Sentences with phrase «global human footprint»

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

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Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Global Footprint is the size of human impact on Earth's natural resources.

It's more likely that we've always been more global than initially thoughtKate Horrocks doubts that controversial fossil footprints show humans...

-- «The Great Decoupling: Our Human Economic Footprint and the Global Environmental Commons» — lead authors Andrew Steer of the World Resources Institute and Dominic Waughray of the World Economic Forum.

If we accept that humans are at the root of global warming then dealing with the problem at its root would seem to suggest the most efficient way to reduce humanity's carbon footprint would be to reduce humanity.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).

Footprint Futures, a university - level curriculum for exploring the sustainability challenge facing human economies, from Global Footprint Network.

The Global Footprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to global waGlobal Footprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to globalFootprint Network (GFN) has developed the concepts of biocapacity — the amount of land available to provide for human needs, and ecological footprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to globalfootprint — the land needed to satisfy the consumption of different nations in a sustainable manner, including the biological capacity to absorb and mitigate the carbon dioxide emissions that lead to global waglobal warming.

There are a number of emerging technologies that have the potential to markedly reduce the human footprint at the global level, in terms of energy, water, emissions of contaminants and other impacts.

In Ecological Footprint accounts, the «carbon Footprint» measures the amount of biological capacity, in global hectares, demanded by human emissions of fossil carbon dioxide.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

We need to become globally earth - centered, with respect for global human rights, reverence and compassion for living beings, with a light carbon footprint.

That is the central finding of the Ecological Footprint (EF), a widely cited global sustainability indicator used by the United Nations and major NGOs around the world to estimate the impact of human activity on the biosphere.

Global Footprint Network is an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

On the global scale, when the footprint of consumption exceeds biocapacity, the interpretation is that humans are exceeding the regenerative capacity of Earth's ecosystems and therefore depleting stocks of natural capital, a state known as «overshoot» [19].

Fred Pearce, «Admit it: we can't measure our ecological footprint,» November 20, 2013 David Biello, «Forget What You've Heard: Humans Are Not Using More Than One Planet,» November 7, 2013 Ross Pomeroy, «Are Global Footprint Estimates Accuratfootprint,» November 20, 2013 David Biello, «Forget What You've Heard: Humans Are Not Using More Than One Planet,» November 7, 2013 Ross Pomeroy, «Are Global Footprint Estimates AccuratFootprint Estimates Accurate?»

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

Imagine the lower carbon footprint (carbon dixoide emissions from mining and production of precious metals for electronics is estimated to be about 0.1 % of the global emissions), and lower environmental and human impact of just reusing many of those materials, rather than mining them.

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

The study found «strong indirect edge effects over decades» in forests more than a kilometer (0.6 miles) from oil palm plantations, «suggesting the true global ecological footprint of human food production has been substantially underestimated.»

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