Sentences with phrase «global economy tanked»

After the high of the now - infamous 2008 Sotheby's auction where # 111 million of Hirst's work sold, the artist's prices nosedived as the global economy tanked, and a 2012 show at London's White Cube was savaged by critics.

And if the global economy tanks, there's a real possibility that we may be in a 1929 scenario — you wake up tomorrow morning and the Dow Jones goes down by some incredible number and we suddenly find ourselves in a whole different world.

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When I see even the Russians rising up, then I have the feeling this movement — especially if the global economy keeps on tanking — could well morph into a full - fledged global revolution.

The thesis is that global growth would eventually absorb this excess capacity, but with the economies of many other countries in the tank this may not happen.

Tom Burke chairs E3G, an independent think - tank working to accelerate the global transition to a low - carbon economy.

Last year, carbon emissions were unchanged even as the global economy grew by 3 per cent compared with 2013, according to a report by Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), a think tank linked to the UN Environment Programme.

Global Footprint Network is an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

Almost 19 % of BC's «Rosenfelds» were saved in the 70 % of CO2E covered by the BC Carbon Tax, so a bit over 13 % savings in Rosenfelds (this would be more effective than any other single measure anywhere by a wide margin), and the economy of the province remained as strong as before the legislative changes so far as analysts can determine, which is pretty freaking amazing, given that the changes happened just before the largest global economic downturn in over half a century, and pretty much 95 % of the planet's economies tanked in that time.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.