Sentences with phrase «by the consumption patterns»

«Population» effects on emissions are determined by consumption patterns of different countries and social groups.

Not exact matches

In an economy polarized by luxury brands and low - quality counterfeits, shoppers are divided into two extremes and opposing consumption pattern.

«Thus an environmentally enlightened development process necessarily demands a new culture, which will be: egalitarian, with reduced disparities between rich and poor and power equally shared by men and women; resource - sharing; participatory; frugal, when compared to the current consumption patterns of the rich; humble, with a respect for the multiplicity of the world's cultures and lifestyles; and, it will aim at greater self - reliance at all levels of society.»

Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 «ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns» has target 12.3 «by 2030, halve the per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reduce food losses along production and supply chains including post-harvest losses».

These are driven by: (1) changing market dynamics; (2) changing patterns of consumption; and (3) a less affluent demographic as Treasury expands its distribution west across China.

Whilst the conditions outside (all grey skies and rain) are hardly conducive to the consumption of frozen desserts, it is summer here in the southern hemisphere and our fair city, infamous for her erratic weather patterns, could quite easily turn on the sunshine by the time afternoon rolls around.

It blamed pressure on both price and margin in the Chinese market, which was being driven by changing market dynamics, changing patterns of consumption and a less affluent demographic.

The strategy contributes toward global action on reducing food waste by aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 12 — ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns — in the United Nations Transforming our world: 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Goal 12 — to ensure sustainable production and consumption patterns — is broken down into 11 smaller goals; 12.3 is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.

By approaching global food security from different directions, with equal emphasis on reducing waste, improving supply and working with consumers and governments to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption and production, we can truly make a systemic difference.

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible — not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term.

In 1960 Nelson Hairston, Frederick Smith, and Lawrence Slobodkin (HSS) proposed that vegetation patterns are determined primarily by patterns of food consumption by herbivores.

Children's consumption of fast food is only a small part of a much more pervasive dietary pattern that is fostered at an early age by children's parents and caregivers.

«Our study has shown that consumption patterns provide at least as accurate a picture of wastewater pollution by individual substances as wastewater measurements themselves» said Manuel Herrmann, principal author of the study.

By the time the water reaches this area and is taken up into seafood, radioactivity is probably well diluted below what is probably dangerous for human consumption, but marine biologist Nicholas Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York says that the study will be a useful baseline to understand how radiation is dispersed in the specific ocean patterns and sea life of the Pacific.

Current studies in the Parsons laboratory are investigating whether binge patterns of drug consumption evoke similar endocannabinoid disruptions, and they are probing the influence of impaired endocannabinoid signaling in the excessive motivational effects produced by drug - associated conditioned cues.

Faster 5G networks will assist his projects in many ways, by giving planners more, instant data on things like traffic patterns, energy consumption, variou carbon footprints and much more.

As for Colin Campbell's China Study, often cited as proof that plant - based diets are healthier than those containing animal foods, the data on consumption and disease patterns collected by the Cornell University researchers in their massive dietary survey do not support such claims.

For example, Alzheimer's, cardiovascular disease, and cancer (from the last bullet point) follow the same pattern: they are not necessarily caused by excess carbohydrate consumption, and yet excess carbohydrate consumption exacerbates their negative health effects as surely as it does those of Type I diabetes.

Coffee consumption was assessed by self - report at a single time point and may not reflect long - term patterns of consumption.

Patterns of reported change in consumption before and after pregnancy were also examined by maternal and pregnancy characteristics.

While the coconut oil may be the cause of whiter teeth, the health and appearance of your teeth are also influenced by genetics, smoking habits, and consumption patterns — like drinking wine or coffee, or eating high - calcium foods or highly acidic foods - which can damage the enamel on your teeth.

The Subcommittee would work with the food patterns being developed by USDA to see what impact fish consumption would have on the total diet.

On day 7 of each pattern, a 4 h testing day was completed including the consumption of breakfast (or no breakfast) followed by food craving questionnaires and blood sampling for HVA concentrations throughout the morning.

While tackling insecurity will avail a climate for young people to take advantage of economic growth, such has to be accompanied by other factors like shift in the patterns of consumption and replacing them with production - harnessing innovation.

of the North, the necessary changes of the consumption and production patterns in these countries, and the structural framework conditions shaped by these countries, particularly in the global financial, investment and trade systems.

This page introduces the patterns of global consumption of resources, focusing specifically on trade and energy through a 3D animation on trade and a number of graphs and maps supported by a student worksheet.

Most international ETFs are dominated by mega cap stocks, a bias that can tilt exposure towards energy and financials and result in a weak correlation to domestic consumption patterns in the target market.

