Sentences with phrase «with global examples»

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To give one example, Climate Mayors is a group of U.S. mayors committed to working with one another to boost local efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and support aims for «binding federal and global - level policymaking.»

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

One example of this research is a 2012 Towers - Watson study of 50 global companies, comparing those with low regard for sustainable engagement strategies versus those with high regard for such.

And if the global economy truly is as screwed as some believe — like Kyle Bass, for example, a Dallas fund manager Lewis encounters who predicted the sub-prime mortgage disaster and who has since bought an isolated ranch with its own water supply and an arsenal of weaponry, betting on severe economic collapse — then you're probably better off saving your nickels.

And at Ford Motor Company, for example, they've found that learning from and taking advantage of an array of perspectives among their global workforce, creates openings to actually increase their customers» satisfaction — showing how speaking with everyone and being more open and connected is good for the customer, too.

Another good example is Johnson & Johnson, a global organization with employees all over the world, who realized that they needed culturally relevant and appropriate content for distance learning and training that would make sense to each specific region of the world in which they do business in order for their employees to truly feel connected.

The Montreal - based maker of planes and passenger trains employs more than 60,000 people around the world and is a rare example of a Canadian company with global reach.

During a panel centering on issues of privacy and user data at the Techonomy conference in Half Moon Bay, California, last week, Techonomy founder David Kirkpatrick described Facebook, Amazon, and Google as examples of an entirely new breed of global company that, while offering products and services users love, fill those same users with reservations about how the companies operate.

The incident, which took place on a Dec. 5 and ended with the flight arriving in Incheon 11 minutes late, immediately gained global attention as an example of privilege run amok.

One of the most powerful examples of eye contact is in a video done by activist Jae West and her team at Liberators International, an organization that aims «to coordinate, record and distribute monthly global acts of freedom,» and whose YouTube channel is filled with many daring acts of kindness and awareness - raising.

For example, I was recently told by a senior business leader of a global technology company — with more than 10,000 staff in China — that the company must now promote the establishment of Communist party committees inside its operations in the country.

For example, he chaired SWIFT's global advisory body for corporates from 2010 to 2016, and most recently launched an innovation center in collaboration with the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Showcasing dozens of practical examples of successful companies doing well by doing good ranging from solo entrepreneurs to Fortune 100 global corporations) anyone with the responsibility for any manner of commerce can learn how to heal the world while gaining the practical marketing savvy to turn ethical and moral values into business success.

They are examples of how global outsourcing companies are using temporary visas to bring in foreign workers who do not appear to have exceptional skills — according to interviews with a dozen current or former employees of Toys «R» Us and New York Life — to help ship out jobs, mainly to India.

The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, for example, is spearheading the APEC - Canada Growing Business Partnership, an initiative with Global Affairs Canada to foster economic growth and reduce poverty in APEC developing economies by building the potential of MSMEs and aspiring entrepreneurs through its four - year, $ 4.49 - million initiative.

For example, the performance of U.S. equities, global discretionary and materials stocks, Japanese government bonds and copper all line up with the market being within a 12 - month peak.

Some of the most notable examples of this include Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Inflation, and Interest Rates, as these market elements can give a great deal of information with respect to the economic health of a specific region and of the global economy as a whole.

Examples mentioned included the company's programs for spotting and taking down counterfeit - product listings from its online shopping sites, initiatives to simplify the trademark - registration process, reductions in the time it takes to remove counterfeit products, closer partnerships with global law enforcement authorities and governments, and the imposition of a variety of penalties against offending merchants, among others.

For example, the dollar has started to correlate positively with global equities on a two - year rolling basis, reversing a long - standing negative correlation.

«Canadian corporate history is littered with lots of examples where we had a great head start and global giants who kind of fell off»

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

The selection of Elias Canetti (1981) was a fascinating example of good the Swedes can do with the prize: It brought global attention to a Sephardic Jewish writer from Bulgaria who wrote in German.

Denying global warming is one prime example held by extremists who seem to lean toward the religious right with respect to political ideology.

The frequent rhetoric about human solidarity, embodied in institutions with global reach and authority, for example, left some wondering....

