Sentences with phrase «capita consumption at»

Two scenarios of energy demand are explored, one holding per capita consumption at current levels, the second raising the global average in the year 2100 to the current U.S. level.

Not exact matches

Outside South and Central America, where the fruit is native, Australia has the highest per - capita consumption in the world, at an annual 3.2 kilograms (kg), or about 15 fruits, according to industry body Avocados Australia.

Included in Goal no. 12 on «responsible consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»

Compared to other major economies, India's per capita consumption of oil is relatively low, as ownership of automobiles and motorcycles — many Indians» preferred mode of personal transportation — is still developing, with penetration at merely 144 per 1,000 people.

The United States, meanwhile, lags in 9th place, with per capita chocolate consumption at 9.5 pounds a year.

To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal consumption expenditures not included in the four other categories.

According to findings of the country's National Production Council, in 1983 the daily consumption per person was twenty - three grams.6 Per capita consumption of meat for Costa Ricans declined after that, in spite of the fact that consumption was already at an unacceptable level for supporting basic protein nutrition.

Words actually attended to from these media grew at just 2.9 percent, and per capita consumption of words grew only 1.2 percent per year.

It proposes no point at which per capita resource use would cease to grow anywhere, since its whole theory is about how to increase production and consumption.

«Dairy consumption per capita has declined in recent years, but the number of products and choices available to the consumer has not, so we're looking at shorter production runs,» Graziani says, adding that the company is increasing its focus on lean manufacturing and Six Sigma programs in its plants.

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».

In terms of per capita consumption, Europe still leads the pack, while China will only averages at 1.53 litres by 2020, compared with France's 43.63 litres.

Per capita consumption of spirits is expected to remain flat, at 5.7 litres — suggesting new drinkers will be recruited into the category.

Though the United States was not the heaviest coffee - drinking nation at the time (Nordic countries, Belgium, and Netherlands all had comparable or higher levels of per capita consumption), due to its sheer size, it was already the largest consumer of coffee in the world by 1860, and, by 1920, around half of all coffee produced worldwide was consumed in the US.

In America per capita consumption of soft drinks has fallen about 25 per cent since peaking at about 200 litres per person in the 1990s.

The state — which at one time or another has been home to breweries such as Schlitz, Leinenkugel's, Pabst Blue Ribbon and Miller — has a per capita beer consumption of 38 gallons, according to the Beer Institute, placing it in the country's top 15 beer - drinking states.

China's per capita consumption of milk, butter and whole - milk powders has been growing at 5 per cent a year since 2010.

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.

«The per capita consumption of fluid milk, in all of its formulations, has been declining in the U.S. since the 1960s,» says Cameron Thraen, a dairy economist at Ohio State University.

With current per - capita consumption of cocoa in Ghana standing at 0.5 kilogramme, the President stated that this should increase to one kilogramme per Ghanaian in the short - to - medium term, and should begin with inculcating the habit of consuming cocoa in Ghanaian children.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

And then you look at a place like China, which is just now — despite it's phenomenal growth in recent decades at 9 or 10 percent per year — is just now reaching about the per capita world average on all those factors, energy consumption, wealth and CO2 emissions, and they clearly want to do more.

«The state of New Jersey's per capita energy consumption exceeds the photosynthetic productivity of the area even if it were pristine,» noted physicist Klaus Lackner, director of the Earth Institute's Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Columbia event.

Specifically, the researchers looked at water - use efficiency, measured as per capita consumption, in 5 - year increments, from 1985 to 2010.

If we look at the Total caloric sweeteners line, we see that from 1977 to 2000 there has been a steady increase in per capita sweetener consumption.

To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal consumption expenditures not included in the four other categories.

But many studies, including the great work Danny Kahneman and colleagues have done, show that, for the developed economies at least, greater consumption per capita is only weakly associated with greater well - being (happiness, utility, life satisfaction).

Per capita consumption is a function of economies of scale from a growing population, so a shrinking population will not consume at the same rate, even though the resources are there to exploit.

