectors and depend on a large number of assumptions, many of which are disputable, and many estimates do not account for catastrophic changes, tipping points, and many other factors.

Yet, disclosure rules regarding environmental or sustainability issues may become more rigorous in the future as Peabody Energy, the world's largest private - sector coal company, agreed (PDF) in November to provide more information about its risks associated with climate change in future SEC filings.

Our council — including top companies in the power, manufacturing, transportation, high - tech, oil and gas, finance, and other sectors — is the largest U.S. - based group of companies devoted solely to addressing climate change.

A new study appearing in Nature Climate Change (of which I am a coauthor) explores how institutional considerations of risk affect the cost of large - scale investments in the power sector that increase or reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

Some sectors, such as those involved in large water resource projects (e.g. building a new dam), are particularly vulnerable to climate change.

Also included in this larger figure is $ 86 million to support clean energy regulatory actions that focus on energy efficiency; $ 48 million to develop transportation sector regulations and next - generation clean transportation initiatives; $ 58 million for projects that improve our understanding of climate change impacts; and $ 25 million to advance Canada's engagement in international negotiations and support the Canada-U.S. Clean Energy Dialogue.

It has been identified that hmF2 increases systematically 1 — 3 h after the geomagnetic storm main phase onset (at the largest change of Dst) independently of the storm intensity (according to the Dst index) followed by an additional uplift in the nighttime sector.

On their own, CAFE standards are a very big deal as the transportation sector has now eclipsed the electric power as the largest source of climate changing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the U.S..

In doing so, the discourse obscures the oil sector's large contribution to environmental degradation and «grooms» the public to believe that the industry is serious about tackling climate change.

This sector team can play a large role in creating change by advocating for effective climate legislation that can benefit our outdoor experience, improve our personal well - being and reduce the impact on our natural world that the outdoor industry relies upon for its success.

Murray, 77, founder of the largest privately held coal mining company in the U.S., told Monday's Guardian he is confident the president will follow through on promises to scrap the clean power plan, former President Barack Obama's signature climate change plan, which was designed to cut carbon emissions from the power sector by 32 percent by 2030.

At the scale of a large nation or region, at least in most industrialised nations, the economic value of sectors and locations with low levels of vulnerability to climate change greatly exceeds the economic value of sectors and locations with high levels of vulnerability, and the capacity of a complex large economy to absorb climate - related impacts is often considerable.

The definition of «large organization» in the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation has been changed to say that a large organization is an organization of 50 or more employees in Ontario, other than the Government of Ontario, the Legislative Assembly or a designated public sector organization.

Given the natural conservatism of the legal market both in the UK and globally, when the leader of one of the UK's largest law firms describes the pace of change in the sector as «glacial» it's a definite sign that a dramatic move is long overdue.

I have been out of big industry since 2003 and the world has changed a lot in that time - I feel somewhat out of touch on that front but have many skills to offer the SME sector and larger businesses but need to know if this is something your company can assist with?

It's a highly sought - after sector for graduates, but with the ever - changing digital landscape, there are always new opportunities in large organisations and small high - growth firms.

«I do expect to see softening in certain retail sectors, but not to the extent that it changes retailer expansion plans by any large degree,» remarked General Growth CEO John Bucksbaum during the call.