But when world leaders with nuclear weapons, as an extreme example, make serious global decisions because they believe their mythology to be history and their intuition to be the voice of the invisible man in the sky directing their actions — that makes me terrified!

For example, several ISEAL members have come together to form the Global Living Wage Coalition, and ISEAL is working in partnership with The Sustainable Food Lab and GIZ on the Living Income Community of Practice.

Where are the high - growth beverage and liquid dairy categories in global terms, and where does Zenith International think the attractive opportunities lie, now and over the next, five, say years?Matt Wilton will also provide us with examples of successful...

Globally proven aerobic water quality and green energy technologies are also proving to be profitable, easily maintained and cost effective (with Global Water Engineering technologies, for example, proven in more than 400 projects worldwide).

For example, our good relationship with one of my global customers has been driven by our product consistency delivered across the world,» says

For example, our good relationship with one of my global customers has been driven by our product consistency delivered across the world,» says Gavin McCue, European Account Manager, Foodservice EAO.

Ms Mardirossian points out that, as a relatively small player in the global retail arena — compared with Walmart, for example — Woolworths has only limited capacity to influence its supply chain.

She cited Reagan's strong bond with Thatcher as an example of the leadership that the West needed to ensure global peace and prosperity.

A few firms have been floated as replacements for DKC (Global Strategy Group, for example, did some work with CSNY and is likely to continue, perhaps in a broader capacity), but none has yet been selected.

For example, Jeremy Corbyn's leadership campaign rightly focused on trust in politics, mobilised young people, and engaged more directly with the electorate.In addition we should remember that the Tories only secured a small majority, despite a favourable global economy and the benefit of incumbency.

Conservatives are, on the whole, more aligned with business and / or industry Since industry is most likely to be adversely affected by the consequences of regulations to reduce global warming (emissions restrictions, for example) there is an incentive to deny global warming.

«I think it can be an example of cooperation between leading countries with a lot of renewable energy potential,» said Mark Lutes, senior global climate policy adviser at WWF Brazil, adding, «Dilma could see this as a strategic opportunity for Brazil's economy.»

«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.

In 2010, for example, one - fifth of the global land area experienced extreme maximum temperature anomalies that coincided with heat waves and droughts in Canada, the United States, Northern Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China and unprecedented droughts in tropical rainforests.

For example, some experts say repopulating Siberia with mammoth - alikes would refill a niche that would make the ecosystem flourish, and have a positive effect on global warming.

Production systems such as monocultures that cultivate crops (for example, palm oil and sugar cane) for global distribution may benefit local communities with employment and funding opportunities, but are often reliant on over-exploited water resources.

He illustrates the idea with a telling, if somewhat impractical example: «The permafrost, which has more carbon than all the rainforests put together, is at risk just by simple thawing, and a large herbivore like a mammoth could maintain it for another few decades against global warming,» Church says.

«The attempts to breed this critically endangered species, and overcome obstacles to natural breeding by this global consortium of experts is a great example of international cooperation to save endangered species,» said WCS Chief Veterinarian and Bronx - Zoo based Director of Zoological Health Dr. Paul P. Calle, who worked with Chinese veterinarians on the delicate sedation process.

For example, Konisky's analysis of the survey responses from 1990 through 2015 indicates that Christians, compared to atheists, agnostics and individuals who do not affiliate with a religion, are less likely to prioritize environmental protection over economic growth, and they are more likely than others to believe global warming is exaggerated.

These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation groups.

Researchers working with stem cells should follow the example of their colleagues in genetic sequencing and clinical research, setting up global networks for sharing data, materials, and intellectual property, according to a report released today in Washington, D.C..

For example, the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, clearly demonstrated that even small - to - moderate explosive eruptions, in particular if long - lasting, can paralyze entire sectors of societies, with significant, global - level, economic impacts.

«It's another example of humans upsetting global biogeochemical cycles with unintended consequences,» he says.

For example, while people may be tempted to think that a winter with several extreme snowstorms calls global warming into question, that may not be the case.

One example of a rare carnivorous species with a rapidly diminishing natural range requiring urgent conservation and management is Aldrovanda vesiculosa L. (Droseraceae), a rootless submerged carnivorous macrophyte with a disjunct global distribution (Elansary, Adamec & Štorchová, 2010; Cross, 2012a).