By 2050, the world population is expected to reach 9 billion people, nearly
doubling global demands on food and livestock feed.
Not exact matches
This is what I wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its
double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the
demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative
global financial system of settling trade and balance - of - payments transactions without the United States.
Given that this new block of investors can now be unleashed on the gold market, if even a mere 1 percent of the overall value of Islamic investment is allocated to the yellow metal, it would be equivalent to approximately USD 65 billion or 1,700 tonnes of new
global demand, nearly
double China's estimated total
demand for gold in 2015.
Launches of dairy - alternative beverages, for example, have more than
doubled globally since 2012.1
Demand for dairy alternatives has transformed a niche category into a mainstream market, creating a
global opportunity for food and beverage manufacturers to diversify their offerings.
It had the guts to pay
double what local investors were willing to pay on the premise that
global demand for milk products would outstrip supply within three years because of
demand from China.
It said an 80 percent rise in
global energy
demand was set to raise carbon dioxide (Co2) emissions by 70 percent by 2050 and transport emissions were expected to
double, due in part to a surge in
demand for cars in developing nations.
A prosperous
global population however, has blazed the way for burgeoning new mouths to feed that, by 2050, will nearly
double food
demand.
As more people worldwide are lifted out of poverty, many more can afford to eat meat regularly;
global demand for animal products, now 14 grams per person per day, is expected to more than
double by 2050.
Growing
demand for food means
global food production must roughly
double by 2050, he says.
«We focused on agriculture because
global food
demand is expected to
double by mid-century, and new or improved roads are vital for farmers,» said Dr Gopalasamy Reuben Clements from James Cook.
China's coal
demand growth averaged 9 % per year from 2000 to 2010, more than
double the
global growth rate of 4 % and significantly higher than
global growth excluding China, which averaged only 1 %.
«This represents a
double first for Millennium - our first footstep into Muscat and the
global debut for our Millennium Executive Apartments brand, which is a new concept from the company designed to specifically address the growing
demand for serviced apartments in the region,» said Ali Hamad Lakhraim Alzaabi, president, Millennium & Copthorne Hotels MEA.
Up until the mid-2020s
demand growth remains robust in the New Policies Scenario, but slows markedly thereafter as greater efficiency and fuel switching bring down oil use for passenger vehicles (even though the
global car fleet
doubles from today to reach 2 billion by 2040).
[v] Even phasing out Australia's coal exports would merely cause Australian GDP to
double by 2031 instead of by 2030 [vi], paling in comparison to the impacts of the several degrees of
global warming associated with continuing
demand for those exports.
[28] For the fourth - quarter of 2010, Peabody stated that their profits
doubled due to
global demand for coal.
In fact, without such efficiency gains,
global energy
demand would be
double in 2040 what it was in 2010.
Over the next century,
global energy
demand will
double, and perhaps triple.
However, with the
global demand for passengers expected to
double over the next 20 years, further steps must be taken to ensure that efficiency gains will have a net positive effect on total emission reductions.
With 70 % of
global energy
demand currently met through the burning of carbon - based fuels, and
demand predicted to
double by 20351, the world faces a growing challenge: reducing climate change causing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions while not damaging a fragile
global economy that is sustained by these abundant fossil fuels.
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Global electricity
demand is expected to increase by 60 percent between 2016 and 2040 with non-OECD countries almost
doubling their usage.
While applauding Mr. Gore's enthusiasm, many energy experts said this stance was counterproductive because there was no way, given
global growth in energy
demand, that existing technology could avert a
doubling or more of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide in this century.
Far from acknowledging their errors and backing off from their authoritarian agenda, the
global - warming alarmists have
doubled down and cranked up both the volume of their doomsday predictions and the audacity of their
demands.
Global demand is so high (and expected to
double by 2020), and the Indonesian government eagerly hands out subsidies to growers, that further burning of the land to clear the rainforest for palm oil plantations is inevitable.
The report predicts that world
demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will
double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of
global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.
Global energy
demand is set to
double.
In the 25 years after Chernobyl, nuclear construction declined while
global demand for electricity more than
doubled.
Experts agree that
global energy
demand is likely to
double by 2050 compared to
demand in the year 2000, driven by a growing population with rising living standards.