Sentences with phrase «future global population»

Our model shows how variation in future energy supplies may affect the size of the future global population, given the empirical relationship shown in Figure 1.

Our new global estimate may plausibly be used for calculation of future global population trends.

I'm not a demographer, and on the probabilities of different future global populations I'm ready to accept the findings of the two leading producers of demographic projections.

I'm not a demographer, and on the probabilities of different future global populations I'm ready to accept the findings of the two leading producers of demographic projections.

Not exact matches

In the future, the global population is expected to increase from 6.9 billion in 2010 to 9.6 billion in 2050, or by 38 %.

The nations were unified by their more recent industrialization process, rapid growth, large populations and the hope that they represented the future stars of the global economy.

Quorn chief executive Kevin Brennan said: «We are proud to be contributing to the UK's export drive and to be investing in a British innovation that is vital to addressing the future need for protein across a growing global population.

Shane McIntyre, national director of rural and agribusiness at Colliers International, said there were numerous factors that would «ensure the future of beef in the medium term» including an insatiable global appetite for protein, population growth and a wealthier world.

Its future as an energy hub, its diverse cultural background and its large population, would turn the EU into a truly global actor.

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

Climate models and the latest IPCC data reveal four possible futures for global population, economy and environment at the end of this century

In view of future global warming, it's vital for today's global population to know whether temperatures will rise steadily, or whether there will be sudden, major fluctuations.

«Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production, but resurrection plants present great potential for the development of stress tolerant crops.&Global climate change, increasingly erratic weather and a burgeoning global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production, but resurrection plants present great potential for the development of stress tolerant crops.&global population are significant threats to the sustainability of future crop production, but resurrection plants present great potential for the development of stress tolerant crops.»

«Restoring populations of animals to their former bounty could help to recycle phosphorus from the sea to land, increasing global stocks of available phosphorus in the future.»

In the future, it is expected to reduce reliance on fossil fuels such as oil, coal or gas and help tackle major challenges such as climate change and global population growth.

More land will be used in the future for agricultural production to support an increasing global population.

The purpose of this course is to prepare licensure candidates with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter their content instruction, so that the growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in schools across the country can access curriculum, achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy.

Note how many of the world's populations live along coastlines susceptible to hurricanes / cyclones today as well as flooding from global climate change in the future.

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A global assessment.

Now we are a smart species and our agriculture science and production has substantially reduced famine on our planet and has given us more time than most species have before these population reductions occur (although global climate shift and higher energy costs are wildcards in food production and availability in the future).

Only if the world's population can be decreased by several billion through a strong global birth reduction and limiting program before we reach subsistence for all of us, will many future generations be able to exist.

Very simple: that the developing world (comprising 82 percent of the global population, all its 3 billion poorest people and responsible for over 65 percent of global GHG emissions) was to be exempt from any obligation — legal or moral, now or in future — to reduce those emissions.

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All attempts to project the future size of the global human population are subject to considerable, and unavoidable, uncertainty [23].

Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

Global population is now unsustainably large, and I fear that the likely future includes continuing growth and widespread food and security crises.

It covered food and water as well as energy, since future global energy demand (and emissions) depends on population and economic development in places like China and India (as COP21 is rediscovering).

In each model, global land use develops according to assumptions about future trade, technology and world population.

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His new research, published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, presents a global assessment of the economic costs and the population affected by river floods under different global warming scenarios.

The fact that «There are thousands of healthy polar bears prowling the Arctic at this moment» does not diminish the threat to the polar bear population due to global warming now, or in the future.

On the basis of our results, a 1 °C rise in environmental temperature would account for over 100 000 new diabetes cases per year in the USA alone, given a population of nearly 322 million people in 2015.38 These findings emphasize the importance of future research into the effects of environmental temperature on glucose metabolism and the onset of diabetes, especially in view of the global rise in temperatures with a new record set for the warmest winter in the USA last year.39

Yet, model projections of future global warming vary, because of differing estimates of population growth, economic activity, greenhouse gas emission rates, changes in atmospheric particulate concentrations and their effects, and also because of uncertainties in climate models.

For example, a 2010 study published in the proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences of The United States (PNAS) titled «Global Demographic Trends and Future Carbon Emissions» demonstrated that slowing population growth could provide 16 to 29 percent of the emissions reductions suggested to be necessary by 2050 to avoid dangerous climate change.

With all of the very real concerns about the future of energy usage on the planet, Genesis Energy, an energy supplier and retailer in New Zealand has come up with a terrific way of helping kids develop a strong basis on which to develop future knowledge about the issues surrounding global energy usage without overwhelming them with every sophisticated detail... Essentially, they've come up with a game not too unlike SimCity, where kids get to develop their own city in a game that features 150 «turns»; each of which is a chance to make a wide array of decisions about the usage of energy, natural resources, and ultimately the future of the population within it.

A study from the Futures Group and calculations by population expert Robert Engelman indicate that if all women were able to become pregnant only when they chose to, global fertility would drop close to or even below replacement level, greatly reducing population growth.

Future fire regimes will be less affected by global warming than by other global changes, in particular population growth, because over 95 % of ignitions are due to humans.

Rarely doing what they promise regarding a host of global issues affecting climate, pollution and even their own survival... government decisions are often unhealthy when they feel the people can be easily controlled or diverted... and as humans What we want for the earth and its systems has been ignored for a very long time... as a global population every individual needs a choice on the future of humanity and earth's remaining species.

Professor Elliott will be speaking about the controversial issue of sustaining global food supply to the rapidly growing world population and challenge the audience with ideas about the future of global food security and the role we have to play in it.

Mexican businesses wanting to expand their headcount in the future are likely to benefit from the country's increasing working age population, although an ongoing challenge is that Mexico has the third lowest female labour force participation rate (49 per cent) among the 33 countries featured in the Hays Global Skills Index.