Sentences with phrase «global environmental trends»

At EPI, Emily contributes to the research, writing, and editing of releases and follows global environmental trends.

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With global leadership in both internal combustion engines and hybrid and electric powertrains, the firm is expected to profit from shifting secular trends and increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

Despite the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, global regulations are still trending towards stricter environmental and emissions regulations, requiring businesses to invest in cleaner technology in order to meet those standards.

Tjard Westbroek, global sector head of supply chains at Rabobank, said: «As market trends, such as environmental footprint, sustainability, access to recycled material and food safety make it more difficult for smaller players to cope with growing investment necessities, it is inevitable that further market consolidation will happen.

Urging the people of Osun to monitor trends across the world for environmental issues, the Bureau said unless this is done, the magnitude of the global worries over the environment would not be fully appreciated.

«Until 2001, the region was not experiencing a warming trend,» said Walter Andriuzzi, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability.

These are just three examples of global change, a term used to describe climate trends and other environmental transformations.

Here we present an analysis of daily global fire weather trends from 1979 to 2013 based on three sub-daily global meteorological data sets (the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis, NCEP - DOE Reanalysis II and the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Interim Reanalysis) 35,36,37 between ∼ 0.75 ° and 2.0 ° grid cell resolution.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storEnvironmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storenvironmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

Eco-tourism is one of the fastest - growing sectors in the global tourism arena and this trend will continue to grow, especially with consumer trends indicating the increase in demand for products and destinations to focus on environmental best practices and sustainable tourism development.

Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on a project of great social, environmental, and global concern.

Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on an issue of great social, environmental, and global concern.

Long ago, Jesse Ausubel, a veteran Rockefeller University analyst of global resource and environmental trends, asserted that, «in general, politicians are pulling on disconnected levers» at the intersection of energy and environmental policy.

Below you can read my missive, with e-mail shorthand slightly cleaned up, followed by an exchange this query triggered between Vaclav Smil, the University of Manitoba analyst of just about every global risk and trend, and Lester Brown, who heads the Earth Policy Institute and has for decades warned of economic and environmental unraveling.

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

It aims to identify strategies related to skills development in Indonesia that may provide remedial measure of environmental degradation, climate change and global trends for green economies.

According to the report, if current trends are not reversed, the Asia - Pacific region could be the most important driver of global resource use and related environmental impacts, including resource scarcity and climate change.

(v) Assessments of predictability using quantitative models of the Earth system to simulate global and regional environmental processes and trends.

Based on Lester Brown's latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, this presentation highlights just a few of the most urgent threats to our global food supply and the trends that created them.

Working with a total of 2,196 globally - distributed databases containing observations of NPP, as well as the five environmental variables thought to most impact NPP trends (precipitation, air temperature, leaf area index, fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, and atmospheric CO2 concentration), Li et al. analyzed the spatiotemporal patterns of global NPP over the past half century (1961 — 2010).

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is UN Environment's main assessment of the state of the global environment, providing environmental trends for air, climate, water, land and Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is UN Environment's main assessment of the state of the global environment, providing environmental trends for air, climate, water, land and global environment, providing environmental trends for air, climate, water, land and biota.

(a)(ii) Increase in the number of relevant global, regional and national forums and institutions using data on environmental trends identified through UN Environment Programme to influence their policy

Global environmental change explains the warming trend over the last decade, but it doesn't explain why the last two winters have set record lows in certain parts of America and Canada.

The Climate Data Store (CDS) at the heart of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) infrastructure, will be presented by Baudouin Raoult, principal software architect and strategist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at a workshop on 22nd Sept in Paris the focus of which will be to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

Building on current developments in international initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and publicEnvironmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and publicenvironmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

Understanding changes in the power sector is therefore essential to analysing progress towards environmental goals and understanding global energy trends.

A paper by Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the University of Guelph, and Patrick Michaels, an environmental studies professor at the University of Virginia, concludes that half of the global warming trend from 1980 to 2002 is caused by Urban Heat Island.

Now, researchers from Germany and the US, who examined global mean surface temperature (GMST) trends in the light of a recent series of three record - breaking years in a row in most data sets, have published the results of their study, which identified two important pitfalls in analysing GMST trends, in Environmental Research Letters.

«Current demographic, economic and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn weather modification ability into capability.

According to the 1989 article, «A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

The team — led by Dole, Hoerling, and Judith Perlwitz from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder — sifted through long - term observations and results from 22 global climate models, looking for trends that might help explain the extraordinarily high temperatures in western Russia during the 2010 summer.

A: Each year, scientists learn more about the consequences of global warming, and many agree that environmental, economic, and health consequences are likely to occur if current trends continue.

You do not need to be an ecologist to see that if recent environmental trends continue, the global economy eventually will come crashing down.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research environmental research organization.

Ma Ry Kim, Principal and Design Director at Group 70 International, an award winning design firm based in Honolulu, will present global trends in tropical resort development and FIABCI - USA President Ruth Kruger will introduce environmental innovations in Aspen ski resorts.

«Greenery» was chosen to represent the ongoing mindfulness trend of 2017, environmental issues and the threat of global warming, and the undeniable political turmoil of Brexit and Trump — what a year, eh?!