Sentences with phrase «human pressures on»

The document calls for emergency actions to tackle human pressures on the Earth's environment while ensuring a more equitable and just world.

Beyond the scientific questions — it becomes a question of how to pragmatically reduce human pressures on Earth systems — including inter alia — greenhouse gas emissions.

Ironically these are the effective ways of mitigating the broad range of human pressures on the climate system — sequestering carbon dioxide in the landscape, reducing methane, nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone, black carbon and CFC emissions.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

«We used these estimates to map natural extinction risk in modern oceans, and compare it with recent human pressures on the ocean such as fishing, and climate change to identify the areas most at risk,» says Professor Pandolfi.

These funds will not only pay for parks, but also for community planning, education, and sustainable economic development that will relieve human pressure on wildlife.

Abstract: As human pressure on the marine environment increases, safeguarding healthy and productive seas increasingly necessitates integrated, time - and cost - effective environmental monitoring.

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Using 24 key social, economic, and environmental indicators, our friend Félix Pharand - Deschênes has created a dashboard that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is reaching critical level.

Such injustices add to global population growth and increases human pressure on the Earth's natural systems.

Not exact matches

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

Automation puts pressure on wages by providing a substitute for low - end human labor.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

The United Nations Declaration on Human Rights of 1949 Articles 18 and 19 says that «every person should have the freedom to adhere to and practice the religion he or she chooses, and to change religion without coming under pressure as a result».

While it seems tedious, the U.S. State Department constantly calls out and pressures China to crackdown on Human Rights violations in exchange for normal trade relations.

Human beings consume resources and exert a downward pressure on wages.

Muslims in general if left alone with out your intervention might end up fighting each other due differences of views in their faith, but if west keep on applying pressure causing starvation, harassment and confrontation against Muslims and against their faith, this will only lead them to leave behind their differences and jointly or individually confront their enemies, those who wants to deprive them from their rights of faith and belief and the more they are pressed the more they would complain by reacting and not by words and cries since words and cries seem does not reach, heard or work out now a days since being their judges and executors are all of non religious such as atheists, infidels, polytheists who consider their vast interests above all humanity and faith issues such as mercy, leniency, compassion, pity, sympathy, kindness all that of human mutual heavenly code of conduct.!?

Economics should be just one part of the good life; instead, powerful economic forces now create pressures on individuals and families to pursue material gain at the expense of other important human ends.

Better than many churchmen, he understood that human rights pressures on the Soviet Union served the broader cause of freedom and gave a measure of protection to human rights activists and dissidents.

Our biologists have catalogued the species of life on Earth and found no monsters or kraken, our doctors and psychiatrists have penetrated the human mind and found no evil spirits in the heads of the mentally infirm, our meteorologists now explain the whether in terms of barometric pressure, not angry sky - gods, our geologists understand earthquakes in terms of plate tectonics and continental drift — no angry deity is shaking the ground.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want!

The joint declaration also asks for international pressure on the UN Human Rights Council — of which Nigeria is a member — to form a commission of inquiry «to investigate the atrocities committed against civilians in general, and against Christians in particular in northern Nigeria, including bringing the perpetrators of violence to justice.»

Rockström went on to say, «Increased human pressure threatens the natural resources that humanity depends upon, increasing the risk of water and food insecurity and competition over natural resources.»

The Adam theory says man was made perfect and would not have died if not for the eating of the fruit, so according to the bible Adam would be alive today if he hadn't given in to Eve's pressure, as would all following humans had sin not entered into our DNA and passed death on to Adams children.

Beyond the human direct costs engendered by the current global economic regime, the blind pressure on the natural environment induces frightening consequences.

The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...

As human population increases more pressure will be placed on our oceans for seafood protein.

Omega - 3 canola will provide new opportunities for improving human nutrition, reducing pressure on fishery resources worldwide, and will provide Australian grain growers with new, high - value crops.

Thoughts on woo: The oo sound is the loudest sound possibility, generally, for humans, due to the resonance developed by mouth formation, and less muscle use in mouth and throat to form, therefore, also the easiest to scream (along with long «O» but this doesn't allow for maximum efficiency of transdiaphragmatic pressure conversion to sound projection).

When old people rolled up on their Hovarounds to test their own blood pressure on the machine that I dominated for three plus hours, I shooed them away by throwing their medicine into the diarrhea aisle and telling them to register any complaints on the Health & Human Services website.

Don't put any pressure on yourself, you've just brought a real life human in to the world, accept help and if it's not offered don't be afraid to ask for it.

«Unlike the many documentaries that have exposed this problem over the years, this movie will not only entertain, but will reach many more people at a very personal level — showing the pressure on those who work for these transnational corporations and the realities we face in our work when trying to stop human rights abuses.

I don't want to delve deeply into the realms of human biology again but it's similar to exercise: your body will automatically respond with an increased heart rate and blood pressure before you start exercising once you do it on a regular basis and this can be applied to sleep.

As these bubbles correct themselves, technology replaces more and more human labor, and the global workforce puts downward pressure on the labor markets, it becomes more and more obvious...

For example, for at least the first nine months that human babies is a quadruplet and that would suggest that maybe feeding on the baby is coming like some of our mammalian cousins do, would be more species specific than being held with close pressure applied on the babies back and head and neck as it's necessary when mothers sit upright.

This is because the liver locates on the right side of the human body; sleeping on the left side will make sure that the pressure of the growing uterus will not be applied directly onto the liver, thereby improving the circulation of the heart and to the uterus, fetus, and kidneys as well.

IBFAN exerts pressure on national authorities to fulfil their obligations under international agreements and human rights treaties.

Organizations like Nebraska's Voices for Children have expressed support for LB 834, and human services agencies should also put pressure on lawmakers to vote for the bill.

In part because human capital in these high quality sectors is deep and specific, so needs to be used to the full in exporting; in part because there are typically strong positive externalities to training and innovation systems from increased exports; in part because a tight fiscal policy constrains wage demands in the public sector from undermining restraint of export sector unions: these countries, as well as Japan and China for similar reasons, want no constraints on their exports through macroeconomic regulatory rules pressuring them to expand consumer demand.

If you went to the front page of the WashingtonPost.com on Tuesday, you might have seen something like the screenshot to the right: note the broad expanses of red, a color that just happens to raise human blood pressure when we see it.

The pressure was on Mr Cameron to make a definitive human rights statement following the arrest of Liu Xiaobo, who won the Nobel Peace prize last month.

Today Freedom from Torture joined thirty - three civil society organisations to call on the UN to continue to pressure the Iranian Government to end human rights abuses including torture.

Focusing on her Conservative colleagues, she adds: «When you talk to them on a one - to - one level, they're human beings as well and some of them have the same pressures that I have, having kids and not seeing them and that sort of thing.

The three came under pressure over a letter in May 2007 prepared by Harbottle & Lewis on the instruction of Jon Chapman, the former director of legal affairs, and Daniel Cloak, the head of human resources, suggesting phone hacking had not been widespread.

Control orders were agreed under immense pressure, with the expiration of the government's derogation from the European convention on human rights looming within a matter of days, and with it the threat of the unconditional release of several terror suspects from Belmarsh.

A leading member of pressure group, OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has accused the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) of doing «a poor job» in investigating the $ 100,000 Ford gift expedition case.

HRC Front Desk: [phone] TTY: [phone] Toll - Free: [phone] HRC Web site comment page General membership email at HRC: [email protected] Back live today after the holiday break and today kicking off a campaign on the show, along with many LGBT bloggers and opinionmakers in a blog swarm, urging people to call the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay group, and tell the group to pressure President Obama on getting «don't ask, don't tell» repealed this year.