Sentences with phrase «global changes now»

Humans are the major factor shaping global change now.

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Carney, who now leads the Bank of England, has inserted himself into the global debate over what to do about climate change.

«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

«Now more than ever, we are excited to lead our company's global effort toward a renewable future and, partnering with Enel, set an industry example of how major companies can help to make a difference in climate change,» he added.

Media analyst Kaan Yigit, president of Solutions Research Group says the global media landscape has changed with new players like Facebook, Netflix and YouTube, and while may $ 3.38 billion sound like a lot to pay right now, the real value of Astral's assets won't be determined until multi-platform media consumption across TV, mobile and online really goes mainstream.

Now imagine the same information cloaked in the trappings of a great story, «a story about a family in South America that is being affected by changes in the global economy — a story about the father going to work in a foreign country to earn enough for the family, and the mother having to drive 100 kilometers for health care.»

There has been a sea change in the interim, with a majority of larger international companies now considering China to be a market where they must prevail in order to have sustainable success on a global basis.

If, for example, it turns out that 30 years from now we enter a period of global cooling, will we then accuse climate - change activists of greed and unethical behaviour?

Technology is changing businesses everywhere, but special attention now centers on service - oriented industries, which already account for more than 50 percent of global GDP and are likely to see enormous opportunities for innovation in coming years.

Now a new generation is poised to take charge — at an absolutely pivotal moment, when the global construction industry is undergoing sudden, wrenching change.

Now our oil imports have plummeted, our clean energy industry is booming, and America is a global leader in the fight against climate change.

It has just been quicker in responding to changes that the rest of the work world is now experiencing: data that allows individual performance to be measured continuously, come - and - go relationships between employers and employees, and global competition in which empires rise and fall overnight.

Another experiment funded by the now defunct Alberta's Oilsands Environmental Review Project (AOERP) changed the global politics of acid rain.

The global shift to electric cars is now well underway and accelerating, bringing with it big changes for drivers, companies, industries and governments around the world.

That software has taken over and changed many aspects of the global economy in less than a decade is now clear.

Brent Beardsley, global head of wealth and asset management at Boston Consulting Group, says more wealth management firms with a wirehouse — or integrated broker — model are looking to increase revenues from advisers by automating advice: «If you look at the big wirehouses, you'll see the role of the adviser has changed now that portfolio management is increasingly being managed centrally.

Although voluntary, the pressure on companies to begin reporting on these measures will be strong, given the now global focus on climate change from governments and consumers alike.

As the industry undergoes changes across the globe, now more than ever, it is crucial for Canadian provinces to band together and work to get Canada's energy products to global markets.»

To better understand what's happening now and what may be ahead, read the «Policies of Change: Guiding Principles That May Help Shape the Global Economy» report from Wells Fargo Investment Institute (WFII).

The global markets right now indeed appear «messy and chaotic,» but curious investors and fund managers realize that specific tools and patterns help them navigate through the complexity and intensity of constantly changing landscapes.

«This government is determined that British businesses should now take the next steps to build on the growing global opportunities provided by the advancement of AI, changing the lives of millions of people.

Now, if you told me that getting Isreal to convert would reverse global climate change, I might be interested.

Some have stated that unless major reforms are implemented ecologically, that by 2037, the earth may be unable to sustain life as we now have, with climate change now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&rchange now accepted as fact, whereby scientists (IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely&rChange) are now saying that they are 95 percent sure that global warming is man - made, using the words «extemely likely».

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

At least within the political and business sectors, the issues now discussed are the exact nature of the changes that global warming will bring and the rate at which they will occur.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

In the light of the vast economic and technological changes that the UN has already contributed to the global system of what Vasak calls «solidarity,» it is now possible to classify the basic human standards into three broad categories: rights (individual) needs (collective) and uses (world law).

what is necessary and a very important change for us today and the future is our conscience, and this requires global consciousness necessary for our long term needs and survival, we need a faith that will compel us to unite to address the problems of survival, in the future, a few thousand years from now the glacial period cycle is due, earth will no longer be hospitable and we either have to immigrate to other planets or, develope a system that will protect us, the natural calamities like floods, typhoons, sub zero temperatures, will become our big problem in the future, so we need a religion that will guide our conscience from simplistic self survival towards a more holistic view of reality.Our oneness with ourselves and Him is the primary tenets or doctrines of this religion.

Dr. Hayhoe is the co-author of the book A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith - Based Decisions and describes herself as «a spokesperson with one principal goal — to bring public awareness to the simple truth that the scientific debate is over, and now it's time for all of us to take action.»

In recognition of the urgent challenges posed by climate change and population growth, the two organizations are now planning a merger that will enable us to scale up critical sustainability interventions in the global agricultural supply chain.

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization serving the world's most vulnerable by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources to create long - term, sustainable change.

In a new report, GRAIN outlines the contributions of industrial meat and dairy to global climate change, arguing that reducing their production and consumption is one of the most important actions we can take to address the climate crisis now.

A number of studies are now linking food losses and waste to rises in inflation, food security, resource inputs and climate change as the global food industry experiences its third bout of inflation in five years due to poor agricultural harvests in the US, Russia and South America.

Study links California drought to global warming: Now a study is asserting a link between climate change and both the intensifying California drought and the polar vortex blamed for a harsh winter that mercifully has just ended in many places...

US skim milk powder (SMP) prices are now determined by global movements, not domestic events - a change our commodities expert John Geuss describes as «a new and different dynamic.»

The Football Club was once a beacon of local identity and community; the peoples game now its all about big money, global markets and foreign ownership as club names and colours are changed to satisfy markets other than traditional supporters and ordinary supporters are marginalised and priced out of watching their local club.

We are a global brand, and we want to be a force for change in both reducing our social and environmental impact and confronting head on the challenges facing the fashion industry now and in the future.

It remains to be seen whether the nature and the depth of feeling that resulted in a «leave» vote will now translate to a decline in public support for international development and a desire to change the nature of the UK's role on the global stage.

We need to see even greater political urgency and leadership now to push for a good climate change deal than we saw in the face of the global financial crisis.

«Add to this the disastrous effects of climate change, and we are looking at a highly unstable global system by the middle years of the century unless urgent action is taken now.»

Nearly 300 people were in attendance at the rally, according to organizers, at which many spoke about individual steps that could be taken to help thwart the cyclical event once known as global warming, now re-dubbed climate change.

Now, a 15 - year, 30 - nation research collective called Geotraces is embarking on an ambitious global survey of ocean chemistry to quantify trace elements and shed light on how chemical concentrations fluctuate in response to changing environmental conditions.

Anthropogenic climate change and resulting sea level rise are now happening much more rapidly than at the transition from the last ice age to the modern global climate.

The impact of global warming has been linked to the severity of droughts, water scarcity, and food shortages in war - torn Syria, but now an internationally recognized expert on water resources has identified climate change as a factor contributing to political turmoil in the region.

There has been a global, 30 - year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land - use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2).

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President - elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expressed doubt about the science behind global climate change during a contentious Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, but added he would be obliged for now to uphold the EPA's finding carbon dioxide poses a public danger.

Now, she advises European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on scientific topics from global health to climate change.

The scientific results have recently been shown by scientists Kathrin Rousk and Anders Michelsen from Center for Permafrost and Department of Biology at University of Copenhagen, and is now published in the widely recognized scientific journal Global Change Biology.

The clock now reads six minutes from that end - of - days witching hour after it was changed during a press conference Thursday in New York City, citing an increased awareness and interest in stopping key threats to humanity (in particular nuclear conflict and global warming) since U.S. President Barack Obama took office about a year ago.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,Change, IPCC.