Sentences with phrase «decrease global consumption»
Imposing a 50 % tax on antibiotics for food animals could decrease global consumption by more than 30 %, and at the same time generate revenues from $ 1.7 to 4.6 billion, which could be invested into research for new antibiotics or improvements to farm hygiene.
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The comprehensive report «Less is more: Reducing meat and dairy for a healthier life and planet» advocates decreasing global production and consumption of animal products in order to reduce the negative impacts on health and the environment.
By reducing the animal product contribution in the diet, global green water (rainwater) consumption decreases up to 21 % while for blue water (irrigation water) the reductions would be up to 14 %.
New research reported in Nature Climate Change finds that increased Canadian tar sands production would decrease global oil prices and thereby increase oil consumption.
The estimated value of global fossil - fuel consumption subsidies decreased by 15 % to $ 260 billion in 2016, the lowest level since the International Energy Agency started tracking these subsidies in the World Energy Outlook (WEO) ten years ago.
Despite stating that «the physical facts agree» that large effects of global climate change will be realized in 50 years and that a 2 % decrease in fossil fuel consumption would «considerably ease» the «immediate problem,» the committee still focuses on the «large probable error» of the data.
«What goes around comes around» they say, the only solution for drastic decreases in emissions is massive decreases in global consumption, which won't happen as long as the unsustainable population size isn't addressed.