Sentences with phrase «reining in global»

Today, most Western governments are reining in their global warming policies, slashing their ruinously expensive subsidies to renewables and aggressively developing fossil fuels.

Citing figures from the California secretary of state, Maplight.org reports that Bill Gates has donated $ 700,000 to the campaign against Proposition 23, the ballot measure that would repeal a California law related to reining in global warming.

Unfortunately, when it comes to policies marketed as reining in global warming, protecting the environment, or creating «green jobs,» we have a tendency to make hasty decisions that don't pass the test.

But we think that OPEC members are likely to stick to the agreement this time, as the cartel appears keen to rein in global oversupply and stabilize prices.

Choudary said it will not be easy for governments and regulators to rein in global platforms such as Amazon and Uber.

Even if it were to survive, the Paris treaty by itself would do very little to rein in global warming.

As another well - known Brit might say, it is time rein in a global SPECTRE that has wreaked too much human and environmental havoc.

Aggressive action to rein in global warming could still prevent its worst impacts, Betts notes.

The world has never tried to rein in a global network with 2 billion users that is built on fast - moving technology and evolving data practices.

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Chinese regulators have been on the forefront of a global push to rein in the frenzy surrounding cryptocurrencies amid concerns over excessive speculation, money laundering, tax evasion and fraud.

In 1999, when he was made CPW CEO, Powell assumed the reins to a global cereal company at 45.

Since taking the reins of the group in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al - Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.

Rob Markey, the head of Bain & Company's global customer strategy and marketing practice, writes in the Harvard Business Review about how senior executives need to take the reins and help reenergize their staff.

Indeed, this past November the French government pinned a knighthood on him, not for his ability to drive profits but for his vociferous global campaigning to rein in climate change.

Higher income consumers are also expected to rein in spending after seeing their stock portfolios oscillate, due to the turmoil in the global stock markets following the devaluation of the Chinese yuan and the Federal Reserve's decision to hold off raising interest rates.

Both OPEC and Russia added that they were about halfway finished with clearing the global oil glut, and encouraged members to remain vigilant and set upon their task of reining in production.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government reined in new spending in a wait - and - see budget that touts support for ordinary Canadians but hedged its bets in the face of a still weak global economy and unpredictable fallout from the Donald Trump administration.

Chancellor Alastair Darling was today forced to rein in his hopes for a recession - beating «new global deal» next month, after Washington said it would not be negotiating a «specific commitment» at the G20 meeting.

And so far it seems that the global deal to rein in further emissions, expected at the summit in Paris in December, will not go far enough to change this.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global waGlobal carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion metric tons (39.683 billion tons) this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of governments to rein in the main greenhouse gas blamed for global waglobal warming.

If we can rein in emissions enough to keep global average temperatures from rising 2 C (3.6 F), we can avert the biggest shocks to Earth's system, scientists say.

That would help to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions from buildings — both from building them and powering them once they are built — that makes up 48 percent of U.S. global warming pollution.

A global plan, ambitious but doable, could double food production by mid-century and simultaneously rein in the emissions, deforestation and pollution caused by agriculture

Seven years after the disappearance of her father, 21 - year - old Lara has refused to take the reins of his global business empire, instead working as a bike courier in London while taking college classes.

Seven years after the disappearance of her father, 21 - year - old Lara Croft has refused to take the reins of his global business empire, instead working as a bike courier in London while taking college classes.

The newly - formed Lincoln Motor Company was run at first by Jim Farley, now Ford President of Global Markets, before the reins were passed to Kumar Galhotra in September, 2014.

We have some difficult issues to work through about how we keep what's good about the global internet while trying in rein in some of its excesses.

Seven years after the disappearance of her father, 21 - year - old Lara Croft has refused to take the reins of his global business empire, instead working as a bike courier in London while taking college classes.

Updates below, 12:42 p.m. After years of «you first» rhetoric on addressing the unrelenting buildup of climate - warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, China and the United States, the world's biggest emitters, agreed in Beijing on Wednesday to intensify domestic steps and international partnerships to rein in their contributions to global warming.

Their critique has been embraced by James E. Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who was pressed in 2006 to rein in his comments about global warming by political appointees under President George W. Bush.

While Australian authorities work halfheartedly to rein in the vast «climate» apparatus spawned under Labor Party rule, the entire global - warming - alarmism industry appears to be on the verge of imploding.

Even some major governments are working to rein in the out - of - control alarmism, with authorities in Australia, elected in a landslide earlier this year, promising to liberate the nation from «carbon taxes» while quashing much of the taxpayer - funded «global - warming» juggernaut.

The announcement by the U.S. and China was important for several reasons: Together they account for around 40 percent of global GHG emissions, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists; there had heretofore been few signs of a Chinese willingness to commit to capping emissions; and it raised hope that future global negotiations might actually yield an agreement to rein in emissions enough to keep the average global temperature from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius.

Yet even with global GDP estimated to increase another 14-fold this century, Lomborg laments that the Club of Rome's doomday mindset still reins in too many circles today.

The speakers faulted partisan politics in Washington for slowing efforts to fight global warming and for allowing the fossil fuel industry almost free rein to deceive the public about the harm of global warming.

In Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two - week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6 - degree - Celsius (1 - degree - Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past centurIn Nairobi, meanwhile, hundreds of delegates were wrapping up a two - week conference expected to only slowly advance efforts to rein in greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6 - degree - Celsius (1 - degree - Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past centurin greenhouse gases blamed for much of the 0.6 - degree - Celsius (1 - degree - Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures in the past centurin global temperatures in the past centurin the past century.

In order to halt the growth in global emissions, the emissions from developing countries must be reined iIn order to halt the growth in global emissions, the emissions from developing countries must be reined iin global emissions, the emissions from developing countries must be reined inin.

Coalition hon, secretary, Terry Dunleavy, calls on New Zealand Prime MInister John Key to rein in his Chief Science Adviser, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, who, Dunleavy claims is acting as a «propagandist for global warming zealotry.»

At this point, it's still too early to tell how the global economic downturn will affect ARGeo's future funding situation — what with the developed world beginning to rein in funds intended for developing world projects — but it's important to realize that geothermal will only represent one fraction (though a sizable one) of East Africa's renewable energy potential.

«On our current path, we will find it extremely difficult to rein in carbon emissions enough to stabilise the atmospheric CO2 concentration at 450 parts per million and even 550 ppm will be a challenge,» says Josep Canadell, executive director of the Global Carbon Project.

This is diplomat - speak for the effort to get a meaningful global agreement to rein in the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.

«Copenhagen wasn't what I had hoped it would be,» he acknowledged, but the summit nonetheless prompted governments to submit plans and targets for reining in the emissions primarily blamed for global warming.

«If the Chinese government truly wants to position itself as a global climate leader, it needs to rein in its state - owned companies that are flooding the world with new coal power plants,» says Trusha Reddy, Coordinator of the International Coal Network.

«It's an honor to be taking the reins at CENTURY 21 at a time when this iconic brand is experiencing tremendous growth around the world, and the foundation for its success is in its recognition as a global leader in real estate services,» says Bailey, also a licensed broker.

He will take the FIABCI reins in March 2013, and is keen to point out that the organization's «global referral network» and unique world - wide marketing opportunities are huge benefits to member Realtors and others involved in the real estate business.