Sentences with phrase «accelerated changes already»

Ten months later, though, the Fukushima disaster looks less like a global nuclear wake - up call and more like a watershed event that accelerated changes already under way.

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The agreement may have accelerated the trade liberalization that was already taking place, but many of these changes may have taken place with or without an agreement.»

It confirms that some of the changes it's announced were already in the works as a result of the EU's GDPR privacy framework — but adds: «This week's events have accelerated our efforts»

It's hard enough already not to become the prisoner of your own expertise, but it will only get harder, because change is accelerating.

The Fed is expected to continue its policy of hiking rates but the incoming data from the US does not ssupport any accelerated rate hikes as yet and with the 3 rate hikes for the year already priced into the markets, we do not expect any major changes in the gold prices if and when the rate hikes do happen.

«The overall impact of changes to the SALT deduction will accelerate the trend of hardworking individuals and businesses already leaving our state — further eroding New York's tax base.»

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

Back in 1981, Hansen, a NASA climatologist, was already sounding the alarm: Climate change would accelerate more quickly than originally calculated.

Carbon pollution from both industries, already a substantial contributor to man - made climate change, is expected to rise sharply as international trade accelerates.

Human - caused climate change is already contributing to severe droughts and food shortages and accelerating the migration of people.

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

The amount of carbon that could be released to the atmosphere by this savannization process is significantâ equivalent to several years of worldwide carbon emissions â and could accelerate climate change processes already in place.

But acidification is now happening at an accelerated pace, and it's already changing the ocean in profound ways.

They should know when to throw in the towel and accept that and accelerate the process of change that many have already begun.

Parley has been created to accelerate a process of change that is already in progress.

(1) Lowman had already created hurricane radar paintings once before with Hurricane Katrina, and with climate change expected to accelerate the frequency and intensity of tropical storms, he has created perhaps his most cynical body of work yet.

People have ignored the fact that when we started «contributing» CO2 at such an accelerated rate we were already at the «local maximum» of the carbon / ice age cycle (Link: / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vostok-ice-core-petit.png) What Hansen is saying is the only real choice if we don't want to radically change the planet's climate.

The unprecedented rapid change could accelerate the already high rate of species extinction as plants and animals fail to adapt quickly enough.

Attitudes won't change the fact that the Earth has already warmed about 0.7 C over the past century and mostly in the last few decades, and the warming has been accelerating.

The motivation was a fear that due to accelerated sea level rise as the climate changed it might already be too late to replace the Thames Barrier (completed in 1982) and other measures that protect London, because such major engineering schemes take 25 to 30 years to plan and implement.

Accelerated environmental changes can already be seen in the loss of Arctic sea ice and bigger wildfires since 1980, the authors said.

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«While the business and finance communities are already playing a leading role on climate change, through investments in technological innovation and clean energy, this task force will accelerate that activity by increasing transparency.

The latter process — called decoupling — has already occurred over the past 50 years; but to reach peak impact by the end of this century, we need to accelerate the pace of modernization and direct technological of change towards using high - energy, low - footprint technologies that enable us to economize natural resources.

The complaint alleged that Oakland was already experiencing impacts from accelerated sea level rise due to climate change.

[2] In addition to the risks from spills, the burning of heavy fuel oil by ships emits significant quantities of black carbon, potent in accelerating the already rapid pace of Arctic climate change.

Here in the west, we're already seeing the impacts of climate change... But west coast leaders are not only committing to adapt to our changing climate, but to turning back the worst climate disruption: Our region will accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and invest in transit.

Unveiling the latest United Nations assessment of climate science, the experts cited a litany of changes that were already under way, warned that they were likely to accelerate and expressed virtual certainty that human activity is the main cause.

«Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well - being and economic growth throughout the world,» the report says, «and these problems are poised to accelerate.»

But with 600 people worldwide already identifying as legal designers and gathering at an international summit, we think the rate of change in the legal profession will only continue to accelerate.

Facebook says additional changes will be announced in the «coming weeks,» and that it intends to accelerate other data protection efforts it was already working on.

As a result, many privacy advocates have already moved to Ethereum, and the upcoming changes are likely to accelerate that movement.

«With our ultimate goal of making families stronger, today we seek to realize a new vision by building on what we already know is best practice, actively listening to community voices, and creating practical tools and resources in order to accelerate positive change.»

With flooding in the Miami metropolitan area already an urgent problem — so - called king tides rise from beneath the city through its porous limestone — along with the increased likelihood of extreme weather events due to the accelerating effects of climate change, the city is in desperate need of solutions.