Sentences with phrase «need global responses»

Our greatest challenges also need global responses — like ending terrorism, fighting climate change, and preventing pandemics.
«This needs a global response.
They show that the world needs a global response equal to the scale of the problem.

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So what lessons can public health authorities around the world take away from this episode to ensure that, next time, our global response — and yes, it needs to be a global response — is better and quicker?
We created the Signal Foundation in response to this global need.
May 21, 2015: In response to the needs of global real estate investors, we have launched the MSCI Real Estate Index Module: a broad suite of over 180 real estate indexes, designed to represent the performance of global real estate investment opportunities.
So far, we've talked about the adjustments that are needed in response to powerful, slow - moving global forces.
«Marketers are in need of higher quality data to generate stronger engagement, better response rates, and higher revenue growth,» said Shai Alfandary, vice president, global head of ISVs and LaunchPoint ecosystem, Marketo.
It is likely that low - intensity - conflict planners, in the post-Reagan phase of their global war against the poor, will continue creatively to mix military, economic, psychological and diplomatic aspects of warfare in response to specific needs.
My partial response begins with the need for theological recovery of the power of forgiveness to humanize our global society.
The nation shook under the global spotlight then, and they need to do so again — this time scrutinising the government, and the brutality of their continued response.
The Zika virus has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization, a rare designation indicating that a coordinated global response is needed.
«Going forward, we need to better explore the biome - specific responses as global temperatures shift beyond the historic range,» Frey said.
The work is part of a global response to the need to reduce the use of antibiotics, driven in part by President Obama's National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic - Resistant Bacteria.
«Because global mismanagement of plastic is fueling the growing marine litter problem, policy responses are needed at all levels, from the international community of nations down to national and local communities,» said report co-author Cara Horowitz, executive director of the Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment.
«Antibiotic crisis needs united global response, experts say.»
Cyber Church TV is in direct response to the growing needs of today's spiritual leaders and ministries committed to advancing the Kingdom of God using streaming broadcast technologies to reach a global audience.
The response from citizens, which was overwhelmingly in favor of strong and ambitious climate action, highlights the global public's conviction that governments need to reach a strong and effective new climate change agreement at COP 21, the UN climate change conference in Paris, in December.
We are facing a global attack on public education systems and it needs an international response.
Most recently, in response to a rapidly changing global economy and the need to prepare students to innovate, particularly in the technology fields Finland emphasizes, the Ministry of Education implemented a new national curriculum.
Built in response to «global needs,» which Toyota puts mostly on Europe, the automaker developed a new six - speed manual transmission.
Toyota has also developed a new manual transmission in response to global needs, particularly those in Europe.
That product breadth has been deliberately engineered in response to a few factors: (1) the growing sophistication of trading strategies that require more flexibility, (2) an increased focus on cost efficiencies associated with clearing, prompting the expansion of cleared products, and (3) the need for greater access to the global oil markets.
«The response from the global gaming community for PS4 has been overwhelming and we are truly humbled that gamers are selecting PS4 as their next generation console of choice,» said Andrew House, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. «The PS4 journey has just begun, and although we are still facing difficulties keeping up with the strong demand worldwide, we remain steadfast in our commitment to meet the needs of our customers, and surpassing the wildest expectations of gamers by delivering new user experiences that inspire and engage.
[Response: I suspect another common confusion here: the abrupt glacial climate events (you mention the Younger Dryas, but there's also the Dansgaard - Oeschger events and Heinrich events) are probably not big changes in global mean temperature, and therefore do not need to be forced by any global mean forcing like CO2, nor tell us anything about the climate sensitivity to such a global forcing.
[Response: There was little (or even no) choice here since we needed a global land + ocean reconstruction (i.e. not just northern hemisphere, and not just land — both of these would have been useless).
I do think there are issues that need to be looked at like: the whole global climate system can not be truly quantified, estimates and approximations, may be far enough from being accurate that some improvements are of absolute necessity, and in my next post, today, in response to Ray Ladbury I am going to go from a general disucssion on Bayesian stastics, to specific methods and various advantageous and limitations.
