Sentences with phrase «nearly global a challenge»

Never had any religion been confronted by so nearly global a challenge.

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WILMINGTON, Del., May 12, 2011 — Nearly 40 percent of respondents identified sustainability issues as the top challenge facing the packaging industry, according to DuPont's global survey of consumer packaged goods companies and packaging converters.

Nearly 40 percent of respondents identified sustainability issues as the top challenge facing the packaging industry, according to DuPont's global survey of consumer packaged goods companies and packaging converters.

The released data will be a new resource for wheat researchers and breeders building on the Wheat Initiative's founding principles of collaboration through data sharing to help tackle the global grand challenge of feeding a population of nearly 10 billion by 2050.

The Goddard analysis challenges in particular a respected and widely quoted study by climatologist Susan Solomon and colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research that states the trend in global surface temperatures «has been nearly flat since the 1990s.»

When they completed the program, Fellows became part of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, which now includes nearly 2,100 entrepreneurial leaders from 49 countries who share a commitment to enlightened leadership and to using their extraordinary creativity, energy and resources to tackle the foremost societal challenges of our times.

The conference brought together nearly 3000 leading experts and decision - makers to discuss global challenges and offer new solutions.

Considering the severe challenges posed to the global climate system, to species, and to human civilizations by rampant carbon emissions now in excess of 11 gigatons each year (nearly 50 gigatons CO2e each year), the new and increased availability of solar energy couldn't come soon enough.

The Wall Street Journal has reported the results of two independent studies that suggest the widespread use of ethanol from corn could result in nearly twice the greenhouse gas emissions as the gasoline it would replace because of expected land - use changes, researchers concluded Thursday. The study challenges the rush to biofuels as a response to global warming.

Nearly two decades later, after the U.S. and the international community continued to fail to take action, he moved from journalist to activist, founding 350.org, which has grown into a global movement to solve the challenge of climate change.

Limiting global warming to 2 °C is now beginning to look like a nearly insurmountable challenge.

The paper — based on interviews with 25 leaders in the mainstream environmental movement (nearly all of them, like S&N, white men)-- argues that environmentalism is ill - equipped to face the massive global challenges of our day, particularly climate change.

Firm profile Cahill has thrived for nearly a century by focusing on the most significant opportunities and the biggest legal challenges facing the top banking firms and global companies.