Sentences with phrase «changes over the next few decades»

The country has the world's third - largest economy, yet this may change over the next few decades as its population — the fastest aging in the world — plummets from 126 million in 2015 to 87 million in 2060.

But even with ambitious mitigation, much of the climate change over the next few decades is unavoidable as a result of both climate processes and the natural lifecycle of existing technology and infrastructure.

The implications for change over the next few decades is profound.

Changes over the next few decades in the types of aerosol pollutants and where they are emitted will affect how climate changes.

Not exact matches

All told, a «generational transfer» of $ 30 trillion in financial and non-financial assets is expected to change hands from U.S. baby boomers to their children over the next few decades.

How Canada ensures it provides a universal, affordable, and high quality health care system that accommodates technological innovation and changes in delivery over the next few decades is a particularly important challenge.

Methane or natural gas is 72 times more potent at capturing heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after release - and to deal with climate change, we need to focus on the next few decades.

By improving the understanding of how much radiation CO2 absorbs, uncertainties in modelling climate change will be reduced and more accurate predictions can be made about how much Earth is likely to warm over the next few decades.

Increases now and over the next few decades are the result of greenhouse gas emissions over the past 50 years, making some change inevitable.

«It is very possible that improving connectivity and quality of existing habitats over the next few decades may offset the negative effects of a changing climate.»

This combination — advances in biological tissues and further integration of humans with machines — has the potential to really change things over the next few decades.

«Over the next few decades, the majority of birds currently found across the National Park System are expected to experience changes in climate conditions, which on average may lead to turnover of nearly a quarter of the bird community per park,» says Gregor Schuurman, co-author on the study.

And it changes, sort of - people have studied very carefully Newton's reputation, his character, his significant changes almost decade by decade over the next few centuries.

High - throughput atomically precise manufacturing (APM) has been described as a manufacturing technology that could be developed over the next few decades that could radically change civilization (Radical Abundance).

The answer to this question is going to change and change hard over the next few decades.

Over the next few decades Sega changed hands a couple of times, owned first by Gulf + Western, producing Frogger and Zaxxon.

Over the next few decades, the climate change we experience will be determined primarily by the combination of past actions and current trends.

Over the next few decades, however, the rate of climate change will matter more than the total long - term change.

WASHINGTON — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

July 16, 2010 — Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council.

A startling new study predicts that most marine life won't be able to adapt when drastic environmental changes occur over the next few decades.

With the recent decline in solar flux and the shift to cool phases of ocean oscillations, natural climate change suggests that although glacier retreat and sea level rise will likely continue over the next few decades, the rates of sea level rise and glacier retreats will slow down.The next decade will provide the natural experiment to test the validity of competing hypotheses.

Which is just to say that the variation in anthropogenic forcing over the last few decades (and the next few decades) is several order of magnitude larger than the change in Milankovitch forcing over the same short period.

The potential consequences of climate change are great and the actions taken over the next few decades will determine human influences on the climate for centuries.

In the first few years the climate could cool as much as it did during the Little Ice Age, with tenfold greater changes over the next decade or two.

We don't immediately grasp the importance of limiting climate change to a couple of degrees over the next few decades.

A key concern is whether the added pressure of climate change would substantially increase overall extinction rates such that a major extinction episode would become a fait accompli within the next few decades, rather than something that potentially would play out over centuries.

It is unknown whether the species that have been exhibiting a range - shift response (Chen et al., 2011; Parmesan, 2006; Parmesan and Yohe, 2003; Poloczanska et al., 2013; Root et al., 2003) will be able to accelerate their dispersal velocities to keep pace with the climate change expected over the next few decades under business - as - usual scenarios.

The migratory map of Africa is tipped to change significantly over the next few decades as birds react to the effects of climate change.

«Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia... Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.»

Our ideas on these will change as the new zero carbon economy rolls out over the next few decades, and we may alter the mix in our portfolio in the light of this extra evidence.

These will change as the new zero carbon economy rolls out over the next few decades.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Greenhouse «theory» (I use the term in the same way evolutionary theory is used) is the best, most internally consistent scientific theory that explains past and present climate and gives us good grounds to expect potentially serious changes in the future (this depends very strongly on our behaviour over the next few decades).