Sentences with phrase «specific global risks»

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a -LSB-...]

The starting point for the discussion was five specific global risks: Resistance to life saving medicine Accelerating transport emissions Loss of ocean biodiversity Global food crisis A Generation Wasted These risk represent a pressure -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Because the Global Resources Fund concentrates its investments in specific industries, the fund may be subject to greater risks and fluctuations than a portfolio representing a broader range of industries.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

Stress in emerging markets is nothing new and pops up in specific countries on a yearly basis; however, there is always a risk that country - specific stress can spill over into a global contagion similar to what occurred in 1997 - 1998.

Dr Sathe's research notes that: «With their global popularity and increased use, risk of inadvertent exposure to cashew nut seeds is likely to increase... Developing simple, specific, robust, accurate, and reproducible detection methods is therefore essential to safeguard sensitive individuals from unintended exposure.»

The global nature of the increase suggests that it is due to a global factor, rather than the increase in a particular diagnosis a dramatic change in specific risk factors.

The World Health Assembly (Resolution 63/2010) has recommended that all countries implement existing global guidelines on infant feeding during emergencies, including specific operational guidance to help relief agencies protect infant nutrition and minimise risk of infection.

Take Ivory Coast.I find it difficult understanding why an academician or to be more specific, an accomplished economist of Dr Bawumia's calibre.Let me quote here a statement made by Madam Christie Lagarde the IMF director «Mediocre economic growth could become the new reality leaving millions stuck without jobs and increasing the risk to global financial stability» she said this after she has explicitly stated the global economic challenges and how certain structural reforms in Ghana including infrastructure investment as well as trade reforms were going to impact positively on Ghana's economy.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

About Blog A cybersecurity awareness and cybercrime blog which aims to highlight Global and India specific security risks faced by computer and mobile users.

About Blog A cybersecurity awareness and cybercrime blog which aims to highlight Global and India specific security risks faced by computer and mobile users.

Answering this question should reveal the sources of the risk premia that characterize these investment styles, which could be region - specific or global in nature.

Read the Program Description, Part 7 Investment Information, for information about specific risks for the underlying investments in the Age - Based Aggressive Global investment option.

Besides, the beauty of our global fund was that we could invest internationally, which helped to minimize country - specific risks.

Given the strictures on shareholder proposals, it's common for investor advocates to push not for specific changes, but for analyses of risk: asking companies to publicly measure their greenhouse gas emissions, to analyze the environmental impact of their global supply chains, or, in a strategy pioneered last year, to quantify their exposure to «stranded assets,» such as fossil fuel reserves that would exceed the world carbon budget.

So while I agree that the global risks of nuclear are far less than fossil fuels, the local specific risks of nuclear seem far greater.

Country specific research and expertise of Carbon Tracker has caught the attention of key influencers of China's green finance agenda, where we are now engaging with the regulators concerned with systemic risks in global capital markets.

While opinions differ among scientists over the specific changes global warming will effect, the general consensus is that temperatures will rise 3 - 10 °F statewide by century's end, potentially leading to a drop in rainfall across Southern California; this would put at great risk a variety of animal and plant species that live in the deserts east of Los Angeles.

Whilst we have not found any evidence that normalized insured damage has trended upward at the global level, for developed countries and independently of the type of disaster looked at, our detection of an upward trend in insured losses from non-geophysical disasters and certain specific disaster sub-types in the US, the biggest insurance market in the world, and in West Germany represents a finding to be taken seriously in the risk analysis undertaken by insurance and re-insurance companies.»

This paper assesses the three pathways in the light of Working Group I's recently released contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC 2013), which provided three specific global carbon dioxide (CO2) budgets, and associated them with specific risks of a global surface temperature increase of more than 2 °C by the end of this century, relative to the 1850 — 1900 average.

Although fact specific, Global Risks shows that even senior employees may not owe fiduciary duties and that employees who are not fiduciaries are not required to pursue their employer's interests at their own expense.

Enter, Foley Global Risk Solutions («GRS»), which provides Clients a cost effective, automated, self - service risk assessment and «curb side advisor», which provide specific advice on the current state of compliance risk based on the type of business conducted and where in the world it is conducRisk Solutions («GRS»), which provides Clients a cost effective, automated, self - service risk assessment and «curb side advisor», which provide specific advice on the current state of compliance risk based on the type of business conducted and where in the world it is conducrisk assessment and «curb side advisor», which provide specific advice on the current state of compliance risk based on the type of business conducted and where in the world it is conducrisk based on the type of business conducted and where in the world it is conducted.

While most efforts to address cyber risk have been industry, sector, or geographically specific, the Global Cyber Alliance is unique as it spans across borders and sectors.

Most prior PAT items were retained; however, parents recommended changes to improve screening format (separately assessing each sibling within the family and expanding response options to include «sometimes»), developmental sensitivity (developing or revising items for ages 0 — 2, 3 — 4, 5 — 9, and 10 + years), and content (adding items related to sibling - specific social support, global assessments of sibling risk, emotional / behavioral reactions to cancer, and social ecological factors such as family and school).

More recently, however, resiliency factors have been conceptualized as more context dependent, emphasizing the need to identify specific, rather than global, resiliency factors that protect individuals faced with specific risks in specific life contexts (Grossman et al., 1992).

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