Sentences with phrase «on economic migration»

Not exact matches

Economic growth in China has long been premised on high levels of savings and investment, growth of manufacturing and exports, migration of low - productivity rural workers to higher - productivity urban jobs and integration of new technologies.

This session will focus on understanding potential perils — from food crises to pandemics and from climate catastrophes to human migration — that aren't top - of - mind in most boardrooms, but could enable CEOs to better navigate changing economic conditions and markets.

Through forming a strategic partnership agreement similar to the one conceived on the margins of Canada - European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada can pursue greater co-operation on issues such as international peace and security, counterterrorism, human rights, clean energy and climate change, migration, sustainable development, and innovation.

With the tendency of the biblical writers to regard all events as coming directly from the hand of God, the economic forces which apparently led to these migrations take on a religious coloring.

For over twenty years the outsourcing of migration controls has meant that European publics have been protected from the practical reality of forced displacement and economic desperation that is now showing up on holiday beaches.

Two possible events stood out for the group: firstly, the chance of a major economic and political crisis caused by the election of anti-EU parties to the Italian Parliament - and their likely outright rejection of any financial controls being placed on them; and secondly, the chance of further waves of migration into the EU, via Turkey.

Universities responded to the consultation on student migration with equally vigorous arguments for the economic and other benefits that international students bring.

Employers responded to the government's consultation on changes to skilled labour migration (Tiers 1 and 2 of the Points - Based System) with vigorous arguments for the economic necessity of IntraCompany Transfers (ICTs)-- individuals relocated by their employers from overseas branches to British branches of the same company.

Vote Leave (a cross-party grouping supported by Douglas Carswell, UKIP's only MP) wants to focus on the economic argument for Brexit, suggesting the UK could successfully become a Singapore style off - shore financial centre (open to capital and migration).

Alex Balch has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, EU and Joseph Rowntree Foundation for research into policy on labour migration and efforts to tackle forced labour and human trafficking.

A swathe of other stringent measures on language requirements, income thresholds, economic resources, working rights and increasing settlement requirements came in across all migration streams.

A limit on economic migrants from outside the EU, changes to the rules on family and student visas and a crackdown on bogus colleges have helped bring down net migration by nearly a third from its peak.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

Beyond that, we now have the evidence that reinforces earlier findings on the effects of ambient pollution at large and can say that these effects are very likely real, not just loosely correlated or tied up with other economic issues like household migration dynamics.»

«Set against this are the empirically grounded assessments of the actual economic benefits of migration and the potential benefits of relaxation of limitations on it,» the report states.

Titled «Modeling Sustainability: Population, Inequality, Consumption, and Bidirectional Coupling of the Earth and Human Systems,» the paper describes how the rapid growth in resource use, land - use change, emissions, and pollution has made humanity the dominant driver of change in most of the Earth's natural systems, and how these changes, in turn, have critical feedback effects on humans with costly and serious consequences, including on human health and well - being, economic growth and development, and even human migration and societal conflict.

Emphasis on «soft engineering» For instance, the task force suggests adding specific text to the state's Tidal Wetlands Act stating: «It is declared to be the public policy of the state to preserve and protect tidal wetlands and to prevent their despoliation and destruction, giving due consideration to the occurrence of sea level rise that will result in wetlands loss and migration, and to the reasonable economic and social development of the state.»

When examining this premise, what is exactly meant by Youth Migration... The summary on the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs [3], notes that the focal point was the platform offered to the youthful participants to voice their opinions on issues related to youth migration and development.

ROCI (Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho) brings together some of the nation's best thinkers to conduct research on the challenges of rural education, such as hiring leaders and teachers, migration, economic development, and post-secondary success.

Grades 6 - 8 Lesson: Capturing History Through teacher - guided discussions and hands - on activities, students will understand the political and economic reasons for the African - American migration to Northern cities between the World Wars.

Kohler constructs two and three dimensional assemblage pieces; appropriating discarded material, painting naturalistic figures and detailed replications of packaging material (a layered visual metaphor signifying transience, migration, displacement), to articulate challenging social and economic circumstances that affect those on the periphery.

Hence their exhibition Life In The UK / Balance Of Possibilities which, by making the gallery into a pretend visa application centre, reflects on crises of global economic migration.

All scholarship on the relationship between climate migration and unrest (including Kelley et al's paper) makes clear that there is always a complex of factors, which begs the question: can international law make decisions on conferring migrant or refugee status if someone is, say, a 30 % climate migrant, a 20 % economic migrant, and a 50 % war refugee?

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

As British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned the U.N. Security Council, the risk of massive economic disruption and «migration on an unprecedented scale» make climate change a true security threat.

«We have focused on the U.S. economy, although the bulk of the economic damage from climate change will be borne outside of the United States (42), and impacts outside the United States will have indirect effects on the United States through trade, migration, and possibly other channels» — In other words they ignored the indirect effects which are extremely important hence their study is to put it mildly rubbish.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

The agency announced late last month that it was creating a Center on Climate Change and National Security to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities.

Furthermore, the impacted economic activities and migration could then feed back on human health [169].

Specifically, key parameters of the Human System, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedbacks.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,136].

But as we will show, these impacts on the Earth System also feed back onto the Human System through various factors and variables: human health, fertility, well - being, population, consumption, economic growth, development, migration, and even producing societal conflict.

With workshops on intersectionality and migration struggles, young people from across the continent and beyond worked on broadening the scope of our movement and getting to grips with how our mainstream economic and political systems have produced the climate crisis, and how this intersects with the mainstream European climate movement.

Brexit Paper no. 25 looks at the legal and historic links between the EU, the internal market and customs union, and how the UK could negotiate a reduced role for the ECJ as well as tighter controls on EU worker migration while protecting key economic interests.

Internationaltravel, economic migration and international education impacts on all aspectsof life but especially that of family life.

The authors share insight on their multidisciplinary research covering areas of social policy, economics, poverty, gender studies, nutrition, agriculture, labour, migration, and conflict with the objective of fostering informed debate on social, political and economic issues and policies.