«What goes around comes around» they say, the only solution for drastic decreases in emissions is massive decreases
in global consumption, which won't happen as long as the unsustainable population size isn't addressed.
Efforts to curb coal use have proliferated, and for the first time since the 1990s, the growth
in global consumption stalled in 2014 before falling in both 2015 and 2016.
The increase
in the global consumption of goods and services is due about equally to the population explosion and to the rise of individual affluence.5
Not exact matches
«If impending old age is the issue, it can be very difficult to convince households via lower rates to shift desired
consumption from the future into the present,» Steven Englander,
global head of G - 10 foreign - exchange strategy at Citigroup, said
in a note Tuesday.
In a recent note to clients, RBC Capital Markets chief US economist Tom Porcelli examined the trends by using two components of GDP as proxies: net exports of goods and services to reflect the effects of a slowing
global economy, and real personal
consumption expenditures to reflect the US consumer.
Global consumption of avocados, now a $ 3 billion industry, has doubled
in the last decade, and a third of the 3.8 million tonne annual harvest is currently traded internationally, according to data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
The report said the Chinese accounted for half of all the
global luxury products»
consumption during the period and remain far and away the largest luxury consumers
in the world.
Even a 5 percent drop
in demand for fuel
in those countries would knock about 325,000 bpd from
global crude oil
consumption.
«That said, mining is very profitable at today's bitcoin price, and if cryptocurrencies continue to appreciate we expect
global mining power
consumption to increase,» the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote
in their research note.
The U.S. Department of Energy projects that
global energy
consumption will increase by 53 % between 2008 and 2035, with most of that growth coming from the long - term economic expansion
in Asian countries.
As emerging middle classes
in places like China and India adopt Western - style diets,
global consumption of animal protein skyrockets.
Included
in Goal no. 12 on «responsible
consumption and production» is a call to «halve per capita
global food waste at the retail and consumer levels.»
Worldwide soup
consumption was flat
in 2013, reports consumer research firm Euromonitor International, continuing a trend of declining
global sales
in the category over the last five years.
«Looking forward, a healthy
global economic forecast for 2018, positive car sales data
in recent months, stronger 2018 yea - on - year U.S. product
consumption in January and potentially tighter
global product markets are expected to boost gasoline and distillates demand...,» OPEC said.
The
global production surplus (production minus
consumption) has gone on for 17 months and has grown from 1.25 mmbpd
in May 2014, just before prices began to fall, to almost 3 mmbpd
in May 2015 (Figure 8).
The
Global Goals addressed
in the report are Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities, Goal 12: Responsible
Consumption and Production, Goal 13: Climate Action and Goal 14: Life Below Water.
If the
global economy were to recover much more quickly than most of us expect, and, much more importantly, if Beijing were to initiate a far more aggressive program of privatization and wealth transfer than I think politically possible, perhaps transferring
in the first few years the equivalent of as much as 2 - 5 % of GDP, the surge
in household income could unleash much stronger
consumption growth than we have seen
in the past.
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.
However, alternative energy has not even made a dent
in global energy
consumption.
Many investors believe that China is currently under - represented
in global equity indices relative to its economic influence (for example, China represents roughly 17 % of
global GDP, 11 % of
global trade, and 9 % of
global consumption but today comprises only a 3.5 % weight
in the MSCI ACWI Index).1, 2 Given the size of the China A-shares market, inclusion
in global indices is regarded as key to bringing China's overall representation more closely
in line.
This would be an astonishing
consumption share even for the United States at its peak share of
global GDP (around 33 %
in the late 1940s?)
Until we understand this do not expect the
global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge
in credit - fueled
consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment
in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of
consumption).
The trend away from energy scarcity and toward energy abundance creates big losers as well as winners and is only a net positive for
global demand if the winners» boost
in consumption offsets the losers» cut
in consumption and capital spending.
The U.S. provides the largest drug
consumption market
in the western hemisphere while Canada serves two roles — as both a destination and transit country for illicit activities including drug smuggling and
global alien smuggling.
