Sentences with phrase «in megacities»

I can see several reasons this growth in megacities will prove bounded rather than spiraling out of control.

And we think this vehicle can be constructed in a way that is as safe as a commercial airliner, which is where it needs to be in order to be applied at scale in megacities across the world.»

The release of two reports developed in collaboration with Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and ARUP, respectively, emphasized the critical role of measurement and transparency in tackling climate change in megacities.

These have included the Sida funded Air Pollution in the Megacities of Asia (APMA)(2002 - 2006) project in collaboration with UNEP, WHO and Clean Air Asia, the EU funded Clean Air Asia Training programme together with Clean Air Asia and the Thai Pollution Control Department (2006 - 2008) and the Transport and Environment Science - Technology Network (2010 - 2013) in collaboration with UN-HABITAT, UNEP and six African universities.

The first actions of the group were to set up studies on their carbon emissions: CDPCDP Cities 2011: Global Report on C40 Cities and Climate Action in Megacities and C40 Cities Baseline and Opportunities.

Offering a hybrid, especially a plug - in, would cater for buyers who live in the megacities of Europe, Asia and the US, which are getting ever closer to specifying zeroemissions vehicles for their most congested areas.

The streets and sidewalks throb with the constant commotion one finds in megacities.

BMW's i series includes an electric vehicle designed to appeal to younger drivers in megacities and urban centers.

In the megacities that are home to nearly 10 percent of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $ 500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner, more affordable and more pleasant places to live.

With urban populations exploding in megacities like Tokyo, Shanghai, and Delhi to well over 20 million people — it is important to understand how green spaces contribute to urban sustainability.

Wong, who was born in Hong Kong, educated in Canada and is now based in Shanghai, said Starbucks might break into 10 - 15 new urban markets in China every year, while continuing its penetration in megacities where it has taken hold.

«Viewed from a distance, the photograph could be mistaken for a supermarket barcode, but up close, the brutal reality of life in a megacity becomes apparent.»

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have been studying factors influencing air quality in the megacity for ten years now.

The air - monitoring network in the megacity is superb, and the weather is moderate, with temperatures fluctuating little throughout the year.

The deposited particle mass from 10 to 350 nanograms (a billionth of a gram) per square centimeter of cell surface corresponds to an airway daily dose of slightly polluted, rural air with 20 micrograms (a millionth of a gram) PM per cubic meter of air through to very high air pollution in a megacity (1000 micrograms PM per cubic meter of air).

A couple of people from different backgrounds and places find shelter in the megacity mall during the Zombie apocalypse.

The motor show in the megacity on the East China Sea provides the setting for the first public appearance of the new MINI John Cooper Works Countryman (for the Chinese market combined fuel consumption: 7.4 l / 100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 175 g / km).

The artists presented in The Megacity and the Non-City adopt photographic practices and image - based strategies to negotiate the expanding urban landscape of Africa today, with its contradictions, grey areas, and sites of dispute.

More than half the world now lives in cities, and one person in 10 lives in a megacity: one that is home to at least 10 million people.

Urban residential environments and senior citizens» longevity in megacity areas: the importance of walkable green spaces

Not exact matches

Home to as many as 7,000 start - ups and more than 40 unicorns — businesses with a valuation of more than $ 1 billion — opportunity and talent abound in the sprawling megacity.

The order - ahead app is already in U.S. megacities and has ambitious plans for further expansion across the border.

Although Santiago is regarded as one of the best spots in South America to do business — with its California climate and none of the megacity dysfunctions of places like SÃ # o Paulo — its economy was built on mining and maritime commerce.

In 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitIn 2005, he became mayor of Solo — the very city whose slums he had grown up in — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitin — and did so good a job busting corruption and cleaning things up, that in 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacitin 2012, he unseated incumbent Fauzi Bowo to become governor of Jakarta, the sprawling megacity.

Since 2006, living costs have roughly doubled in the Swedish capital, and the current average square meter price of 95 000 crowns for an apartment in the central districts ($ 11,800) surpasses European megacities such as Paris.

Kennedy says that «yes, our megacity results are counter to the idea that cities are currently using energy more efficiently, although perhaps this might still change in the future.»

Add to this the fact that many of the largest and fastest growing megacities, among them São Paulo, Manila, Mexico City Kinshasa and Kampala, already boast large and in a few cases majority Christian populations — and these are swelling too.

One participant is the Flying Winemaker Eddie McDougall from Hong Kong who produces wine in the center of this megacity, hosts a well - known TV show and offers unusual events at his wine shop.

The awards ceremony, hosted by African Banker Magazine, would be held on May 22, during the annual meeting of the African Development Bank (AfDB) scheduled for the industrial megacity of in Busan, South Korea.

He said that the development, apart from complementing the quest for achieving Lagos dream of becoming Africa's model megacity, would also help in transforming the State to a global economic and financial Hub.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provided the first - ever comprehensive comparison of Earth's 27 megacities, defined as metropolitan areas with populations of 10 million or more.

The future of our species, many researchers believe, lies in sustainable megacities that can support dense populations through efficient resource management.

«A large urban outbreak of yellow fever virus in a tropical megacity is a terrifying prospect,» said Ebel.

The approach is called bus rapid transit, or BRT, and it has already proven itself in some Latin American megacities, such as Bogotá and Mexico City.

Megacities shrink to cities and then dwindle into towns and villages, green swathes of pristine undeveloped land reappearing in their wake.

In 1975 there were just three megacities of over 10 million people.

Anyone who's been to a megacity knows the orange haze of aerosols that often hangs in the air.

Leaders from 90 world «megacities» meeting in Mexico City this week are sending a message that they plan to act on climate change — whatever national leaders do.

A University of Montana researcher and her collaborators have published a new study that reveals increased risks for Alzheimer's and suicide among children and young adults living in polluted megacities.

The H5N1 bird flu virus has been discovered in poultry in two states in India, and in five governorates of Egypt, including the megacity of Cairo, over the past three days.

Megacities like Shanghai, London, New York, and Bangkok that lie in vast river deltas are particularly vulnerable.

For the team, the Kumbh is a megacity under a microscope, one that can be monitored in a top - down way that would be impossible for an existing city.

It's not often that a single discovery can illuminate both the history of science and ancient office culture — but that is what happened in the ancient Mayan megacity of Xultun, in present - day Guatemala.

Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar, Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI @N), said: «The biggest challenge with electric cars in tropical megacities is the range that they can travel on a full - charge, because their batteries are needed to power both the engine and the air - conditioning.

After all, our relatively large cortices have enabled us to create advanced technology, megacities, nuclear weapons, art, philosophy — in short, a radically different environment to the African savannah we inhabited for most of our history.

Duren is involved with the Los Angeles Megacities Carbon Project, a major effort of NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to thoroughly measure methane and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere above major urban centers.

The study adds evidence to the idea that megacities will become even more important, says Lesley Giles at the Work Foundation in London.

Yet these particles, called secondary organic aerosols, are a dominant atmospheric component in most megacity locations.

Then they tested the model results using the comprehensive ground and aircraft measurements gathered during the 2006 Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations in Mexico City.

In one sentence: Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory determined that high concentrations of nitrogen oxides influence the creation of the brown haze that hangs over the world's megacities, providing new insights that can create higher accuracy climate and atmospheric models.