Sentences with phrase «pressing global problem»

Our essay is a 2,000 - word commentary on a pressing global problem, not a radically new piece of scientific research.

Speaking of tech, Fortune is looking for a few good companies harnessing the power of technology in new and innovative ways to tackle pressing global problems.

Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also threatens the nation's ability to address pressing global problems such as food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.

The Blavatnik Family Foundation is providing critical support to seed innovative work in science and technology that will address society's most pressing global problems.»

Not exact matches

Rather than criticizing leaders who are stepping up to help solve the most pressing problems of global society — devoting not just their money but their time as well — we should be venerating them.

Though some of these seemingly out - of - left - field questions can be difficult to answer, they «test a job candidate's critical thinking skills, see how they problem solve on the spot, and gauge how they approach difficult situations,» Glassdoor's head of global recruiting and talent acquisition, Susan Underwood, said in a press release.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

In July 2009, at the last meeting of the G8 in Italy, the G8 heads of government agreed that maternal and child health was one of the world's most pressing global health problems.

Hydrogen could therefore help ease pressing environmental and societal problems, including air pollution and its health hazards, global climate change and dependence on foreign oil imports.

350 ppm, while merely a number, represents humanity's potential capacity to solve the most pressing problem it has faced; it also represents a target for international negotiators to aim for in forging an effective global warming treaty.

«Antibiotic resistance is as pressing a global health problem as they come, and to fight it, it's critical to understand it,» said Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., Wyss Institute Founding Director.

AESEDA - Global Opportunities for Minority Earth Scientists by A. Sasso, 25 November 2005 Penn State's AESEDA program focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students in the study of earth sciences.

«But to solve the pressing problems that require public acceptance of well - established science — from global warming to vaccinations to the increasing overuse of antibiotics — scientists must indeed inspire more public faith in their methods and their mutually enforced trustworthiness.»

Governments or businesses can pose any of the pressing problems facing the world — global warming, the ageing population, water shortages — and can invite entrants to pitch solutions to a panel of experts in that field.

Projects in this year's competition trended toward education and global health, although several teams tackled another pressing problem worldwide — traffic management — with applications for improving bus routes and a social networking tool for organizing car pools, says Jon Perera (pdf), Microsoft's general manager for education.

In addition to funding the creation of new projects highlighting the work of global change - makers addressing the world's most pressing problems, the initiative brings together leaders in both independent filmmaking and social entrepreneurship at key gatherings globally, including the Skoll World Forum (SWF), the Sundance Film Festival, and intensive workshops at the Sundance Resort.

The authors of Educating for Global Competence assert that in order to solve the earth's most pressing problems, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge are needed.

«Computers are part of our daily lives and are powerful mediums able to create solutions to pressing social and global problems our kids will inherit, yet so few schools offer high quality computer coding.»

Religious tolerance, gender equality, inclusion, respect for diversity, responsible use of our resources, and yes, knowledge and caring about the world's most pressing problems — both global and local - are far more important than, say, memorize the date in which Columbus arrived to America (something Dr. Google could easily drop in).

This is obviously a pressing issue within the U.S.; however, the issue of stray cats has become a global problem — on that is being highlighted by one photographer from Beirut.

I just said a global population falling in absolute numbers is unlikely for a long time, so is rather hypothetical, and not much of a solution to pressing environmental problems.

This is a massive, global problem that is not getting a fraction of the press it deserves.

Obama's press announcement: Climate change is a global problem.

Whatever the scientific truth, which Dyson admits he isn't positive about, he doesn't think that the case for global warming is sufficient to curtail economic development or take resources away from more pressing problems like reducing poverty.

The working paper used by the Expert Panel is available for download here, the finalized paper has been published in Global Problems, Smart Solutions - Costs and Benefits by Cambridge University Press.

The Poll has now recorded three consecutive rises in the number of Australians who see global warming as a «serious and pressing problem», confirming a decisive reversal of the downward trend in concern which we recorded between 2006 and 2012.

When the book that made him famous appeared in 2001 (disclosure: I was asked by Cambridge University Press to write a rejoinder to The Skeptical Environmentalist) he declared that climate change is not a serious problem — «On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world», he said.

The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Oct. 13 - 18 among 2,251 adults reached on landlines and cell phones, finds that 32 % say global warming is a very serious problem while 31 % think it is somewhat serious.

In fact there is no evidence that the US press understands the policy significance for the US if climate change is understood as a civilization challenging global distributive justice problem.

In one chapter, Lomborg suggested that while he believed that climate change was real, he doubted the extreme temperature predictions, and claimed that his own cost - benefit analysis indicated that it was not the most pressing problem facing the world compared to poverty, disease and global development.

The ideological dimension was also stressed by conservative think tanks (the Cato Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, etc.) which increasingly sponsored pamphlets, press releases, public lectures and so forth, arguing that global warming was not really a problem at all.

Even at the high water mark in 2008 only a little over half of British voters thought humans were responsible for most global warming and less than half thought it a pressing problem.

Once every year, the Clinton Global Initiative gathers world leaders, CEOs, celebrities, nonprofit groups, and, yes, journalists in Manhattan to address the world's most pressing problems.

Australian Poll (from David Spratt's blog - ClimateCodeRed): «In the last six years, support in Australia for the view that global warming is a serious and pressing problems that requires taking steps now, even if it involves significant costs, fell from over 60 % to under 40 %, according to Lowy Institute polling (below).

Cooler Smarter: Practical Steps for Low - Carbon Living (Island Press) explains why your individual contribution is so vital to addressing this global problem — and shows you the most effective ways to cut your own global warming emissions by 20 percent or more.

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