Sentences with phrase «changing environmental trends»

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In 2003 the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to delete from its annual Report on the Environment any reference to a study showing that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, and also to delete temperature data showing a worsening warming trend.

These are just three examples of global change, a term used to describe climate trends and other environmental transformations.

Elsner and his team point out the statistical trend — that «the risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise» — but only a suggest a hypothesis for what environmental changes might be behind this trend.

Her research aims to enhance our understanding of environmental changes that impact primary producer communities, as these influence the ecology and fitness of higher trophic levels, and to inform future spatial population trends in light of current predictions of climate change.

Many of the lessons that Florida has learned since 1992 have parallels in the unfolding disaster in Texas, experts say, and what was already a trend toward factoring in environmental threats and climate change to land and property values looks certain to become the standard nationwide as Houston begins to mop up from the misery of Harvey.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

An environmental scan that brings together up - to - date information on the changing library «digital landscape,» where libraries and providers stand, and emerging trends.

The bigger risks worth monitoring are changes in state regulations, population growth trends in key states, increased environmental regulations, and execution of the company's business strategy (e.g. large projects and acquisitions).

WISE educators incorporate new technology to hone the students» skills and keep them current with the changing trends in environmental science.

Updated, 1:47 p.m. A richly variegated four - day climate change conference, concluding yesterday in Paris, provided a sobering look at the mix of environmental, social and technological trends that have created humanity's planet - size challenge — fitting seemingly infinite aspirations safely in a climate system that is showing signs of disruptive human - driven change.

Whether we cycle, recycle, buy local, or write academic papers on the meaning of the environmental crisis, we are already repositioned through these acts and newly acquired habits in a joint effort and in trends of communal change.

One simply can not do arithmetic (least squares trends) on the temperature of environmental air and expect the result to reflect the changes in heat content.

This webinar will explore the trends driving interest in environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues — including climate change — and the various strategies investors have been pursuing to advance climate mitigation and resilience.

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

It aims to identify strategies related to skills development in Indonesia that may provide remedial measure of environmental degradation, climate change and global trends for green economies.

According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate change.

NIPCC scientists concluded the IPCC was biased with respect to making future projections of climate change, discerning a significant human - induced influence on current and past climatic trends, and evaluating the impacts of potential carbon dioxide - induced environmental changes on Earth's biosphere.

Global environmental change explains the warming trend over the last decade, but it doesn't explain why the last two winters have set record lows in certain parts of America and Canada.

The Climate Data Store (CDS) at the heart of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) infrastructure, will be presented by Baudouin Raoult, principal software architect and strategist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at a workshop on 22nd Sept in Paris the focus of which will be to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

Understanding changes in the power sector is therefore essential to analysing progress towards environmental goals and understanding global energy trends.

«The trend is unmistakably towards more states taking an active role in climate change,» said Barry G. Rabe, a professor of environmental policy at the University of Michigan and chief author of the Pew study.

It is argued that if we are to minimize the negative impact of environmental change on older people, interdisciplinary study of the convergence of the two trends, «climate gerontology», is needed.

Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies.

As Sarah Palin said, «while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather change».

While environmental groups have kicked - off a campaign to target this «climate silence,» the lack of discussion on climate change is a part of a larger trend in the U.S. where media coverage of the issue has declined even as scientists argue that impacts are increasing.

Such factors include, but are not limited to: the Company's ability to meet debt service requirements, the availability and terms of financing, changes in the Company's credit rating, changes in market rates of interest and foreign exchange rates for foreign currencies, changes in value of investments in foreign entities, the ability to hedge interest rate risk, risks associated with the acquisition, development, expansion, leasing and management of properties, general risks related to retail real estate, the liquidity of real estate investments, environmental liabilities, international, national, regional and local economic climates, changes in market rental rates, trends in the retail industry, relationships with anchor tenants, the inability to collect rent due to the bankruptcy or insolvency of tenants or otherwise, risks relating to joint venture properties, costs of common area maintenance, competitive market forces, risks related to international activities, insurance costs and coverage, terrorist activities, changes in economic and market conditions and maintenance of our status as a real estate investment trust.