Sentences with phrase «global scenarios of»

Water research needs to get down to the management scale; for basic research that means they need to scale up and for global research that means they need to scale down, because we need to get to a scale where things are relevant to people and to management — the regional, national and global scenarios of this initiative will help with this if they concentrate on not just sticking to the global scale, but really getting down to the people.»

Not exact matches

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

Under this scenario, by 2040 global energy demand will be significantly larger than it is now; oil, coal, and natural gas each will account for about one - quarter of total demand, and solar and wind together will account for roughly 5 %.

All of the scenarios thus far have discounted the possibility that the global economy actually starts to improve.

Instability will lead to global conflict, and that in turn may lead to what in a 2007 essay he referred to as» secular apocalypse» — total extinction of the human race through either thermonuclear war, biological contagion, unchecked climate change, or an array of competing Armageddon scenarios.

Whether or not that happens — and frankly, it's an extreme example of the worst - case scenario for US shale producers — a glut of global oil inventories is already weighing on oil prices.

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

The amount that would be added to global GDP if there were economic gender parity among all countries in each region of the world (the «best in region» scenario, totaling $ 12T) or among all countries worldwide (the «full potential» scenario, totaling $ 28T).

As a result, we believe credit offers less upside than equities on a risk - adjusted basis if our scenario of sustained global expansion pans out.

It modeled the implications for the company of a requirement for emissions to decline to levels consistent with a so - called «2 °C world» after 2030 and also looked at a number of alternative scenarios based on divergent ranges in global growth and trade, geopolitics, technological innovation and responses to climate change.

The latest issue of StraightTalk ® looks at four scenarios of how the current growth improvement may evolve in the next few months and what the effects may be on the global economy's potential in the medium - term Our latest survey of C - Suite executives» challenges reveal their responses to the current business environment.

Instead of the «goldilocks» scenario of low volatility and rising global growth, markets are likely to get a lot more choppy and individual stock performance could become more idiosyncratic.

Russia is considering a wide range of scenarios on what to do with a multilateral effort to balance the global oil market, its energy minister said.

The mobile Market in US is still thirsty and can absorb more than speculated, coming to global market the scenario is still fertile and enormous amounts of growth potential exists.

Every measure has been taken to protect all digital and fiat assets from any scenario short of a global meltdown.

Current projections of global warming in the absence of action are just too close to the kinds of numbers associated with doomsday scenarios.

If, however, our scenario had been a different topic — say, a student had experienced extreme poverty for the first time, or realized the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis and wanted to talk to her pastor about how her faith speaks to that — I imagine the response would have been easier for our students to get out and distinctly Christian.

I list such scenarios only as illustrations of what I see as the fundamental fragility of the present global system.

«Unemployment will eventually peak at 3.2 million over the summer of 2010, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) says, a scenario which would dash any hopes that Labour could mount an election campaign on a record of having brought Britain out of the global slump.»

But the study, published today in Earth's Future, finds that scientists won't be able to determine, based on measurements of large - scale phenomena like global sea level and Antarctic mass changes, which scenario the planet faces until the 2060s.

The best estimates of the increase in global temperatures range from 1.8 to 4.0 degrees C for the various emission scenarios, with higher emissions leading to higher temperatures.

They used this data compilation to evaluate the quality of their regional atmospheric climate model, based on global climate projections that included several scenarios of anticipated climate change.

According to a study published online this week in Science, University of Minnesota researchers, building from studies of nitrogen levels in Lake Superior, uncovered a good news / bad news scenario for lake health that has long - term, global implications for pollution control efforts.

He cited several studies showing that a large number of species on the planet would become extinct in a «business as usual» global warming scenario.

reported in the journal «Science», scientists led by Dr. Felix Creutzig from the Mercator Research Institute of Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenGlobal Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin, and Dr. Patrick Jochem, KIT, point out that the transportation sector may be easier to decarbonize than previously assumed in global emission scenglobal emission scenarios.

