Sentences with phrase «need global leadership»

«You need some global leadership, and the Smithsonian is recognized for that,» Jarvis says.

Most importantly, we need global leadership — especially from the U.S. — to begin to transition to a carbon neutral, if not carbon negative, existence.

Not exact matches

I should also note a thrust of my Leadership and the Environment keynote is that although I support science, education, innovation, and the approaches to reducing pollution, resource depletion, overpopulation, global warming, and our other environmental problems, I believe we need leadership in the style of Martin Luther King Junior, Nelson Mandela, Vaclav Havel, Mohandas Gandhi, and so on.

In 2014, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flager Business School, in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a study where they found that 85 percent of global companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential.

How the Message of Diversity & Inclusion is Starting to Change the Conversation Learn how State Street Global Advisors «Fearless Girl» installation came to life and subsequent efforts to spotlight the need for greater gender diversity on boards and corporate leadership.

Need proof, check out the global Empathy Index, which analyzes the ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception and public social media messaging of 170 companies listed on major financial indexes.

My argument is that just as the Lovins have succeeded in persuading an important sector of corporate leadership that efficient use of resources is profitable, someone will need to persuade corporate leadership that all will benefit in the long run from restraint in the exploitation of the global commons.

The U.S. goal to halve food loss and waste by 50 percent demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in getting wholesome food to people who need it, protecting our natural resources, cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.

Our new reduction goal demonstrates America's leadership on a global level in in getting wholesome food to people who need it, protecting our natural resources, cutting environmental pollution and promoting innovative approaches for reducing food loss and waste.»

Under the leadership of Olle Larsson's son Michael, Medela has become a global player in breastfeeding products and medical vacuum technology thanks to continued research, innovation and the evaluation of customers» needs.

Global sales of milk formula (including infant formula and follow - on milks) have increased from a value of about US$ 2 billion in 1987 to about US$ 40 billion in 2014... Political commitment, investment, and effective international, national, and local leadership are needed to end promotion of products that compete with breastfeeding.»

To maintain its leadership role in the fight against poverty, Britain needs to commit to playing its part in tackling global challenges and implementing the SDGs to address poverty, climate change and other issues.

She cited Reagan's strong bond with Thatcher as an example of the leadership that the West needed to ensure global peace and prosperity.

I applaud the Governor for this leadership during this time of need, and look forward to working together to benefit our communities and set a global example for international cooperation.»

Countries which focus on purely national strategies will create a «race to the bottom», he warned, as he emphasised the need for American leadership on crafting the framework of rules to ensure global recovery from recession.

And we need leadership on the world stage from our chancellor and prime minister to agree a global plan for growth.»

We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

Members of the panel, officially called the working group on Pre-College Engagement in Biomedical Science, also weighed how much emphasis to place on the need to diversify the scientific workforce to sustain U.S. global leadership in science.

A cover story in Business Week, of all publications, urged the need to «get serious about global warming» and remarked pointedly on «the leadership vacuum left by Washington.»

Now more than ever, IASLC needs to take leadership in optimizing the global management of patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies.

Both leadership and learning are relatively «soft» and abstract areas, which provide a lot of space for generalizations, such as being treated as global or universal, which needs to be debated.

First, I noticed you nobly emphasized the need to reach out to the opposition (and I understand the urgency of that given the volatile polarization of the country), but (as paradoxical as this may seem), please extend your reach to the global sphere as well by prioritizing the poor and the vulnerable not only at home, but everywhere USA leadership has (historically and continuously) contributed to the impoverishment and oppression of ordinary people — let this be driven by an idea of justice based on complicity in harm, not on ethnocentric and depoliticized charity.

Obviously, there are local influences and needs, but I'm interested in your view of school leadership in a global context.

Equipping students with the intellectual, personal, emotional, and social skills needed for global leadership

Through the provision of global best practice in leadership development, both NESLI and NEELI target the immediate need to equip Australian and New Zealand educators — across all divides — with the skills, knowledge and confidence to overcome the complex leadership challenges in today's learning environments.

In her presentation, Dr. Mason highlighted the need to develop education that prepares students for global leadership and showed clips of Peter Yarrow's work in Israel.

