Sentences with phrase «world policy problems»

He found academia a bit too removed from the real - world policy problems that most interested him, however, and in 1984 he accepted a position at the Brookings Institution as a (very young) senior fellow — which seemed to give him, for awhile, the kind of mix he was looking for.

For mid-career professionals, the fellowship has special potential: «It can structure a sabbatical year, allowing scholars to develop new research projects and apply mature scholarship to real world policy problems.»

Suited for mid - to senior - level scientists and engineers, this fellowship is a unique opportunity to develop new research projects and apply mature scholarship to real world policy problems.

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«This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems — the pollution that is causing climate change,» Premier Rachel Notley said as she announced her government's new policy in Edmonton on Sunday.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

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Ontario Genomics connects companies, researchers and policy - makers to support the early stages of genomics technologies» move from the lab to solve real - world problems in the clinic and in industry.

My criticism of Bread for the World is that its advocacy is captive to discredited welfare policies that have exacerbated the problem of «welfare dependency» and have had the unfortunate effect of discrediting concern for the poor in the minds of many Americans.

My second argument is that even if by some measures vast growth does reduce the percentage of the world's population that is desperately poor, present policies will destroy the natural basis for our life together long before they resolve the problem of poverty.

With regard to war, two factors prevented international conflict from being specifically dealt with in the New Testament as a pressing problem: the apocalyptic expectation of the world's immediate end, so that the gradual reform of social institutions was not in the picture, and the further fact that the first Christians had no responsibility for governmental policies or influence in determining them.

Obviously it is a fact that it was by absolute nonviolence — even amid the crying problems India faced after her liberation — that Gandhi finally secured not only his country's independence, but led it to adopt policies that no other of the world's nations will imitate.

They met the first problem by deciding on a policy of expansion which resulted in the creation of an Islamic world reaching from Spain to the Indus.

The first «World Conference on Untouchability» has prompted questions in the House of Commons and the House of Lords about government policy towards the global human rights problem of caste discrimination, which afflicts almost 250 million people in countries from Japan to Nigeria.

People inundated the offices of Rep. Brian Higgins in recent weeks with complaints about a First - World problem: a federal agency's decision to end «net neutrality,» an Obama - era policy aimed at forcing internet service providers to allow the same access to all websites without playing favorites.

«That follows a similar Ungass in Vienna last year, at which it was decided to consider reforming the three UN conventions that control the world's drug policy as well as the 1998 UN declaration on countering the world drug problem.»

Over the long term, he worries that climate skeptics in the policy world, after dismissing climate change as a risk in recent years, could later change positions and say it was real, embracing climate engineering «as this magic solution that could solve the problem.»

Governments around the world have increasingly turned to behavioral science to help address various policy problems — new research shows that some of the best - known strategies derived from behavioral science, commonly referred to as «nudges,» may be extremely cost effective.

At a science and tech policy discussion, physicist Lawrence Krauss talked about the need to educate science students about failure when addressing real - world problems, which may not have a correct answer.

At the policy level, Singh said, countries need to ensure polluters account not just for immediate health concerns, but also for health problems that are exacerbated by climate change, both within their borders and in other parts of the world.

Among them was City 2.0, «a public policy class for seniors which applies Design Thinking mindsets and skills to real world problems.»

The WRONG way to think about federal policy in education is to identify the myriad problems plaguing our schools, and then dream up federal solutions, as if Congress could pass a law and magically things would change in the real world (and without any unintended consequences).

With a background in both psychometrics and policy, Chris advises education leaders in making sense of complex technical problems, and identifies real - world solutions to improve practice.

Mike Hulme, a climate scientist at the University of East Anglia in England and the author of a book on the struggle over climate policy, «Why We Disagree About Climate Change,» said that big gatherings of world leaders were less likely to bear fruit than splitting the challenge into pieces that are tractable, and focusing directly on addressing those problems.

Google Earth has become one of the most powerful tools we have to show the scale of problems, illustrate solutions, shift public policy, channel funding for projects, and change people's way of thinking about the world.

A «World Alternative Policy Scenario» — which for the first time includes the developing world and emerging market economies — considers what would happen if governments decided to act much more vigorously to combat environmental problems and reduce energy - security rWorld Alternative Policy Scenario» — which for the first time includes the developing world and emerging market economies — considers what would happen if governments decided to act much more vigorously to combat environmental problems and reduce energy - security rworld and emerging market economies — considers what would happen if governments decided to act much more vigorously to combat environmental problems and reduce energy - security risks.

