Sentences with phrase «term response to the challenge»

«The coalition announced today lends credible confidence to governments as they prepare to submit their contributions to the 2015 Paris agreement and design a crucial, long - term response to the challenge of climate change.»

At a news conference, Yvo de Boer called on the 192 nations represented at the U.N. climate summit starting Monday «to deliver a strong and long - term response to the challenge of climate change.»

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Summers said historians would judge today's leaders not on their response to the crisis but on whether they did what was necessary to confront this longer - term challenge, according to the participant.

With regard to the challenge of improving Canada's long - term productivity growth, the government's response was to reduce the tax benefit of the Scientific Research and Experimental Tax credit and to reallocate the savings of only about $ 1 billion over five years to a number of small government programs, for which no details were provided.

The latest issue of StraightTalk ® looks at four scenarios of how the current growth improvement may evolve in the next few months and what the effects may be on the global economy's potential in the medium - term Our latest survey of C - Suite executives» challenges reveal their responses to the current business environment.

We have stressed the direct and concrete nature of the challenge to faith in the teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as - obedience aspect of that teaching in terms of a group of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character of the challenge of Jesus altogether.

Thus far we have discussed the challenge of Jesus to recognition and response in terms of the parabolic teaching; now we must turn to another aspect of the matter: the challenge of Jesus to faith.

If the oldline churches are lukewarm in terms of intensity of conviction, can they really be doing even relatively well when it comes to such signs of vitality as societal engagement and response to external challenge?

But the only response that will be effective, and faithful to Christ's commands, in the long term is to meet this challenge head - on, as, in the final analysis, the Church always has.

Recent experimental research indicates that toddlers who skip naps are more likely to (1) show confusion and negative emotion in response to challenging tasks (Berger et al 2012) and (2) have trouble «downloading» new information into long - term memory (Kurdziel et al 2013).

Cuomo's second term was a response in large part to the primary challenge from Zephyr Teachout in 2014.

The long - term result of this policy, combined with the spread of resistant clones from elsewhere, has been a sky - high rate of resistance to antibiotics as bacteria enthusiastically evolve in response to repeated challenges.

The metric they have developed, the Vegetation Sensitivity Index (VSI), allows a more quantifiable response to climate change challenges and how sensitive different ecosystems are to short - term climate anomalies; e.g. a warmer June than on average, a cold December, a cloudy September, etc..

The purpose of the event will be to maximize the impact of the EU framework Horizon 2020 in terms of global collaborative science and the scientific response to global societal challenges.

Our contribution to Portlight supports both the initial disaster response, as well as the long - term recovery process that will be even more challenging for people with special needs.»

The nations of the world gathered on Monday in Paris to reach a new and universal climate change agreement, in the knowledge that they have already delivered an almost universal set of national responses to meet the long - term climate challenge before the conference even begins.

Despite Mitt Romney's charge that «President Obama's policy response to every education challenge has been more federal spending,» on - budget K - 12 education expenditure has grown during Obama's first term at the slowest pace in two decades (aside from the massive, but unlikely to be repeated, infusions of ARRA and Edujobs).

When it comes to the assessment quality, assessment literate individuals understand that the assessment is comprised of exercises that present challenges to the examinee and elicit a response to be evaluated in terms of performance criteria.

To respond to this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOSTo respond to this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOSto this need the European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated a new programme, Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (known for convenience as the ESA Climate Change Initiative) to provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOSto provide an adequate, comprehensive, and timely response to the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOSto the extremely challenging set of requirements for (highly stable) long - term satellite - based products for climate, that have been addressed to Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOSto Space Agencies via the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS).

Tom — You raise valid points about the challenge of model development for predicting long term trends such as temperature responses to a continued rise in atmospheric CO2.

There have been challenges to the conclusions these authors have drawn, but even if these conclusions are correct, they have little relevance to long term responses to CO2 or other agents that exert a persistent forcing.

«Global warming may profoundly affect animals, plants, and coastal communities around the world,» von Weizsäcker added, «and Bren School researchers have been at the forefront in terms of clarifying the challenges and presenting attractive responses to them.

As a result, California's per capita water use has declined in recent decades, meaning that additional short - term water conservation in response to acute shortages during drought conditions has become increasingly challenging.

Although it is clear that further attention is required in defining and characterizing the aspects of this variation (e.g. frequency and amplitude [44,65]-RRB- that lead to differences in species responses, a more immediate empirical challenge is to characterize and separate the effects of periodic, stochastic and / or cyclical natural variations [61] from directional change imposed by long - term climatic forcing.

«FAs recognition of the value of patents has increased dramatically over the past decade, so too has the amount of litigation associated with patent enforcement and validity challenges before U.S. district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), and before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) In response to this ramp up, both in terms of volume and complexity, tribunals have come to recognize the substantive, procedural, and administrative challenges posed by patent litigation.

In response to this challenge, CAS continued to work with central agencies and stakeholders with the objective of identifying viable, long - term solutions to its program integrity issues.

Individual Relationship Therapy can make a significant impact on the long - term success of a partnership, whether that be preventative or in response to a certain isolated challenge.