Sentences with phrase «second global head»

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«South Asia, an important beneficiary of IRRI's work, leads on global rice production, with India being the second largest rice producer and the first largest exporter in the world,» says Abdelbagi Ismail, who heads the Stress - Tolerant Rice for Africa and South Asia (STRASA) project.

Don't wait for permission, shouts a Young Global Leader who is a full professor working on his second Ph.D., a scientific adviser to governments, and the head of some kind of consulting company all before the age of 40.

The Ministers of Higher Education and heads of delegation of the countries, institutions and organisations participating in the Second Bologna Policy Forum in Vienna, 12 March 2010, held a dialogue on systemic and institutional changes in higher education in the developing global knowledge society.

That study found seas rose 1.6 meters (5 feet) per century «when the global mean temperature was 2 °C higher than today,» a rather mild version of where we are headed in the second half of this century.

In the opening paragraph, the global head of Apps & Store Management Brett Bouchard clarifies that it is the most downloaded new game of the year on the platform, with Bubble Witch 3 Saga a close second.

A new education management company, led by the former head of a global electric company, has acquired Chancellor Beacon Academies, the nation's second - largest for - profit manager of charter schools.

Second UNESCO Forum on Global Citizenship Education (GCED) Building Peaceful and Sustainable Societies: Preparing for Post-2015 took place on January 28 - 30, 2015, in UNESCO Head - Quarter Paris.

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This is, and we go back to credit counselling for a second on a Global News show about two months ago, one of the head of the largest credit counselling organizations, I think misinformed consumers.

Unafraid to face the present head - on, Rae distills the essence of our era of mega-cities, phenomenal technological advancement, split - second global communication and mind - blowing virtual reality through the medium of acrylic, oil, and sometimes gouache paints — plus the odd bit of glitter — employing every imaginable technique, on canvas with a sure and highly original hand.

Now British artists are major players on the international stage, London is a global art marketplace second only to New York and the Tate has evolved into a four - headed, world - renowned institution attracting well over seven million visitors a year.

Second, as I have posted previously in the last month or so, the global climate models predict that, with BAU, we are headed for ~ 5 C by the end of the century.

It seems to me that the most likely explanation for the NYT «correction» was that the paper's editors were worried about creating a legal basis for global - warming lawsuits against fossil fuel interests, as «prior knowledge of harm caused» played a central role in the tobacco lawsuits — and the head of the American Petroleum Institute PR push is Edelman, previously of «second - hand tobacco smoke is not a problem» fame.

Unfortunately for Mann, the Lead Author on the relevant IPCC chapter, reality and the proxies diverge: In the second half of the 20th century, Keith Briffa's tree - ring data heads south while the actual global temperature ticks upward.

(11/15/07) «Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal - Fired Power Plants» (5/9/07) «Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices» (3/21/07) «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History» (1/4/07) «Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining» (12/14/06) «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability» (11/3/06) «The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization» (11/15/06) «U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration» (10/4/06) «Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain» (7/13/06) «Let's Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes» (5/12/06) «Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy» (3/22/06) «Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World» (3/9/05) «China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer» (2/16/05)» Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy» (10/27/04) «A Short Path to Oil Independence» (10/13/04) «World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely» (05/05/04) «World Food Prices Rising: Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries» (04/28/04) «Saudis Have U.S. Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil» (4/14/04) «Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy» (4/8/04) «China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices» (3/10/04) «U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes» (2/18/04) «Troubling New Flows of Environmental Refugees» (1/28/04) «Wakeup Call on the Food Front» (12/16/03) «Coal: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond» (12/3/03) «World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall» (9/17/03) «Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest» (8/27/03) «China Losing War with Advancing Deserts» (8/4/03) «Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source» (6/25/03) «World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water» (3/13/03) «Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice» (12/11/02) «Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices» (8/21/02) «Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries» (8/6/02) «World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise» (7/17/02) «New York: Garbage Capital of the World» (4/17/02) «Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected» (3/12/02) «World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure» (2/5/02) «World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001» (1/8/02) «This Year May be Second Warmest on Record» (12/18/01) «World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall» (11/21/01) «Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country» (11/15/01) «Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security» (10/4/01) «Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan» (5/31/01) «Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future» (5/23/01) «Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land» (2/14/01) «Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise - Deprived Societies» (12/19/00) «HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population» (10/31/00) «Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source» (10/3/00) «OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again» (9/8/00) «Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice» (8/29/00) «The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition» (7/25/00) «HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa» (7/18/00) «Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty» (6/21/00) «U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy» (6/7/00) «World Kicking the Cigarette Habit» (5/10/00) «Falling Water Tables in China» (5/2/00) Top of page

Christiana Figueres, head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat, said the meeting in Paris was a chance to get on track «towards a deep de-carbonisation of the global economy, achieving climate neutrality in the second half of the century».

Should the partners approve Immelt's ascension to CEO, he would be joined in the firm's upper echelon by global finance practice head David Hudd, a London - based Lovells legacy partner set to fill a second newly created post, deputy CEO.

Palmer (pictured), who is a former global head of corporate at legacy Herbert Smith, fought off competition from Australian current deputy senior partner Mark Crean in a second round of voting that closed on Friday (7 November).