Sentences with phrase «of global call»

• Tony de Brum is the minister - in - assistance to the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, which currently chairs the Pacific Islands Forum; Mary Robinson is the former president of Ireland and founder of the Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice; and Kelly Rigg is the executive director of the Global Call for Climate Action which is a network of more than 400 NGOs.

«I think it can make a huge difference at least in reframing the discussion,» said Kelly Rigg, executive director of the Global Call for Climate Action.

Not exact matches

And Garrett Camp, cofounder and chairman of Uber, unveiled a proposal for a brand new cryptocurrency, called Eco, that he hopes to transform into a global payment system.

We'll call them the next establishment: a generation of audacious global entrepreneurs, who are contemptuous of borders and make their mark by massively disrupting entrenched industries that never saw it coming.

In April, the company established a new role called «global head of top creators» and appointed Laura Lee, an executive who's been with YouTube since 2007.

This year, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to lead fundraising with President Macky Sall of Senegal to raise $ 1.3 billion for the Global Partnership for Education, following emails, calls and tweets from members of Global Citizen.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement called it the biggest collective announcement of divestment by Catholic organizations ever.

And as global awareness about the horrific practices surrounding the mining of so - called «blood diamonds» in Africa intensified, Aber's Canadian provenance didn't hurt its prospects.

Laurie Garrett, one of the globe's most gifted writers on global public health issues, has a timely and scary essay on foreignpolicy.com about the nasty norovirus plaguing athletes in the Olympic village — a bug one expert calls the «perfect human pathogen.»

Effective altruism has been called «altruism for nerds,» and revolves around the idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.

In the last month, there have been mass street protests, and a global network of nongovernmental organizations, the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, has joined the call for Mr. Najib's resignation.

In the closing moments of the talks, Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been in Paris for much of the talks, called the deal «a remarkable global commitment.»

In a New Yorker report, Arianna Huffington, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, calls on companies to reassess their values: «This includes rejecting the cult of the top performer, which tolerates otherwise unacceptable behavior, and instead building a culture that functions as the company's immune system: surfacing cases of abuse and identifying toxic elements as fast as possible, and then quickly rejecting them.»

A team under Airbnb's global head of social impact, Kim Rubey, was already working on a program to house refugee relief workers in Greece, Macedonia and Serbia, but to address the product challenge, Gebbia formed a new team under his Samara studio that was ultimately spun out and called the Human team.

In 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis, the Fed and its global counterparts signed the so - called «Basel III» accords, under which all countries agreed to raise the minimum level of capital banks must hold to 8 % of their risk - adjusted assets.

Zimbabwean telecom tycoon (and the country's only billionaire) Strive Masiyiwa has been called a «global business influential,» a «face of New Africa,» and the «Bill Gates of Africa.»

All of which encouraged Barclays to nudge up its 2017 call for global growth to 3.5 %, from an expected 3.1 % this year.

«From time to time, I will get called by the director general of export controls at Global Affairs Canada, asking for my feedback regarding a policy issue.

What makes the company unique: With 80,000 employees in the U.S. alone, Glassdoor calls Deloitte one of the largest and most established consulting firms with both local and global influence.

On Tuesday night, the Internet lit up with big news: Facebook, along with a partnership of six other companies, launched a new global initiative called Internet.org.

Well, here's a fact that may change your mind: Apple had the most profitable year ever during what we call the biggest global recession of all times.

In the case of Simone, it is what they call their Global Mindscape, which is a two - by - two matrix of the world of brands split into brands whose essence is based in recognition, progress, status and entertainment.

Novartis's global head of drug development and chief medical officer, Vas Narasimhan, has a piece up on Fortune exploring the strides that have been made in the fight against malaria, including the development of an experimental Novartis treatment called KAF156.

Also notable in this year's report is a new section recognizing a handful of what BCG calls «up and coming» companies — companies that are still relatively young or have yet to reach «global giant» status.

The girl statue was commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, the fund management arm of Boston - based State Street, to call attention to the role of women in corporate America and its «gender diversity index» fund.

LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters)- Global investors trimmed equity holdings by 1.2 percentage points in January, concerned that markets have grown complacent after a thundering bull run and seeing risks of an inflation wake - up call.

LONDON, Jan 31 - Global investors trimmed equity holdings by 1.2 percentage points in January, concerned that markets have grown complacent after a thundering bull run and seeing risks of an inflation wake - up call.

Based on Gordon's interpretation of the Kondratieff theory, the current global forecast calls for a long, cold economic winter with a 100 % probability of short - term total chaos.

Meantime, as the IMF continues its call for an overhaul of the global monetary system, Strauss - Kahn remains defiantly ambiguous about his plans for the future.

Dean of Engineering Pearl Sullivan said she's not sure the movement of engineers can be called a «brain drain» any more, as the tech marketplace is global in reach.

What was called ride - sharing, then ride - hailing, and soon transportation logistics will be a big theme in Aspen, and we'll have three of the industry's brightest global stars onstage.

Take this advice, and you'll not only capture and engage your prospect with your blog post; you'll also create what the productivity guru Robin Sharma calls «a global base of fanatical followers.»

But as Bloomberg reports, Bank of England policy maker Adam Posen responded by calling the BIS's take on inflationary threats to the global economy total «nonsense.»

(The next year a startup called UberCab similarly took advantage of the smartphone's unique attributes to create what would become a global transportation company.)

It so happened that Bill Gross, the portfolio manager of the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, made that 2.6 % call in a Bloomberg interview on Friday and then in his monthly investment letter on Tuesday.

And having a global network of connections and being able to contact them with a phone call is beneficial.»

This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies opening, ever anew, onto different futures.

He added it's «inconceivable» that the oilsands can be fully exploited under Canada's global climate commitments and called for a transparent assessment of the potential benefits of relaxing Alberta's oil recovery requirements.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

The product is called Fairlife and it will sell for twice the price of regular milk when it hits store shelves nationally in December, Coca - Cola's North American chief Sandy Douglas said at Morgan Stanley's Global Consumer Conference last week.

Antimicrobial resistance — or the rise of «Superbugs,» as the tabloids call it — is «one of the most serious threats to global health and security,» the World Health Organization warns.

(Reuters)- Blackstone Group LP has secured $ 17 billion from investors for its latest global private equity fund in just seven months, the biggest so - called first close of a buyout fund ever, according to people familiar with the matter.

The notoriously bearish Societe Generale strategist, renowned for making big calls on the state of the world, used his latest Global Strategy Weekly note to take aim at BoE chief economist Andy Haldane.

VSP Global, the vision services giant, announced Thursday that it's launching a new «smart glass» product called Level which can track steps, calories burned, distance, and total activity time through a device located in the left temple of the frame.

«We will be profitable, as measured by EBITDA,» said Chris Lehane, global head of policy and public affairs, in a conference call.

Contrast that with the average teacher, who peppers kids with 300 to 600 questions a day and waits an average of one second for each reply, and you have a recipe for what I call the «Global Questioning Crisis.»

The report from proxy advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), called «Gender Diversity on Boards: a Review of Global Trends,» shows that the number of females among new board nominees at the largest U.S. companies has been steadily climbing in recent years.

A report released by the Global Public Policy Institute and the Mercator Institute for China Studies, both of which are based in Germany, said Europe's economic ties with China are more important than those it has with Russia, and the stakes associated with calling out Beijing are much higher.

The future of small business is more and more about mutual - benefit partnering on a global scale, which we call «the reciprocity advantage.»

Most recently, a global ransomware attack called «WannaCry» has hit thousands of people using Windows - based computers.