The country with the world's second-biggest economy has never invested in a big global science project before.
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Last year, Brittany Wenger, a 17-year old student from Florida, won the Google Global Science Fair grand prize.
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Africa shouldn't just focus on local problems but needs to aspire to be at the core of global science to stop the brain drain and make the best of its talent.
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This bold new 10-year initiative on global environmental change research for sustainability was launched by an alliance of international partners from global science, research funding and UN bodies during the Forum.
World leaders including Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy have previously met with representatives of the global science community and the text from their statements has ended up in the final summit communiques.
"The fact we have a consensus of a great diversity of countries is an indication of the importance of priorities that we as leaders of the global science community place on these issues".
The basic point, then, holds even more strongly: global science is directed by the rich countries and for the rich-country markets, even to the extent of mobilising much of the scientific potential of the poorer countries.
Investors are Atlas Ventures, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, NGN Biomed, Sutter Hill Ventures, Global Life Science Ventures Fund, FHVF and TVM Life Science Ventures.
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The type of global warming science reported to the public grows asymmetrically, with alarming evidence receiving far more exposure than evidence for more modest changes and impacts, or, climate-as-usual.
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The most obvious reason for the rise of the global university is science's appetite for money and manpower.
It presents an overview of global trends in science and technology, based on a wide range of qualitative and quantitative indicators.
Both awards recognize individuals who are working to ensure that the United States remains a global leader in science and technology for generations to come.
Dr. William W. Fox, Jr. is currently Vice President of Fisheries at World Wildlife Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to global conservation through science-based solutions.
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Inaugurated in 1998, TERI University works at the cutting edge of global research on science for sustainability and runs an inter-disciplinary Masters programme in Climate Science and Policy.
This would be suicidal in a global economy defined by science and technology, of course.
Siilasmaa launched his firm in 1988 fresh from the University of Helsinki, where he studied economics, global marketing and computer science.
The science of global warming is considered in IPCC working group I.
With regard to the Knollenberg line on the science of global warming, "Major scientific opinion says they are dead wrong, " said Thompson of the EDF.
The UNESCO's Science Day event was organized in collaboration with Ministry of Science and Technology and Pakistan Science Foundation, with the theme of "Science for Global Sustainability Interconnectedness, Collaboration, and Transformation".
The science of global warming is politically controversial but generally accepted as fact by most researchers, who point to heat-trapping carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels as the major cause.
Ten years after the first World Science Day, UNESCO remains determined to support international reflection on a science of global sustainability, notably through the Scientific Advisory Board of the United Nations SecretaryGeneral.
It seems inconceivable that we would submit to these risks without a very clear-cut case for the science of global warming and equally clear proof that the proposed remedy will actually mitigate that claimed phenomenon.
Much as Mr. Perry drew fire for his contention in last week's debate that the science behind global warming hasn't been proven, Mr. Reagan was attacked for his contention that forests' hydrocarbon production was as big a contributor to smog as were machines.
As a non-profit social enterprise staffing 20 centers across India and servicing 65, 000 patients each year, 20, 000 of whom require new feet and leg replacements while the remaining 45, 000 require crutches, wheelchairs, hand-peddled tricycles and other aids, Jaipur Foot is not only a global leader in prosthetic science, production and manufacturing, but also surgical in its fiscal discipline.
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The media may wish to paint a picture of runaway global warming, but the science tells a completely different story.
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The studies reveal that Asian countries continue to dominate the top of the global tables in maths, science and reading.
Participants will focus on changes in science due to global efforts in research and development and to the growing importance of emerging economies.
Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
The Director-General also informed the President about the new assignment given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to UNESCO in the field of a new UN-systemwide science initiative for sustainability, in the wake of the High level Report on Global Sustainability, and the formation of a new Science Advisory Board, to be hosted and managed by UNESCO.
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