Sentences with phrase «large global effort»

There is a large global effort to stop the deforestation of Brazilian and Indonesian forests.

CALSTART is eager to begin working with cities and transit properties that not only want to take full advantage of the advances in zero emission bus technology, but also wanted to become part of a larger global effort to prevent climate change,» said CALSTART President and CEO, John Boesel.

But carbon market experts are skeptical that the plan will actually lower the industry's emissions, and, if it doesn't, aviation's carbon market could wind up undercutting the larger global effort to become carbon - neutral.

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And then at the end of that year, just before things really took off in crypto, White focused his efforts on attracting Wall Street clients: brokerages, large global banks, and hedge funds.

Russ Meyer, a branding expert at Siegel + Gale who has worked with many large, global companies such as CVS and Hewlett - Packard on their recent rebranding efforts, says the process for larger corporations can be quite time - consuming and complex.

Every company that works on a global scale, whether a large or small organization, spends an enormous amount of time on compliance efforts, that do little to improve the bottom line, but can cost millions if ignored.

Undeterred, Open Innovations aims to put all the right pieces — big traditional industry, high tech startups, government ministers, foreign and domestic investors, global media — all in the same room in an effort to alter these larger realities.

A series of letters between JPMorgan's lawyers and the Fed, released to Reuters through a Freedom of Information Act request, show Wall Street's primary regulator took a tough stance on the bank's efforts to hold onto the global network of Henry Bath & Sons warehouses, part of the larger RBSSempra commodity trading business it bought in mid-2010.

In an effort to tap into the global talent pool, more and more large companies are providing access to coworking spaces around the world.

Today those efforts are attracting interest from both the crypto community and the largest global institutional funds.»

While buyer - initiated programs have their benefits, supply chain finance is so much more than just large global banks» centering their efforts on top - tier, large - volume markets and clients.

When you look at it, Stephen, we still have a pretty large opportunity for our global sourcing efforts, and we've been working very diligently over the last many years.

From large multinational corporations to small, community - based cooperatives, we involve businesses and consumers worldwide in our efforts to bring responsibly produced goods and services to a global marketplace where the demand for sustainability is growing steadily.

With a clear agenda and concrete proposals on a global growth deal - opening up trade, tackling tax evasion and boosting infrastructure - Britain should have been leading efforts at the G20 to reach an agreement that would transform African and low - income countries into genuine, much - needed dynamos for the largest prize: the return to global growth.

Thanks to the distribution of 400 million mosquito nets coated with insecticide, and hundreds of millions of testing kits and treatment courses, made possible by the committed efforts of the world's largest investors in the malaria effort, notably, the United States, the United Kingdom, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and the World Bank, malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa have decreased by one third over the past ten years.

Twenty - eight percent say the United States should make a large - scale effort to address global warming, even if has large economic costs.

NSF also plays an integral role in efforts to coordinate large brain projects in various countries with an aim toward launching a Global Brain Initiative.

KIPAC member Peter Michelson, a Stanford professor of physics, leads the GLAST Large - Area Telescope Collaboration, as the global scientific effort surrounding the GLAST mission is officially known.

«Through our partnership with The Savory Institute, EPIC is committed to global large - scale grassland restoration efforts.

The new framework and emphasis on global competencies is part of a larger effort to incorporate the assessment of social skills and abilities into PISA tests.

Our hope is to advance ongoing efforts in global citizenship education towards greater rigor, depth and access as we advance the conversation on global education and provide resources which allow large scale collaborations among teachers in developing the tools we need to offer transformative learning opportunities to our students.

Over the past three years, the nation's second - largest teachers» union poured $ 650,000 into the Clinton Global Initiative, the non-explicitly political wing of the Clinton family's political efforts, and $ 500,000 into the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

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Chris Carnicelli, CEO of Generali Global Assistance North America, commented on today's news, «Congratulations to both our Identity and Digital Protection Services and Travel Insurance teams for their tireless efforts in providing outstanding customer service and educational content to our partners, and the industry at large.

