Sentences with phrase «global life cycle»

Keller, A., McFerran, S., Lazareva, A., Suh, S., 2013: Global life cycle releases of engineered nanomaterials, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 15:1692, 1 - 17.

The green job principles should be adopted throughout the global life cycle of the product, from production to end of life, and any efforts to uphold these principles should be self - disclosed by the company.

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But with monthlong high - tech - product life cycles, just - in - time manufacturing operations, and overnight global currency crashes, the business world might just be coming around to the marines» point of view.

By: Victor Moolman 11th November 2016 South Africa is behind the global curve when it comes to the integration of mine closure and rehabilitation in the mining life cycle with the historical approach of mining companies being to focus predominantly on driving production, state consulting engineers and scientists SRK Consulting.

Siemer & Associates LLC is a global boutique merchant bank dedicated to offering candid insight and guidance to Digital Media, Software and Internet companies throughout their business life cycles.

Global warming contributions from wheat, sheep meat and wool production in Victoria, Australia — a life cycle assessment

The discussion ranged from Life - Cycle - Assessments for food and packaging, to eco-labeling, to global food production, with candid conversations on a broad swath of food - related issues.

The models must track how carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases cycle through the whole system — how the gases interact with plant life, oceans, the atmosphere — and how this influences overall global temperatures.

With support from the Wellcome Trust, the Global Fund, and BMGF, the team identifies villages that are «hot spots» of transmission and then gives everyone the standard 3 - day course of DHA - PPQ and one dose of primaquine, a drug that targets another stage of the parasite's life cycle, each month for 3 months.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identiflife for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identifLife Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

These forests play a key role in the global carbon cycle that allows Earth to be capable of sustaining life.

However, given the expected increase in global future demand for metals and their importance in today's technologies, it is important that high - fidelity data for life cycle based environmental burdens of metals production are available and that the implications of co-production are clearly understood.

Daily global monitoring for several weeks during the season when dust storms are expected to begin is needed to capture the life cycle of such storms.

Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion.

While this process is a natural part of the life cycle of an ice shelf, there is concern that when it occurs, it could usher in a period of irrevocable retreat and possibly lead to the ice shelf's demise and further contributions to global sea level rise.

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«Life Cycle Global Warming Emissions from the Manufacturing and Operation of Gasoline and Battery - Electric Vehicles, on pp. 4.

Every year the Honda Motor Company releases an Environmental Report that highlights the Honda environmental vision, the global climate, and the product life cycle of Honda products.

In the current fast moving global economy it's important to consider the enterprise life cycle.

There are fewer problems when there's only one clearly defined asset class, like Small - cap Growth, than nebulous objectives like global, balanced, asset allocation, target, life - cycle, world, or hybrid.

That's why mutual fund objectives like Blend, Global, Balanced, All - cap, Target, Life Style, Life Cycle, Income, Hybrid, and Growth & Income, seldom get good results.

Before assuming her current role, McGraw was the general patent counsel for Elanco for over five years, managing the global Intellectual Property portfolio for Elanco Animal Health, where she gained experience in product life - cycle planning, transactional work, and antitrust issues.

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In addition to presenting found videos, Dolan will discuss the relationship between global catastrophe and everyday life, the similarities between environmental primitivism and art making, and the common destructive patterns and cycles in art and everyday life.

In implementing the principles of the 3Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle), we recognize the importance of how we use resources throughout their life cycles to a thriving global economy and environment.

You are confusing, perhaps, a single life cycle production process, a la H. Ford, with efficiency for the society, both local and global.

Once again, if you want to live in energy gluttony without involving the global carbon cycle, start with a basic allocation of 100 square meters of solar cell area for each person, and get to work.

«Transparency is the building block of any fair society and key to breaking the cycle of corruption that blights the lives of millions of people across the globe,» said Alexander Soros, member of Global Witness's new Advisory Board.

The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.

This report is important because it is the first global - scale attempt to systematically translate fragmented data into quantitative environmental impacts of products throughout their life - cycle.»

Sony: From a long - term vision to a science based target In 2010, Sony Corporation, the Japanese multi-conglomerate corporation, announced «Road to Zero», a global environmental plan for the company that set the vision for achieving zero environmental footprint throughout the life cycle of the company's products and business activities in 2050.

While there are no global warming emissions associated with operating wind turbines, there are emissions associated with other stages of a wind turbine's life - cycle, including materials production, materials transportation, on - site construction and assembly, operation and maintenance, and decommissioning and dismantlement.

«Our analysis is a world - first look at the true cost of tourism — including consumables such as food from eating out and souvenirs — it's a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» said Arunima Malik from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.

By including a comprehensive assessment of all the factors contributing to tourism - related emissions, from transportation to souvenirs, the report presents «a complete life - cycle assessment of global tourism, ensuring we don't miss any impacts,» senior study author Arunima Malik, of the University of Sydney in Australia, said in a statement.

Most estimates of wind turbine life - cycle global warming emissions are between 0.02 and 0.04 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

«Global geoengineering is completely disrupting the hydrological cycle, destroying the ozone layer (which is exposing all life on Earth to extreme UV radiation), and contaminating the entire surface of the planet with highly toxic bioavailable heavy metals and chemicals.

At the same time, the global climate change mitigation effort will reduce the CO2 emissions per unit of electricity and steel inputs, further limiting life - cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

The specific objective of the study is two-fold: 1) to develop a methodology based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach applicable to the global dairy sector; and 2) to apply this methodology to assess, and provide insights about, GHG emissions from the dairy cattle sector.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healGlobal Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human healglobal partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

«Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of poLife Cycles» found that even when accounting for the metals required to build PV cells, the efficiency of the cells, and the waste produced, PV cells still emit less global warming pollution throughout their life cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of polife cycle than the fossil fuels needed to produce the same amount of power.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

In that role, she sets the strategic direction and goals for Mattel??? s sustainability program and executes cross-functional programs ranging from global environmental resource management and sustainable design of product and packaging, to life cycle assessment and employee engagement.

However, estimates for life - cycle global warming emissions from hydroelectric plants built in tropical areas or temperate peatlands are much higher.

Both the type of feedstock and the manner in which it is developed and harvested significantly affect land use and life - cycle global warming emissions impacts of producing power from biomass.

In order to address these serious and timely issues, Global Green's Security and Sustainability Program is organizing a series of roundtable discussions, «Energy Futures: Nuclear Power, Global Warming, and Nonproliferation,» to address the full life - cycle of nuclear energy.

Trees and other living organisms are key players in the global carbon cycle, a complex biogeochemical process in which carbon is exchanged among the atmosphere, the ocean, the biosphere and Earth's crust.

And you also knew, for example, that that an average gas driven car emitted 4.7 tons of carbon dioxide per year and an electric car would cut that in half even when powered from the current polluting grid, and much much less on a life cycle basis from a future global efficient renewable energy system displacing almost all fossil fuels.

Even when including «life cycle» emissions of clean energy (ie, the emissions from each stage of a technology's life — manufacturing, installation, operation, decommissioning), the global warming emissions associated with renewable energy are minimal [3].