Sentences with phrase «of business as usual»

While older generations may be inclined to write these traits off as those «youngin's quirks», it's these fresh perspectives that often drive businesses to new heights by challenging the concept of business as usual in favor of innovation and improved efficiency.

Despite the uncertain environment, we can not ignore this sea change in favor of business as usual.

With PSD2 set to come into force next year — in the middle of Brexit negotiations — the financial sector can expect an element of business as usual in the short term.

How many more years of business as usual must there be before you grant that we may leave some in the ground?

Barack Obama was a community organizer — he understands that major change only comes when it's demanded, when there's some force noisy enough to drown out the eternal hum of business as usual, of vested interest, of inertia.

Using extrapolations of business as usual, you can see why 7 billion tons of coal use by China makes sense from that prism.

As Nicholas Stern said all those years ago, the cost of business as usual carbon emissions far outweighs the costs of climate change mitigation.

Now, at a time when it's the end of business as usual, to start a new set of wheels turning in our heads, here's Andy Grove.»

Here's where I see a glaring gap and potential for a huge increase of hard good sales, which could result in decreased waste generation and costs worldwide: Instead of business as usual with continued global expansion that simultaneously increases profits and global waste, Starbucks has an opportunity to show social and environmental responsibility, increase profits, save money, and generate less waste by promoting branded reusable cups, straws, and cutlery.

What's the cost of business as usual?

Ronald Prinn of MIT, co-author of a new modelling study showing that the climatic consequences of business as usual could be twice as bad as expected.

Furthermore, the scheme does not include provisions that allow business gain from investment in activities outside of their business as usual operations that would reduce net carbon in the atmosphere without reducing their emissions.

My original point to Paul was that I could not think of policies that were effective in lowering CO2 emissions over the last few years that would not have been done as a part of business as usual.

These studies compare a particular climate policy scenario with a reference scenario corresponding to the model projection of business as usual (BAU)-- that is, a world in which the economy continues on its current course with carbon emissions unchecked.

The divestiture campaign is the action piece of 350.org's Do the Math tour, which seeks to mobilize millions of climate activists by laying out the carbon math of business as usual.

It compared the Net Present Value of their business as usual project pipeline with the NPV of only the lower cost projects needed to satisfy demand in the International Energy Agency's 450 scenario for a 2 ˚C world.

It finds that across the oil and gas industry $ 2.3 trillion of upstream projects — roughly a third of business as usual projects to 2025 — are inconsistent with global commitments to limit climate change to a maximum 2 ˚C and rapid advances in clean technologies.

One can not predict «business as usual,» one can only say what the CO2 will be in the event of business as usual.

Then after scientists like Hansen started projecting some very large effects of business as usual, mitigation policies started getting talked about, following on international mitigation successes with acid rain and ozone.

Our «end of business as usual» proposal is a multiple win: for car buyers, communities whose plants will stay open, automakers, energy security, and efforts to slow global warming.

And when payback and cost - benefit calculations start from an «end of business as usual» perspective — factoring in not only external costs of oil, but also likely carbon credits or other results of a cap - and - trade system or a carbon tax — everything changes.

The red lines denote a pathway, in plain English, of business as usual.

We disagree on some things, but agree on the unsustainable nature of business as usual.

Or they could do some real investing in new energy direction and promote that instead of business as usual.

The science of climate change is sufficiently settled that it is unlikely that what we learn in the future — and we have much to learn — is unlikely to significantly alter the likely consequences of a business as usual approach.

It's a defense of business as usual, political gamesmanship and the plot of my novel.

The best way to achieve this is to elect a few dedicated Greens who can articulate the real needs rather than the greenwashing of business as usual policies that come from Speaker Pelosi.

NEW galleries in SoHo are a sign of business as usual, to put it mildly.

Lasting from the 20th to the 28th of November, Self Publish Be Happy will take up residence in the Photographers» Gallery as part of their Business as Usual series.

Recent solo exhibitions include: 2016, And Nothing But the Truth, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy; 2015, Holy Land, James Cohan Gallery, New York, Court of Justice, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; 2014, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK, Musée d'Evreux, Evreux, France, Desengaño, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain; 2013, Amabilis Insania: The Pleasing Delusion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, Un Vie d'Illusions, Musée d'art Contemporain, Rocheouart, France, Actus Tragicus, MUDAM Museum, Luxembourg, Folkert de Jong, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; 2012, Vitrine de la Maison du Peuple, Clichy, France; 2011, Operation Harmony, James Cohan Gallery, New York; 2009, Mount Maslow, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, The Shooting, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Circle of Trust: Selected Works 2001 - 2009, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands, One Thousand Years of Business as Usual, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai.

Among the larger contemporary galleries, however, there is an overall feeling of business as usual, perhaps even malaise.

Clearly no one can accuse David Hammons of business as usual.

Hugh MacLeod (@gapingvoid) Celebrates the Release of The End of Business as Usual with Original Cartoon

Additionally, Brian is a best - selling author of seven best - selling books including X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What's the Future of Business (WTF) and The End of Business as Usual.

[Today's guest post, «It Takes Empathy» is from my good friend, Brian Solis, co-principal at Altimeter Group and author of the book, «The End Of Business As Usual».]

It was Uncharted: Greatest Hits and the story and performances were good but nothing more — kind of business as usual.

Nintendo's press conference was a lot of business as usual, and it's a lot to read for how little new information is really available, in the long Continue Reading

He has published many books on business including X: The Experience When Business Meets Design, What's the Future of Business, The End of Business as Usual, Engage, and Putting the Public Back into Public Relations.

He also touches on the propensity for commentators to continually proclaim the end of the problem and a resumption of business as usual.

I was working in the newspaper industry a decade ago and watched this same situation play out with publishers acting like the online world was simply an extension of business as usual and could be treated as such and you see how that worked out.

... Blended learning models intentionally integrate technology to boost learning and leverage talent; they don't just layer technology on top of business as usual.»

Now it's up to studio executive Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) to get him back while trying to maintain the calm appearance of business as usual.

Dubbed «CIRM 2.0» the plan is characterized as «a radical overhaul» of business as usual in order to achieve CIRM's mission to «accelerate the development of stem cell therapies to patients with unmet medical needs.»

By working together, we can close the employment gap and make diversity part of business as usual.»

From designer babies to women whose genitals smell like peaches, 2014 graced us with a taste of the hope, hype and superficiality of business as usual in Silicon Valley.

Ultimately, the scarcity of rare earth elements comes down to our own short - sightedness and the apparent low cost of business as usual — dig it up, use it, discard it.

Gov. David Paterson's layoff proposal, for example, is yet another example of the business as usual approach to a crisis.

The Percoco trial may be causing consternation behind the scenes, but Cuomo publicly has sought to project an air of business as usual.

I am sorry, but Rockland County does not need a CEO that will bring a playbook of business as usual, which will only increase taxes and continue to keep Rockland County as the third highest county in the nation in regards to property taxes.

He's calling for an overhaul of business as usual.