Sentences with phrase «further global increase»

The red line at the end (not included in the paper) illustrates the further global increase since 2000 by 5 - 6 cm from satellite data.

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Further, the global supply chain complexities and the need for increased interaction with customers are inevitable and unavoidable for most businesses.

If true, expect more fuel to be added to the commodities fire, further increasing drag on global economic activity while adding to the already worrisome upward pressure on inflation.

Taking a closer look at China's «Belt and Road» plan — a push to increase global clout and further Beijing's integration with the world economy.

In fact, this kind of negotiated tax increase might be a far preferable outcome for the world's savers, investors and high - income earners than the increasingly likely alternative: persistent uncertainty over the global financial system or the consummation of that uncertainty in an asset - value - destroying economic downturn.

In an editorial late on Tuesday, the influential Global Times tabloid expressed alarm at how far the rhetoric on both sides had gone and how it had increased the risk of a «fatal misjudgement».

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

In December 2015, the world agreed to the Paris Accord; to slash greenhouse gas emissions to hold global average temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C (over what it was before the Industrial Revolution), and, if we miss that target, to as far below 2 degrees as possible.

Brent Wilton, the company's global head of workplace rights, said in an email to Reuters, «We are partnering with the pilot of this project to further increase transparency and efficiency of the verification process related to labor policies within our supply chain.»

The US oil - rig count plateaued near the highest level in three years and showed signs of declining in late March (to 797), though it still stood 50 rigs above the year - end 2017 total.2 This contributed to expectations for a further increase in American crude production, which has topped 10 mb / d each week since early February, when WTI prices began to recede from their intra-quarterly high of US$ 66.14 a barrel.3 The amount of crude in US storage occasionally exceeded weekly estimates given the higher domestic output and fluctuating net import figures, reigniting fears that US production may thwart OPEC's efforts to clear global oversupply.

Likewise, the increase can be seen as an acknowledgment among investors that corporations are failing to address the several global crises that threaten the fabric of society as we have experienced it thus far.

McDonald's posted global comparable sales growth of 5.5 % in the first quarter, ahead of estimates of 3.9 %, on a 0.8 % increase in traffic, marking the 11th consecutive quarter of positive comparable sales and fifth consecutive quarter with increasing guest counts, further evidence that efforts to modernize the brand and menu are paying off.

In a late - October statement, the Fed dropped prior references to the risks to US growth and inflation stemming from skittish financial markets and a sluggish global economy, and it singled out solid increases in the domestic US economy in areas such as spending and investment, along with further improvement in the housing market.

Even if the combination of Brexit and technology keeps UK GDP growth and inflation at modest levels, the risk of global bond yields and real yields rising further has increased.

Now, investors are eyeing an OPEC meeting on November 27 to see whether the organization could even cut prices further in an attempt to retain its global market share, particularly in the face of competition from the U.S. where oil production has increased thanks to the shale gas industry.

We think it's realistic to expect further gains in global stocks and modest interest rate increases, along with more volatility.

The eurozone's cyclical recovery should continue, in our view, with increasing confidence among consumers and businesses in the region boosting spending, and a further lift from a healthy global economic environment.

The surge in Ripple's price over the two years is largely attributable to the adoption of the Ripple blockchain by Japanese banks and increased interest by other global finance institutions as it provides suitable settlements platform that is far more reliable than the current solutions such as SWIFT.

The recovery in the major economies has so far remained patchy, and information becoming available in the first half of the year tended to suggest that the likelihood of a more extended period of global weakness was increasing.

Our econometric analysis shows that global factors play a dominant role in driving inflation at the individual country level; our measure of the global output gap has begun to increase, and should rise further as emerging markets recover, exerting upward pressure on inflation rates.

The strength in global growth has been associated with a rapid expansion of trade and sharp increases in commodity prices and freight charges (for further details see «Box A: Developments in World Trade»).

As pension funds, hedge funds and mutual funds recovered from the crisis, traders, portfolio managers and treasurers said in interviews with Global Finance that their exposure to derivatives is actually increasing as a means of hedging against further volatility in the markets.

