Sentences with phrase «tackle global problems»

In his new book, Change by Design, he calls for new ideas that can tackle the global problems we face.

These brave women travel the world, tackle global problems, and explore outer planets.

In 2012, Bacardi, along with other leading producers of spirits, wine, and beer, decided to unite in a concerted effort to tackle the global problem of harmful use of alcohol through the creation of five Commitments to Reduce Harmful Drinking for delivery over a five - year period (2013 - 2017).

«The Overfat Pandemic» tackles the global problem that threatens the health of 5.5 billion people.

Keeping agricultural runoff out of waterways can help tackle this global problem.

Readers should be aware that the book is written for an American audience, and is in parts US - centric, particularly in the section on «tackling a global problem.»

Sam Johnston, a senior fellow at the United Nations University said that, «the importance of local and individual efforts to tackle this global problem can not be overstated... leadership will come from the ground not the top.»

The Court's judgment is particularly notable for its deferential stance towards measures related to environmental protection based on EU rules which — paradoxically — are very nationally oriented although they tackle the global problem of climate change.

In order to tackle this global problem, worldwide cooperation is needed.

Not exact matches

Yes, it started out making electric cars, but only because personal transportation is the lowest - hanging fruit in tackling the global energy and emissions problem.

Speaking of tech, Fortune is looking for a few good companies harnessing the power of technology in new and innovative ways to tackle pressing global problems.

«Red Thread Thinking» is a proven approach that enables you to innovate whenever it's necessary — for everything from personal problem solving to entrepreneurial aspirations to tackling larger, more complex global issues.

What they really need is new inspiration to tackle these problems through innovative partnerships, technologies, and solutions — and that is what the Global Opportunity Report seeks to provide.

The new global development agenda replacing the Millennium Development Goals signifies a scaled up effort to tackle a multitude of complex, interconnected problems.

The lab is part of a global movement where several countries are using public and social innovation labs to tackle society's most intractable problems.

«The support and expertise of a global exchange leader will be invaluable as the Centre strives to harness the momentum of the impact investing agenda to tackle Canada's social and environmental problems in new and innovative ways.»

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Medicine is dedicated to tackling global medical problems through research and innovation.

Francis drew a standing ovation on Monday at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, where he marked the UN's World Food Day by calling for governments to work together to tackle the interconnected problems of hunger, global warming and migration.

You're helping to tackle an urgent global problem.

We are proud of our global efforts to reduce harmful consumption of alcohol, including support of evidence - based programs aimed at tackling the biggest problems.»

«We earn our living in a globalised economy and a world in which nations are interdependent in tackling global and regional problems.

He stated that the Nigerian Army troops are doing well in the North East, and acknowledged the support of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerians as well as international organizations in the fight against the insurgency, adding that terrorism is a global problem that must be tackled to enable development thrive in the continent.

Ronen and co-authors from MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix - Marseille University tackled the problem by describing three global language networks based on bilingual tweeters, book translations, and multilingual Wikipedia edits.

They are also the key factors that permit us to tackle some of the vexing, even life - threatening global problems we face — climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of our marine environment (see Next Wave's recent feature for further information).

Farmer, a pioneer in global health, has a history of tackling big problems.

We can view these advancements as opportunities for our global society to tackle complex problems, such as energy demands, food and water security, and disease.

Shared resources will synergize global efforts in tackling the major problems faced by mankind and expand the frontiers of human knowledge to the greatest extent.

One way to tackle the problem of global scientific collaboration should be the necessity for scientific consortiums within countries for which a specific research / product is directed.

New forms of life could help tackle problems from famine to global warming, but releasing them into the wild raises biosafety concerns

She leads an engineering «Design Kitchen» and the Rice 360 degree Institute for Global Health, where students and faculty tackle real world problems submitted by industry, local community partners and medical researchers.

Projects in this year's competition trended toward education and global health, although several teams tackled another pressing problem worldwide — traffic management — with applications for improving bus routes and a social networking tool for organizing car pools, says Jon Perera (pdf), Microsoft's general manager for education.

The synergy between the two approaches allows us to tackle complex biological problems in a high throughput fashion, providing a global view to the genome of glioblastoma,» said Dr. Rabadan.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the Global AMR Surveillance System (GLASS) as one of a number of measures designed to tackle the problem of AMR, and WHO member states have been encouraged to produce National Action Plans for AMR by 2017.

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a growing global problem; in September 2014, President Obama signed an executive order to create a task force to tackle the issue of antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

Each of the panelists remarked on the importance — in all areas of global education — of working together with stakeholders in order to tackle a problem, find a solution, and reach an objective outcome.

Challenge 20/20 is an Internet - based program that pairs classes at any grade level (K - 12) from schools in the U.S. with their counterpart classes in schools in other countries; together the teams (of two or three schools) tackle real global problems to find solutions that can be implemented at the local level and in their own communities.

The program, implemented throughout our Lower School, is a hands - on, human - centered and team - based approach to tackling sticky problems — issues often related to our Isdell Center for Global Leadership's (ICGL) annual global Global Leadership's (ICGL) annual global global theme.

The lack of political will for tackling core problems will, as always, put far more pressure than is deserved on relatively small, and often highly effective, programs aimed at fostering global progress.

Then comes the poll result: «When asked whether tackling the environment or the economy — given global economic problems — should be the government's priority, 52 % said the environment and 44 % said the economy»

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

The US can't have a binding global agreement with just Obama's say - so that also would bind other countries in to tackle this problem together, and it is a problem that needs that level of effort to be the most effective.

This is a global problem and needs to be tackled on a global basis with the participation of all emitters.»

Necessity is the mother of invention, and the global necessity of facing the challenges of Climate Change has unleashed the inventive powers of architects around the world, many of whom are tackling the problem in original and highly creative ways.

* that BP is funding research into «ways of tackling the world's climate problem» at Princeton University to the tune of $ 2 million per year for 15 years * that BP is funding an energy research institute involving two other US universities to the tune of $ 500 million — the aim of which is «to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment» * that ExxonMobil itself has donated $ 100 million to Stanford university so that researchers there can find «ways to meet growing energy needs without worsening global warming»

«Without the possibility of catastrophic climate change radically changing Earth's environment in decades to a hundred years or so, creating a new global energy system would be a problem for the 22nd Century plausibly tackled in a leisurely way without... Continue reading →

«Without the possibility of catastrophic climate change radically changing Earth's environment in decades to a hundred years or so, creating a new global energy system would be a problem for the 22nd Century plausibly tackled in a leisurely way without failure posing an existential threat,» says Martin Hoffert, the eminent physicist and alternate energy technology analyst at New York University.

There is no secret about the intention to build supranational organisations to tackle seemingly «global problems» that would be intractable under normal politics, by which I mean sovereign national democratic governments.

Human societies need energy — turn it off and chaos would result: But if we could fix the ratio without obliterating other life forms, we'd be giving ourselves enough breathing space to tackle other urgent global problems, such as clean water supply, food sufficiency, and the preservation of health - giving natural areas.

Or we can respond to Global Warming in ways that not only aim to tackle the problem technically, but try to shift costs and funds in a more intelligent, just, and sane development model.