Sentences with phrase «capita demand»

For example, the daily energy per capita demand in OECD countries is about 21 logs» worth.

The per capita demand in the commercial sector in California grew by 37 % over that period, much less than the 228 % growth in the rest of the country.

: it consumes nearly 70 % more energy than the United States by 2035, even though, by then, per capita demand in China is still less than half the level in the United States.

Total fossil fuel demand was calculated globally, based on world population and per capita demand; while production was calculated on a country by - country basis and summed to obtain global production.

Fortunately, however, the overall picture also reveals that U.S. per capita demand for steel has stabilized at roughly 12 metric tons since 1980.

Not exact matches

Regulations have twisted the laws of supply and demand, causing Western Canada's biggest metropolitan area to have fewer taxis per capita than any other city in the country.

Climate activists are understandably wary about demanding tough controls on developing countries whose per - capita emissions are a fraction of Canada's.

The demand for services in the Building Exterior Cleaners industry cum window cleaning line of business is on the increase in recent time, as growth in household formation rates expanded the available clientele base for industry players and rising per capita disposable income enabled consumers to purchase cleaning services they put off during the recession.

«If a specific market welcomes a relatively large share of wealthy immigrants, their arrival creates a new source of demand that not only stimulates demand for housing, but can also raise house prices significantly without any changes to personal disposable income per capita.»

Setting aside for the moment the impact on families and communities, Evercore noted that such an exodus «would likely hit demand» for Constellation brands because Mexican immigrants» beer capita consumption is about two times the general population.

The demand for beef in China is currently 4 kg to 6 kg annually per capita, compared with 19 kg in Ireland.

«The enormous size of the Chinese population, 1.35 billion people, means growth in per - capita consumption has a big impact on total Chinese demand, and in turn, total global demand,» the Commonwealth Bank's dairy report said.

World incomes have been rising at around 5 percent annually in recent years, and 4 percent in per capita terms, leading to an increased global demand for food and for meat as a share of the diet.

Per capita income in those nations has skyrocketed, raising the standard of living to unprecedented heights but creating ravenous new demand for energy and natural resources.

A previous NREL report, «Land - use Requirements and the Per - capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 % of all electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 % of the total area in the United States.

Then naturally demand for high schools would go up as per - capita income rose, but that would not prove that high schools make you more productive.

-- Higher demand also (via increased consumption & waste *) due to rising global per capita incomes — basically this is an emerging / frontier markets growth story

Rising per capita income and increasing demand for consumer products and services in Asia point to a positive earnings growth outlook for consumer - related companies.

To understand why India, despite its fast - growing emissions, has demanded and gotten what its environment minister called «carbon space,» just do a side by side comparison of the United States, where the average person's activities result in about 17 tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, and India, where 400 million people still lack an electric light or clean cooking fuel and where per capita annual emissions are 1.9 tons per person.

Consider that India, while far down the list of greenhouse giants — with a fifth of China's emissions, measured per - capita or gross — is poised for greatly expanded energy demand.

However, demand for edible goods will continue to go up, mainly because improved living standards are causing per - capita consumption to rise.

The potential impacts and sectors demanding prioritized adaptation have been identified in this study and the, associated, costs of adaptation have been estimated utilizing three diverse modeling methodologies — using GDP projections, per - capita figures and «flood» disaster modeling.

In the long run, much of the economic growth of developed economies is likely to involve less energy - intensive sectors because of demand - side factors such as 1) the amount of stuff people can physically manage is limited (even with rented storage space), 2) migration to areas where the weather is more moderate will continue, 3) increased urbanization and population density reduces energy consumption per capita, 4) there is a lot of running room to decrease the energy consumption of our electronic devices (e.g., switching to clockless microprocessors, not that I'm predicting that specific innovation), 5) telecommunication will substitute for transportation on the margin, 6) cheaper and better data acquisition and processing will enable less wasteful routing and warehousing of material goods, and 7) aging populations will eventually reduce the total amount (local plus distant) of travel per person per year.

When everything being paid is taken and «returned to the owners — everyone who draws breath — per capita» you no longer have the kind of market the «law of supply and demand» is talking about.

S.R.E.A.: the carbon cycle's waste recycling service is demonstrably Scarce, Rivalrous, Excludable and Administrable, therefore it ought be privatized and traded on the Market with the price set by the Law of Supply and Demand, and the revenues returned to the owners — everyone who draws breath — per capita.

It also ethically dubious for the US to insist that it can demand that other nations must agree to make reductions in their manufacturing sectors consistent with US reductions in the US manufacturing sector given that almost all nations in the world have lower total and per capita GHG emissions than the United States.

While India as a whole demands a significant percent of the world's biocapacity, its per - capita Ecological Footprint, 0.8 global hectares, is smaller than that in many other countries, and well below the world average of 2.2 global hectares.

The technology currently available for installing distributed renewable energy in developing countries can not yet raise all of the world's poorest to the levels of per capita energy consumption previously reached in the west, but developed countries are already reducing overall energy demand and increasing energy efficiency, rendering historical patterns of energy usage the wrong benchmark for global standards in any case.

Every retail transaction where a consumer buys carbon that will end up as CO2E will collect a fee set by the Law of Supply and Demand; every paycheck will immediately and fully disburse collected private revenues of CO2E rent to the owners of the air — every working citizen per capita, to the level set by the Law of Supply and Demand.

While I agree the level of the BC Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax is too low, and should be set by the Law of Supply and Demand (see, that depends on exactly two experts: the expert who is buying, and the expert who is selling, democratically, at the level of each individual transaction), and that the dividends are mis - directed and should go to every citizen per capita 100 %, it's not like I'm saying they're there yet.

Regrets are minimized by right - pricing the carbon cycle that Don Aitken has already recognized exhibits scarcity, by privatizing the carbon cycle and paying its owners — all of us, per capita — 100 % of the dividends from the fees as determined by the Law of Supply and Demand.

The reasons for this are that the remaining carbon budget is so small, the per capita and historical emissions of high - emitting developed nations are so large compared to poor developing countries, and the financial resources of developed countries are so large compared to poor developing countries that equity considerations demand that the high - emitting nations financially help developing nations achieve their targets.

The vehicle miles traveled (VMT) demand was also assumed to scale with population and implying a constant per capita VMT demand.

However, water scarcity is expected to be a big challenge in many Asian regions because of increasing water demand from population growth and consumption per capita with higher standards of living.

Christoph Frei: For one thing, the per capita energy demand will peak before 2030 — it is basically peaking now.

That doesn't mean that global demand will not go up, but the per capita, average demand is peaking.

The scenarios also all involve cutting per capita energy demand by around 10 to 15 per cent by 2050, through measures such as more efficient cars and better insulated homes.

By 2050, per capita water availability in India is expected to drop by about 44 % due to growing populations and higher demand, as well as higher pollution levels.

Yet demand continues to rise and per - capita usage in the US and Canada is little changed.»

China understands coal can not be the base load generating fuel for the long term, but it also needs to invest in coal in the short term to meet demand that is still less than 1 / 10th the level used per capita in the United States.

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.

Achieving Energy Efficiency — Since 1975, the California Energy Commission has been responsible for reducing the state's electricity and natural gas demand primarily by adopting new Building and Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards that have contributed to keeping California's per capita electricity consumption relatively low.

Too many lawyers per capita inevitably results in a driving up of demand for legal (especially litigation) services.