Sentences with phrase «annual global losses»

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Food loss and waste also contributes to climate change, accounting for about 8 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions.

Furthermore, this food loss and waste amounts to US$ 940 billion (# 665 billion) in global annual economic losses.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), food loss and waste amounts to $ 940 billion in global annual economic losses.

A recent World Bank report reveals that Global Average Annual Losses from disasters in the built environment are now estimated at $ 314 billion and can increase to $ 415 billion by 2030..

The multi-author study, by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control's Partners for Rabies Prevention Group, also shows that annual economic losses because of the disease are around 8.6 billion US dollars, mostly due to premature deaths, but also because of spending on human vaccines, lost income for victims of animal bites and other costs.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Location.

Flooding as a result is estimated to threaten up to 4.6 per cent of the global population and cause a loss of 9.3 per cent of annual global gross domestic product.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Deforestation occurs around the world, though tropical rainforests are particularly targeted.

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A worldwide 2012 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found that the typical organization loses 5 percent of its revenues to fraud each year, which adds up to a global annual fraud loss of more than $ 3.5 trillion.

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The annual loss of opportunity due to the current over-exploitation of global fisheries.

That's one trillion dollars each and every year — the loss in annual revenue for the coal industry if the world takes serious action to prevent global warming, rather than just continuing on in business - as - usual.

«In the absence of an effective global response, annual economic losses due to climate change are projected to exceed US$ 400 billion by 2030 for the V20, with impacts far surpassing our local or regional capabilities,» said Cesar Purisima, Philippines finance minister.

A global catalogue of catastrophe losses was constructed (MuirWood et al., 2006), normalised to account for changes that have resulted from variations in wealth and the number and value of properties located in the path of the catastrophes... Once the data were normalised, a small statistically significant trend was found for an increase in annual catastrophe loss since 1970 of 2 % per year.

By midcentury, annual global GDP losses are 0.2 percent (most other models also suggest global GDP losses of less than 1 percent by midcentury under this stabilization target).

Drawdown's yield model calculates total annual global supply of crops and livestock products based on their area of adoption in each of the three scenarios, and global yield impacts of each solution (including both gains due to increased productivity per hectare and losses due to reduction of productive area due to adoption of non-agricultural solutions, e.g., loss of grazing area due to afforestation of grasslands).

And the nuanced bit: «With these recognised limitations, the incomplete estimates of global annual economic losses for additional temperature increases of ~ 2 °C are between 0.2 and 2.0 per cent of income.»

Forest loss contributes as much as 12 - 15 % to annual greenhouse gas emissions, about the same as the entire global transportation sector.

«For this reason, I remain concerned about the following statement from the Summary for Policymakers from the report: «the incomplete estimates of global annual economic losses for additional temperature increases of ~ 2 °C are between 0.2 and 2 % of income (± 1 standard deviation around the mean)».

According to data collected by Munich Re, global weather - related economic losses (inflation adjusted, 2006 dollars) have increased from an annual average of U.S. $ 8.9 billion from 1977 — 1986 to U.S. $ 45.1 billion from 1997 — 2006.

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the Hansen / UMD / Google / USGA / NASA annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

The paper's authors argue that with systematic preparedness and adaptation, annual flood losses in the great global cities could be cut to $ 63 billion a year.

Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in global temperatures, sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes, sea ice extent will decrease.

In terms of the likely economic consequences of climate change, it found that additional temperature increases of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (compared to late 20th century temperatures) would cause global annual economic losses of between 0.2 to 2 % of income, with losses more likely to be on the higher end of the scale.

The following data sets on Global Forest Watch were created using Google Earth Engine, Google's geospatial analysis tool: the University of Maryland / Google's annual tree cover loss, tree cover gain, and tree cover data, and the Landsat base maps.

For example, global action on black carbon and methane can help slow down expected warming in 2050 by up to 0.5 degree Celsius and avoid about 2.4 million annual premature deaths and 52 million tonnes of annual crop loss by 2030.

Offering federal reinsurance or loan guarantees for qualified states as alternatives to a volatile global market that offers reinsurance at rates many times the expected annual loss; and