Sentences with phrase «impact human economy»

These so - called invasive species can drive native species to extinction, modify whole ecosystems and impact human economy.

Not exact matches

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

But others, like Paul Krugman, who in 1998 predicted that the Internet's impact on the economy would be no greater than the fax machine's, were dead wrong, though for understandable reasons.11 Timelines for the adoption and extension of new technologies are inherently unpredictable, primarily because their ultimate impact will be a result of how humans interact with them.

Her and her team «s cutting edge science have positively impacted the food industry and rural economies, adding value to specialty crops and co-products, while creating jobs and improving human health.

Not only do these trends have human costs but have a negative impact on London's economy, she added.

In a letter addressed to state Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski — the initial author of the letter, which was written late last month — said «the overpopulation of white - tailed deer is a crisis which has plagued the East End of Long Island for many years, negatively impacting not only human health, but water quality, biodiversity, private property, the economy and the agricultural industry.»

Trying to find links with research in state universities makes sense, added Michael Kink of A Strong Economy for All, another group that has been critical of tax cuts for the impact they've had on schools and human services.

Increases of that size are of course no longer possible today, but biomedical research should remain a high priority, not only because of its benefits to human health but also because of its impact on the U.S. economy.

The only thing that is clear is that there continues to be great debate and uncertainty among these experts regarding the extent of natural climate variability versus human impacts, and what, if anything, enactment of economy - wide greenhouse gas regulations might do to alter our changing climate.

Holt and talk - show host Thom Hartmann discussed a non-partisan 28 June letter sent to policymakers by 31 leading scientific societies, including AAAS, which warned of negative climate - change impacts to the global economy, natural resources, national security and human health.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

«This is happening for the failure of the market economy to equally account for many of the negative human and environmental impacts that are imposed upon society and the life support system.»

The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, aims to be a leader in the demographic analyses of human capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environHuman Capital, aims to be a leader in the demographic analyses of human capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environhuman capital formation and its impact on society, the economy and the environment.

Finally, the team quantified impacts at scales useful for decision - making in eight sectors of the state's economy: hydrology and water resources, energy, agriculture, salmon, forests, coasts, infrastructure, and human health.

«There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources and human health,» the letter states.

Climate change is a pervasive source of risks to human systems, with potentially large impacts upon the economy, public health, and national security.

Adopting the principles of Circular Economy is critical because of the need of human beings to make better their natural resources to avoid their future exhaustion and not cause so many negative impacts on the environment.

Anyone who reads the detailed scientific explanation of Mr. Gary Novak (/ / nov55.com/ntyg.html), can easily grasp that human use and abuse of fossil fuels do not have a significant impact on Earth climate; and that implementing the Kyoto Protocol would only harm the health of the economy — not only the profits of big corporations, but also the pockets of all consumers — even the poorest.

He clearly gets the importance of scientific and technological inquiry to the future of the American economy — and prospects for a relatively smooth ride as human appetites and environmental impacts crest in the next few generations.

* global warming is not significantly affected by human activity but governments expend resources and disrupt social order and economies to reduce human impact but make no provisions for dealing with the effects of warming.

In June 2016, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific associations sent a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers that reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

If we accept that global warming will be a net negative impact for the global economy and human well - being (I don't accept that, but will proceed on that assumption for the sake of argument here), policies will have to be sustainable for many decades to a century.

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

while in the context of the ongoing climate debate we continue — albeit with some embarrassment — to employ the scientifically meaningless phrase «climate change», we recognise that, in principle, a planetary warming to fend off otherwise imminent glacial inception, together with CO2 greening (the latter offsetting loss of vegetation footprint, the only real environmental concern) is having broad positive impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

There is strong evidence that ongoing climate change is having broad negative impacts on society, including the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

Science: Climate scientists say any positives are far outweighed by the negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, human health, the economy and the environment.

However we should maximize the positive impacts of CO2 on global economy (energy production), natural resources (plant growth) and human health (plant food)

«noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.»

In a consensus letter to U.S. policymakers, a partnership of 31 leading nonpartisan scientific societies today reaffirmed the reality of human - caused climate change, noting that greenhouse gas emissions «must be substantially reduced» to minimize negative impacts on the global economy, natural resources, and human health.

As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following -LSB-...]

As a coalition of community groups and individuals concerned about the impact of utility - scale wind power development on Ontario's economy, natural environment and human health, we offer the following comments on the proposed amendments to Regulation 359/09 as per the Regulation Proposal Notice, dated August 4, 2015.

AAAS joined the leaders of 17 other leading organizations in signing a letter sent 21 October 2009 to the U.S. Senate, emphasizing based upon rigorous research that human - induced climate change is ongoing and will have broad impacts on society — including the global economy and the environment.

These changes and other climatic changes have affected and will continue to affect human health, water supply, agriculture, transportation, energy, coastal areas, and many other sectors of society, with increasingly adverse impacts on the American economy and quality of life.3

Will the McGuinty government make public today any emergency plans, briefing notes or studies in its possession that assess the impact of a potential nuclear disaster on human health, the environment and the economy?

Without a thorough accounting of what is in store for us under a set of climate conditions foreign to anything humans have ever experienced, the political motivation and public support for taking the steps needed to both prepare for a wide - ranging and highly disruptive set of impacts and convert to a low - carbon economy is likely to dissipate.

Human - induced climate change could have enormous impacts on economies and societies if we persist with «business as usual».

Wind Concerns Ontario is a coalition of community groups, individuals and families concerned about the impact of industrial - scale wind power development on the economy, on the natural environment, and on human health in Ontario.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

Dr. Mann invokes the 97 % consensus argument that «of scientists publishing in the field have all concluded, based on the evidence, that climate change is real, is human - caused, and is already having adverse impacts on us, our economy, and our planet».

The lack of valid evidence or sound reasoning that GHG emissions will cause significant net negative impacts to the global economy or human well being is the Achilles Heel of the climate Alarnists» ideology.

Historically, prolonged, widespread droughts have been among Canada's costliest natural disasters, impacting the economy, the environment, and human health.