Sentences with phrase «considerable societal importance»
Fluctuations in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance as they impact directly on global sea levels: since 1901, ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland, alongside the melting of small glaciers and ice caps and thermal expansion of the oceans, have caused global sea levels to rise at an average rate of 1.7 mm / yr.
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3) The Hungarian Brain Research Program, initiated by the government in 2012, and launched in 2014, aims to support brain research projects in which Hungary has significant local expertise or traditions, and which are of considerable scientific, clinical or societal importance.