Sentences with phrase «falling at unprecedented rates»

Global emissions would need to start falling at unprecedented rates.

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The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climatic disruption, but also of the economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate.»

This fall, principals and assistant principals fanned out into thousands of Tennessee classrooms in an unprecedented effort to spend at least an hour annually observing and rating every single teacher, guidance counselor, social worker and librarian in the state's public school system.

«The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climate disruption, but also of economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate,» says another of the report's authors, Michael Grubb, professor of international energy and climate change policy at University College London's Institute of Sustainable Resources.

And since by 2007 legal process work had become a significant part of many junior associates» workloads, the rapid reduction of the amount of that work available to associates billing at full freight has been a major factor in BigLaw's unprecedented reductions in force and falling hiring rates from late 2008 through 2010.