Sentences with phrase «impacts at a global scale»

Sustainability standards have a proven track record of delivering impacts at a global scale on the sustainability issues that matter most.

available peer - reviewed, science - based evidence to model the implications of their proposals for atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, global mean surface temperature, sea level rise, and other climate change impacts at the global scale.

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Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.

Once considered remote and disconnected, now we know that changes within the Arctic can have a direct impact on the rest of the world, affecting physical and biological systems near and far at regional and global scales.

At a global scale, the increased melting of the ice sheet contributes to rising sea level and may impact global ocean circulation patterns through the so - called «thermohaline circulation'that sustains among others, the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe warm.

«This is the best attempt, published to date, to bring together the available data to quantify fisheries impacts on sharks at a global scale,» says John Musick, a shark expert at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point.

«It's the magnitude of the problem and the impact on the global economy that makes it extremely important that capture processes be highly optimized when they are rolled out at full scale.»

Since the industrial revolution, global temperatures have risen by about 1 °C, which has had an impact at even the largest scales.

Schimel presented his work to forecast and understand land - ecosystem impacts on the carbon cycle at the global scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, Juglobal scale as part of the Frontiers in Global Change Seminar Series, JuGlobal Change Seminar Series, June 21.

When «proof of concept» is obtained, a new phase of the impact pathway starts with dissemination at pilot scale (with a few farmers or villagers) and will eventually increase at provincial, national, and even global levels when successful.

One innovation of the research team was to explore the past 30 years from the perspective of the ecosystems («impact perspective») at a global scale.

We will further discuss how future changes at the global scale will likely impact the formation and flux of boundaries into the future, and how these fluxes will impact the processes underlying species diversity and diversification.

The key goal is to discover, recognise and reward the technology innovations that have the potential to, or are already having a positive impact on the community — at home, in the office and on a global scale.

It is also a social - ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global.

as it's mostly «house money» at this point), whereas the spillover / escalation of risk appetite in a global $ 80 trillion global equity market is potentially massive in its scale & impact.

Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook's director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massive scale — one so big that the tiniest of tweaks can cause global outrage, but also so large that the subtlest of improvements can positively impact the lives of many.

At NWEI, we reference the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as an avenue for impact on that global scale.

Of course, the absolute temperature does matter in many situations (the freezing point of ice, emitted radiation, convection, health and ecosystem impacts, etc.) and so it's worth calculating as well — even at the global scale.

«Considering these... major and still growing impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»

GSA strongly encourages that the following efforts be undertaken internationally: (1) adequately research climate change at all time scales, (2) develop thoughtful, science - based policy appropriate for the multifaceted issues of global climate change, (3) organize global planning to recognize, prepare for, and adapt to the causes and consequences of global climate change, and (4) organize and develop comprehensive, long - term strategies for sustainable energy, particularly focused on minimizing impacts on global climate.

This line from the 2007 report's chapter on human health is about as straightforward as any language can be: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

The committee recommended federal research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a significant global climate impact.

«Recommendation 2: The Committee recommends research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a global impact on reducing greenhouse warming, in particular to minimize energy and materials consumption, identify and quantify risks, lower costs, and develop reliable sequestration and monitoring.»

These fine particles produced by the incomplete combustion of fuel have alarming impacts at all scales: the global, the regional, the household, an individual's lungs.

The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

At the same time, some of these companies» own shareholders are pushing them to scale back their dependence on carbon - based fuels, worried about the future financial impact of heightened global - warming regulation.

The Regional Climate Impacts theme stresses the need to explain and interpret the potential impacts of global climate variability and change at the regional and communityImpacts theme stresses the need to explain and interpret the potential impacts of global climate variability and change at the regional and communityimpacts of global climate variability and change at the regional and community scale.

A first stage would define basic SSPs with the minimum detail and comprehensiveness required to distinguish SSPs in terms of challenges to mitigation and adaptation as described in section 3 and to provide useful input to impact and integrated assessment models, particularly analyses at global or large regional scales.

This paper reviews advances made during the last decade to better understand the impact of global SST variability on West African rainfall at interannual to decadal time scales.

-- the overall change to the global heat balance climate from basic physics bounded by paleo observations (over time increasingly constrained by modern observations)-- the probable overall patterns of regional change at a large scale — the range of impacts.

The assumption of a global annual average increase in the coming decades +1 C and +2 C, is of little use in defining changes in climate impacts at the regional and local scale, which are so dependent in how large scale circulation features would change in the coming decades.

Within the confines of our work with RASM and CESM, we will: (i) quantify the added value of using regional models for downscaling arctic simulations from global models, (ii) address the impacts of high resolution, improved process representations and coupling between model components on predictions at seasonal to decadal time scales, (iii) identify the most important processes essential for inclusion in future high resolution GC / ESMs, e.g. ACME, using CESM as a test bed, and (iv) better quantify the relationship between skill and uncertainty in the Arctic Region for high fidelity models.

This level of reduced emissions has no meaningful impact whatsoever at a global scale.

«Therefore, it is concluded that the influence of anthropogenic forcing has had a detectable influence on extreme temperatures that have impacts on human society and natural systems at global and regional scales»

The NEX - GDDP dataset is provided to assist the science community in conducting studies of climate change impacts at local to regional scales, and to enhance public understanding of possible future global climate patterns at the spatial scale of individual towns, cities, and watersheds.»

On a scale from 1 - 10, where 1 is not at all important and 10 is of the highest importance, where would you rank global climate change in terms of its likely impact on human development?

His research is concerned with various aspects of air pollution at scales ranging from regional to global, particularly effects of acidifying deposition, eutrophying nitrogen deposition and gaseous pollutant impacts on crops, forests and human health.

Nuclear remains the only proven technology capable of reliably generating zero - carbon energy at a scale that can have any impact on global warming.

Mean sea level (MSL) evolution has a direct impact on coastal areas and is a crucial index of climate change since it reflects both the amount of heat added in the ocean and the mass loss due to land ice melt (e.g. IPCC, 2013; Dieng et al., 2017) Long - term and inter-annual variations of the sea level are observed at global and regional scales.

Temperature trends are therefore important for determining both past and future impacts of climate change on crop yields at sub-continental to global scales.

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The nature and extent of impacts among human populations hinges on how successfully we respond to the biosphere crisis with extraordinary leadership, balanced solutions applied at global scales, and unprecedented cooperation — or not.

These same disciplines should be used to improve understanding of how humans impact Earth processes at the global scale.

However, at a global scale, existing policies have yet to impact emissions at a level that would prevent further significant climate change.

Our changing climate will impact at the global, national and local scales.

Resolving this dilemma must include a serious look at potential «winners and losers» of a marginally warmer world, as well as at the best available cost / benefit analyses of the specific proposals being made to» reshape our common future on a global scale» and their total costs including the impacts of all unintended consequences.