Optimism in global financial markets has increased further over the past three months, as the US - led global economic recovery continues to gather pace.

The analysis on trade and California jobs shows international trade facilitated $ 160 billion in California goods and $ 135.7 billion in California services exports in 2016 and that it lowers prices and increases choices for California companies and families, helping businesses to compete in global markets and families to stretch their paychecks further.

The strongest growth so far this year has come from the bank's global banking business, which increased earnings by 36 % on record revenue of $ 10 billion.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

Increased global consolidation of printing companies means label printers have started exploring the packaging market, and further centralization of packaging procurement requires further standardization.

Our recent research revealed a 22 % increase in global product launches with a vegetarian positioning from 2013 to 2014, and further growth is anticipated.

Concern over future food and nutritional security is rapidly rising on the global agenda amidst studies showing crop yields are far from increasing at the rates needed to meet projected demands for 2050.

The Global Commission further recognises a need to increase the participation of «people everywhere... in the political decisions that affect them».

The Construction Products Association's latest State of Trade Survey, which has been launched today, shows that although a Eurozone crisis appears to have been averted for the time being, the prospect of an economic slowdown in the major European economies, together with increasing global energy and raw material prices, remain as the major threats to further recovery in the UK construction products industry.

The people remain far ahead of our political and economic leaders in wanting action to protect us from the increasing threat presented by global warming.

She handled day - to - day aspects for two federally - funded programs, GET SET (Global Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering, and Technology) which engaged students, teachers, and parents in a suite of learning activities designed to increase student interest in pursuit of advanced course - taking, and careers in engineering and other STEM areas, and DC ACTS (DC Advancing Competencies in Technology and Science), which provided CEU's from George Washington University to teachers furthering their science education and teaching pedagogy.

One aerosol, black carbon, is of increasing concern for Arctic nations worried about the pace of climate change in the far north, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

Published today in the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper concludes that limiting the increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 1.5 °C, the goal of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, is not yet geophysically impossible, but likely requires more ambitious emission reductions than those pledged so far.

To compute how additional pollution from ships increases risk of disease for exposed populations, especially those living in coastal communities or along major shipping lanes and far inland in some nations like India, the team incorporated important underlying health information from the World Health Organization and Global Asthma Network.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

Global economic losses caused by extreme weather events have risen to nearly $ 200 billion a year over the last decade and look set to increase further as climate change worsens, a report by the World Bank showed on Monday.

This result is particularly striking because global warming has increased mean temperatures by less than 1 degree Celsius so far.

Tree mortality can radically transform ecosystems, affect biodiversity, harm local economies, and pose fire risks, as well as further increase global warming.

But the models also suggest that the scheme could go too far: Adding excess sulfur could increase ice in Antarctica, «overcompensating» for warming, says Rasch, which could affect ecosystems and the global ocean - atmosphere system in a myriad of ways that scientists haven't studied.

The increase in carbon dioxide levels recorded so far has played the most important role in pushing average global temperatures up by 1 °C (1.8 °F) during the last 200 years.

These changes have been compounded by stronger waves in the North Sea in recent decades, and could be further exacerbated if predictions that storminess will increase with global warming prove accurate.

In the future, we plan to further increase the transmission speed and improve the precision of the tracking technology, to maximize the secure key delivery from space to ground by using quantum cryptography enabling a truly - secure global communication network, whose confidentiality is currently threatened by the upcoming development of quantum computers.

With the increase of global temperatures and climate change, sea turtle nests tend to produce more female - biased sex ratios further increasing their risk of extinction.

«We are trying to use the list as leverage for increasing access and further actions on a global level,» says Nicola Magrini, a pharmacologist in Bologna, Italy, and WHO's top overseer of EML.

The What We Know report further states that «according to the IPCC, given the current pathway for carbon emissions the high end of the «likely» range for the expected increase in global temperature is about 8 ˚ F by the end of the century.

Meanwhile, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases continue to increase, promising far worse to come.

Future global demand for metals is expected to increase further as a result of urbanization and new infrastructure construction in developing countries, widespread use of electronics, and transitions in energy technologies [3].