Sentences with phrase «urgent challenge»

It is now one of the most urgent challenges of contemporary life.

It touches a lot of urgent challenges in our society.

In today's environment of high - stakes accountability and limited resources, urban educators must be able to address urgent challenges on multiple fronts.

Probably the most serious and urgent challenge faced by the physical world now is the threat of climate change.

A strong talent pipeline is an especially urgent challenge for fast - growing companies.

And while these more urgent challenges are largely cyclical in nature, the issue of social licence will not go away.

His energy manifesto doesn't present «old solutions to old problems» but provocative responses to increasingly urgent challenges.

These important programs address urgent challenges and provide educators with important context and data as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

The growing trend toward employees working remotely poses new and urgent challenges for managers.

Students with a concentration in social entrepreneurship will learn about the roles that technology, public policy, market - based approaches, research, leadership, strategy and communication play in implementing solutions to urgent challenges around the globe.

This is an especially urgent challenge for policy - makers today, because a report issued just this month shows that for the first time, a majority of public school children come from low - income families.

H2FIRST aims to address cross-cutting, urgent challenges related to station performance and availability.»

Keystone Crossroads covers urgent challenges pressing Pennsylvania's cities, such as state funding of school districts.

This illustration highlights urgent challenges faced by both Canadians saving for retirement and the financial industry which serves them.

To commemorate the opening of the High Level Segment of the «African COP» in Durban, ECO invited African NGOs to submit thematic articles on the often urgent challenges of climate change and the compelling opportunities for response.

Michael has extensive experience advising government, institutional and business clients facing unique and urgent challenges requiring media management and messaging, including strategic use of social media.

In a new blog to support the Challenges for courts session, we investigate the most urgent challenges reported by court leaders, whom we met during projects and with whom we worked in seminars held in Singapore, San José (Costa Rica), Addis Abeba, Tunis and The Hague.

Urgent challenges include the need for a common understanding on the nature of tokens and how they may be utilized in distributed ledgers and other innovations, as well as the financial stability and market integrity implications of greater exposure to tokens, said the organization.

Fathoming how monstrous concentrations of wind energy are created and then being able to forecast them are among the biggest, most urgent challenges in disaster science.

Next Generation Learning Challenges is a community of forward - leaning educators who are working in their communities and together as a network on the most urgent challenges in public education today.

To address urgent challenges and drive continuous improvement effectively, school board members, superintendents, and school leaders must develop strong school board — superintendent teams.

Fostering knowledge, responsible, and caring students is one of the most urgent challenges facing schools, families, and communities as we enter the 21st century.

In this situation, the medieval Church's most urgent challenge was mission: revitalizing the life of faith among those who were lukewarm, sparking faith in unbelievers, and transmitting the faith to the next generation.

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

Access to safe water is an urgent challenge for rural populations in several East African countries.

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

In an encyclical, or papal statement, the pontiff said that everyone had a duty to address «the urgent challenge to protect our common home».

We must greet the urgent challenges of our time as a vibrant, energized, diligent, and resilient global alliance.

I want to apply the lessons I've learnt in victory and defeat to the urgent challenge of this Age of Unreason.»

Mr Ashworth said: «The scandal of child ill - health is a long - standing, growing and urgent challenge.

«You don't have to be a scientist to take on this urgent challenge that threatens us all.»

Attention will now increasingly turn to the urgent challenge of adapting to the changes and helping those who are most affected.

The Paris Agreement is one of the singular achievements in international diplomacy in recent years, and the U.S. must continue to cooperate with the rest of the world in driving forward strong action on this urgent challenge.

Urgent Challenge: The emissions gap is likely to remain significant and threatening, requiring actions above and beyond those currently being pledged.

In response to the urgent challenge of ocean acidification, The Nature Conservancy convened a workshop for ocean experts in Honolulu, Hawaii, in August 2008.

Virology and immunology research at Gladstone focuses primarily on three urgent challenges in HIV / AIDS.

In autumn 2017, the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission in Egypt presented a team of Virginia Tech researchers with an urgent challenge — determine if the fall armyworm, a pest native to the tropics of North and South America that is currently devastating crops across sub-Saharan Africa, could spread into Egypt and beyond.

When the majority of our public - school students are not proficient in reading and math, when one student drops out of high school every minute, and when families are forced to spend billions on remediation because high - school graduates are unprepared for college or the workforce, you would think more attention would be paid to these urgent challenges that affect a much larger portion of the student population.

Mathematicians are addressing some of our world's most urgent challenges — including tackling climate change, modelling disease transmission and solving the human genome sequence.

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

NGLC invests in the big ideas of educators who want to solve the urgent challenges of K - 12 education.

«Education today must prepare young people to flourish in a society awash with intelligent technology and to enter a job market shaped by rapid technological change, yet there are urgent challenges in the world that require human solutions from future leaders.

EDC is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world's most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic opportunity.

Substantial finance and investments will be needed to meet the urgent challenges of mitigation, adaptation and access to clean energy in developing countries.