Sentences with phrase «global activity report»

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«After a strong rebound in the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, the pace of activity in the emerging markets has faded,» says Stephen King, HSBC's chief economist in the report.

Thomas Sehested, CEO and co-founder of GAN integrity, a compliance technology platform, explains why these technologies are ineffective when it comes to global compliance efforts «Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.&global compliance efforts «Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.&Global compliance teams suffer because the technology offered to support compliance programs has been fragmented with activity - specific vendors, which hinders easy reporting and increases administrative headache and cost.»

The new Global Market Perspective Q2 2017 reports that investor and corporate occupier activity is at a robust level, despite geopolitical tensions and various election cycles worldwide.

The report by Caterpillar, which serves as a proxy for global economic activity, of its quarterly results on April 24 set off the broader concerns that industrial companies» financial results may have already reached peak levels.

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) of 2014, reported that «Brazil's level of early - stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA — 17.2 %) puts it 10th of the 31 efficiency - driven economies studied in GEM 2014.

«The approaches by KKR [& Co] for Treasury Wine Estates and Pacific Equity Partners for SAI Global in the second half of financial year 2014 are expected to herald the return of private equity bidders to Australia,» he said in a report that noted drivers of activity.

There is no binding mechanism at the global level to hold corporations accountable for violating these measures (although there are instruments such as the Convention on the Rights of the Child that give them weight in international law and are being used to remind governments of their responsibilities, and there have also been some attempts at European Union level to hold corporations to account for activities in third countries, with little success due to lack of satisfactory reporting mechanism).

Another OTM segment looked at a fascinating mash - up, the Global Incident Map, which displays reports of (real, alleged or suspected) terrorist activity around the world.

There was support from the global movement, but most of the activity took place in Nigeria itself, with a report from CSM saying strikes were effectively shutting down whole cities.

The website uses nontraditional data sources — reports from local news outlets and social media platforms among them — to track global infectious disease activity in real time.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

According to the latest report from the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists who track the amount of carbon emitted by human activity, 2017 will see a 2 percent increase in the burning of fossil fuels, after nearly no growth in 2014, 2015 or 2016.

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

Climatologists reporting for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) say we are seeing global warming caused by human activities and there are growing fears of feedbacks that will accelerate this warming.

weekly allotment of red meat, according to the AICR's 2007 Expert Report, «Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective.»

Source: Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective and the Continuous Update Project (CUP) reports.

MARKET WIRE - Oct 4 - Wymoo International, a background check company, reported that activity for global background checks at the firm is up sharply compared to 2009 levels.

And according to a recent report from the McKinsey Global Institute, roughly half of today's work activities could be automated by 2055.

As was predicted in the July's Monetary Policy Report, global growth prospects have slowed, causing a decrease in activities across advanced and emerging economies.

Learn more about EA Group's unparalleled experience and global reach in our annual Activity Report.

The report extolls the value of the oil and gas sector to the Canadian economy, and adds that many environmentalists «claim» that climate change is the most serious global environmental threat, and «claim» it is a direct consequence of human activity and is «reportedly» linked to the use of fossil fuels.

The most recent report concluded both, that global temperatures are rising, that this is caused largely by human activities and, in addition, that for increases in global average temperature, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystems, e.g. water and food supply.

pg xiii This Policymakers Summary aims to bring out those elements of the main report which have the greatest relevance to policy formulation, in answering the following questions • What factors determine global climate 7 • What are the greenhouse gases, and how and why are they increasing 9 • Which gases are the most important 9 • How much do we expect the climate to change 9 • How much confidence do we have in our predictions 9 • Will the climate of the future be very different 9 • Have human activities already begun to change global climate 9 How much will sea level rise 9 • What will be the effects on ecosystems 9 • What should be done to reduce uncertainties, and how long will this take 9 This report is intended to respond to the practical needs of the policymaker.

But the report finds only «medium confidence» (a 50/50 chance) * in a link between human activities and intensification of extreme rainfall on a global scale.

