Sentences with phrase «global ecological impacts»
The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA - ON) relies on international collaboration to share data and understand the global ecological impacts of ocean acidification (OA).
http://www.goa-on.org/ Not exact matches
Cat Wars has a broader, more ecological focus, documenting the global impact of cats on wildlife, both by preying on animals and by transmitting diseases.
«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.
It remains the fastest growing component of the widening gap between the Ecological Footprint and the planet's biocapacity,» Wackernagel said adding that a global agreement that aims to phase out fossil fuels could have a significant impact in helping curb the consistent growth and even shrink Ecological Footprint, humanity's demand on planet Earth.
If these trends continue, increased wildfire potential may have pronounced global socio - economic, ecological and climate system impacts.
To counter the damage to the environment, nonprofit environmental groups and palm oil manufacturers gathered in 2004 and established the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification body.10 They have created eight ecological principles with 39 criteria11 to prevent the negative environmental impacts of palm oil production.
It is also a social - ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global.
Achieving a sustainable and equitable global solution is clearly incompatible with a worldwide replication of U.S. lifestyles or even the somewhat less damaging ecological impacts of the lifestyles of other industrialized countries.
1) It'd be great to interlace this with a global breakdown of the social and ecological impacts (for better and worse), as well.
Shi, A. (2003) The impact of population pressure on global carbon dioxide emissions, 1975 - 1996: evidence from pooled cross-country data, Ecological Economics, 44, 29 - 42.
«The climate change countermovement has had a real political and ecological impact on the failure of the world to act on the issue of global warming,» said Brulle.
Sections on the ecological effects of global warming and its impact on human health were removed.
Jerry specializes in understanding the impacts of human activities on the biogeochemistry of ecological systems from local to global scales, using a combination of field studies and simulation modeling.
At PIK, researchers in the natural and social sciences from all over the world work closely together to study global change and its impacts on ecological, economic and social systems.
«Ecological treaties should seek to curb emissions of sulpher dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals and other highly - toxic pollutants instead of targeting carbon dioxide, which is a non-toxic gas whose impact on global warming has not been proved,» says Dr. Golubchikov.
Over the last decade, she has reported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic.
The World Bank called for urgent action on climate change on Sunday after it released a report that examined the economic, ecological and human impacts that a 7.2 °F rise in global temperature would have on the world's population... Read More
Examining the global environmental impact of regional consumption activites — Part 1: A technical note on combining input - output and ecological footprint analysis.
The scientists note that the combination of rapid global warming and human ecological impacts «will present terrestrial ecosystems with an environment that is unprecedented in recent evolutionary history.»
Entering the 21 st century TRL science has returned to study ecological impacts on tree - growth and the pursuit of reconstructing global climate system dynamics.
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.
Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshooglobal specialist in energy management and automation, and Global Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth OvershooGlobal Footprint Network, an international research organization that has pioneered the Ecological Footprint resource accounting metric, are joining forces to promote sustainable solutions that are available today and estimate their impact on moving the date of Earth Overshoot Day.
Arctic sea ice loss can be an example of a tipping point, but it's primarily a tipping point for nothing else than itself (i.e., Arctic sea ice loss, and associated ecological systems, etc)-- but without much impact on the energy budget of the entire planet or on global climate sensitivity.
The problem was historically not realizing the ecological impact of producing and burning fossil fuels (both in terms of global warming as well as other forms of pollution) until it was a problem of catastrophic proportions.
Her words echoed those written in Pope Francis's landmark Encyclical released on June 18, which condemned ecological destruction and the impact of global warming on the world's poorest people, adding that the Pontiff linked the issues of both economic and climate justice «in a way that this divestment movement does.»
Observer Peter Bosshard of International Rivers recently described some ecological impacts of China's global scramble — and the growing complaints of locals — in the San Francisco Chronicle:
Soon's 11 papers show a spectrum of perspectives, from full - fledged denial of human - caused global warming to articles that downplay the role of climate change in ecological impacts.
And yet, despite a long history of scientific warnings (please see Footnote 30 for a detailed description30), the many current ecological and economic impacts and crises, the future risks and dangers, the large number of international meetings and conferences on the urgent need for climate policies and measures, and the adoption of some national and regional climate policies, growth in global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels and cement has not only remained strong but is actually accelerating.
The shift provides additional evidence that changes in the Arctic are not only directly because of global warming, as shown by warmer air and sea temperatures, but are also part of an «Arctic amplification» through which multiple Arctic - specific physical processes interact to accelerate temperature change, ice variability, and ecological impacts.
Nature Letter Published online: 18 April 2018 Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages Terry P. Hughes et al Abstract Global warming is rapidly emerging as a universal threat to ecological integrity and function, highlighting the urgent need for a better understanding of the impact of heat exposure on the resilience of ecosystems and the people who depend on them.
The high - altitude meadows are rarely mentioned in discussions of global warming, but the changes to this ground have a profound impact on Tibetan politics and the world's ecological security.
Ecosphere + (E +) is part of the impact investment Althelia Climate Fund, and is led by Lisa Walker, with a mission to grow the global demand for carbon reductions, thereby creating an incentive to prevent the destruction of critical ecological systems, such as rainforests, which balance the carbon in our environment.