Sentences with phrase «environmental event which»

Climate threshold - The point at which external forcing of the climate system, such as the increasing atmospheric concentration of heat - trapping gases (greenhouse gas es), triggers a significant climatic or environmental event which is considered unalterable, or recoverable only on very long time - scales, such as widespread bleaching of corals or a collapse of oceanic circulation systems.

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Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

This runs monthly events with the goal of exploring all the areas of business activity in which tech entrepreneurship can solve big social and environmental problems.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

So Greider believes that global capitalism, since it not only allows but actually causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, «will probably experience a series of terrible events — wrenching calamities which are economic, or social or environmental in nature — before common sense can prevail».9

In an event ripped from a superhero origin story but that, in real life, is actually sort of scary and definitely an environmental headache, the bridge upon which a train...

d) the assumed common nature (which we have here called «the environmental events») which, by virtue of its indirect relation to awareness via the bodily event, is a differential condition for the contents of awareness:

Commonwealth environmental water contributed to four flow events down the Darling River zone, which provided connecting flows through the zone to Louth.

In February 2013 the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, David Papps, was a guest speaker at a Nature Foundation South Australia event which celebrated the start of watering on Clark's Floodplain near Berri in the Murray - Darling Basin.

Water used in this event was primarily drawn from «return flows», which is a term for environmental water already in the river from other upstream environmental watering actions, such as from the Goulburn River and Hume Dam.

If any water bird breeding events start in the Macquarie Marshes, environmental water could be used to continue these events, which may take several months to complete.

The volunteer organization managed 15 projects and events last year, he said, four of which aligned with the village's environmental plan.

The 2 - hour policy roundtable event, which had in attendance various policymakers and stakeholders was on the theme: Environmental Discipline - Dealing with filth in Accra.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Anne Thompson, chief environmental affairs correspondent for NBC News, moderated the event, which was held the same day the Japanese government raised the Fukushima reactor disaster to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy soevent, which was held the same day the Japanese government raised the Fukushima reactor disaster to 7 on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy soEvent Scale, fanning doubts about the future of nuclear power — currently the leading zero - carbon energy source.

Professor Bill Keevil, Director of Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton, says: «If a contamination event (accidental or deliberate) occurs in a drinking water network, it is essential to identify the sources of contamination and to determine the area which is likely to be contaminated, in order to isolate and decontaminate the affected area only, as well as keep supplying drinking water in non-affected areas.

John Michael Humphries Choptiany formerly of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and now at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, together with colleagues at Dalhousie, Alberta Innovates — Technology Futures (AITF), and G BACH Enterprises Incorporated, explain how they have adopted information from the environmental, social, economic and engineering fields to create their assessment framework, which incorporates utility curves, criterion weights, thresholds, decision trees, Monte Carlo simulation, critical events and sensitivity analysis.

It might be possible then to link the alterations to environmental changes such as stressful events or diet, which have been shown to cause inheritable epigenetic changes in mice.

On September 7 the environmental organization Earth Pledge plans a reprise of its highly acclaimed FutureFashion, a runway event in which top designers such as Stella McCartney, Calvin Klein, and Donatella Versace experiment with earth - friendly fabrics.

The new finding is the latest evidence supporting a growing precision medicine model of psychiatric disease in which disruptions of certain genes during brain development contribute to a person's risk for multiple psychiatric disorders, with other genetic or epigenetic drivers, random developmental events, or environmental influences determining the specific disease an individual develops, said senior author Benjamin Cheyette, MD, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry and a member of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences and the Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience at UCSF.

According to data released by the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), which tracks the nation's major weather and climate events, there were 16 «billion dollar» disasters in the United States in 2017, tying the record set in 2011 for most billion dollar disasters in a single year.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

It was at a time when there was a population bottleneck, which means a sharp reduction in the number of living individuals due to environmental events.

The unusual geology and climate of the East African Rift System introduced selective environmental pulses, which not only drove speciation but also subsequent dispersal events.

The development of life on Earth is no longer thought to have been an improbable event, but one which may be common under similar environmental conditions elsewhere, around other stars as well as in our own Solar System.

The «YDB» event, which occurred circa 10,770 BC, is thought to have been caused by the impacts or air - bursts of several comets, resulting in massive shockwaves and firestorms sweeping across continents, initiating a 1200 year - long epoch of terminal environmental change and catastrophic faunal extinction, effectively wiping all but traces of early civilizations from the historical record.This book explores the forbidden and deeply profound secrets of a magnificent lost civilization, revealing knowledge long concealed in myth and legend.

Here's your chance to get back to nature.The fourth annual Earth Day Celebration will take place Saturday at Jaycee Beach on Lake Minneola in Clermont.Sponsored by the South Lake Animal League, the festival marks the 25th anniversary celebration of the first Earth Day.More than 5,000 people are expected to attend the daylong event featuring environmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental Awaenvironmental exhibits, eco-oriented products, Earth Day crafts and children's activities.Exhibits, crafts booths and food concessions will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Among those on hand will be Smokey Bear, Pollyanna the Clown and members of the Keep Lake County Beautiful Committee, which has supported resolutions declaring April as Environmental AwaEnvironmental Awareness Month.

This helps to explain the growth of new types of art - such as installation art (including sound and video installations), conceptualism (a wide category of «ideas art»), happenings (type of performance art), video installations, projection mapping, and outdoor earthworks (environmental constructions)- in which either there is no finished product to speak of, or else it is transient and recorded only as an «event».

