Sentences with phrase «of global action»

Among many positions, he is founder of the Law of the Future Forum, co-founder of Innovating Justice, and a member of the Global Action Council on Rule of Law of the World Economic Forum.

I've been doing this work for a long time, and I don't think there's ever been a better point in time for us to make a big leap forward that would spark the kind of global action that we think is necessary.

This proposed approach follows the theory and successful examples of Global Action Networks (GANs) with the intent to scale up and improve mainstreaming of adaptation in the LMB.

the chance of global action is remote.

The weekend before the climate talks started, the world stood together in a weekend of global action.

The state of global action.

The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent need to act on climate change as part of a global action plan for delivering sustainable development.

Teachers should allow students the chance to take ownership of their school's energy and environmental issues, so that they can not just lead the change within their school community, but also further afield, says Luke Wynne of Global Action Plan.

In many of Global Action Plan's programmes students deliver «pitch to switch» presentations to their head teacher and other senior staff to encourage them to support their cause; students can be powerful and convincing advocates.

This is the second edition of the Prize, which was established in 2014 to honour and showcase outstanding ESD projects and programmes of individuals, institutions and organizations within the framework of the Global Action Programme on ESD (GAP).

This continued engagement will ensure the successful implementation of the Global Action Programme, and to fulfilling our vision of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

In a statement, jointly signed by Mr. Francis Asong, the Executive Director of Voice Ghana and Nana Kugbeadzor - Bakateyi II, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Action for Women Empowerment (GLOWA), the group stated that the United Nations» International Day of Democracy is annually held on September 15, to raise public awareness about democracy globally.

That target, said former Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead «will put Scotland at the forefront of global action to tackle food waste», but Binns Group Chief Executive Allan MacGregor says that while government direction is good, the amount of food currently being wasted in Scotland is «staggering».

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

Bloomberg Business Week: A global source of vital business insight, which motivates leaders to turn their ideas into a plan of action.

The Commission took unilateral action and retroactively changed the rules, disregarding decades of Irish tax law, US tax law, as well as global consensus on tax policy, that everyone has relied on,» Apple said.

Gary Evans, chief global equity strategist at HSBC, who downgraded his view on the market to underweight from neutral this week, believes investors may be placing too much hope on decisive action from the Bank of Japan (BoJ).

«Each brand has a unique set of opportunities and actions to improve the shopping experience for its customers,» said Laurence Haziot, IBM's Global Managing Director and General Manager, for Consumer Industry, according to a press statement.

In one case where bitcoin was seized, Aaron Michael Shamo is accused of being a part of a global fentanyl operation that is one of Utah's largest drug actions, according to local press reports and court filings.

Given Exxon's global operations, ownership of Exxon stock could severely limit Tillerson's actions as the nation's chief diplomat.

They saw a fast - growing global translation market worth billions of dollars and figured they could get in on the action.

A global focus on climate action and the increased use of renewables is set to provide a robust long - term tailwind for First Solar for many years to come.

Irrespective of whether we did everything that is being said about us in London today (and to be clear, I don't think we did), it really matters what people think of us, especially in a global business like ours, where actions in one part of the world can have serious consequences in another.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, said Monday he would be more likely to buy than to sell IBM shares over the next two years, and that he did not seek to profit from global central bank actions.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

The global steel industry is waiting to see what action the U.S. takes in terms of duties on imports after a report found some injury to its domestic market, but Kestenbaum said he was encouraged by language that suggests Canada is not a threat to the U.S. industry.

In his speech, the Chinese president sold a vision of China as a benevolent leader of the global economy, emphasizing that open systems are the best course of action for the world.

At US urging, and with backing from Britain, France and Germany, a global financial watchdog, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), last month decided to place Pakistan back on its watchlist of countries with inadequate terrorist - financing controls, potentially hurting Pakistan's fragile economy.

«2020 is probably where we see global volume deployments,» Suri said, but added: «We will start to see a lot of action ahead of 2020 — in 2017, 2018, 2019.»

This global point of view extends to action on climate change and the economic potential inherent in pursuing a clean energy, low - carbon future for our children.

EY's definition of purpose: «an aspirational reason for being which inspires and provides a call to action for an organization and its partners and stakeholders, and provides benefit to local and global society.»

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Without affirmative action, we wouldn't be creating this diverse group of graduates that we need in order to lead this country, to create business, to compete in the global economy.

Our action is creating new businesses and jobs now, and that will only increase as nations move to combat the impact of global warming.

[To get a sense of where Navarro is coming from, you can watch this full - length feature documentary here based on his book... the unambiguously titled «Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — A Global Call to Action»]

Indeed, in the context of the G20 meeting in Sydney, our estimates suggest that cooperative action can increase global output by 2 percent over the next five years.

The fact is that policy actions — both monetary and fiscal — taken in the wake of the global financial crisis prevented what would have been a second Great Depression.

The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.

From creating trade initiatives and economic zones to lifting millions from poverty and driving innovation, China's actions have the potential to shape the course of global business for years to come.

China has accused Trump of damaging the global system of trade regulation by taking action under U.S. law instead of the through the WTO.

This open - ended investigation is a more moderate course of action against China than simply slapping tariffs on it, but if it does eventually escalate, the US could find itself reshaping global trade in a big way.

«Climate change is a global issue, and the Premier has made it clear that B.C. will remain a climate action leader,» Minister of Finance Michael de Jong said this week in his budget speech.

The UN Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment, and anticorruption, and to take action in support of UN goals and issues.

If the US does actually take actions against China under the provision, it would undermine the global trade system — and could set off a whole wave of economically destabilizing tit - for - tat actions between China and the US.

Discussion of global alternative investments market action and what it may mean for investors.

They can't win votes saying they'll bring up the global price of crude any more than they can make the unemotional economist's argument, that anything but the most interventionist government action won't do much to help short - term job prospects.

Rather, measures of early improvement in market action that were effective across every post-war market cycle quickly proved insufficient during the global financial crisis.

As a result of actions taken in the 1995 and 1996 budgets, and strong global growth, the deficit was eliminated by 1997 - 98, much earlier than everyone expected.