Sentences with phrase «taking global responsibility»

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 - Alphabet Inc President Sergey Brin said on Friday that technology companies must take greater responsibility for the social impact of their work, his first comments following a year of heightened global awareness about misuse of digital services.

We take our responsibility seriously, and today I want to talk about how we plan to do our part to build this global community.

Reporting directly to the Subscriptions Sales Director, the role will take responsibility for achieving a monthly new business and renewal target covering global subscription packages.

Connolly took on additional responsibilities in 1995, overseeing global transaction banking.

You can have a non-governmental free - enterprise taking responsibility for the well being of people on a global scale.

I am enlightened and I know it and I choose to take responsibility for my actions and understand that the actions of human kind will have global repercussions that won't be solved by faith.

Tim took on responsibility for TWE's Europe, South East Asia, Middle East and Africa regions in May 2017, in addition to his role as Director of Global Supply, which he has held since February 2016 based in Australia.

A coalition of campaigning organisations, known as the Nestlé Critics, submitted a report to the UN Global Compact Office regarding the last Creating Shared Value report in 2009 as this voluntary corporate responsibility initiative posts the reports on its website and has even taken part in joint events with Nestlé.

«This is another reason why we must take steps to curb global warming pollution as much and as quickly as possible,» said Amanda Staudt, a climate scientist with the National Wildlife Federation, which released the report today with Physicians for Social Responsibility.

As citizens, global and local, and participants of the «Building a Global Citizens Movement Johannesburg Conference 2013», we acknowledge our responsibility for the planet and for humanity and we take responsibility for our individual and collective acglobal and local, and participants of the «Building a Global Citizens Movement Johannesburg Conference 2013», we acknowledge our responsibility for the planet and for humanity and we take responsibility for our individual and collective acGlobal Citizens Movement Johannesburg Conference 2013», we acknowledge our responsibility for the planet and for humanity and we take responsibility for our individual and collective actions.

This means we all share responsibility to educate the 59 million children who today are not in school, to close the educational opportunity gaps facing girls, poor children, and children of marginalized groups around the world, including refugees, and we must take responsibility to ensure that all children who do attend school indeed learn what is necessary to be empowered global citizens.

AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society, which fits perfectly with our vision to create a collaborative virtual learning community, inspiring scholars to appreciate the ways in which arts and sciences nurture a curiosity for lifelong learning, and prepare scholars to take responsibility for their future success.

Alongside these we provide a holistic education which enables our students to develop into well - rounded, self - assured adults who will take personal responsibility, demonstrate compassion towards others and become true global citizens.

When they have the agency to plan and execute a project that addresses a real local or global issue, students can take responsibility for their education and gain confidence in their ability to make a difference in the world.

This facet of Global Digital Citizenship encourages exploring how we can manage our use of Earth's resources — taking responsibility and action on personal, local, regional, national, and international levels.

The person who grows up to be an empowered global citizen benefited from educational experiences which helped them understand the world and discover their own capacity to improve it, from experiences that gradually built the mindsets and dispositions that produce agency, was taught to reason ethically and to have compassion for others in ways which lead to taking responsibility to advancing not just their individual interests, but the common good.

2016 available from Amazon) that examines these various approaches to cultivating global citizenship, and that discusses why global citizenship education should develop deep understanding of current global challenges, and build the skills and the dispositions that help students take responsibility to address some of these challenges.

Despite her direct boss leaving the company, Naznine Mubarak took on responsibility for State Street's Global Management Development Program (GMDP) for 850 - plus learners and not only increased participation rates by 20 percent (with no additional budget), but also increased satisfaction survey results by 12 percent.

He took over responsibility for the global opportunities strategy on 1 January 2013.

In addition to revenue management, distribution and systems development, he takes over responsibility for the company's global sales activities.

Take - Two Interactive Software recognizes its responsibility to be an active corporate citizen in both the global and local community.

I am shocked by the reality of where we are and what we are faced with: global warming, climate change, poverty... The articles show us different perspectives, even divergent views, which promote us to come up with our own ideas about the meaning and vision of sustainability... It's time for us to take responsibility on our shoulders... We can make a big difference together.»

