Sentences with phrase «growing global crisis»

While the overuse of antibiotics is undeniably at the heart of the growing global crisis, new research published online April 11 in Nature Microbiology suggests differential birth and death rates and not DNA donation are to blame.

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He identified three obstacles that could affect any possible recovery in the global employment rate: «Over the fore ¬ seeable future, the world economy will probably grow less than was the case before the global crisis,» complicating «the task of generating the over 42 million jobs that are needed every year in order to meet the growing number of new entrants in the labor market.»

China's economy grew at its slowest pace since the global financial crisis in the third quarter, reviving expectations of further stimulus to avert a stalling of the world's growth engine.

Regardless, we believe that the S&P 500 is likely to experience flat returns or losses over the coming decade, and we remain concerned about growing financial distortions driven by yield - seeking malinvestment, as we were in the runup to the global financial crisis.»

Global coal consumption grew by just 0.4 % (15 million tonnes oil equivalent or Mtoe)-- its slowest rate since the Asian crisis in 1998 — while production fell by 0.7 % or 28 Mtoe.

This report describes a new age of growing crisis: food price spikes and oil price hikes, devastating weather events, financial meltdowns, and global contagion.

He is dedicated to addressing our growing global waste crisis and founded FullCycle Energy LP to finance projects that convert our costly environmental problem into clean, valuable fuel to power communities around the world.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

China's trade outlook for 2012 is worsening, darkened especially by growing problems in Europe, the Commerce Ministry said on Thursday as it revealed the longest run of falling inward investment growth in the economy since the 2008 - 09 global crisis.

Russia's economy grew at 7.2 % per year from 2000 to the peak of the global financial crisis in 2009, fueled by huge oil and gas revenues.

Investor interest in defensive equity strategies has grown tremendously in the wake of the global financial crisis and against...

Guess the global financial and economical crises or hardship are adding oil to fire since that slows growth to providing jobs and employment opportunities to the growing youth of their generations...!

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Atlanta.

Recently, we announced the GC2 Summit, a gathering for Evangelicals to consider an appropriate response to the growing, global refugee crisis.

Although the 2008 global economic crisis presented some challenges for coffee retailers, they continued to grow.

FAIRR founder Jeremy Coller, chief investment officer of private equity firm Coller Capital, said: «The world's over-reliance on factory - farmed livestock to feed the growing global demand for protein is a recipe for a financial, social and environmental crisis.»

Following a price crisis for world dairy farmers earlier in the decade, global prices for milk and other dairy products look set to grow strongly during 2017.

Gordon Brown has written to the chairman of the G8 urging international action too avert fears of a growing crisis fuelled by soaring global food prices.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

A global hunger crisis has grown so severe that a group of international relief agencies, including Connecticut - based Save the Children, are doing something they've never done before.

Labour's five turbulent years of office from 1974 to 1979 came during the global oil crisis and also saw domestic unrest — from militant unions, inflation, IRA and coup talk — which stimulated growing attacks on the Westminster leadership for betrayal and incompetence in the face of harsh choices.

The global financial crisis of 2008 would be seen as a turning point on par with the winter of discontent of 1978 (after which Margaret Thatcher persuaded Britain that «the state and the trade unions had grown too powerful and that markets needed to be given free reign») and on a par with the establishment of the welfare state in 1948.

In other words, the shift to a service economy will not simply allow countries to grow out of the environmental crisis of global warming.

«Escalating antibiotic resistance limits our treatment options, worsens clinical results, and is a growing global public health crisis,» said Meropol.

And yet, tolerant bacteria can go on to develop antibiotic resistance, which adds to the global antibiotic crisis: the development of new antibiotics can not keep pace with the growing antibiotic resistance of bacteria.

It was literally cooked up back in the 1980s by some British industrialists who were worried about a global food crisis — specifically, they were worried that we would be unable to produce enough protein to sustain a growing population.

These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation groups.

They do particularly pick on processed meats, but in terms of global crises: «There is a... tsunami brewing, namely, we are seeing the confluence of growing constraints on water, energy, and food [supplies] combined with the rapid shift toward greater consumption of all animal source foods,» which, they note, are «inefficient, wasteful, and polluting.»

The Chinese economy reportedly grew 8.1 % in the first quarter, the weakest since the global economic crisis and now is expected to slip to 7.5 % for the year, although some economists think that target could be missed as the slowdown in world markets drags it lower.

The company continued to grow its assets under management and it also bought other companies: State Street Research & Management in 2005; Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2006; and then during the financial crisis Barclay's Global Investors and its large Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) business iShares.

Even during the global financial crisis CocaCola still managed to grow revenues, only in 2009 did it see a small pull - back, but nothing to be concerned about.

The national debt will grow until a Greek like bond market crisis occurs and interest rates are forced up sharply by the global bond market (foreign creditors).

He suggests investors start with «companies that have consistently grown their dividends over the last 25 years,» noting that these well - established companies «continued to reward income seeking investors with higher payouts, even during the global financial crisis.»

Mortgage REITs, sometimes known as mREITs, have grown in popularity since the Federal Reserve cut rates to their lowest level in history in response to the 2007 - 09 global financial crisis.

Despite the global economic crisis, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) active membership has grown by 56 percent over the last five years.

While the global financial crisis led to the United States looking inward, the influence of China continues to grow.

Following the nuclear destruction of the Middle East, the oil - producing nations of South America form the Federation in response to the economic crisis, quickly growing to become a global superpower.

INSECURITIES: TRACING DISPLACEMENT AND SHELTER The global refugee crisis has created challenges for architects and designers who must determine how to house this growing population.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

«It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis, not only because of the CO2 involved but also because of the water consumed in the process.»

We are here today to talk about how we as Americans and how the United States of America as part of the global community should address the dangerous and growing threat of the climate crisis.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

After a short dip in 2009 due to the global financial crisis, emissions from fossil fuels rebounded in 2010 and have since grown 2.6 percent each year, hitting an all - time high of 9.7 billion tons of carbon in 2012.

On many levels, 2015 was a turbulent year: the migrant crisis grew, terrorist attacks spiked, and global economic growth slowed.

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

Hall: The message really couldn't be any clearer: If you're looking for the magic bullet that will solve both our global warming crisis and our growing foreign policy crises, change the energy system.

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

Throughout the day, the current global food crisis provided as useful rationale for more food to be grown in cities.The day was split into a series of sessions focusing in on opportunities to increase the amount of food being grown in London and what urban agriculture projects are currenty running in the capital.

The fight by conscientious scientists to elevate the growing crisis of global warming into the limelight of concern over the last several years — higher that of the Iraq War and the World Trade Center catastrophe — fits all of those journalistic prerequisites to a tee.