What we really need are policies around the world that address the problem, not feel - good measures.

One can tell by how climate change policies are being debated around much of the world that few people, including many very educated people, understand the scale and urgency of the problem now [continue reading...]

The Taskforce is comprised of eminent scientists, business leaders, policy advisers and political leaders drawn from around the world.5 Its purpose is to recommend to all governments a framework for managing climate change responses that is truly global, provides long - term direction, and is genuinely responsive to the scale of the problem.

I am a liberal who will be glad for saner policies on these issues.To Obama was very vocal and who instigated new policies in this regard, I do not accept that he believed the world would come to an end if nothing was done to stop the CO2 «problem».

Rachel Pritzker is president and founder of the Pritzker Innovation Fund, whose mission is to support the development and advancement of paradigm - shifting ideas to address the world's most wicked problems, with a focus on the policies and technological innovations necessary to provide clean, cheap, abundant energy for all on an ecologically vibrant planet.

The problem — or more accurately the problem for those who believe substantial reductions in GHG emissions are essential — is that policy makers in the developing world seem not to share the West's concern about CAGW.

Its website states, «CCAP helps policy - makers around the world develop, promote and implement innovative, market - based solutions to major climate, air quality and energy problems that balance both environmental and economic interests.»

This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,» «We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy,» Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change 2008 to 2015.

Which they aren't, the problem lies with the message, how it's conveyed and the lack of comprehension of the real world impact of proposed save - the - world policy offerings.

These problems have arisen because the environmental movement has been hijacked by left - wing radicals who are advocating policies that impair the Western world's economic future for no or even negative environmental gains and promoting legally questionable government actions whose purpose government can not achieve in the way proposed.

Although many of the world's most significant environmental problems occur in developing countries, the implementation of environmental policies is often challenging because of inadequate resources and poor governance.

World leaders are trying to solve the climate crisis through negotiations and policy, but by focusing merely the environmental side of the problem, they risk missing the point.

Congress and the next Administration should reverse course on climate policy in order to unchain economic potential and allow for the world to adapt to the real problems the future may bring.

The US media has utterly failed to communicate to the American people about five essential aspects of climate change that they need to understand to know why climate change is a civilization challenging problem that requires dramatic, aggressive, and urgent policy action to avoid harsh impacts to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Finally, NGOs are instrumental in perpetuating the perception that problems in the third world are caused by «corruption» (aka backwardness), creating a paternalistic role forNGOs in overseeing the direction of politics and development through deveopment schemes such as HIPC, and policies towards the developing world in the West, undermining the emergence of political movements and engagement in the developing world.

UN climate forecasts are consistently high... consistently wrong... and used to drive policy Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball and Tom Harris Dr. Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, summarized the problem the world faces with climate change policy: «Would you bet your paycheck on the weather forecast for tomorrow?

This way people with very different understandings of science and policy problems and with very different world views would have time to work together to fashion real progress on interdisciplinary, policy - oriented questions from governments.

Economic reforms began to tackle Brazil's foreign and domestic debt head - on, address the problems of poverty and social justice, put the country on a firm economic footing, and finally, strive towards a responsible environmental policy — the latter being hailed as being among the most progressive in the world.

But the point was: It is wrong to suggest that real - world development - related policy decisions are routinely based on very precise predictions of future problems, and that we can not act on climate change because the models do not meet these alleged standards.

On the contrary, global warming is a problem for which the world is rather well equipped to make informed policy, thanks to the IPCC reviewing the best available scientific knowledge, and thanks to ensembles of hindcasting - capable models constrained by (real - world!)

IIASA has become a member of the Council for Global Problem - Solving (CGP), a circle of world - class think tanks and research institutions committed to providing long - term policy advice to the G20 and associated international organizations.

Isn't the issue here that in relation to the USA's specific problems there is certainly plenty of blame in regard to lending «initiatives» of the government and loose monetary policy, but the international spread of the problem directly relates to unregulated derivatives market that spread the risk across the world?

One of my problems with anonymization under family law is that it does not bear any comprehensive test of coherence along all «material world» publication policies or rights of all privacy sensible fields of law such as criminal but even more so administrative decisions such as rent tribunal and social welfare.

For three decades, law firms have responded to this problem by sponsoring women's initiatives and policies designed to help women operate in a male - dominated world.

Having your policy canceled is not the end of the world, but it can create problems.