Sentences with phrase «of other environmental challenges»

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

The administration should focus on the real science of reducing our carbon output to address the challenges communities already face from sea - level rise, extreme storms, longer droughts, longer wildfire seasons, and other environmental disasters.

As excitement has grown, so have forecasts of blockchain solutions to identification and migration, supply chain - transparency, land registration, lending to the poor, and a host of other social and environmental challenges.

Environment and Clean Energy: China's well - documented problems with air, water and other forms of environmental pollution represent a major challenge for policymakers and society.

While many other ecofeminists are deeply skeptical about the environmental fallout from the Christian economy of creation and salvation, Grey sees in that economy the prophetic challenge and the inspiration to remedy the ecological crisis.

The Food Recovery Challenge is part of the EPA's Sustainable Materials Management Program, which seeks to reduce the environmental impact of food and other widely - used everyday items through their entire life cycle, including how they are extracted, manufactured, distributed, used, reused, recycled, and disposed.

Certainly some of these are involved, as may be excessive processing of foods, drug residues in foods and water, now - common deficiencies in DHA and vitamin D, excessive hygiene, lack of challenging childhood diseases, and likely other nutritional and environmental causes we have yet to learn of.

The Global Food Security programme is the UK's main public funders of food - related research and training are working together through the Global Food Security programme to meet the challenge of providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources.

Also at 10 a.m., Rebuild NY Now, a broad - based coalition seeking to raise public awareness about the challenges facing New York State's infrastructure, along with Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo and other local elected officials, members of organized labor, environmental organizations, Chambers of Commerce and private local businesses, will be holding a press conference.

As it is with other mega cities in the world, such as New York, New Delhi and Jakarta, the population growth in Lagos brings with it challenges, ranging from environmental to transportation and provision of a good road network, among others.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

To address the challenge of identifying the majority of such «specialized metabolites» in any given plant, Dr. Nir Shahaf and other members of a team headed by Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann's Plant and Environmental Sciences Department created a database of plant metabolites, called WeizMass.

«It was a challenging optimization problem to solve accurately,» said Kazuhiro Saitou, a U-M mechanical engineering professor and the other co-author of the Environmental Research Letters paper.

A number of suits challenge the nascent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thEnvironmental Protection Agency (EPA) effort to reduce greenhouse emissions, but the agency has actually been prodded into action by lawyers from states and environmental groups from thenvironmental groups from the other side.

We do know that dolphins in the northern Gulf have been subjected to a number of environmental challenges in the past few years, and we do know that each one of those challenges will have affected their ability to deal with the others.»

So in reality, this plant evolution study is just the beginning of learning how plants prevent freezing, other environmental challenges, including predator protection theories.

Difficult - To - Express Proteins: Resolving Bioprocessing Challenges with a Scalable Perfusion Bioreactor Scott Waginer, Emily Wozniak, and Kyle Biesecker (The Cell Culture Company) Among some other recombinant glycoproteins, bi - and tri-specific antibodies are labeled as «difficult - to - express» proteins because of low titers and sensitivity to environmental conditions.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

A promiscuous female stands to gain direct benefits — such as extra paternal care, food in the form of nuptial gifts and access to a territory, or protection from other males — as well as indirect benefits for her offspring, such as better genes or greater genetic diversity to fortify her brood against unpredictable environmental challenges.

There's a LOT of other types of puzzles such as challenging logic puzzles and environmental puzzles (which involves finding items and figuring out where and how to use them) that open up new areas.

«Under the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training, Viet Nam Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO and the Biosphere Reserve Management Board, children have increased their knowledge on the challenges linked to Education for Sustainable Development such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental issues.

describing, challenging, and mapping the interaction between education and sustainability, the global spread of sustainable development discourse across and within borders, examining the tensions between various methods of teaching sustainability, and other topics more generally related to environmental and sustainability education.

Traps and other environmental hazards must also be approached with care, though frequent checkpoints ensure that you'll never become too frustrated with any of the game's challenges.

There are 120 of them in total, and even though Link's arsenal of skills is shorthanded when compared to those of other Zelda games (he can only use bombs, employ magnetic powers to move metallic objects around, create ice pillars from water, and lock objects in place for a short while before they regain their movement), Nintendo was able to build plenty of clever and entertaining shrines, some of which whose challenge is not in their clearing, but in finding them or making them emerge through the solving of highly engaging environmental puzzles in the overworld itself.

The image seems appropriate for the 45th Earth Day, well into a century in which some environmental challenges are the same as those of 1970 (litter), while others are profoundly different — like figuring out how to give Earth's veneer of life enough space that it can find a way to thrive, even on highly imperfect landscapes.

