Sentences with phrase «more about the global issue»

Check out these informative videos that 2009 Goldman Prize recipient Yuyun Ismawati shared with us to find out more about the global issue of mercury pollution.

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US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin complained about persistent trade surpluses and stated that «We urge the IMF to speak out more forcefully on the issue of external imbalances, including by providing clear policy recommendations for countries with large surpluses, in support of more balanced global growth.»

According to Reuters «ideas about binding commitments to extend the Toronto debt reduction goals at a summit hosted by Canada in 2010, sought by Germany first and foremost, have been abandoned» Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty would appear to be still living in the Toronto Summit, while the rest of the G - 20, except perhaps Germany, has moved on to confront more pressing issues, including the growing risks of global instability and the need to strengthen growth and job creation.

Those I talked with didn't seem concerned about a «Grexit» and instead were more worried about local issues like taxi strikes and port closures, reinforcing that Greece's direct impact on Europe and the global economy appears to be small and that the recent Greek drama may not be a reason to avoid investing in the region.

Anyone who wants to know more about the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans should check out the Jerusalem Statement issued by GAFCON 1 and the Nairobi Communiqué issued by GAFCON 2.

Here, Nyhan decided to apply it in an unrelated context: Could recalling a time when you felt good about yourself make you more broad - minded about highly politicized issues, like the Iraq surge or global warming?

«To better understand safety issues, we are making efforts to employ more modern investigational, molecular approaches to safety assessment — and increase our safety testing work force by about 10 percent,» says Phil Bentley, vice president and global head of preclinical safety at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in New York City.

There is a much more complicated set of issues concerning how Iraq fits into global strategies, but there is no time for a public discourse about those larger issues.

I feel that it is very unfortunate that we have spent more time worrying about who has caused global warming, and who is to blame then to accept that it is a global issue.

Last week in Melbourne, Professor Glover and colleagues launched a new organisation, «The Global Alliance for Maternal Mental Health,» which aims to foster more knowledge about these issues, and to generate more resources to tackle them, around the world.

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Oxfam's «Sow the Seed» resource encourages active global citizenship, helping pupils to understand more about the issue and inspiring them to take...

The Sow the Seed resource encourages active global citizenship, helping pupils to understand more about the issue and inspiring them to take action.

The students are told about global littering issues and then this is followed by a talk on the more immediate littering in the school.

The worldwide consultation revealed a global citizenship both well - informed and motivated about climate change but which wants to know more about the concrete issues so it can take a direct part in the solutions.

The emphasis is on developing students» ability to think critically about a range of global issues where there is always more than one point of view.

TORONTO — July 19, 2011 — The management of Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 4.2 million users in more than 100 countries worldwide, has issued comments relating to the ongoing liquidation of Borders to clarify misconceptions about Kobo that have been inaccurately reported by the media and misunderstood by consumers.

Now BOC has time to wonder about more global issues than what is happening

In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.

World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, polled more than 1,000 buyer members from the WTM Meridian Club and exhibitors at this year's event about a number of issues affecting the tourism industry.

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Thinking about issues of global awareness, Kunik's first body of abstract paintings dealt with the environment; more specifically rain forest deforestation.

I mention this for the following reason: Instead of bickering about various forms of economic systems, we can get much more concrete by posing the following question to those who want to make strong points about the free market as it relates to the global warming issue:

The bet is a good way to gain media attention for this very serious issue of global warming, and the more ink in the papers about AGW, pro and con, the better.

This year I wrote an article about how North America's amazingly variegated climate, where it's tinder dry in some places and soggy and cool elsewhere, may be one reason the country has not focused on the global warming issue as much as more compact places with more uniform climate conditions (western Europe, for instance).

His handlers evidently did not buy assertions of some pollsters (which were challenged elsewhere) that voters had grown more impassioned about broader environmental issues, including global warming, as a result of the gulf petro - calamity.