German retail sales see modest rise
in March German retail sales rose less than expected
in March, preliminary data showed on Monday, raising concerns about the support that private
consumption can provide for the German economy
in a period of flagging
global demand.
The team will create a
global free trade ecosystem by docking to all kinds of businesses of shelter and food as well as cakes and ale, so that LNC players can go to all parts of the world to pay for
consumption, promoting the value of LNC
in circulation.
That was the weakest sales growth since 2006, «raising doubts about the stability of
consumption amidst the construction and industrial slowdown,» said Brian Jackson of IHS
Global Insight
in a report.
I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity
consumption, which was down during the
global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants
in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies
in China.
And while there is pressure on pricing
in the industry,
global oil
consumption has continued to grow and the oil must move from production to refining operations.
Geographically, this report is segmented into several key Regions such as North America, United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia - Pacific, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Rest of Asia - Pacific, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Spain, Russia, Rest of Europe, Central & South America, Brazil, Argentina, Rest of South America, Middle East & Africa, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Rest of Middle East & Africa, with production,
consumption, revenue (million USD), and market share and growth rate of
Global Cryptocurrency
in these regions, from 2012 to 2022 (forecast)
Consumption of coffee on a
global scale has risen gradually from 6.7 million tons of coffee
in 1998 to 7.8 million tons
in 2009.
And barring a major
global recession, oil
consumption is expected to grow more than 1 %
in 2017.
Despite the rapid rise of the internet, traditional media will still account for 69 % of
global media
consumption in 2017.
Dazeinfo had a chance to catch up with Mukund and pick his brains to understand why many Indian startups are not able to make it to the
global platform, how Big Data plays a vital role
in startup growth and despite of seeing so much potential
in Big Data, why are Indian startups not prioritizing the
consumption of data?
More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos
Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and
Global Summit
in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key
global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and
global issues, including clean water, the
global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and
global financial crisis, energy
consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.
Indonesia's economy has been typically boosted by strong all - round investment and domestic
consumption, large contributors to diversification, which have
in turn insulated the country from slipping into the doldrums of the
global financial system.
But stalled indigenous energy production, especially coal (Figure 3), means that China is dipping deeper into the
global energy market and that should support prices and offset the deceleration
in consumption.
Today the peril
in Russia to genuine Christian faith comes not from tsarism or communism but instead from an emerging
global culture that reduces human life to material acquisition and
consumption.
Christianity's witness to a self - emptying, vulnerable God confronts the ethics of self - interest and unchecked
consumption that prevails
in global capitalism.
It is the per capita
consumption in industrialized countries that causes the greatest environmental problems, such as exhaustion of resources and
global warming.
As
global grain supplies decline
in relation to demand, there will be additional reasons for reducing meat
consumption.
Even today, the richest 20 % of the population of the world accounts for 86 % of
global consumption compared to 72 %
in 1970.
But lately, I've wondered what that mobility and access to
global goods for unlimited
consumption has done to our ability to invest
in our actual spatial communities and grow roots
in a place.
Many from the
global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over
consumption of the North rather than increasing population
in the South that is the chief cause of
global environmental deterioration.
In these and other ways production for local
consumption is far less costly to the planet than the present system of
global interdependence.
Fact: The two greatest drains on the
global environment today are rampant population growth
in some of the underdeveloped countries and rising rates of
consumption in the industrial nations.
Harrington means by «socialization» the idea that the future is bringing, and will bring
in geometrically increasing ratios, a deeper sense of increased human interdependence
in a corporate environment, one marked by international demands for mutuality, by
global communication and transportation, and by interpenetrating systems of production, distribution, and
consumption, all of them interlocked and increasingly inclusive of more and more nations of the world.
Brazil's growing economy, with the sixth - largest gross domestic product
in the world, is key to both
global production and
consumption.
We believe delicious and healthy protein bars are an intelligent first step towards normalizing the
consumption of insects, which will
in turn have enormous
global impact.
Reformulation policies may also legitimise current levels of
consumption of ultra-processed products
in high - income countries and increased levels of
consumption in emerging markets
in the
global South.