The IPCC AR5 Working Group 1 Report contains projections of future global surface temperature change according to several scenarios of future socio - economic development, most of which are presented using a baseline of 1986 to 2005.

Combining the asylum - application data with projections of future warming, the researchers found that an increase of average global temperatures of 1.8 °C — an optimistic scenario in which carbon emissions flatten globally in the next few decades and then decline — would increase applications by 28 percent by 2100, translating into 98,000 extra applications to the EU each year.

To test how rising CO2 might affect their defense mechanism, Weiss exposed stock Daphnias in the lab to levels of CO2 ranging from just above the maximum level seen in global freshwater to about 60 percent more than that maximum, to mimic a worst - case scenario.

«The best scenario would be one global market,» says Luca Taschini of the Grantham Research Institute in London.

A couple of weeks ago, an article in New York magazine laid out a horrific scenario of global warming.

Their optimistic goal: keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius to avoid doomsday scenarios of rising seas, widespread droughts and melting ice.

The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.

The report provides a range of possible scenarios, from at least 1 foot of global sea - level rise by 2100 to a worst - case rise that's 1.6 feet higher than a scenario in a key 2012 study that the report updates.

«We do not under most conceivable scenarios support or encourage introduction of species to habitats outside of their historical range,» says Matt Lewis, a spokesman for the species program of the Washington, D.C. — based global environmental group, the World Wildlife Fund.

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

With these scenarios in mind, the researchers identified what measures can be taken to slow the rate of global warming to avoid the worst consequences, particularly the low - probability high - impact events.

To date, the group, known as the Global Human Body Models Consortium (GHBMC), has created a 173 - pound adult model and continues to make updates for a broader range of body types and scenarios.

Modelling flood risk in Europe — global warming the biggest influence In the framework of the HELIX FP7 Project, scientists analysed the differences in projected changes in flood risk at country scale under global warming scenarios of 1.5, 2 and 3 degrees from pre-industrial levels, and discussed reasons for the observed outcomes.

«The consequences of sticking to a «business - as - usual» scenario are unthinkable,» says Zhaohai Bai, an associate professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and lead author of a paper from a multinational team of environmental scientists published today in Global Change Biology.

«We examined the global impacts of China's increasing milk production under different scenarios of domestic milk production and importation, addressing the questions using a Nexus Approach,» says Michael Lee, Head of Rothamsted's North Wyke Farm Platform and Professor of Sustainable Livestock Systems at Bristol Veterinary School.

At the same time, he says scientists shouldn't shy away from painting «scary scenarios» — such as deadly heat waves in New York City and a dried - up Mississippi River as possible results of global warming — to get a message across.

They concluded that, based on a median value across all scenarios, there's a high probability of a 30 percent decline in the global population of polar bears over the next three to four decades, which supports listing the species as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

The modeling also highlights that, under this scenario, developing nations will produce a big portion of global annual emissions in the future.

The second simulation overlaid that same weather data with a «pseudo global warming» technique using an accepted scenario that assumes a 2 - to 3 - degree increase in average temperature, and a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Under the most conservative scenario, the researchers used a projected global output of 1,280 billion tons of carbon across the next few centuries, far below estimated reserves of at least 9,500 billion tons.

The DoD's doomsday scenario, which is very similar to that in the film, was drawn up by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of the San Francisco - based Global Business Network.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

Hamilton noted that the commission's report is not the first time The Lancet has taken a stab at climate change, but previous reports focused on the worst - case scenarios of global warming and their devastating health consequences, whereas the current report highlights the benefits of addressing climate change and touts «no regrets» actions that benefit the environment and health.

In a water management scenario the scientists call ambitious, global kilocalorie production could rise by 40 percent, while according to UN estimates roughly 80 percent would be needed to eradicate hunger by the middle of this century.

For assessing the global ocean - carbon sink, McKinley and her co-authors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NCAR and the University of Colorado Boulder used the model to establish a long - running climate scenario from historical data.