Sentences with phrase «assumptions about economic development»
In the second, impacts are aggregated over time and discounted back to the present day along specified emissions scenarios such as those documented in Nakićenović and Swart (2000) under specified assumptions about economic development, changes in technology and adaptive capacity.
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Another potential source of error comes from projections concerning future greenhouse - gas emissions, which vary depending on assumptions about economic developments.
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Lt. Governor Hochul says that while she can't make assumptions about the potential success of any one area, the Finger Lakes region, and Rochester specifically, may find that the future of their economic development is in photonics and optics research.
At a minimum, this includes assumptions about future demographics, economic development, and degree of global integration.
For one thing, as I've said before, the economic models from which IPCC and others draw these numbers are just this side of wild guesses, based on assumptions about economic growth, resource prices, and technological development decades in the future.
It also entails assumptions about human technological development, economic activity, the population level, advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation, and so on.