Sentences with phrase «stated global ambitions»

Barnes & Noble, whose launch of Nook over the past two years has been a startling success story, is the only one of these companies that has no stated global ambitions, but they should still be of great interest to the world's publishing community for two reasons.

Not exact matches

Like the global march of the company he started, there's something inexorable - seeming about Mark Zuckerberg's ambitions to be Commander - in - Chief of the United States of America, whether or not those ambitions exist.

In exchange, Rosneft receives state support and privileges which allow Igor Sechin to pursue his ambition to convert Rosneft into a global oil producer.

It is our ambition to pro-actively contribute to the local healthcare infrastructure and provide a state - of - the - art holistic diagnosis, treatment and care centre giving residents, as well as regional and international visitors, access to global standard family healthcare in a luxurious and serene setting.»

UN Climate Change News, Bonn, 2 May 2018 — Organizers of the Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) taking place this September in San Francisco have today provided new evidence of how cities, states, regions, businesses and investors are taking climate ambition to the next level.

«We must attack this problem with a sense of urgency and ambition and quite frankly we are not seeing the level of urgency and ambition from the U.S.,» said Selwin Hart, a delegate from Barbados who was speaking for the Alliance of Small Island States, who face their entire nations sinking beneath rising seas caused by global warming.

It is because of opportunities like these that many heads of state at COP21 echoed the recommendation of the Global Commission on Economy and Climate — a group of 28 economic and finance leaders led by Felipe Calderón, the former president of Mexico — and called for a mechanism to regularly review and strengthen country ambition every five years.

In September, China and the United States announced they had formulated a «common vision» to secure an ambitious global climate agreement at the highly anticipated United Nations» climate meeting in Paris later this year; and that the world's two largest greenhouse gas emitting nations will stand together at the Paris meeting to push for emissions targets that «ramp up over time in the direction of greater ambition.»

Policy certainty, incentives, regulation and international co-operation are required to meet stated ambitions and transform the global energy system.

It's a global club which sees nation states as significant obstacles to their ambition, but not permanent impediments.

The Seoul Mayors Forum culminated with a presentation of the Seoul Communiqué, presented by Mayor Park Won Soon of Seoul on behalf of the nearly 40 attending cities and towns that came together to state their commitments as local governments and push for greater global ambition.

In the absence of a global state, we're going to have to make the most of it, and of all the ambition mechanisms, if we're going to have a real chance of stabilizing the climate system.

Now we need to see longer - term targets from states and regions to ensure their ambition is aligned with limiting global warming to well - below 2 degrees.»

Huawei's smartphone chief Richard Yu flagged Huawei's ambition to become a truly global smartphone brand in 2018 in his New Year address to staff, and also told The Information in an interview in late December that it planned to spend $ 100 million on marketing to raise brand awareness in the United States.

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's planned deal with US carrier AT&T Inc to sell its smartphones in the United States has collapsed at the eleventh hour, people with knowledge of the matter said, in a blow to the Chinese firm's global ambitions.

Speaking to the BBC, former Googler and current VP of International at Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, said that the company has «insane global ambitions» but that it will be a few years before we see Xiaomi phones for Europe or the United States (and presumably Canada) because of market saturation and high demands within countries in those regions.