Evidently, concerns like long - term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.

and they have the second highest power consumption per capita in the world, at 24,644 kWh per person.

Climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, a senior researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric research, says that each and every person in the world would have to reduce his and her per capita consumption of fossil fuels by 75 percent to keep additional future temperature increases to no more than 1 degree.

Without some new kinds of policies and human - driven action, humankind could soon come face to face with daunting, human - caused challenges, over which human beings appear to have at least a modicum of control because the increase of conspicious per capita consumption, seemingly endless production, and skyrocketing propagation by the human species has evidently brought certain global challenges into being.

Main findings are: (1) energy consumption will peak at 5200 — 5400 million tons coal equivalent (Mtce) in 2035 — 2040; (2) CO2 emissions will peak at 9200 — 9400milliontons (Mt) in 2030 — 2035, whilst it can be potentially reduced by 200 — 300Mt; (3) China ׳ s per capita energy consumption and per capita CO2 emission are projected to peak at 4tce and 6.8 t respectively in 2020 — 2030, soon after China steps into the high income group.

It makes little to no sense per capita, of course, before we even get on to OPatrick's point about consumption vs production emissions, and China would have a point bringing both of those up at negotiations - but ultimately, there's national policy to be made.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

At this rate, non-OECD nations account for 83 % of global growth and consume 67 % more energy than OECD nations by 2035, although their energy consumption is still far lower on a per capita basis.

If we assume that, despite economic and environmental pressures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, the world - wide per capita rate still increases by 50 % by 2100, we end up arriving at a concentration by 2100 of around 600 ppmv.

Using a cross-country data set, we show that human population growth rates are negatively related to per - capita energy consumption, with zero growth occurring at ∼ 13 kW, suggesting that the global human population will stop growing only if individuals have access to this amount of power.

We've been surprised at all the attention Todd's new fridge has gotten recently — including comments saying the comparison against African per capita electricity consumption isn't fair because many of those people don't have refrigerators.

Annual growth in total oil consumption of ~ 3 % or more in the Asia - Pacific region has contributed the most to this increase, although consumption there is still at lower per capita rates than in the United States and the European Union.

The sustainable water target specifies that per capita water consumption will be at least 50 percent less than the national average and all waste water will be re-used.

The delta between the per capita existing consumption and the efficiency improvement percentage times the average solar panel install would yield at least a first order approximation as to what the contribution of architectural style might be.

While human population grew 5.4 times since 1850, per capita energy consumption exploded at a rate of 8.5 times.

The UCSD report states, «Hours of information consumption grew at 2.6 percent per year from 1980 to 2008, due to a combination of population growth and increasing hours per capita, from 7.4 to 11.8.»

Increase in Aquaculture Needed to Maintain Current Levels of Consumption The amount of fish currently discarded at sea (30 million tonnes annually) could sustain a 50 % increase in fish farming and aquaculture: An amount needed to maintain per capita fish consumption without increasing stress on marine Consumption The amount of fish currently discarded at sea (30 million tonnes annually) could sustain a 50 % increase in fish farming and aquaculture: An amount needed to maintain per capita fish consumption without increasing stress on marine consumption without increasing stress on marine ecosystems.

A quick look at this illustration comparing gas prices shows a much closer correlation of energy consumption per capita than does a density to energy consumption comparison.

Consumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing powConsumption patterns and associated per capita shares of resource use and pollution differ enormously, and using a consumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing powconsumption - based calculation rather than a national territorial production - based approach demonstrates even further the extent of global economic and environmental inequality: about 50 % of the world's people live on less than $ 3 per day, 75 % on less than $ 8.50, and 90 % on less than $ 23 (US$ at current purchasing power parity).

At First Glance The most striking thing that you can't help but notice the first time you run the visualization is just how fast both energy consumption and CO2 emissions grow in Asia (though on a per capita basis, they're still much lower than the US).

Even so, local per - capita chicken consumption is low, at around 20 kilogrammes per year, and the penetration of processed food products is low, which means that the Turkish market offers excellent potential for growth.