Sentences with phrase «global proportions by»

Though arsenic contamination is deemed a health risk of global proportions by the World Health Organization, the magnitude of that risk is poorly known in many parts of the world.

Not exact matches

«Our research into the proportion of senior business roles held by women has revealed precious little movement over the past decade,» said Francesca Lagerberg, global leader, tax services and Europe, Grant Thornton, in a statement.

Credit Suisse's latest estimates indicate that for the first time the richest 1 % own 50.1 % of all global wealth, a proportion that's likely to move to the richest 1 % owning two - thirds of global wealth by 2030.

This free church model, with its populist overtones, is being borne, Volf maintains, «by irreversible social changes of global proportions.»

According to the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) the proportion of stillbirths in Namibia was 8 per 1 000 total births in 2014 — one of the lowest rates in Sub-Saharan Africa and below the global target of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 total births by 2030 set in the Every Newborn Action Plan endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2014.

The prime minister has realised that «Islamic finance is growing 50 % faster than traditional banking and when global Islamic investments are set to grow to # 1.3 trillion by 2014, we want to make sure a big proportion of that new investment is made here in Britain».

If even a small proportion of the methane they produce is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctions.

SDGs are being developed to extend public health goals that were not achieved by the original Millennium Development Goals set by the UN in 2000, including cutting the proportion of the global population without access to safe sanitation in half by 2015.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

«Eyebrows can really contour and change the shape and appearance of your overall look by bringing balance and proportion to not only your eyes, but your entire face,» explains Jared Bailey, Benefit Cosmetics global brow expert.

Ultimately, he wants the United States to retake a pre-eminent place in the global education arena by boasting the world's highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.

Aimed at yanking sales away from B - Segment mainstays like the aforementioned Honda HR - V, the C - HR is underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) platform that made its debut with the fourth - generation Prius and boasts slightly larger proportions inside and out than its rivals.

Unfortunately a large proportion of the fringing coral reef has been damaged by global warming, natural weather action (storms) and destructive fishing practice.

That's mainly because a large proportion of it has simply been lifted from BattleTanx: Global Assault — another N64 game made by 3DO that released almost a year before Army Men: Air Combat.

The proportion of Americans in the «alarmed» segment increased by five percentage points over the past year, and is now comparable to proportion found in the fall of 2008, when the segments were first identified and global warming concern was at a high point nationally.

-- Reset economic incentives so that innovation is driven by wider societal interests and reaches the large proportion of the global population that is currently not benefitting from these innovations.

By dismissing the moral aspects of continuing behavior that may lead to a disaster of global proportions, he minimizes one of our most potent sources of motivation: conscience.

The global mitigation requirement is divided into national obligations wedges that show the shares of the global mitigation requirement that would be borne by particular nations (or groupings of nations) in proportion to their share of the total global RCI.

* In the Chancel / Piketty proposal, the exemption threshold is defined by the global average per - capital emission rate, which they give as 6.2 tCO2e per year; only individuals with emissions above this threshold are taken to have global obligations, in proportion to their emissions above the threshold.

It is implied by some AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) proponents that the proportion of CO2 in the air is a critical determinant of temperature but both Venus and Mars have over 90 % of their air as CO2 yet their temperatures are very different.

Can you tell me the proportions of global electricity generation by hydro at the start of each decade since 1950?

When asked, «To the best of your knowledge, what proportion of climate scientists think that global warming is caused by human activities?»

The only thing you can conclude about the population is: The actual proportion of the population that believes that there is global warming and most of it is caused by humans is somewhere in the interval [0.137,0.874].

So it is natural for us to read «Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations» as being a statement about the proportion of observed degree C temp increase caused by humans.

Dryland ecosystems comprise a substantial proportion of total land cover and constitute a significant component of global biogeochemical cycles1, 6, yet owing to strong limitations by water and nutrients7, 8, undisturbed drylands are typically thought to maintain relatively low annual rates of ecosystem processes — such as plant photosynthesis5 (but see refs 9, 10)-- and to harbour biological communities that change composition on relatively slow timescales11.

We can conclude that a significant proportion of the global land area was increasingly affected by a significant change in climatic extremes during the second half of the 20th century.

Sea level rise due to global warming has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding of historic proportions across widespread areas of the United States... By 2030, many locations are likely to see storm surges combining with sea level rise to raise waters at least 4 feet above the local high - tide line.

King is one of six climate aristocrats — the others are all Peers — that have put together the «Global Apollo Programme» (GAP), which wants the same proportion of GDP spent by each member country as the US spent on its own moon - shot.

AGW has as its premise that the majority and an increasing proportion with time of both global temperature and sea - level rises are anthropogenically caused by A-CO2 emissions, specifically fossil fuel burning.

If the people of Bangladesh are flooded continually, then the growth of income of the wealthy will be reduced by something in the order of the reduction of wealth in Bangladesh times the proportion of global wealth in Bangladesh (ie, well below rounding error of other effects).

The RPS are state impositions on utility companies, requiring them to generate a proportion of their electricity from sources that do not burn fossil fuels and thus stoke global warming by emitting the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.

Experts agree that increasing the proportion of renewable energy will be key to meeting the tough targets set in Paris and in a report last week, The International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) estimated that increasing the amount of renewables in the global energy mix to 36 % by 2030 would provide half the emissions savings needed to hold global warming at 2 degrees.

As impacts of global warming increase, the wealthy will only be able to continue to get rich by retaining a larger proportion of global wealth (which can be done in the short term).

Childhood adversity, characterized by the presence of sexual and physical abuse, is a global problem of significant proportions.1, 2 Epidemiologic studies3 - 5 indicate prevalence rates for all forms of childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse ranging from 11 % to 35 %.