Sentences with phrase «major challenges of today»

Solutions for the major challenges of today's world require global collaborations.

Not exact matches

CNBC has assembled an elite group of chief financial officers representing public and private companies from various major sectors, to share their frontline insights and unique views on key issues and challenges facing today's CFOs.

«It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,» said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative.

If you decide to start your own gutter cleaning services business today, one of the major challenges you are likely going to face is the presence of well — established gutter cleaning services companies and other commercial cleaning services companies that also clean gutters.

The plurality of religions and faiths in today's society is a major challenge and opportunity for Christians and Churches.

Today both of these things would be questioned: it is no longer self - evident that the historical Jesus is, in fact, the central concern of Christian faith, and it may no longer be assumed that the major aspect of that faith is to follow the dictates, encouragements and challenges of the teaching of that Jesus.

One of the major challenges John Soules Foods is facing today is smaller herd sizes.

The Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT) has produced a manifesto that looks at the major transport issues that affect our industry today and makes recommendations on how the UK should be approaching the challenges of running a world class network.

... Speaking of early, the first debate gauntlet has been thrown down by Republican Harry Wilson, who today challenged his Democratic target, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, to a head - to - head match - up in every major media market between now and Election Day.

Loss of biodiversity is a major challenge in today's world as is the quest for peace in regions engaged in conflict.

«Today is World Sight Day and Brien Holden Vision Institute is calling on the world — from governments and health agencies, to civil society, parents and schools — to protect the eye health of every child and adult and meet this major public health challenge of our time,» said Professor Kovin Naidoo, Acting CEO, Brien Holden Vision Institute.

The bipartisan passage of the America COMPETES Act represents a major milestone on this Nation's path to building an innovation economy for the 21st century — an economy that harnesses the scientific and technological ingenuity that has long been at the core of America's prosperity and applies that creative force to some of the biggest challenges we face today.

In August, 2014 we will convene a diverse working group comprised of nurse ethicists and leaders from major nursing organizations to begin the process of developing recommendations to address the most pressing ethical challenges faced by nurses today and looking out on the horizon.

April 13, 2013 Gifts to boost University of Chicago as hub for biomedical «big data» Two major gifts will build momentum behind the University of Chicago's leadership in biomedical computation by assembling experts in the field and furnishing them with the tools to use «big data» to understand disease and solve today's health - related challenges.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Let me illustrate with five major - league challenges in today's K - 12 reform world — noting in advance that this could as easily be a list of twenty - five.

There are three major challenges for education today: 1) To become lifelong, beginning in the first year of life and extending to old age; 2) To go beyond curricula (subject matter) in the usual sense and to focus sharply on character (the kinds of human beings we want to nurture); 3) To prepare for a world where the landscape of work is likely to be totally different and changing constantly.

With hundreds of eLearning development software available in today's marketplace, choosing the right rapid authoring tool can be a major challenge.

«To see grading and reporting more as a challenge in effective communication than as one of simply documenting or quantifying achievement seems to be a major requirement in reform efforts today.»

Research published today contradicts previous findings which attributed the London Challenge as a major factor in the successful turnaround of schools in the capital.

Today, a year later, the Huracán GT3 is ready for a global challenge: it has been chosen by more than 20 customer teams, with 40 cars competing over 78 race weekends in 13 of the most prestigious GT championships worldwide: from IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in the United States to Asian Championships such as SuperGT, Asian Le Mans Series and GT Asia, through Europe's major series such as Blancpain GT, ADAC GT Masters, British GT Championship, Campionato Italiano GT, International GT Open, International Endurance Series and Michelin GT3 Cup.

In fact, one of the major challenges facing the U.S. today is the overwhelming amount of national debt.

«When you correlate price with quality of product, quality doesn't always win when the price is out of sync with what the major consumer can afford,» says Crouch, adding that pricing is probably the biggest challenge facing the category today.

Duty of Sentinel Studios today announced a major update for their turn - based strategic role - playing game Duty of Sentinel, which brought more fun and challenging new contents.

Fans of Android puzzler Chuck's Challenge are getting a major new update today as Chuck's Challenge Ultra 2016 launches on Android and Nvidia Shield via Google Play.

EA Sports and Major League Soccer (MLS) have today launched the start of the groundbreaking AT&T MLS All - Star «In the Game» Challenge.

Total War Battles: KINGDOM, the challenging, persistent - world, real - time strategy game, is today receiving its first major update with the launch of version 1.1, adding new features as well as Spanish, French and German language versions.

She is currently organizing a major exhibition entitled «Second Sight: the Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art» (Mar - June 2018), which features a range of artists from the 1960s through today who question and challenge the primacy of vision in their practice.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

It shines a whole new light on the inner workings of New York's art museums at the height of the struggle for racial integration, and yet gives little insight on the racist operations that continue to plague our art system today — which perhaps is made most evident when Cahan solemnly asks, «Why five decades later, do we find many of the same challenges in the major museums?»

• Demonstrate to the broad range of stakeholders, particularly decision makers, that some of the major challenges facing humanity today relate to water management; this will be based on findings of the major UN-Water reports.

Cracking the Code: A Much - Awaited Approach for Dramatically Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions In a major announcement today, Edward Mazria and Architecture 2030 have released an unprecedented and much - anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.

In a major announcement today, Edward Mazria and Architecture 2030 have released an unprecedented and much - anticipated guide for every city, county and state in the nation to swiftly meet the greenhouse gas reduction targets of the 2030 Challenge.

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»

We partner with corporations, major financial institutions, emerging growth companies, governments and state - owned enterprises, to provide the legal and industry insight needed to navigate the challenges of today and achieve their ambitions of tomorrow.

Today, Google takes the next major step in its Pixel adventure, and the trickiest challenge I foresee for the web giant is in figuring out the prosaic aspects of producing and distributing as many of its new devices as people will want to buy.

, said: «In order to confront the daunting cyber risks we face today, there is a critical need for a new and unique approach that establishes a viable, collaborative public - private partnership approach to address the major cyber risks which increasingly are challenging all of us in cyberspace today.

Part of the challenge you're facing is a major generation gap between Baby Boomer job hunters and the Gen - X hiring managers of today.

However, the magnitude, accelerated pace and compound effects of climate change today are unprecedented, and present a major challenge to indigenous peoples» capacity to adapt.

One of the major challenges for Australia today is to make the change from traditional models of «siloed» service delivery, which no longer serves the needs of children and families, to a stronger, more integrated system of support services for families.

Preventive medicine and health screening are a major focus of our practice, along with proposing solutions to the challenges parents face in raising a child in today's environment.

More than 50 major brokerages throughout the United States representing over 50,000 agents, were given their own, custom - branded version of the «The Power of Information» during a RREIN Network webinar hosted by RISMedia President & CEO John Featherston, and have since been using the video to help differentiate their company as an information leader in today's challenging real estate climate.