Sentences with phrase «significant global role»
As a state which has become actively involved in everything from the political situation in Afghanistan, to the various democratic movements across the Middle East and North Africa, as well as successfully securing the right to host various major international events, the government is playing a significant global role, particularly relative to Qatar's comparatively small size.
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This year's list of powerful Latina women prioritizes women leading large public companies with significant global operating roles, rather than c - level staff roles.
When asked about the role that the local, national and global economy plays in their business, 75 percent of respondents said the local economy plays a significant role in their business, while 59 percent said the national economy plays a significant role.
The removal of trade barriers has played a significant role in reducing global poverty and encouraging peace between nations, achievements that could be eroded by tit - for - tat backsliding.
At U.S. Global Investors, we find it curious that many investors still don't realize what a significant role royalty and streaming companies play in the mining business.
«The financial system made it through all the turbulence quite well, and the CBR's role was significant,» says Anastasia Turdyeva, a banking analyst with S&P Global in Moscow.
The global lending market has witnessed revolutionary changes in 2016, with fintechs playing a significant role in restructuring the lending system to be more dynamic and responsive, vis - à - vis the traditional framework of existing banking systems.
The global cosmetics market is expected to hit $ 390 billion by 2020, and based on current trends, eCommerce will play a significant role in overall industry growth.
This very significant milestone clearly cements the role of bitcoin in the future of our global economy.
«As the world's largest stevia producer and supplier, we recognise the unique role we can play in helping the food and beverage industry to reduce its impact on the environment and tackle the global obesity challenge, with our goals articulating the significant role we can play in this respect.»
A range of informative keynote speeches, programs and projects were presented; research undertakings were demonstrated on global efforts to combat food loss and waste in which Australia plays a significant role.
As a global food company, we believe we have a significant role to play in helping to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture (UN SDG 2).
As a global food company, we believe we have a significant role to play in helping end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture (UN SDG 2).
There's no covering the stink: While carbon dioxide gets most of the bad press, cow manure and wind play a significant role in global warming, too.
At World Rugby we value the significant role that the media plays in promoting and projecting Rugby to global audiences.
Others favour the model set out most credibly by American foreign policy expert John Hulsman, who advocates an ambitious global free trade area with a security element — effectively tying the world's liberal democracies together, with Britain playing a significant new role within this new structure.
«What's more, the savannahs play a significant role in the global carbon cycle and therefore affect the planet's climate cycles,» says Victor Odipo of Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany).
Lead author PhD student Adam Hejnowicz said: «Seagrass meadows could play a vital role in combating climate change as they are regarded as a net global sink for carbon.They have the capacity to bury significant deposits of organic carbon beneath the sediment, up to many metres thick in places and over millenary time scales.»
«Nematodes may play a significant but unacknowledged role in the global nutrient cycling of carbon, nitrogen, methane and sulfur,» Bik said.
Chinese researchers contributed just 1 % of data to the global Human Genome Project, but Qin hopes China can play a more significant role in the ongoing Human Proteome Project, a global effort that published a draft map of the human proteome online in Nature on 28 May.
Ponds and lakes play a significant role in the global carbon cycle, and are often net emitters of carbon gases to the atmosphere.
We should assume global warming plays a role in every climate event, then ask whether that role is a significant one.
«Solar cycle variability may therefore play a significant role in regional surface temperatures, even though its influence on the global mean surface temperature is small (0.07 K for December — February).»
The team's work provides one of the first quantitative global analyses of the role RNA - binding proteins play in regulating gene expression and makes a significant contribution to knowledge of this regulatory process.
We choose to invest our trust, belief, and curiosity in foods that have played prominent roles in healthy, traditional diets, of significant global populations for thousands of years.
As Bulgaria plays a more significant role in the democratic world and the global market economy, however, our schools need major educational reform.
With more than 20,000 Ambassadors traveling annually, People to People International continues to play a significant role in increasing global awareness.