We collectively need to demand that there is no acceptable response to climate change other than strong emission reductions, ensuring that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are returned to 350ppm levels, global temperature rise is kept (at the maximum) 2 °C and, even better, 1.5 °C — to do that, as was emphasized on numerous occasions, we need a F.A.B. climate deal: Fair, Ambitious, and (perhaps most importantly) Binding.
In fact I'd suggest that turning away from a focus on what needs to be done and instead challenging local examples of the global damage is the core of the weakness of public response to the predicament.
In response to David Bell's comment, I agree that if the heat island effect is 40 % then global warming models need major reconsideration.
To respond to this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).
The companies say the world needs a «rapid and focused response» to the threat of rising global carbon emissions.
«With trust in short supply, and little time to negotiate a global response to climate change, the UN talks need an injection of goodwill,» says Saleemul Huq of IIED.
Because this global challenge can only be met by a global response, we reiterate our willingness to share with all countries the goal of achieving at least a 50 % reduction of global emissions by 2050, recognizing that this implies that global emissions need to peak as soon as possible and decline thereafter.
In summary, these results demonstrate the potential for synergies and sensitivities of ecological response to forest loss in disparate regions via ecoclimate teleconnections, which will need to be accounted for as global forest loss increases and climate dynamics are altered in response to land use and climate change.
Anyone needing additional confirmation need only read the national headlines for a couple of months and observe its ongoing response to Anthropogenic Climate Change (nee Anthropogenic Global Warming).
As we shall see, these countries, among others, have continued to negotiate as if: (a) they only need to commit to reduce their greenhouse gas emission if other nations commit to do so, in other words that their national interests limit their international obligations, (b) any emissions reductions commitments can be determined and calculated without regard to what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, (c) large emitting nations have no duty to compensate people or nations that are vulnerable to climate change for climate change damages or reasonable adaptation responses, and (d) they often justify their own failure to actually reduce emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions on the inability to of the international community to reach an adequate solution under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
In decision 1 / CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima — Paris Action Agenda, as well as the urgent need to scale up the global response to climate change and support greater ambition from governments.
Our message was that voters have not been given the facts on climate change, and that candidates need to be questioned on their intentions to spend billions on global warming theories... «The response was intense.
These include identifying and understanding key environmental and societal vulnerabilities to global change over a range of time scales; developing a knowledge base to support regional and sectoral responses to global change; developing a knowledge base to support responses to global scale threats; and finally, creating and applying the tools and approaches needed to iteratively manage the risks of global change.
To move forward, Angola needs to emerge from the shadowy structures of state looting but the Angolan Government's 11th of April inadequate response to Global Witness's new report «All the Presidents» Men» (1) suggests that they have not yet developed the will to do so.
Regional radiative forcing may provide a better measure of regional climate response than global radiative forcing, but further work is needed to quantify the links of regional radiative forcing to regional and global climate response.
Proponents say they could be a rapid response to rising global temperatures but environmentalists argue they are a distraction from the need to reduce man - made carbon emissions.
Further work is needed to quantify links of regional radiative forcing to regional and global climate response
Further work is needed to quantify links of regional nonradiative forcing to regional and global climate response
In response to this need, the EMWG's ISO 50001 Global Impacts Research Network is developing and refining a transparent methodology that can be used at the national or regional level to predict, quantify, and demonstrate the value of ISO 50001.
This improved understanding needs to be incorporated into global geochemical models to realistically project the response of coastal and oceanic ecosystems to future warming.
The list of products and services that will be needed in the 21st century as a response to global warming is virtually endless; new energies being developed, new solutions for making homes energy efficient, new modes of transportation, etc, etc..
In response to South African President Jacob Zuma's comment on the need to implement much needed infrastructure programmes across the African continent at the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) annual meeting in Davos, Richard Laudy, Global Head of Infrastructure...
In a separate case, Dorsey routinely needed to utilize the Ringtail production module to systematically cull and isolate relevant documents and database records in response to aggressive discovery tactics advanced in relation to class certification in the recent federal action concerning the U.S. subsidiary of the global technology concern.
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