Sentences with phrase «wider global society»

By examining issues that matter to them, their families, their communities and the world, our scholars develop a curiosity about and responsibility towards the wider global society.

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A group of thought leaders representing business, academia and civil society sits down to discuss how global risks can be turned into a wide range of new opportunities.

«The event, the fourth of its kind, seeks to raise global awareness and create a forum for collaboration around the wide array of powerful and promising cell therapies, gene therapies, and immunotherapies emerging from medical institutions around the world, as well as the impact new technology will have on humanity and society,» a press release by the Cure Foundation explains (h / t Christian Post).

The latter two British Muslim converts head up The Islamic Education and Research Agency (IERA), based in North West London (iera.org.uk), which describes itself as «a global dawah organisation committed to presenting Islam to wider society»

Asia Society's Center for Global Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Education partners with schools and school systems to promote the incorporation of global education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educglobal education into policy and practice, including through the Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in educGlobal Cities Education Network (GCEN), which convenes city and education system leaders from the Asia - Pacific region and North America to share promising practices for addressing system - wide challenges in education.

The dual meaning of «resolution,» as both coming - into - view and overcoming conflict, defines a wide range of artistic responses to the global shifts in society and culture — world wars, disasters, financial collapse, environmental degradation, and violations of human rights.

Each film installation explores the wide - ranging effects of how information, labor, and capital circulate in global, networked societies.

While the first part of the exhibition focuses on local involvement and the story of modern art in Europe up to the Second World War, the later part deals with the huge shifts in society after 1950 and wider global influences that came into play.

Kitty Block, vice president of Humane Society International, said, «The Rakuten Group must enact a company - wide ban on ivory sales — global consumers today want no part in this slaughter.

The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

An independent basis other than PNS is recommended; one based on processes derived from a much wider base within the more global Western Civilization and from within an increasingly open & transparent scientific society.

If the total society - wide cap, before it is allocated among emitters within the jurisdiction of the government allocating the cap, is less than the government's fair share of safe global emissions, then the cap is not environmentally just particularly to those who are vulnerable to climate change.

James Hurrell and colleagues in an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society stated that the «global coupled atmosphere — ocean — land — cryosphere system exhibits a wide range of physical and dynamical phenomena with associated physical, biological, and chemical feedbacks that collectively result in a continuum of temporal and spatial variability.

The wide, in some cases global scope of effects of climate engineering technologies as well as their deep implications for human society make CE technologies prone to analysis and evaluation by social sciences as well as humanities.

In recent years, the secretariat also supports the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, agreed by governments to signal that successful climate action requires strong support from a wide range of actors, including regions, cities, business, investors and all parts of civil society.

In an era of ever worsening global warming and job scarcity, this unlikely plant may represent an ecological and social boon to wider society.

The results will be communicated to the wider economic community and civil society through a variety of global and national media channels.

[ii] The range of uncertainty for the warming along the current emissions path is wide enough to encompass massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems: as global temperatures rise, there is a real risk, however small, that one or more critical parts of the Earth's climate system will experience abrupt, unpredictable and potentially irreversible changes.

In this video, Janet McCarthy, group general counsel and company secretary of global relocation services provider Sante Fe, argues that lawyers have a important role to play as an ethical and moral compass, both for companies and wider society.