Within the social studies, technology has served a dual role as an important instructional tool that may have a significant effect on the global, political, social, and economic functioning of American society.
Taleb Rifai, secretary - general of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), has praised the Pacific Asia Travel Association's (PATA) significant role in the growth of the global tourism industry.
Kenya's appointment provides a significant endorsement to the country's tourism sector as it means that Kenya will now, for the next two years, have a leading role on the UN affiliate body responsible for the coordination of global tourism issues and programmes.
Tourism Australia's Managing Director, Andrew McEvoy, said social media continued to play an increasingly significant role in the national tourism agency's global marketing push.
Given the significant role such aerosols played in the 40's, 50's, 60's from U.S. and European emissions (prior to serious scrubbers), and that the scale in China / India right now is significantly larger, why wouldn't this aerosol screening (global dimming) be an issue?
It has such a significant role and we can not accurately quantify its impact on global climate change.
Likewise, we look to you to guide ExxonMobil to capitalize on its significant resources and prominent industry position to assist this country in taking its appropriate leadership role in promoting the technological innovation necessary to address climate change and in fashioning a truly global solution to what is undeniably a global problem.
While I am not rushing out to buy a parka, I am a firm believer that the Sun plays a much more significant role in global climate changes that humanity.
The indifference reflects widespread public doubt that human activities play a significant role in global warming, a tone set by President Vladimir Putin, who has offered only vague and modest pledges of emissions cuts ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Paris.
The sun clearly plays a role in global warming: AR4 says that solar forcing in the 20th century was significant and approximately 10 % of total forcing.
A failure to appreciate the role clouds play in regulating the Earth's temperature means that a significant number of climate change predictions underestimate the likely extent of global warming over the coming years, scientists have claimed.
Warm ocean water plays a significant role in melting glacial ice from below, and a better mapping of Antarctica's and Greenland's landforms beneath the ice suggests that ocean melting of the glacier fronts may play a more significant role than previously thought as the ice sheets retreat (under a global warming scenario).
I would not dispute 100 - 300 year oscillations as a possibility, but my reading of the climate records reveals no evidence for a significant role for such oscillations — or at least, no role substantial enough on a global scale to have created a discernible signal outside of changes occasioned by solar variations, volcanism, and other known entities (changes on a regional scale are a very different matter and may have involved such oscillations).
Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Ocean Studies, and many other Russian scientists maintain that global climate depends predominantly on natural factors, such as solar activity, precession (wobbling) of the Earth's axis, changes in ocean currents, fluctuations in saltiness of ocean surface water, and some other factors, whereas industrial emissions do not play any significant role.
In one method, a statistical analysis of observational records was performed (using the KNMI Climate Explorer) to compare this summer's heat with summers during the early part of the century, before global warming played a significant role in our climate.
«Not only is the data used in the report flawed and suspect, but even more egregiously, the IPCC authors — very few of whom indeed are scientists — refused to consult with scientists who are skeptical of the IPCC's defining hypothesis: that the Earth faces a crisis from rising global temperatures and that human activity played a significant role.»
As head of the nation's largest city, de Blasio is throwing significant weight behind a movement by local governments to directly target fossil fuel companies for the role their products play in fueling global warming.
We should assume global warming plays a role in every climate event, then ask whether that role is a significant one.»
In the case of glaciers affecting global sea level, however, the IPCC concluded that anthropogenic forcing played a statistically significant role in the retreat of glaciers during the late 20th century [Church et al., 2013].
This plays a significant role in global warming.
I believe the strong role of anthropogenic contributions to climate change with potentially significant adverse impacts (global warming and ocean acidification) is well documented by a large array of independent evidence.
Events, whether of a significant size or multiple smaller ones, play a key role in limiting global temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius.
Furthermore, as part of a global effort, developed country Parties should continue to take the lead in mobilizing climate finance from a wide variety of sources, instruments and channels, noting the significant role of public funds, through a variety of actions, including supporting country - driven strategies, and taking into account the needs and priorities of developing country Parties.