In 1991, it was nothing more than a suggestion to invite science - based rebuttal back into an issue Al Gore and his friends hijacked with assertions that catastrophic man - caused global warming was settled science; a suggestion which came out of a leaked non-profit coal association's public relations test market campaign which was so obscure that practically no one ever saw or heard about it.

With barely more than a glimpse at a quote within the article about «we feel strongly responsible to participate in tackling the issue of climate change,» I could already guess where this group was headed and who they relied on for their diatribe about the global warming issue.

It stands to reason that those who express concern about the quality of the environment, about global warming, or the energy situation are more likely to say they have made major changes in their lifestyles than those who are not concerned about these issues.

However, since more Americans express little to no worry about global warming than say this about extinction, global warming is clearly the environmental issue of least concern to them.

flmark: I have written enough about global warming and have pretty much decided not to bother with the issue anymore,... but... HOW WAS YOUR SUMMER????? People just don't get it.Global warming means more SEVERE weather.

Thus as Ding et al. (2011) concluded, if a larger percentage of people realized that there is a scientific consensus on the issue amongst the group they trust most on the subject, more people would believe that humans are causing global warming, and more people would demand that we do something about it.

This ideal was so overwhelming that it is little more than the lack of this ideal among news reports of climate studies that has made me a skeptic about the global warming issue.

48 Growing Energy & Environmental Concerns 58 % of Americans rank «dealing with the nation's energy problem» as a top priority in 2006, up from 40 % in 2003 87 % of Americans cite home heating and energy prices as a «very big» or «big» problem for the nation's economy 88 % of US adults respond that «energy efficient» was very important in their electronics, appliance, lighting and heating / cooling equipment purchases Gallup polls: Americans» concerns about environmental issues have increased more than 10 percentage points between 2004 and 2006 The LOHAS Consumer Report: 91 % of people are in total agreement with the statement «I care about protecting the environment» ABC News / Washington Post Poll: 79 % of Americans think global warming poses a serious threat to future generations Source: AP Source: NASA

These numbers could suggest that when the issue of global warming is discussed in an environmental / public health framework, people are more likely to access their feelings of concern about potential impacts on public welfare, and may consider the issue outside of a political framework.

- James E. Hansen, the climate scientist who issued the clearest warning of the 20th century about the dangers of global warming, will retire from NASA this week, giving himself more freedom to pursue political and legal efforts to limit greenhouse gases.

But it should be emphasized that, although his points on the anti-intellectualism of creation science and lousy civics knowledge are sound, when he surrounds that with misdirection and literally unsupportable talking points about the global warming issue, his message looks less like one of genuine concern and more like a subtle excuse to validate global warming propaganda.

Surveys conducted around the time of the meeting found about ten percent of the American public saying they followed the global warming news «very closely,» a substantial fraction for such an issue (for more exciting stories, the fraction could be several times higher).

Other studies have shown a similar effect: Republicans who think they understand the global warming issue best are least concerned about it; and among Republicans and those with higher levels of distrust of science in general, learning more about the issue doesn't increase one's concern about it.

It's understandable to take that position when alarmists are telling you things like don't have more kids and extreme things like that, but at the same time just because scientists were wrong about global freezing in the 70s doesn't mean the current climate change issue isn't worth giving serious thought.

«They've got three more years, and the only way to control this issue and do nothing about it is to muddy the science,» said Eileen Claussen, the president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, a private group that has enlisted businesses in programs cutting emissions.

When the journal's publisher Rush Holt, a physicist and former Democratic congressman, said the charges don't support a retraction because the issue is more about data procedures than science, Smith, an attorney, interrupted him and insisted: «They falsified global warming data.»

Diane Edelman and other innovative LRW scholars have argued that these current and anticipated changes in legal practice support the development of a more global focus in LRW instruction.39 If lawyers must be skilled at incorporating transnational legal matters into their work, they must also be able to engage in research on foreign and international legal issues, to incorporate the results of that research into their legal reasoning, and to communicate effectively in writing about transnational legal questions.

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