Sentences with phrase «development decades in the future»

For one thing, as I've said before, the economic models from which IPCC and others draw these numbers are just this side of wild guesses, based on assumptions about economic growth, resource prices, and technological development decades in the future.

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Bombardier hopes the fuel - efficient aircraft that's been in development for a decade will be a game - changer for the company, whose regional jets face an uncertain future amid increased competition.

Melamed, one of the central players in the creation and development of the financial futures markets, was CME chairman from 1968 until 1976 and held various leadership positions at CME for more than three decades.

These developments make imperative future - oriented research and planning in order to avoid disaster and to achieve a desirable state of affairs in the decades ahead.

I am mostly not a conservative in the American or even European political sense, but I am conservative in the sense of seeking to preserve and build upon the achievements of Western civilization — including the development of its logical implications for future decades and centuries.

Ultimately, such knowledge may help guide the development of more effective prevention and treatment efforts decades in the future.»

In a series of separate public hearings this fall, members of Congress and New Mexico state legislators heard testimonies from the full range of people who have something to say about uranium mining — community members aggrieved by six decades of mining impacts, industry officials trumpeting new jobs from renewed uranium activity, and government regulators trying to figure out how to address both the past uranium legacy and future uranium developments.

Through various projects focusing on professional development in the STEM subjects and digital skills, teachers are provided with support in delivering new elements of a future - facing curriculum, where their students will be working with new technologies and developments that were not even thought of just a decade or so ago.

In counterweight to these forces of inertia, the past two decades have also seen the development of powerful new forces for reform that should strengthen America's ability to improve its schools as we head into the future.

The proposal is worth celebrating, not only because it will deliver by far the biggest vehicle efficiency improvements in decades, but also because the introduction of EPA into the process makes it more likely that the standards will accelerate the development of efficiency technologies in the future.

Gerard said there hasn't been a meaningful expansion in offshore access in decades, and with the Obama administration's recent decision to withdraw areas in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans from future exploration and production, 94 percent of offshore acreage under Washington's control is off limits to energy development.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

Thus investments in new technologies during the coming decades might have the same order of influence on future emissions as population growth, economic development and levels of energy consumption taken together.

The scale and rate and increment of development that seemed normal in 2003 is over and gone for good,» warns author James Howard Kunstler, who has spent two decades chronicling the ravages of suburban sprawl and sees shrinkage, not growth, as the wave of the future.

What would you say the next decade holds in terms of legislative development for the future generations of employment lawyers in West Africa?

Existing knowledge of normal and abnormal personality development can inform future research on the developmental pathways leading to personality pathology, the diagnostic criteria for personality disorders, and the development of validated treatments for personality disorders in the first two decades of life.