Sentences with phrase «of global debate»

Or continuing the adventure by listening to a panel of distinguished scientists who question the hypothesis at the root of the global debate over global warming?

This province is the subject of global debate having witnessed some of the highest real estate rates in the industry.

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«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

Furthermore, it is important that we not get too distracted by the stimulus debate and work together to promote an agenda for long - term economic growth for the country, which should include reform of a tax system that has grown out of control, finalizing trade agreements, kickstart a lagging regulatory harmonization agenda and ensuring young Canadians have the skills to compete in a global market place.

Amid the BRIC's ascendancy, there's a growing debate among investment experts as to whether the current club best represents the shifting tides of global power or is more a product of Wall Street hype.

When the leaders of the world's major economies convene in Toronto on June 26, their schedule will be laden with big issues, from ending stimulus spending to the European debt crisis to the debate over a global bank tax.

Business Insider senior editor Josh Barro says the Brexit vote is a microcosm of the debate dominating global politics right now.

The proposal has generated a great deal of often vitriolic debate over the future of the wheat board, and the C.D. Howe Institute recently weighed in with a report arguing that global grain markets have changed significantly over the past few decades, to the point that the CWB is more often than not a price taker.

The global community needs to have a vigorous, ongoing debate about the ethics of energy.

The latter issue was debated at the annual Spring Meetings, with many participants stating that the growing number of trade disputes, if not resolved, could deteriorate into tit - for - tat imposition of trade barriers that would derail the global economy.

For Canadians, it is important that our political parties start discussing and debating the policy actions a «new» government should take to respond to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observation, that the global economy, and therefore the Canadian economy, could be entering a long period of economic stagnation, characterized by slow growth, high unemployment and increasing income inequality.

The added focus on opportunities is a natural progression reflecting how the broader sustainability debate is evolving, says Erik Rasmussen, founder and CEO of Monday Morning Global Institute:

They quickly pointed out that Europe is too large simply to assume that the world can absorb large changes in its capital and trade accounts, and as they debated about the ways global constraints would affect the assumptions about European surpluses most of them quickly decided that either the markets would not permit surpluses of this size, perhaps by bidding up the euro, or the impact of these surpluses would be very negative for the world.

Feb 7, 2014 - More than five years since the beginning of the global financial crisis, policymakers across the world continue to debate its root causes while economists pour over charts and data hoping to find clues as to what...

One of the most polarizing topics of discussion in the world of cryptocurrencies, the BTC vs BCH debate took a new turn today as Thomas Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors commented that he would rather buy Bitcoin over Bitcoin Cash during an appearance on CNBC.

After many years of vague talk by governments about fighting global warming, it is encouraging that the debate has finally begun to tackle specific mechanisms to achieve cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.Â

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

And amid the debate over how far the government should go to protect certain industries in the era of global competition and technological change, some trade and industry experts are questioning whether the administration is simply using national security as an excuse for economic protectionism.

The debate over aluminum's future in the United States comes after 20 years of China flooding the global market with the natural resource, depressing prices to a level where few U.S. companies can compete.

The national security is a wrinkle in a larger debate over manufacturing in America: whether the government should intervene to shelter a place like Hawesville from the winds of global trade.

Much of the debate over the past years about the benefits and the costs global specialization, primarily the rapid advance of China as a major manufacturing center has been less about the financial costs — the $ 12 trillion dollars of additional liquidity that the US consumers offered to the world (the cumulative US trade deficit from 1990 through 2015 compared to the over $ 3 trillion dollars in trade surplus run - up by China over this same period — and more in terms of the jobs lost and the impact of foreign products on American wages in manufacturing.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

Since, even now, when debates about the fact of global warming is largely over, no nation is considering taking the really drastic actions that might significantly reduce the catastrophes that lie ahead, it seems that we are all too likely to experience judgment for our collective sins.

In the most recent Republican debate, several Republican candidates tried to distinguish themselves from the idealistic Rubio by pointing out that Syria was more peaceful (and less of a source of global terror) when the Assad regime ran the whole country, and that Bashar al - Assad might be the lesser evil compared to ISIS.

Global science, by the way, is not unified and spends most of its time bickering back on forth over every issue, not to advance debate, but to justify academic publishing requirements.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

(CNN)- The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

CNN: Reaction to anti-Islam film fuels debate on free speech versus hate speech The deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans amid protests against a film that denigrates Islam has sparked global discussion and debate about whether there is a line between free speech and hate speech and, if so, where it lies.

As the sisters debate and pray on how to respond, they realize they are in the center of a broader global power struggle.

(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

There has been much debate and discussion of that question — not to mention controversy surrounding global engagement of Muslims.

«We continue to hear from many people on the debate over sexuality that our current Discipline contains language which is contradictory, unnecessarily hurtful, and inadequate for the variety of local, regional and global contexts,» the proposal said.

This recent ruling has global media commentators on all sides of the political aisle debating whether this issue is an affront to religious freedom or a victory to protect the foreskins of young male babies around the world.

There has also been a lot of local debate about whether global activist funds will increasingly eye entering the Australian market.

The Green Paper's most worthwhile contribution to the food debate is its coverage of global food security.

Leaders in R&D, marketing and business strategy who are passionate about innovation and growth come together at Food Vision in Cannes to debate the sources of sustainable growth and profitability in today's global nutrition, food and drink markets.

Economists, though, now say that soaring global wheat and corn prices will soon be felt in Japan, potentially complicating the country's economic recovery and forcing debate on a complex set of social and political issues.

This year an array of global flavors, gluten - free products, and healthy alternative beverages gave the panel much to debate.

As well as encouraging flexibility in parenting roles, the results of the study could have implications for the global debate on same - sex adoption.

The Procon agency in the state of Sao Paulo fined the fast - food company 3.2 million reais ($ 1.6 million), adding fuel to a global debate about fast food and public health.

These debates rage in advanced economies in response to China's rising clout and the acquisitions of global brands by its rapidly internationalising firms.

Giving scholars from the global south a voice in the R2P debate is a remarkable and important achievement in and of itself.

Given Africa's role in the global economy in the last few centuries, debates about a different way of engaging with international capital flows are of great significance to the continent's future.

Steve Keen, along with Nouriel Rubini as a non neoliberal economist states, «The first thing that the global financial crisis should therefore do to economics is to galvanise student protest about the lack of debate within academic economics itself, because dissident academic economists will be unable to shift the tuition of economics themselves without massive pressure from the student body».

What we should surely be aware of is that these issues connect directly with the much broader and ongoing global debate about the future of government and the challenge that the rise of non-democratic countries, like China, pose to the universal aspirations of liberal democracy.

With impending Argentine presidential elections, oil and gas exploration, and the 30th Anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, next year, all likely to attract global interest, the issue of the Falkland Islands and their future will continue to be debated in newspaper columns in the UK and elsewhere.

Yet instead of reopening conventional commentary on continental enlargement and institutional consolidation, the EU needs to broaden its debate and realize that while regional in membership, to avoid doomed irrelevance, it must become global in concern, action and engagement.

Professor Deighton set the current debate about the future of the EU in its historical and global context: the world is one of international organisations and the EU, born of a post-war crisis and containing many countries struggling to deal with their colonial heritage, should be a united foreign policy actor.