Sentences with phrase «public opinion around»

Industry participants and stakeholders are now faced with changing legal and regulatory frameworks, changes in government and policy, shifting public opinion around climate change and renewable energy, increasing stakeholder engagement and activism, and fluctuating market prices for power and underlying resources.

Furthermore, even if small modular coal plants can be proven technically feasible, industry analysts are having difficulty understanding how a coal - related process could be competitive, given the low cost of natural gas and cheap renewables, coupled with negative public opinion around coal power.

One hundred and five social scientists, climate scientists, business leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, and other climate communication professionals gathered to share perspectives from experience and from the scholarly literature on the shaping of public opinion around climate change.

«The challenge facing climate policy is to design policies that are consonant with public opinion, and are effective, rather than try to shape public opinion around particular policies,» he argues.

Or can something be done to turn public opinion around and get the fading exhibition back on its feet?

But for politicians who have targeted educators and their unions, it is much easier to rally public opinion around the fabrication that it's about protecting underperforming teachers.

Trevor Tompson, director of the AP - NORC Center, said the bipartisan agreement on climate change's existence could be reason to hope for policy action: «Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

«Public opinion around many energy issues tends to be fluid, with people often defaulting to partisan starting points.

While a few years ago the majority of Russians supported intervention, deteriorating economy and increasing death tolls turned the public opinion around.

The group hopes to mobilise global public opinion around a set of core principles of free expression, accessibility, privacy, openness and network neutrality.

Protests, despite having no direct influence on legislation, are fundamental to harnessing public opinion around an issue.

Not exact matches

While issuing warnings or trying to educate the public against what regulators fear are risky investments are not uncommon around the world, in this case they tried to sway public opinion against crypto assets by paying social media influencers to attack them.

«I think collectively the Vatican feels it has taken a drubbing in the court of public opinion, and it's looking for a media - savvy expert that can turn the ship around,» Allen said.

Public opinion is slowly coming around on counseling, which used to be something you only got if you felt like you had a serious mental or emotional illness.

The past decade has seen a rapid transformation in public opinion and legal norms around sexuality, same - sex marriage, transgender rights, and religion in the public square — changes that have caused anxiety for a great number of traditional religious believers, including Christians, Muslims, and Orthodox Jews.

After the story broke and public opinion wondered why these criminals were treated so leniently, the bishops then made the equal and opposite mistake: having been burned by being too merciful, they turned around and zealously applied the strictest justice, in the form of «zero tolerance» policies.

You expect me to believe that a bunch of guys that have been around football their entire lives, have access to troves of video, interviews, statistics, and expert opinions that are not available to the general public, and get paid millions of dollars to evaluate the talent of football players and sign them to contracts might know MORE about evaluating football players and signing them to contracts then the patrons of a Dallas Cowboys internet blog?

«Our campaign simply aims to celebrate the different approaches and opinions around parenting, including whether or not mums choose to breastfeed in public, recognising that it's ultimately what works for you and your baby that matters the most.»

The problem with the sorts of ideas being batted around at the moment — primarily devolution for the English regions — is that they are at once too concrete and too unsystematic, while also being too «top down», and too vulnerable to short term swings of public opinion.

This White House invitation (sent through their Office of Public Engagement) is a classic example of blogger / online activist relations — they can't exactly give us exclusive information or the other usual goodies we online communicators use to entice online opinion leaders, but they CAN give us a seat in a meeting room in the White House complex, which is pretty damn cool all around.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

As we discussed in the social media chapter, it's primarily an «opinion leader» medium, meaning that it offers campaigns opportunities to reach people who can shape the public narrative around their race.

Public opinion doesn't actually often shift around and show exciting new patterns, so good solid research will often confirm things we already guessed at anyway, or that things haven't really changed much.

Though he openly disagrees with the comedians opinions, Edwards believes anything that engages the public in debate around issues in current affairs can only be a good thing.

Public opinion is now almost exactly mirrored from those heady days of May 2010 with around six in ten believing the coalition has been bad for Tories and the Liberal Democrats (58 % and 62 % respectively.)

«Voters are looking for someone who can turn state government around, and most plan to look no farther than Andrew Cuomo,» says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

The highly respected Marist Poll is often cited by journalists around the globe and is the preeminent source of analysis for public opinion research.

Cuomo's stance has a number of advocates concerned that he has abandoned reform efforts because the public has grown numb to the cloud of scandal that hangs around the state capitol - a cloud voters appear to be attaching to the governor in public opinion polls.

«Given the mobilization of creationist interest groups around this issue and anti-evolution public opinion — particularly in states with a high number of conservative Protestants — you might think that this would lead to greater success in turning these bills into laws, but this has not been the case,» Johnson said.

When ordinary citizens complain about the titans of media abusing their power to shape public opinion, the complaint often revolves around the placement of a news item, not the story's content.

So are the «opinion leaders» driving the public's views in a certain direction, or is it the other way around?

The State Board of Education's staff is currently traveling around the state to host public hearings and solicit opinions on the draft framework.

The main purpose of our new report, «Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.

Unfortunately as public opinion of this breed declines and the banning of bully breeds builds momentum, many more facts are turned around.

I can understand the scores for GTA IV and Skyward Sword, even if the public opinion changed around it afterwards.

I'm not sure if they are really turning around public opinion personally but perhaps they've got enough users to sustain the game.

The episodes focused around the work of artist Felix Gonzalez - Torres and his piece «Untitled» (Public Opinion) that is spending the month of June at Jus Broadcasting's headquarters in Astoria, Queens as part of... circle through New York.

«Untitled» (Public Opinion) takes the form of spill of cellophane wrapped black rod licorice candies and is displayed as either a corner or a floor piece; as the work traveled around the different locations, it was installed by a team of museum professionals in response to the architecture of each site.

Each day a selection of public videos will be featured on the global Tate Facebook page, to celebrate the diverse opinions around contemporary art today.

These digital news communities are also the ideal complement to efforts at public engagement structured around public meetings and the recruitment of every - day opinion leaders across communities.

Jim didn't shift public opinion quite as single - handedly this time around; however, as before, he provided the spark.

The real problem is a political problem — informing public opinion and mobilizing the support and cooperation necessary to do what is needed here and around the world.

It will take many debates on many of climate science's issues but I firmly believe it's the only want to turn around public opinion.

Regarding Nisbet and getting around skeptics, his closing line is «Part of the challenge in creating the incentives for policymakers to take action on climate change and to address the issue in a serious way is to accurately communicate about the nature of public opinion.»

CB: Just a bit around public opinion and how to shift public opinion.

Thousands of divestment campaigns around the world are helping shift public opinion in favour of keeping fossil fuels in the ground and highlighting the moral urgency of climate action.

My wife, Tipper, and I will donate 100 percent of the proceeds of the award to the Alliance for Climate Protection, a bipartisan non-profit organization that is devoted to changing public opinion in the U.S. and around the world about the urgency of solving the climate crisis.

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Centuries later, far from the desert wilderness of the early Jews, Prime Minister Harper (along with a host of pundits, authors, and a sizeable portion of Canadians) has tied a similar crimson knot into a glorious political bow around the necks of the Supreme Court of Canada and Judges across this country, casting them off the cliff of public opinion.

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