Sentences with phrase «large change projects»

Janice worked for Accenture in South Africa, heading up their Recruitment function for 5 years before joining Investec as their Head of Talent, where she led a large change project for the recruitment function.

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Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

Finally, the budget proposed changes in the environmental review process for large energy and mining projects would eliminate duplication among jurisdictions and shorten the regulatory timeframe to two years.

Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

For projects that fear the centralization of their monetary supplies due to large - scale mining, algorithm changes have been very time - consuming.

A U.K. - based Antarctic research project called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in theproject called Project MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in theProject MIDAS monitoring the effects of climate change on an ice shelf called Larsen C announced that a vast rift in the rapidly warming pole has split entirely and created a brand new iceberg — the third largest in the world.

As the world races toward a projected 9 billion inhabitants and against the backdrop of climate change, resource shortages and urbanisation, the question of how to ensure adequate food supply for everyone looms rather large.

The key changes to the abatement — from the version that expired in 2016 — include wage requirements for construction workers on certain projects and a 35 - year break from property taxes (up from 25) on large projects that pay these wages.

With climate change and other environmental issues part of the political dialogue in the Democratic primary for governor, Cuomo says the state is again soliciting for large - scare renewable energy projects.

But the construction portion of the project, estimated to be 90 percent of the $ 12 million cost, is contingent on a change in state law to allow municipalities to use special «design - build» contracts, in which the design and construction phases are awarded to one company, rather than in separate bids as is typical in large public works projects.

While the plan has not been made public, several people who attended meetings with the DOT expect the agency to announce small, easy - to - implement changes like longer walk signals and larger pedestrian medians, rather than a major capital project like a pedestrian overpass.

Since then, he said, the scope of the project has changed, in large part as a result of community forums with stakeholders.

A new nationwide project aims to monitor the environment of the U.S. and enable comparisons of large - scale problems and variables such as climate change, pollution and sprawl

In the Northeast, the researchers project a ratio of high species movement from land use as compared to climate change, based on its already dense development and large population.

Oil Change International, another environmental organization, said that as the bank shifts away from coal, it is taking a larger and troubling interest in natural gas and big hydropower projects.

ICLEI will be joining with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Project, which represents the largest cities in the world and just sponsored a climate change conference in São Paulo, to complete the protocol.

Large collaborative research projects, like this from the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health are a very effective way to carry out this type of cross-disciplinary work.»

«Large - scale peatland restoration projects such as the Sustainable Catchment Management Project run by United Utilities and RSPB are crucial in helping to make our blanket bogs resilient to climate change.»

But NEON has suffered a series of self - inflicted and external wounds since construction began in 2011, resulting in project delays, a large projected cost overrun, and several changes in senior leadership.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

The researchers, from the University of Reading and University of Iowa, found that large parts of the projected changes in AR frequency and intensity would be down to thermodynamic changes in the atmosphere, rather than the natural variability of the climate, suggesting that it is a response to anthropogenic climate change.

These models were then used to assess observed changes in nest counts and to project future nesting trends in the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle population, the largest in the world.

LNCC operates the largest supercomputer in Latin America, serving as a national facility for research projects that range from Zika virus genomics to climate change modeling.

Dr Stephen Grimes of Plymouth University, who initiated the research project, highlighted the climate changes that must have caused this increase in sediment erosion and transport — «We have climate model simulations of the effect of warming on rainfall during the PETM event, and they show some changes in the average amounts of rainfall, but the largest change is how this rainfall is packaged up — it's concentrated in more rapid, extreme events — larger and bigger storms.»

The lost wetland areas have been converted to agricultural lands, swallowed by large infrastructure projects or degraded by climate change, the forestry administration said.

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

Such language stems from a changing environment, mainly connected to the growing cost of related projects, with a corresponding need for large numbers of international funding partners.

Also today, NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), both part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large - scale, systematic approach to identify important genomic changes involved in cancer.

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Recent and rapid advances in technologies that permit large - scale creation and synthesis («writing») of longer pieces of synthetic DNA, as well as the advent of extremely fast, cheap and accurate sequencing («reading») of DNA, have changed our collective thinking about the feasible size and scope of projects in many labs.

The projected changes under «business - as - usual» are much much larger than this.

It could be an idea for a large - scale project like The Cancer Genome Atlas, a multiyear effort that involved researchers from institutions across the country working collaboratively to catalogue all of the changes to DNA and molecules in more than 30 different cancer types.

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

Being backed by several large organizations, including NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, we are sure to see big changes coming our way as genetic sequencing moves towards being as easy to extract as someone's pulse.

«Projected Changes in the Arctic Frontal Zone and Summer Arctic Cyclone Activity in the CESM Large Ensemble» by Alex D. Crawford and Mark C. Serreze.

Jeremy has directed, co-directed or participated in a large number of national evaluation and research projects on curriculum change in the UK, with research council and governmental reports, journal articles, papers and books in this area.

Projected changes in temperature will have large effects on how water enters Montana (e.g., as rain or snow), how it is distributed among major storage pools, and how it moves or changes from one component of the water cycle to another.

«These are two of the largest and most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica, so the potential for their evolution to influence each other is important to consider in modeling ice sheet behavior and projecting future sea level rise,» Dustin Schroeder, a Stanford geophysicist who led the study, told Earther.

Orange, CA About Blog Alcen develops, finances and delivers profitable, large - scale clean energy projects that generate prosperity and prevent climate change.

Most recently, he has acted as a principal investigator in the GoodWork Project, a large - scale study of professional ethics during a period of rapid change and extremely powerful market forces.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

Somehow, in projecting to the future, Whittle posits a large number of changes in the basic institutions for delivering education, education research, and education personnel, based on the «success» of the EMOs, especially Edison.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

It arrives in a comprehensive, large, collaborative, rigorous, exciting, global programming project that has changed the lives of my students.

As the director of the Center for Strengthening Education Systems, Mike manages a portfolio of large - scale projects that build multiple stakeholders» capacity to plan, lead, and implement data - and evidence - driven change initiatives.

With other large projects, like this one from Immanuel College, there are changes in education on a massive scale to put these beliefs into practice.

While the overall project goals are for this constellation of changes to strengthen early childhood and elementary mathematics student learning for all students in these 3 schools the project team is also expecting that the study will generate new knowledge that will promote the ability to bring this type of work with schools to a larger scale and to more networks / schools in future years.

WestEd is a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with national, regional, state, and local policymakers and practitioners to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.

Those working on a project funded by the largest grant in Kansas University history are part of a larger national effort to change the way testing is done at elementary and secondary schools.

WestEd has been a leader in moving research into practice by conducting research and development (R&D) programs, projects, and evaluations; by providing training and technical assistance; and by working with policymakers and practitioners at state and local levels to carry out large - scale school improvement and innovative change efforts.