Challenge, Premier (which are large - scale events that will be hosted by partners), and EA Majors (global events that feature large prizes) were all shown off in an effort to push Madden into the esports scene.

A note came back from the Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, who has lately been pressing for the United States to intensify efforts to limit a danger both far more concretely understood than global warming and far less in vogue as a serious threat — the reality that a very large rock will inevitably head on a collision course for Earth.

After all, who's going to expend a large amount of time and effort to curb IAGW (Inconvenient Anthropogenic Global Warming) or BAGW (Beneficial Anthropogenic Global Warming)?

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an effort to call attention to the detrimental effects of industry - funded, so - called «research» in the debate on global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D - WV) and Olympia Snowe (R - ME) today called on the world's largest oil company to end its funding of a climate change denial campaign.

Finally, we believe that there would be a benefit to the United States if one of the world's largest carbon emitters headquartered here devoted at least some of the money it has invested in climate change denial pseudo-science to global remediation efforts.

Exxon's principal investment in clean energy research appears to be support of the Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, which the company describes as the «largest - ever privately funded research effort in low - greenhouse - gas energy.»

Baltimore youth leader, Destiny Watford, is one of the six global winners, for her work to spearhead efforts to stop the nation's largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from her public high school in Curtis Bay.

Develop recommendations for the U.S. role in identifying and addressing global water problems, including how to significantly accelerate efforts to meet the large and devastating unmet basic human needs for water in poorer countries.

By refusing to join global efforts to cut emissions and initiate policies that will begin the process of large and sustained emission reductions, the Howard Government is storing up trouble for the future.

The various agreed - upon government works from the 2010 climate summit in Cancun are also an essential part of ongoing efforts by the UNFCCC to establish a larger global climate protocol.

Since their discovery, there has been a large effort to determine whether these climate events were a global phenomenon or were just confined to the North Atlantic region and also to reveal the mechanisms that were responsible for them...

The Global Green Freight Project was initiated by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition as part of a large - scale effort to reduce the climate and health impacts and improve the energy and economic efficiency of transporting goods and materials.

All of these questions are good and necessary, but following the 2015 UN Climate Conference in Paris, we must accept that we have a problem that is in large part of our own making and that it will get worse without a collective global effort to address it.

Let's just look at what the IPCC said in their most recent assessment, since, as Manzi says, it «represents the largest existing global effort to answer such technical questions.»

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) represents the largest existing global effort to answer such technical questions.

The US, the worlds largest contributor to the global problem aren't interested, and other countries are only making a small effort, and the general masses don't care, so where is this message going?

It is part of a larger effort to boost the moral case for action by drawing attention to what McKibben calls global warming's «terrifying new math.»

These NOAA activities constitute a large part of the global scientific effort to understand stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery.

The achievement of the SE4All objectives will also depend critically on the efforts of a group of countries with a relatively large impact at the global level, while state - of - the - art technology transfer to developing economies will be essential.

Such a bilateral effort will send a message to the rest of the world that the two largest emitters are ready to rise to the challenge and lead the way forward towards a global agreement in Copenhagen.

The greatest value of all these efforts is in producing global and coherent data synthesis products of known quality, and in informing the society at large about local, regional and global patterns in various water properties and hence ecosystem dynamics.

These price changes now appear to be affecting the global economy, and may result in a global recession as oil and gas producers reduce their exploration and development efforts for oil and gas and countries dependent on oil and gas revenue from large reservoirs are forced to retrench and rethink their lifestyles.

Mapping global patterns and incorporating the results in models was described as»... a daunting task... requires a large effort, but... feasible».

In an effort led by current and former Lamont Tree Ring Lab scientists, the N - TREND consortium (Northern Tree - Ring Network Development) was created to develop a global database of tree - ring research that improves on efforts for developing large - scale temperature reconstructions across the Northern Hemisphere.

Exxon helped to found and lead the Global Climate Coalition, an alliance of some of the world's largest companies seeking to halt government efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions.

Deep US involvement in efforts to develop a global emissions reduction treaty is deemed essential, given the country is the world's second largest source of greenhouse gases after China.