Sentences with phrase «global estimated potential»

Doesn't matter how big global estimated potential oil reserves are in total: when an oil company has diminishing access to state - controlled fossil fuels it may be experiencing its own peak - as a corporation.

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Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.
Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.
And, the global potential is huge and growing rapidly, estimated at $ US2.4 billion in 2017, close to double what it was in 2016.
By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute among others have used computer modelling to estimate the potential perspective for future global warming, which could be even warmer than previously thought.
Overeem's technique «has the potential to give good quantitative rainfall estimates for real - time hazards forecasting, as well as regional and global climate model analysis in regions of the world where the impact could be great,» Baeck says.
«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.
As shown later in this paper, the global warming potential of the annual emissions of CH4 from Amazonian wetlands is equivalent to about 30â $ «40 % of the estimated annual accumulation of C in woody biomass of mature Amazonian forests.»
The report of the Commission on Creating a Global Health Risk Framework for the Future highlights infectious diseases as one of the biggest risks facing humankind and estimates the annual expected cost from potential pandemics at more than # 40bn.
Since the mid 1970's, global estimates of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes show an upward trend strongly correlated with increasing tropical sea - surface temperature.
The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.
The global ed - tech market is already estimated to be worth $ 43.27 (# 30) billion, yet the first assessment of digital skills from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) suggests that schools have some way to go in fully taking advantage of the potential of technology in the classroom.
In a report examining the potential of the use of data in education, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates «the potential value from improved instruction to be $ 310 billion to $ 370 billion per year worldwide, largely through increased lifetime earnings (page 22).»
«We also used the latest available estimates for the global warming potential of methane, while Cathles relied on older and lower values.»
24 Jun 2010 — The global potential of SOC sequestration and restoration of degraded / desertified soils is estimated at 0.6 to 1.2 Pg C / y for about 50 years with a cumulative sink capacity of 30 to 60 Pg.
Islands smaller than the spatial resolution used in global climate models (GCMs)-- including French Polynesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Lesser Antilles — are difficult to assess because GCMs can only provide estimates of precipitation there, not potential evapotranspiration.
They compared estimated emissions for shale gas, conventional gas, coal (surface - mined and deep - mined) and diesel oil, taking into account direct emissions of CO2 during combustion, indirect emissions of CO2 necessary to develop and use the energy source and methane emissions, which were converted to equivalent value of CO2 for global warming potential.
The wheel on the right depicts their estimate of the range of probability of potential global temperature change over the next 100 years if no policy change is enacted on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Estimated sectoral economic potential for global mitigation for different regions as a function of carbon price in 2030 from bottom - up studies, compared to the respective baselines assumed in the sector assessments.
The workshop addressed, through presentations, subsequent question and answer sessions and general discussion, the following issues: the diversity of nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs); their underlying assumptions; methodologies, sectors and gases covered; the global warming potential value used; the support needed for NAMA implementation; and the estimated mitigation outcomes.
The 593 offshore wind projects in the global development pipeline at the end of 2016 represented an estimated 231,000 MW of potential capacity.
Abstract Recent estimates of the global carbon budget, or allowable cumulative CO2 emissions consistent with a given level of climate warming, have the potential to inform climate mitigation policy discussions aimed at maintaining global temperatures below 2 ° C.
Various attempts have been made in the past to estimate the global ocean thermal energy potential with also a significant span in ranges.
The estimated global practical potential from tides and currents totals 70 GW, about 2 % of current global electric power generation.
«For example, the International Energy Agency this year reported that our global economy could be $ 18 trillion better off by 2035 if we adopted energy efficiency as a first choice, while various estimates put the potential from energy efficient improvements anywhere between 2.5 and 6.8 gigatons of carbon per year by 2030,» he said.
In general, available top ‐ down estimates of costs and potentials suggest that AFOLU mitigation will be an important part of a global cost ‐ effective abatement strategy.
In the IEA World Outlook Energy 450 ppm Scenario, as much as 44 % of the estimated global abatement potential in 2035 derives from energy efficiency measures (IEA, 2012).
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions for 1990 at 39.4 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, suggesting that the Nigerian emissions may have represented approximately 0.09 % of the total in terms of CO2 and 0.76 % of the total in terms of methane, using the IPCCs 100 - year global warming potential for methane of 25.
Our estimates suggest that the global mean power at which this potential energy is released by condensation is around one per cent of the global solar power — this is similar to the known stationary dissipative power of general atmospheric circulation.
While the U.S. has been «the dominant player in the shale revolution until now,» the newspaper cites new estimates showing that Russia and China have potential to rise in the global market by exploiting their own shale resources.
Animal agriculture produces 65 % of the world's nitrous oxide (a gas with the global warming potential 296 x greater than carbon dioxide) and it is estimated that by 2050, this industry will see an 80 % increase, as the demand for meat and dairy continues to rise.
Fire exclusion can transform savannas to forests (e.g., Bowman et al., 2001), with an upper (albeit technically unfeasible) global estimate of potential doubling of closed forest cover (Bond et al., 2005).
Other particles released by ship engines also rank high among important short - lived climate forcers, and this study estimates their combined global warming impact potential.
CO2 better than HFC Instead of HFC, the machines use CO2, which in this case they estimate to be 1,300 times less potent a greenhouse gas than HFC (over a certain interval of time, the measurement is also known as GWP, or global warming potential).
which is misleading since the sentence actually reads: «Technical potential estimates for global CSP vary widely from 630 GWe installed by 2040 (Aringhoff et al., 2003) to 4700 GWe by 2030 (IEA, 2003h; Table 4.2).»
Plantations now have the potential to produce an estimated 1.2 billion cubic meters of industrial wood each year, about two thirds of current global wood production.
How to estimate costs effectively to cover the work we are going to do without putting off potential clients by pricing ourselves out of the market; how to approach revising our estimates if we are going to go over budget; and when to take a global, commercial view before billing a client every penny of WIP — dealing with costs is undoubtedly more an art than a science.
After all, the potential is huge: research by Morgan Stanley estimates that 50 per cent of all global internet traffic will come from a mobile device by the end of this year.
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