In 2005, the artist opened lesser new york in her Williamsburg loft, which was a response to Greater New York (2005) but it was lesser; it was a greater response to the lesser limits of the art world that she saw reflected in PS1's concurrent survey; this lesser exhibit / installation was organized under the auspices of a «fia backström production,» a lesser production of curated ephemera such as press releases, invites, posters, and so on culled from found materials and the work of a greater local network of friends and peers; the lesser aesthetics of dejecta, pasted directly onto the walls, reflects a greater decorative pattern, not unlike Rorschach images of a lesser art industry itself within a critique of a greater institutional relationship to art production; as such, the lesser display of curated ephemera (from nonartists and artists alike) not only comments on the greater vortex of art and capital, but also serves as a lesser gesture toward something like a memorial wall, not unlike a collection of posters on the greater Berlin Wall, or a lesser improvisational 9 - 11 wall, or, more recently, a greater Facebook wall, or the lesser construction wall surrounding the Second Avenue gas explosion in the East Village, all pointing to a lesser memorial for the greater commodified institution of art consumption; whereas in Backström's lesser new york each move repels consumption by both the lesser value of the pasted paper and its repetition, which dispels the greater value of precious originals; so the act of reinstalling lesser new yorkten years later at Greater New York — the very institution that rejected her a decade earlier — speaks to the nefarious long arm of Capitalism that can morph into an owner of its own critique; so that lesser new york is greater than its initial critique, greater than a work of institutional critique: it is a continuous institutional relationship, a lesser critique that keeps on giving in its new contexts; the collective spirit of artists working together playfully is lesser, whereas the critique of how artists can imagine working alongside the institution is greater, or vice versa; the lesser gesture of a curated mixed - media installation in one's home with no clear identification and no commercial validity becomes untethered when it is greater, and this particular lesser becomes greater in the Greater New York (2015) context; still, the instabilities of the organizing systems by Backström continue to put pressure on both the defining features of art production in both the lesser context and the decade - later greater one; further, the greater question of what constitutes an art as a lesser art becomes a dizzying conundrum when the greater art institution frames the lesser to be greater, when the lesser is invested in its lesser relationship to the greater.

Formed in California in 1965 by Jerry Garcia (who died in 1995), the band become renowned for their psychedelic predilections in both music and drug consumption, and as such, their visual output from record sleeves to sets and outfits was gorgeously colourful, lurid and body patterned.

The carbonized patterns appearing throughout the gallery trace histories of energy expenditure and modulate the register of the legibility of the heating element from the practical and material to the grammatically and symbolically charged; networks of modern electrical consumption are juxtaposed by the spiral - as - trace to cyclical, sun - gazing longevities operating on scales removed by orders of magnitude from those of commodity time.

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

As I mentioned on Monday, I'm surrounded by heaps of promising books that are closely related to core themes of Dot Earth — population and consumption patterns, environmental science and ethics, our nonhuman neighbors on this small planet, and more.

The problem to address is the excessive resource consumption by the wealthiest 10 % and the production patterns of companies producing the goods they buy.

A Southern - style diet pattern — characterized by the regular consumption of fried foods, fatty foods, eggs, processed meats, such as bacon and ham, organ meats like liver, and sugary drinks — leads to a 56 percent higher risk of heart disease compared to a diet with less of these foods, according to new research.

Brussels, Belgium — Reforming energy and agriculture should be top priorities in moving toward sustainable patterns of consumption, according to a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme's (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, which is co-chaired by former Bren School dean Ernst von Weizsäcker.

It said the price falls caused by the proliferation of solar and changing consumption patterns meant its business was not sustainable.

We can only rise up to the climate change challenge by changing our patterns of production and consumption, decarbonizing our economies, stopping dirty energy projects, and adopting fair and ambitious drastic domestic emission cuts in the industry sector.

However, the biggest threats to the business model of the coal - fired generators are lowering demand — caused by changing consumption patterns — and from increased capacity from renewables such as large scale wind and solar, as McIndoe and ACIL Tasman acknowledge.

These were slightly outweighed by reductions due to fuel mix, production structure, consumption patterns and energy intensity (centre and right - hand areas, above).

The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.

The Carbon Neutral Myth Offset Indulgences for your Climate Sins, launched today by Carbon Trade Watch, a project of the Amsterdam - based Transnational Institute, draws on extensive research and case studies to argue that: * Offset companies breed complacency by selling peace of mind to consumers, offering up a form of greenwash that distracts from the serious task of tackling unsustainable consumption patterns and business practices;

Instead of reevaluating the way in which every one of us lives our lives (in terms of material consumption, housing patterns, transportation patterns, dietary norms) to build societies which are radically lower in carbon emissions than they are currently, just spend a lot on money trying to tinker with global ecosystems to correct for global problems which were caused by us in the first place.

In short, our patterns of clothing consumption relate to our innate desire to belong, to be accepted by our tribe.

The primary problem with the science is we don't have a handle on every single uncertainty, but that doesn't negate the major contribution obviously made by our [excessive] population and consumption patterns.

Patterns of urban consumption, and the carbon footprint created by such lifestyles, are undermining China's attempts to cut back on overall greenhouse gas emissions.

Consumption patterns can be matched closer to production patterns by pricing systems / automated systems.

Timber from the South Seas, a report co-authored by Kuroda, provided the first comprehensive data on Japan's timber consumption patterns and exposed Japanese corporations» contribution to rainforest destruction.

The Plant court held that electricity consumption records held by electrical utility companies did not fall within the «biographical core»; while they revealed the pattern of one's electricity consumption in the residence, they did not reveal any intimate details of personal lifestyle or private decisions.8 Thus, section 8 of the Charter9 did not apply to the access that police gained to a computer terminal set up by the utility to allow police to look up the appellant's electrical consumption records.