Sentences with phrase «global consumption due»

Not exact matches

The increase in the global consumption of goods and services is due about equally to the population explosion and to the rise of individual affluence.5

Global brewer Heineken has produced a strong first half performance but remains cautious on the development of beer consumption in Europe and the US due to continued weak consumer spending and planned austerity measures across many countries.

In response to a moderated poster session, «Mortality Due to Sugar - Sweetened Beverage Consumption: A Global, Regional, and National Comparative Risk Assessment,» presented today at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention (EPI) and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism (NPAM) 2013 Scientific Sessions, the American Beverage Association issued the following statement:

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

The researchers analysed resting and active jumping oxygen consumption rates in snails exposed to seawater at the normal temperature of 29 °C and at the increased temperature of 34 °C, projected to be reached during the next 100 years due to global warming.

-- Higher demand also (via increased consumption & waste *) due to rising global per capita incomes — basically this is an emerging / frontier markets growth story

According to FTSE's research paper, emerging market economies are being driven into the forefront of global economic growth due to the emergence of new middle class, rapid urbanization, move from export - led to consumption - led growth, and emphasis on production of higher value products.

And despite widespread skepticism, concern and even mistrust, I am certain the art market is deep and not under threat due to fundamental shifts in global patterns of consumption.

Empirically, as of 2015, low fossil fuel prices are due mostly to market manipulation, and will end when the Saudis decide to quit subsidizing global consumption (esp of oil).

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

IMO, nuclear is inevitable with or without the global warming issue and the only thing we're really discussing is the veracity of the Malthusian argument that a future with low - cost energy would be an environmental disaster due to over consumption.

Due to recent changes to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, the global standard for carbon accounting, companies can now report emission - reducing effects derived from the consumption of green electricity, which they were previously unable to do.

ie as consumers are able to drop the cost of energy from their budgets through domestic solar and other, living standards will increase even as global oil prices steadily rise, and grid energy will increase in cost due to altered consumption patterns.

In fact, the EIA projects that global energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040, largely due to expanding economic opportunities in developing nations.

This is borne out by the Eco-Label criteria which found that the four environmental problems to which paints contribute the most are: • petroleum consumption for the production of titanium dioxide, resins and solvents • global warming through emissions of CO2 and VOCs resulting respectively from titanium dioxide production and from solvent paint application • atmospheric acidification due to CO2 and sulphur from titanium dioxide processing • discharges of waste into water due to titanium dioxide processing.

If you're wondering about global trade physically slowing down, due to efforts to reduce fuel consumption and emissions from container ships, the point - to - point speed today is not that much different than the fastest clipper ships — assuming constant wind of course.

Here is more on the very recent decline in global fossil fuel consumption, due mainly to the economic recession but also perhaps to efforts in some nations toward climate change mitigation: