Sentences with phrase «from business as usual»

This «field trip,» as Apple's calling it, is far from business as usual, but with days to go before the event kicks off, we've got a few ideas about what you can expect Apple to unveil in the Windy City.

This new technology CLE requirement represents an important departure from business as usual in the legal profession.

Its rivers and skies are heavily tainted, its environmental laws remain weak, its fixation on economic growth largely dismisses ecology, its emissions are still high, and its new promises are little different from business as usual.

«There is a clear message from science: To avoid dangerous interference with the climate system, we need to move away from business as usual,» said Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, a co-chair of the report.

Developing countries among us will promptly undertake actions whose projected effects on emissions represent a meaningful deviation from business as usual in the midterm, in the context of sustainable development, supported by financing, technology, and capacity - building.

However, and despite the fact that it would represent a dramatic change from business as usual, the Weak 2 °C pathway, difficult though it may be, is widely considered achievable.

In 2015, members of the Dubai Carbon Abatement Strategy saved 5.7 million tons of CO2e, which is equivalent to 10.6 % reduction from business as usual in 2015.

For these companies, setting an internal carbon price is a significant departure from business as usual, but it reflects a global trend.

There are always emissions associated with cows and compost, and, when considered in sum, the methods of the Marin Carbon project actually amounted to a huge reduction from business as usual.

Now, the evidence is mounting that, at least temporarily, humanity has shifted gears to a course that meaningfully deviates from business as usual.

That is approximately a 93 percent reduction from the Business as Usual case, the 1200 figure above.

If new technology increases energy effiiciency that's a change from Business as Usual.

Only then can one understand the amount of global greenhouse gas emissions reductions from business as usual that are necessary to avoid dangerous climate change.

(UNEP, 2010), However, if only the lowest ambition pledges are implemented, and if no clear rules are set in the negotiations, emissions could be around 53 Gt of CO2 equivalent in 2020 — not that different from business as usual.

There were as many older generations ages - 50 plus, as younger generations of less than 30 years old - that care about the health of our Planet and Pollution that is causing world wide climate change from the business as usual approach of the Big Business Polluting Machine 2.

The aggregate of these provincial measures will reduce the country's coal consumption by 655 million tonnes from a business as usual scenario by 2020.

«We have considered cases ranging from business as usual [BAU], which is scenario A, to draconian emission cuts, scenario C, which would totally eliminate net trace gas growth by year 2000.»

«We need to move away from business as usual,» says the co-chair of the IPCC working group behind the mitigation report, Ottmar Edenhofer of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

The science of global warming IS NOT settled, and catastrophic anthropogenic climate disruption is not unequivocal (even without change from business as usual).

Even when emissions targets point downward, they may not necessarily imply a significant departure from business as usual.

This analytical report analyzes mitigation scenarios, ranging from business as usual, where levels of nitrous oxide could increase 83 % between 2005 and 2050, to concerted mitigation, where nitrous oxide levels could be 22 % lower in 2050 than in 2005.

You've altered this to «We have considered cases ranging from business as usual, which is scenario A, to draconian emission cuts, scenario C, which assumes zero effects from CO2 after the year 2000

The new law, which passed the Senate unanimously, pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from business as usual by 2020 and slash emissions in half by 2050 from 2000 levels.

«We have considered cases ranging from business as usual, which is scenario A, to draconian emission cuts, scenario C, which assumes zero effects from changing levels of CO2 after the year 2000 ″

At the same time, the developing major economies will pursue, in the context of sustainable development, nationally appropriate mitigation actions, supported and enabled by technology, financing and capacity - building, with a view to achieving a deviation from business as usual emissions.

Developing countries among us will undertake actions in the 2020 time frame that are quantified, represent a significant deviation from business as usual, also support sustainable development, and are supported, as appropriate, by financing, technology, and capacity - building.

-- That the world's established powers pay for any costs borne by poorer nations as they adapt to climate change and shift away from business as usual on emissions.

The massive reports and shorter summaries are certainly relevant to global and national energy policies, describing the possible climatic outcomes of a wide range of societal paths, from business as usual to aggressive emissions curbs.

In that same span, developing countries would make a «significant deviation from business as usual» to slow a rise in their emissions while still pursuing an end to poverty, according to Reuters.

Almost in the same breath, Stern said that the need for parity under a final climate accord made such a deal unlikely any time soon but added that the treaty negotiations remained the best forum for finding ways to divert the world from business as usual on heat - trapping emissions:

Rounding out eight stages of element - throwing showdowns are two palette - cleansing breaks from business as usual: a pro-bending minigame based on the sport from the show and endless runner Naga (Korra's polar bear dog companion) sequences.

In a world where a double - digit interest rate is the norm rather than the exception, the Platinum Edition Visa Card's 10.99 percent rate is a welcome deviation from business as usual.

Or, break away from business as usual and host your next meeting outdoors.

Once a year, I like to take a step away from business as usual — from talking directly about herps — and instead discuss that most confounding and dangerous of creatures, the human (Homo sapiens).

The group's attorney, John Shulman, hailed the agreement as a «huge change, a radical departure from business as usual.»

Impending changes justify a dramatic departure from business as usual in school districts, particularly in the area of financial management and budgeting.

Because of their mandate to overhaul a school and depart from business as usual, turnaround schools have the ability to create an appropriate culture from the ground up.

In some ways, Jokowi's election has marked a departure from business as usual for the Southeast Asian nation made up of thousands of islands.

Every grand new global initiative that has been launched in the past decades has been described as a radical break from business as usual as it demands more billions for the funding of business as usual.

But there appears to be a decisive turn from the business as usual of the last three disastrous decades.

Not exact matches

In the past, when people of color were treated with indignity and disdain for simply existing, most responses from company leaders involved an approach of firing an employee, a feeble apology, and business as usual once the event faded from the headlines.

One thing's for certain: today's teens are not doing business as usual, and in order to keep them happy, you need to do a lot more than get an endorsement from Justin Bieber.

When I named Holmes to my Worst Entrepreneurs of 2015 and 2016 lists, I took a lot of flak from those who saw the Theranos situation as business as usual in the startup game: You win some, you lose some.

Insiders from Ola are backing her statement and note that it is «business as usual.»

I'd you watched the media, politicians taking union money in return for policy promises were demonized while the same from corporations were treated as business as usual.

For most executives, the future is very bright for the sector as a whole as companies move away from restructuring for mere survival and return to business as usual.

I think we can, tip until now the major challenge to business as usual and the old - time religion has been from liberation theology.

From then onwards it has been business not as usual for health food wholesaling, as CLF has refined and extended its distinctive IT - led wholesaling offer.

«From day one, I wanted to create a business that not only offered safe and low impact cleaning alternatives, but challenged the business - as - usual model,» said Doering.

This earlier situation (in the India, Sri Lanka, and Kenya context at least) basically meant just certifying «business as usual» tea production areas with very little or no value - addition from a biodiversity point of view.