Sentences with phrase «urgent global need»

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In 2014, the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flager Business School, in partnership with Human Capital Institute (HCI), conducted a study where they found that 85 percent of global companies report an urgent need to develop employees with leadership potential.

To challenge the pursuit of global wealth is not to oppose development but to call for that kind of development that genuinely responds to urgent human need.

The World Food Programme has urged countries to step up and allocate to urgent hunger needs a fraction of what is proposed for financial rescue packages to address the global economic downturn.

He further stressed that given the current scope of food fraud in the global food marketplace, there is an urgent need to clarify definitions and terms that can collectively be used by companies to address food fraud on a global scale.

Yet the need to feed a rapidly growing global population — projected to reach 9 billion by 2050 — is urgent.

In the light of the crash in global crude oil price, which is Nigeria's main foreign exchange earner, the devastating actions of aggrieved militants on oil and gas infrastructure in the oil - rich Niger Delta which has resulted in lock - in or leakages of crude oil, sometimes in excess of one million barrels that could have been exported daily, and the consequential rapid decline in the well - being of the masses, the urgency to fix the Nigerian economy by changing tactics from sole reliance on oil, becomes more poignant and urgent, hence the need for international experts to aid diversification efforts of the government.

Writing in Current Climate Change Reports, they conclude that, the most urgent course of action is to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, but concurrently there is also a need to consider novel management techniques and previously over-looked reef areas for protective actions under predicted climate change impacts.

Despite the report's regional focus, the authors clarify that the most urgent need is to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions.

LONDON — The world is far behind on delivering the low - carbon energy it needs, and unless urgent action is taken, calamitous climate change is certain, the International Energy Agency told a meeting yesterday of energy ministers whose countries account for 80 percent of global energy demand.

With the understanding that emergency, health care and other services» reliance on software will only grow over time, Microsoft has for the past eight years hosted a global competition that challenges high school and college students to develop applications that address some of the planet's most urgent needs.

«There is not just an important opportunity but an urgent need for a global environmental convention to recognise the importance of conserving wilderness before it is too late,» Dr Watson said.

«As global energy demand grows over this century, there is an urgent need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and imported oil and curtail greenhouse gas emissions,» said Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.

An Attempt is made here to highlight the urgent need for reimagining global citizenship education and global citizens in order to transcend the present anthropocentric development and reach out to all those unheard voices, whose precarious lives are under the clutches of patriarchal nature of unsustainable development.

Educators and policymakers alike are recognizing the urgent need for more sophisticated curricula and assessments to truly prepare students for success in a global economy.

According to the American Express website: «Global Assist can provide emergency translation services, prescription replacement assistance, referrals to physicians and lawyers, help with lost passports and assist with urgent message relay if you need to reach someone back home.»

When you book your trip using a credit card that has a global assistance benefit, you'll be able to contact a toll - free number in the event of an emergency whether that involves a medical problem, a lost passport, or the need for an urgent translation.

Jamaica - headquartered Holiday Services has recognised the urgent need to take its B2B business online in order to thrive in today's competitive global travel arena and will implement cutting - edge «Illusions OnDemand» technology to achieve this goal.

At a time when global political agendas are becoming more aggressively isolationist and violent, the need for an equally brutal artistic assessment of these situations seems all the more urgent.

-LSB-...] We conclude that the world has already overshot appropriate targets for GHG amount and global temperature, and we thus infer an urgent need for....

The good news is that there is a new generation of thinkers who recognize that global warming is an urgent priority and that the regulation - centered agenda can't get us where we need to go.

Following a second global oil crisis in 1979, the Block Island Economic Development Foundation compiled a report that underscored the urgent need for the island to kick its dependence on oil.

Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.

It was truly fantastic to see how, regardless of the professional background, participants would engage and discuss the urgent need to limit global warming by the end of the century in our small simulated world that day.

We recognize the urgent need to act now to avoid irreversible costs to our global community's economic prosperity and public health and are optimistic that world leaders will reach an agreement to secure a transition to a low carbon future.

It laments the increasing lack of public, political and media attention to environmental issues, especially at a time when some very crucial ones, like global warming, need urgent action.

Air conditioning use emerges as one of the key drivers of global electricity - demand growth New IEA analysis shows urgent need to improve cooling efficiency as global energy demand for ACs to triple by 2050 15 May 2018

The current negotiating text for Rio +20 does not fully and explicitly recognise the urgent need to act on climate change as part of a global action plan for delivering sustainable development.