We believe in scholarship, creative minds, healthy bodies, and ethical spirits needed to contribute wisdom, heart, service, and leadership to a global society.

The main theme of this paper has to do with the finding that every nation that tops the list of global education performers has an agency of government at either the state or national level where the education buck stops — an agency that has the responsibility for the health of the education system and the authority and legitimacy needed to provide the effective leadership that results in a coherent, powerful education program.

In talking about global leadership we need to ensure all voices are heard, all perspectives are included, all cultures represented.

For example, Bob Wise, a former governor of West Virginia who is now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, said at a national leadership summit in February 2012 that online learning is an «imperative for meeting those challenges such as providing sufficient opportunities for students to gain the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in the global economy; dealing with budget deficits that are forcing program cuts; and ensuring students» access to high - quality teachers, curricula, and learning experiences.

«This is a heavy lift for governors, but their leadership is urgently needed as states take the steps to prepare young people to succeed in the global economy where good jobs increasingly require some postsecondary education.

Now that the federal government is fully operational again, it is imperative that Congress make the strategic investments in education to help close achievement gaps and equip all students with the knowledge and skills they need to assure our country's economic competitiveness and global leadership for years to come.»

Bullis equips its students with the skills needed to compete in a 21st century global environment, including Mandarin language instruction, leadership training and a focus on engineering and technology.

Allianz Global Assistance continues to generate important research and thought leadership that underscores the need for tuition insurance.

Algore: So what I was saying is you need to sign the Kyoto Protocol and assert US leadership in resolving the devastating effects of global warming.

All we need is for a conservative policymaker to step up and take a leadership role to implement this no - brainer win - win of a global warming solution.

In his foreword to the report, Robert A. G. Monks, corporate governance expert and founder of Institutional Shareholder Services, writes: «The world needs leadership in making the best decisions about global warming and world energy needs for the next fifty years.

While the Democratic leadership of the waning 111th Congress failed to get legislation passed into law to address climate change, the House global warming committee, led by Rep. Ed Markey (D - MA), convened dozens of important hearings and briefings featuring top climate scientists and national security experts to educate Congress and the public about the need for swift action to secure America's energy independence, create clean energy jobs and mitigate climate change emissions.

As the largest greenhouse gas emitting nation, China clearly needs to show strong leadership to avoid the worst global impacts of climate change.

«As we take stock of progress towards the global goal on sustainable energy, this latest data clearly shows more action and political leadership is needed if we are to live up to our promise to leave no one behind,» said Rachel Kyte, Special Representative of the UN Secretary - General and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All.

The massive reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to avoid serious disruptions to Earth's climate system are impossible without U.S. leadership, Dr. Pachauri told members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

Acknowledging the need and opportunities for global - scale leadership [continue reading...]

This global leadership largely results from private investment and innovation by the oil and natural gas industry, which has developed the advanced technologies needed to drive the American energy renaissance of the past decade.

Strong OSTP leadership, moving expeditiously and aggressively, is needed to move the USGCRP research agenda in new directions and to support the creation of a new institutional capacity to reduce societal vulnerability to global climatic disruption.

The EU is currently in the process of adopting new legislation to ensure its continued leadership on the energy transition and is delighted to team up with the IEA and key IEA Members in the global efforts needed.»

We need dedicated, clear, decisive leadership and action to beneficially counter global warming by governments, NGOs [iv], corporations, and individuals.

«This is the year for politicians in the UK and abroad to show leadership and to deliver the global agreements and national policy we need needed to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.»

I hear you, Malcolm, about the need to «be pulling all the levers in all countries as hard as possible», but I think Jon's point here is that in the face of failed leadership to undertake such a coordinated global effort, those of us who are ready to take action can focus on the «pullable levers» to get some points on the climate mitigation board.

For this reason, the United States and other developed nations, along with perhaps a few developing nations, have an immediate duty to begin to reduce their emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions and this obligation is compelled by basic justice, not a need for leadership.

American global energy leadership could help significantly increase the number of families with access to the clean, affordable energy they need to live healthier and more productive lives.