Sentences with phrase «global average loss»

In the worst hit cities, the economists estimate, the losses could reach 10.9 percent of GDP by the end of the century, double the expected global average loss of 5.6 percent.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped but pared most of its losses as investors weighed global trade negotiations, central bank moves and the latest corporate earnings and manufacturing data.

A recent World Bank report reveals that Global Average Annual Losses from disasters in the built environment are now estimated at $ 314 billion and can increase to $ 415 billion by 2030..

The work by Mark Jacobson, director of Stanford University's Atmosphere / Energy program and a fellow at the university's Woods Institute, argues that cutting emissions of black carbon may be the fastest method to limit the ongoing loss of ice in the Arctic, which is warming twice as fast as the global average.

We came up with numbers that business as usual would give you: losses, averaged over space, over time and uncertain outcomes, of around 5 percent of global gross domestic product and upwards, probably substantially more than 5 percent of GDP.

The FPA Global Value Strategy will seek to provide above - average capital appreciation over the long term while attempting to minimize the risk of capital losses by investing in well - run, financially robust, high - quality businesses around the world, in both developed and emerging markets.

Average global flood losses in 2005 are estimated to be approximately $ 6 billion per year (U.S. dollars), increasing to $ 52 billion by 2050 with projected socio - economic change alone.

The Amazon is referred to as a climate tipping point because research shows following a 21st century global average temperature rise most of the Amazon basin may dry out, leading to a massive biome shift — accompanied by many gigatonnes of extra CO2 emissions and almost unimaginable biodiversity loss, placing the cascading Anthropocene Extinction in top gear.

An estimated 8 million people worldwide die due to air pollution while climate change is linked to over 3.5 million deaths and will lead to a possible 23 % loss in average global income by the end of the century.

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Pointing to an oft - repeated formula, Mr. Djoghlaf said that each increase of one degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) in average global surface temperature resulted in the loss of about 10 percent of all known animal and plant species.

Climate change leads to species extinctions and exponentially so: the loss of biodiversity is set to accelerate under continuation of global average temperature rise.

The resulting enhanced loss of summer and winter sea ice resulted in feedbacks, associated with Arctic Amplification, which has raised Arctic air temperatures at a rate twice the global average.

Furthermore, the Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification, and stimulated by the combined increasing Arctic temperatures and rapid loss of sea ice in all seasons along with declining snow cover in the spring and early summer.

Reaffirming the unwavering commitment of parties to keep global average temperature increase well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels and the continuum approach between mitigation, adaptation, loss & damage and finance that is required to ensure equity before 2020.

Although the rate of global net forest loss slowed down from an average of 7.3 million hectares per year in the 1990s to 3.3 million hectares per year in 2010 — 2015, deforestation remains a matter of deep concern.

Likewise, the effects on average global temperature and climate of rapidly diminishing albedo evidenced by loss of Arctic sea ice and retreating glaciers, is not accurately known.

Positive forcing at seasonal to inter-annual scales leads to an average global surface temperature drop from La Nina influence but recharging of OHC (longer term gain), while reduced forcing allows El Nino conditions and temporary peaks in global average temperature, and OHC reduction (longer term loss).

By 2100, global average sea level rise could be as low as 25 cms, or as high as 123 cms; between 0.2 % and 4.6 % of the world's population could be affected by flooding each year; and losses could be as low as 0.3 % or as high as 9.3 % of global gross domestic product.

Fluctuations in the mass of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are of considerable societal importance as they impact directly on global sea levels: since 1901, ice losses from Antarctica and Greenland, alongside the melting of small glaciers and ice caps and thermal expansion of the oceans, have caused global sea levels to rise at an average rate of 1.7 mm / yr.

The IPCC study, which has been leaked to a number of news agencies, reportedly added that the potential economic losses following average global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees Celsius could reach 2 percent of global income, but delaying action will increase both risks and costs.

According to data collected by Munich Re, global weather - related economic losses (inflation adjusted, 2006 dollars) have increased from an annual average of U.S. $ 8.9 billion from 1977 — 1986 to U.S. $ 45.1 billion from 1997 — 2006.

Current models suggest ice mass losses increase with temperature more rapidly than gains due to increased precipitation and that the surface mass balance becomes negative (net ice loss) at a global average warming (relative to pre-industrial values) in excess of 1.9 to 4.6 °C.

Thirteen years of GRACE data provide an excellent picture of the current mass changes of Greenland and Antarctica, with mass loss in the GRACE period 2002 - 15 amounting to 265 ± 25 GT / yr for Greenland (including peripheral ice caps), and 95 ± 50 GT / year for Antarctica, corresponding to 0.72 mm / year and 0.26 mm / year average global sea level change.

The net loss of billions of tons of ice a year added about 11 millimeters — seven - sixteenths of an inch — to global average sea levels between 1992 and 2011, about 20 % of the increase during that time, those researchers reported.

With hope waning that we can limit climate change to an average increase of 2 degrees centigrade, global warming threatens many species (including our own) with loss of habitat, disastrous weather events, and evolving illnesses.

Record droughts in many areas of the world, the loss of arctic sea ice — what you see is an increasing trend that is superimposed on annual variablity (no bets on what happens next year, but the five - to - ten year average in global temperatures, sea surface temperatures, ocean heat content — those will increase — and ice sheet volumes, tropical glacier volumes, sea ice extent will decrease.

When we analyzed the limiting roles of temperature, soil moisture, and solar radiation independently, global average trends masked regional differences in the gains and losses of suitable plant growing days.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

«A graph showing averaged global temperature and averaged catastrophe loss since 1970 was included in supplementary material rather than the IPCC report itself and was not itself published.

BTC's value, in particular, is hovering just above the $ 7,500 zone at the time of writing and at that global average some miners are mining bitcoin at break - even costs or even running operations at a loss.