The Commonwealth declaration avoided setting a numerical limit to global temperature rise, saying only, «We stress our common conviction that urgent and substantial action to reduce global emissions is needed and have a range of views as to whether average global temperature increase should be constrained to below 1.5 degrees or to no more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.»

And so long as that's the case, a lot of conservatives are likely to remain skeptical that global warming is an urgent problem in need of solving.

There is an urgent need for a financial framework with legal obligations for developed countries where funds and resources are transferred in the form of grants to the Global South as soon as possible.

Environment ministers and their representatives from 29 countries representing the entire spectrum of interests in climate negotiations will meet in Berlin for two days starting July 14 even as increasing instances of unprecedented heat waves and cold winters illuminate the urgent need for a global plan to counter climate change.

concentrations, urgent global emission reductions are needed [see this graph] over the time frame of the new UN climate treaty, to be established at COP21, the Paris climate summit in December this year.

Further, by tying a big chuck of global development aid to climate change, developing countries will not receive the help they need in dealing with their very real and urgent problems, e.g.

My suspicion is because the local estimates understand that fuel consumption is driven by more urgent needs and a willingness to pay than the global estimates that consider fuel availability at what they think is an affordable price.

John Kerry and Gina McCarthy stated publicly this week that there is an urgent need for an immediate global phase down of the use of HFCs.

Map national vulnerabilities in detail and apply the «climate test»: There is an urgent need to develop detailed maps of the complex impacts of global warming, integrating climate - change - related risks with other threats.

The University of Earth, Urgent Action Series: COP 21 Paris 2015: Dr Georg Kaser of Innsbruck University, an expert in glaciers and global warming, explains the uncertainty calculation, a scientific tool needed to gather reliable results, and anthropogenic forcing, which is a change in the Earth's energy balance due to human economic activities.

In view of the massive global influence of IPCC Reports, there is an urgent need to bias - proof future assessments in order to put climate policy onto a new foundation that will better serve the public interest

The need to limit global warming is urgent, according to two experts from the Harvard Medical School and Duke University speaking for the nonprofit Civil Society Institute, who expressed their concern earlier this month that droughts fueled by unchecked global warming would touch off more wildfires and a rise in related public health problems.

The paper discusses the immediate and urgent global concerns of developmental needs, energy, and climate change while... Keep Reading

The report has prompted the UN's Christiana Figueres, to comment on how - «staggering global temperatures show an urgent need to act.

In decision 1 / CP.21, the commitments from all actors are recognized, including those launched through the Lima — Paris Action Agenda, as well as the urgent need to scale up the global response to climate change and support greater ambition from governments.

It is not for me to make judgements on your paper, but I suspect that this synthesis will act as an urgent spur to global efforts both to return climate science to its rightful place within the pantheon of subjects for critical analysis, but also to start to return meteorological measurement to its needed place within the warning systems, prediction mechanisms and public planning inputs that has been so shamefully abused in the past 20 years.

We can't afford to be distracted from the need for urgent action to combat global warming — rich countries must lead the way by agreeing to slash their emissions when they meet in Copenhagen next month.

«The impact of global warming has been exaggerated by some scientists and there is an urgent need for more honest disclosure of the uncertainty of predictions about the rate of climate change, according to the Government's chief scientific adviser.

Al Gore's global warming movie, «An Inconvenient Truth,» aims to call attention to the dangers society faces from climate change, and suggests urgent actions that need to be taken immediately.

In his lecture, Hansen will argue that the challenge facing future generations from climate change is so urgent that a flat - rate global tax is needed to force immediate cuts in fossil fuel use.

In the face of increasing concern about human - caused climate change, there is an urgent need for a global transition to clean energy.

«Global warming and climate change are undoubtedly among the biggest global challenges that need urgent solutions to ensure future sustainabGlobal warming and climate change are undoubtedly among the biggest global challenges that need urgent solutions to ensure future sustainabglobal challenges that need urgent solutions to ensure future sustainability.

«Underlying the need for urgent action to cap further temperature change, a report UK Met Office report released in Durban on Monday forecast global temperature would rise between three and five degrees Celsius this century if emissions are left unchecked.»