But the report, signed by Kevin H. Winters, assistant inspector general for investigations, criticized what it said was a sustained pattern of activities, largely supervised by senior political appointees, that included muting or withholding news releases on global warming and, at least in Dr. Hansen's case, limiting a scientist's interactions with reporters for fear that he might stray into discussing policies at odds with those of the White House.

I also tried to find an estimate of the net effect of hurricane activity on upper ocean heat content; there are some reports on individual hurricanes (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/pubs/Opal.pdf) but I couldn't find any global estimates.

Finally the report has identified the major financing options available for climate change related activities in Pakistan as well as the significant unilateral climate resources, U$ 4.5 billion in 2007 - 2009 alone, that the country is already committing to climate change without getting any global recognition for its efforts.

From Rasmussen Reports Voters in recent months have been increasingly skeptical of the idea that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity, but the number who blame long term planetary trends instead has now fallen back to its lowest level in nearly a year.

In 2007, Morano produced a report listing hundreds of scientists whose work, according to Morano, questions whether global warming is caused by human activity.

«Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed... ``

Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence.

In the main text of the paper he says «Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, the null hypothesis should now be reversed, thereby placing the burden of proof on showing that there is no human influence.»

11/7/17 — Contrary to statements by President Trump and many of his advisers, the global climate has warmed considerably over the past century and it is «extremely likely» than human activities are the «dominant cause,» according to a major new report.

Thanks to a growing body of scientific evidence and improved computer models that can project climate changes more accurately and in much finer detail, each report has proclaimed with greater and greater certainty that human activity is the main cause of global warming.

According to the report, global warming is «unequivocal,» and since the 1950s it's «extremely likely» that human activities have been the cause.

The new report — the first of three comprehensive studies to come out this year — makes one of the strongest claims yet in support of the hypothesis that human activity, namely the relentless pumping of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is what's behind climate change — an effect climate scientists refer to as anthropogenic global warming.

Global warming theory in chaos after report finds increased solar activity may COOL the Earth — Daily Mail I have been...

Further, he makes the classic logical error of «begging the question» or assuming the proposition as part of the «proof» when he says Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, in addition to the obvious argument from authority.

This activity report presents a record of the Seminar held from 27 to 29 July 2009 in Paris, focused on the role of education in addressing climate change, linking the local, regional and global contexts with particular emphasis on the challenges faced by Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

23 Sept: Live Science: Becky Oskin: Climate Scientists: IPCC Report Must Communicate Consensus Climate experts also told LiveScience they would like to see the new report stress the scientific consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global waReport Must Communicate Consensus Climate experts also told LiveScience they would like to see the new report stress the scientific consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global wareport stress the scientific consensus on climate change, and emphasize the link between human activities and global warming.

Rasmussen Reports — a pollster that tends to lean right — reported in April that only 40 percent of Americans believe human activities are responsible for global warming.

Now, I'm not sure what the Times» shift in thinking is with the article — and after more than a decade of consistent gloom - and - doom reporting and editorializing on global warming, I would imagine that the Green - leaning newspaper does not intend to rethink its position on the scare — but it's going to take more than the mere economic exploitation of a shrinking polar ice cap to establish human activity as the cause of the melting.

Only a year ago, WND reported scientists and others on a team assembled by the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, which focuses on free - market solutions to today's problems, say the «scare» of global warming from the use of carbon fuels and other human activities «is over.»

This activity report highlights the 20 - year history that technology development and transfer has played in the global fight against climate change and it shows how this role has been taken forward under the UNFCCC.

This activity report provides an overview of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF)'s extensive work supporting the development of national renewable energy regimes based around feed - in tariffs.

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) funds.

Thursday, April 14, 2016, 5:30 PM - Greenland's earliest recorded melt shocked scientists this week, while at the same time, a new report ultimately confirms the 97 per cent consensus that human activity is responsible for recent changes in our climate due to global warming.

This activity report presents the activities of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for fiscal year 2012 — from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012 — in the area of climate change.

After finishing a study contending that solar activity is increasing global warming, scientist Willie Soon of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reported his news to a utility company that was a major funder of his work.