One challenge will be finding ways to spread this kind of efficiency ethic into other arenas, like energy, where ready sources — like coal and oil — remain abundant and cheap (in monetary terms) but pose long - term environmental risks.

One of the great challenges in assessing the meaning of changes in Arctic climate and other environmental conditions is putting today's observations in long - term context.

5:11 p.m. Updated * Bjorn Lomborg, the Danish writer who has built a career around challenging worst - case depictions of global warming and other environmental problems, has sent short video responses to the six most - recommended reader questions from my post about «Cool It,» the documentary on his work.

Find the world's most innovative, covetable, and sustainable air - drying solution for clothing and win some of the $ 10,000 in prize money!Together with Myoo, a community that helps solve environmental and social challenges by letting participants win great prizes, Levi's wants to reduce the environmental impact of jeans and other clothes by getting more people to ditch the dryer and air - dry instead.

Based on a study conducted on their behalf by CE Delft showing the environmental impact of mink farming compared with the production of other clothing, GAIA challenged whether the claim about the eco-friendliness of fur was misleading and could be substantiated.

Once settled in at my new journalistic home, ProPublica, I plan on digging in further on this and other instances in which the main factors exacerbating environmental threats are policies and practices that can be changed promptly, even as the grand challenge of limiting global warming is pursued.

And, having the molehill the other direction with the figures tripping over it would have added another valuable implication to the cartoon: dealing with the «Fiscal Cliff» almost certainly will not help in addressing climate challenges since critical climate science, environmental, and clean energy programs are going to suffer fiscally — whether there is some form of bipartisan agreement to «solve» the Fiscal Cliff or whether Republican intransigence pushes the nation over it.

The new policy brief examines the design, enactment, implementation, and performance of the SO2 allowance trading system, with an eye toward identifying lessons learned for future efforts to apply cap and trade to other environmental challenges, including global climate change.

A few more projects are expected to be completed in 2014 - 16; however, several other announced projectes have since been cancelled or suspended because of a number of challenges such as environmental impacts on desert wildlife and water resources, cost - competitiveness, and delays in transmission development.

The main challenge for addressing deforestation in the Amazon and in other biomes in Brazil lies in solving the serious land ownership problems facing the country, which are at the roots of its socio - environmental conflicts.

She is working on a manuscript on environmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and suenvironmental justice and climate change and among her other publications is the co-edited volume Environmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and suEnvironmental Justice: Discourses in International Political Economy which includes some of her work on North American Indigenous peoples and the challenge of forging a common agenda of indigenous rights, justice and sustainability.

The Sierra Club, other environmental groups and some affected landowners had challenged the commission's environmental review of the project.

In addition, I - 1631 requires that 35 % of all funds provide «direct and meaningful» benefits to «pollution and health action areas» — regions where residents face a significant cumulative environmental health impact as measured by income, pollution and other challenges.

Many other challenges such as the distortion of ecosystem services, the loss of biodiversity, the degradation of land, sprawling urbanization, worsening water scarcity, the disturbances in terrestrial and marine food chains or the ubiquitous pollution of all environmental systems have to be taken into consideration.

Although many climate scientists and environmental campaigners are seriously concerned about the fate of the Arctic sea ice, for other parts of society and other arms of government its degradation presents challenges and opportunities.

Motivated to «address one of humankind's greatest challenges,» Cornell scholars investigate environmental policy affecting public health, renewable energy, and other topics in seven acclaimed research institutes.

Environmental justice is another concern because much of the oil and gas extraction in the country takes place in rural, minority and economically challenged communities where employment is scarce and people believe they have no other choice.

A significant segment of opposition, the report notes, is from First Nations in Canada who are raising sovereignty claims and other environmental challenges.

This collaborative approach is a far cry from the warnings of Australian ethicist and geoengineering critic Clive Hamilton, who has argued China's history of weather manipulation, top - down political system and urgent environmental challenges make it a likely contender to use geoengineering technology on its own without sharing its know - how with other countries.

Today, shale drillers face a perfect storm of economic challenges, environmental headaches, and stiff competition from the wind sector and other forms of renewable energy.

Whether he is seeking environmental reforms, health reforms or any other improvement in the life of the American people, this is Obama's real challenge.

Without it, he claimed that environmental campaign groups could use the signing of the Paris agreement as leverage in court challenges to other anti-climate measures proposed by the administration.

From toxic tailings ponds that already cover 130 square kilometres, to fresh water use and the direct impacts of digging 100 metre open pit mines over thousands of square kilometres of boreal forest, the report details the environmental problems and other challenges that oil sands mining poses to northern Alberta.