Taking account of their historic responsibility, as well as the need to secure climate justice for the world's poorest and most vulnerable communities, developed countries must commit to legally binding and ambitious emission reduction targets consistent with limiting global average surface warming to well below 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and long - term stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at well below below 350 p.p.m., and that to achieve this the agreement at COP15 U.N.F.C.C.C. should include a goal of peaking global emissions by 2015 with a sharp decline thereafter towards a global reduction of 85 percent by 2050,

Last year, HP set up the HP 2007 Global Citizenship Report (GCR) in which they said they wanted to make their supply chain transparent in order to boost responsibility taken by not only themselves but the companies with whom they work, and the IT industry in general.

This could mean China ends up taking on more global responsibility than its capabilities allow.

Arctic nations have a unique responsibility to show global leadership in reducing black carbon to slow regional warming and melting by taking action to reduce black carbon.

And Delos, as creator of the WELL Building Standard, developed a comprehensive way to measure and recognize the efforts taken in this area,» said Dave Pogue, Global Director of Corporate Responsibility for CBRE.

Global warming is a movement that has been taken over by the liberal wing of the Democrat Party in America with its collectivist creed: deny the existence of personal responsibility and employ any means to bring about the Left's imaginary Utopian ends.

Older Germans and French, not young people, are the most supportive of rich countries taking the greatest responsibility in dealing with global warming.

Earth Day Network's End Plastic Pollution campaign includes four major components: • Leading a grassroots movement to support the adoption of a global framework to regulate plastic pollution; • Educating, mobilizing and activating citizens across the globe to demand that governments and corporations control and clean up plastic pollution; • Educating people worldwide to take personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics, and • Promoting local government regulatory and other efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

If some consideration for historical responsibility is not taken into account in allocating national responsibility for ghg emissions reductions, then those poor nations which have done very little to create the current threat of climate change will be required to shoulder a greater burden of needed global ghg emissions obligations than would be required of them if responsibility for the existing problem is not taken into account.

Now that climate science dominates global policy you have to take more responsibility.

It is crucial for global companies to take responsibility for upholding international laws as well as their own policies regarding endangered and threatened species products.

However, China's willingness to translate its existing domestic energy conservation goals, often discussed in terms of amount of energy consumed, into a metric that is consistent with the language of international climate policy, i.e. carbon emissions, is the clearest signal yet that China is willing to take on responsibilities that are commensurate with its resources and global emissions impact.

Our corporations are making billions of dollars selling their products in disposal plastic containers but are refusing to take responsibility for what happens to the 100s of millions of plastic containers and bags that move through our global economy every single day.

New Zealand is prepared to take on a responsibility target for greenhouse gas emissions reductions of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020, if there is a comprehensive global agreement.

What do you say to climate - change deniers who don't believe we need to take responsibility for global warming?

And it's probably the most important question I live with every day, «he said at the start of his keynote talk on how he chose to take personal responsibility for his role in global warming.

They then asked six questions reflecting how seriously they take the issue (including «Global warming and climate change will have a noticeably negative impact on the environment in which my family and I live») and three measuring their personal feelings of responsibility (including «My actions to reduce the effects of global warming... will encourage others to reduce the effects of global warming through their own actions&raGlobal warming and climate change will have a noticeably negative impact on the environment in which my family and I live») and three measuring their personal feelings of responsibility (including «My actions to reduce the effects of global warming... will encourage others to reduce the effects of global warming through their own actions&raglobal warming... will encourage others to reduce the effects of global warming through their own actions&raglobal warming through their own actions»).

The private sector is beginning to take a lead in fostering global environmental responsibility and stewardship.

In other words, each of us must take responsibility for halting global warming.

Africa and Europe therefore take on their shared responsibility, calling also for global solutions and international regulatory frameworks.

«This verdict sends a clear message to J&J to step up and take responsibility for the damage they've done to these young men and to set up a global settlement program so the families don't have to continue to suffer through these trials,» Sheller said in an interview.

At its launch, Facebook's head of global safety, Antigone Davis, said: «We know that when building for kids, we have to get it right, and we're taking that responsibility seriously.»

«Initially taking responsibility for strategy, finance and impact evaluation across a global portfolio of community partnerships, he later brought together the worlds of business and society to develop the concept of a Barclays Social Innovation Facility.»

Having a global HR solution that offers companies flexibility, ease of use and the right mix of tools is essential to the success of both employees and employers alike, as they manage and maintain work - life balance and thrive in a changing environment that includes taking on social responsibility.

We are witnessing a major paradigm shift globally in the acceptance of shared parenting as necessary to ensuring that the best interests of children are addressed, and the time has come for us to take responsibility to act and implement shared parenting on a broader global scale.»