Sentences with phrase «general human future»

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If there are still different possible futures for planetary life in general, and for human existence in particular, those futures have come to depend increasingly on decisions made by the human species.

Those of the first category all relate to a notion of human responsibility toward current and future generations of humankind and to the ecosystem in general.

Joint lead author Professor Manfred Kayser from Erasmus MC said: «Besides substantially increasing our understanding of human pigmentation genetics in general, finding these new hair colour genes is also important for further increasing the accuracy of hair colour prediction from DNA traces in future forensic applications, which can help to find unknown perpetrators of crime.»

The research was based on the premise that self - awareness among humans has been shown to create the potential for hope — or the general expectation and feeling that future desired outcomes will occur.

Allowing human water use, largely for agriculture, to expand from 2,600 cubic kilometers today to 4,000 cubic kilometers in the future will allow further degradation at such environmental disaster sites as the drying Aral Sea in Asia and seven major rivers, including the Colorado in the U.S., that no longer reach the sea, notes David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.

De Croo said they hope to convene again at future women's rights and human rights meetings, including the UN General Assembly in September.

Conference chairs say they hope to reconvene at future women's and human rights meetings, including the UN General Assembly in September.

In this future world where robots routinely coexist with humans in their households and in society in general, David stands apart from all the other «mecha»: he is the first to be programmed with the ability to love.

In developing countries, where there is no specific enemy or conflict but a general lack of human rights, peace education seeks to elucidate sources of inequality to promote a more equitable, stable future.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

A general agreement that IF this trend continues for another «X» years despite continued increase of GHG concentrations, there will be enough evidence in the red column to seriously question the ability of the GCMs cited by IPCC: a) to correctly assess human attribution of past climate change b) to estimate climate sensitivity c) to make meaningful projections of future climate changes due to AGW

These activities can be grouped under the following areas: improve our knowledge of Earth's past and present climate variability and change; improve our understanding of natural and human forces of climate change; improve our capability to model and predict future conditions and impacts; assess the Nation's vulnerability to current and anticipated impacts of climate change; and improve the Nation's ability to respond to climate change by providing climate information and decision support tools that are useful to policy makers and the general public.»

While the idea that future climate is unpredictable is correct in the main, that is the case because of the general lack of truly periodic variations (over time - spans of human proportions).

The halls are filled with drama as governments once more for the 19th try to decide the future of our planet and humans in general, but there are concerns that this COP might just be another two week vacation for most negotiators, like it has been in the past.

«There is a general consensus among earth scientists that melting of land ice greatly contributes to sea - level rise (SLR) and that future warming will exacerbate the risks posed to human civilisation,» says the study led by Eric Larour.

The greatest challenge for the future, he says, «is how we'll start to move from fit - to - task solutions,» such as voice recognition and image analysis, «to more general - purpose AI systems» that simulate human activity, such as an automated chat - bot that will dynamically pose and respond to questions from a user and «which are themselves starting to create inventions...

Technology has forever altered future law by furthering human rights and access to justice, while big data and analytics play an increasingly larger role in society in general and the legal world in particular.

(c) What are the appropriate levels of (i) general damages, (ii) past losses, (iii) future losses, and (iv) if appropriate, Human Rights Act damages for the Claimants?

Ireland made its first public statement on the matter at the UN General Assembly in September 2013, stating that «our focus must always be to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and human rights,» principles that «must also apply to weapons which will be developed in the future, such as fully autonomous weapons systems.»

These could include, inter alia, the ability of a fully autonomous system to conform to existing law (including international humanitarian law, human rights law or general international law); potential problems associated with the design of future fully autonomous weapons that could require disarmament action, or the ethical limits to robotic autonomy in deciding on the life or death of a human, to quote just a few.»

Waymo envisions a future where there are fewer accidents caused by distracted, impaired and generally fallible human drivers, as well as reduced traffic and greater general ease to getting around.

Human rights require more than a rhetorical acknowledgement of the existence of inequality and general commitments to overcome this situation at some unspecified time in the future.