The event will be part of the GreenLight Exhibition Series, which aims to showcase photography projects which highlight important environmental issues.

If the only conclusion drawn from my argumentation is that every event is natural, that's OK, but my linky and larger point was that there is a larger discussion over the environment as a «thing», a distinction which allows the environment to be devalued (and allows the environmental movement to be seen as a special interest).

The most important take - home point, which I focused on in my blog post, is the reality that natural variability — when moving things temporarily in the cooling direction — could pose a challenge to environmental activists who have sought to portray real - time events as the reason for action on emissions curbs.

Shabecoff spoke of his effort as an event that happened shortly after he quit reporting for the NY Times, (full text here) which apparently arose out of concern from his superiors that he had «grown too close to my sources in the environmental movement ``.

This analytical report discusses the environmental measures taken by the organizers of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and assesses their effectiveness and lessons learnt, all of which will be useful for those planning future Olympic and other sporting events.

It features chapters on: the year in review, which highlights environmental extremes, including record extreme weather and climate events and increasing degradation of marine ecosystems, but notes progress towards new investments in renewable energy and towards a green economy; the benefits of soil carbon; the closing and decommissioning of nuclear power reactors; and on key environmental indicators, which underscores the need to address mounting challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and land and soil degradation.

The event, which drew members of the general public as well as representatives from Duke Energy Carolinas, Duke Energy Progress, and local environmental groups, was the first in a series of public input meetings focusing on planning for South Carolina's energy future.

City Councilmember Jean Godden I'd like to thank members of the Green Ribbon Commission, which took a break from their efforts today to join this event, which shows the kind of innovative spirit that we've got, and environmental leadership that makes Seattle such a great place.

[43] In addition, Shell planned to drill exploratory wells in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas during the summer of 2012, which environmental groups filed a lawsuit about in an attempt to protect native communities, endangered wildlife, and the Arctic Ocean in the event of a major oil spill.

What are the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, of which added CO2 and other greenhouse gases are a part, but also from other social and environmental issues?

An environmental countermovement arose in the United States in response to the rise of the modern environmental movement which was born in the late 1960s in response to among other things, the publications in 1962 of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and a growing number of highly visible pollution events including the Santa Barbara oil spill and the fire in the Cuyahoga River in 1969.

«During the past year, the American people have been served up an unprecedented parade of environmental alarmism by the media and entertainment industry, which links every possible weather event to global warming.

Given the current socio - economic, political and environmental context, the countries with more risks of losses and damages due to extreme weather events and slow onset events are developing countries, those which have contributed the least to climate change and those less capable of adapting to its impacts.

The electricity sector's share of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario in 2012 was only about 9 percent of total emissions, compared to the transportation sector with 34 percent and the industrial sector with 30 percent (Ontario, Auditor General 2015), meaning that further environmental gains in the electricity sector are inherently limited.4 In any event, this impact needs to be compared to other alternatives, such as further enhancing transmission connections and expanding power purchase agreements with neighbouring jurisdictions, in particular Quebec and Manitoba, which have substantial clean hydroelectric resources.

The scale of natural disasters has also increased because of deforestation, environmental degradation, urbanization, and intensified climate variables.20 The distinctive health, behavioral, and psychosocial needs of children subject them to unique risks from these events.21 Extreme weather events place children at risk for injury, 22 loss of or separation from caregivers, 21 exposure to infectious diseases, 23 and a uniquely high risk of mental health consequences, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and adjustment disorder.24 Disasters can cause irrevocable harm to children through devastation of their homes, schools, and neighborhoods, all of which contribute to their physiologic and cognitive development.25

Kolstad worked with Bren faculty colleagues Christopher Costello and Matthew Kotchen, and Ph.D. student Laura Grant to organize the event, which was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and with support from the Environmental Economics Group at the Bren School.

Rogge was speaking at the conference which saw over 500 delegates from sport, business and the environment join each other for a three - day event organised by IOC and Qatar Olympic Committee in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to establish initiatives in reducing environmental impact from sporting events.

Saño is referring to an emerging body of science authored by researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute known as Probabilistic Event Attribution (PEA), which deals with examining to what extent extreme weather events can be associated with past anthropogenic emissions.

Lexington, MA., September 12, 2013 - Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq: VRSK) company, reports some of the strongest evidence to date that Arctic sea ice loss, which contributes to an overall warmer Arctic, has links to colder winters and related extreme weather events across northern Eurasia and much of the U.S. and Canada.

NLI has also expanded its offerings through two programs, Rooted and Rising for alumni and Movement in Green which offers public programming, a fellowship, local events, a high school essay contest, and a micro-grant award for environmental leadership.

This program has developed with the support of Rev. Tom Goldsmith and the church's Environmental Ministry Team, and it has a strong foundation in the church's educational efforts, which include discussions and lectures, movie screenings, workshops, book groups, and other events that inform both church members and the wider community about a variety of environmEnvironmental Ministry Team, and it has a strong foundation in the church's educational efforts, which include discussions and lectures, movie screenings, workshops, book groups, and other events that inform both church members and the wider community about a variety of environmentalenvironmental issues.

The Rio +20 People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice is an event organized by global civil society which is happening until June 23 at Aterro do Flamengo.