Sentences with phrase «increasing on a global scale»

As awareness is increasing on a global scale, food processors are looking for manufacturers with a shared focus on natural, organic and clean ingredients.

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«They are increasing fears that they may be able to coordinate attacks like the ones which occurred in Paris and Belgium on a global scale.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

In addition, climate change continues to wreak havoc on small - scale farmers and increase pressures on the global food supply.

On Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGsOn Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 30 CEOs, government ministers, global institution executives, and civil society leaders announced the launch of the latest full - scale attack on global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGson global food waste: an all - sector collaboration aimed at increasing political and social momentum to achieve Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Because of the increasing loss of agricultural biodiversity on a global scale, the Convention on Biological Diversity has developed a work programme on this subject in 1996.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

Taken together, the research data provides a picture, from the leaf scale to the global scale, suggesting that droughts in the Amazon basin are affecting levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere globally, both on a short - term basis though decreasing photosynthesis and on a longer term basis, by increasing tree mortality.

Whereas carbon levels can affect warming on a global scale, the effects of increased albedo and poor evotranspiration would affect temperatures only on a regional level.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

The pacte doesn't clearly address the issue of permanent status, but I still believe it should improve the situation between group leaders and permanent researchers and increase competitiveness both within France and on a global scale.

To repeat such successes on a global scale, a huge increase in funds is needed.

A project called the Jellyfish Database Initiative was recently launched to determine whether the increases are happening on a global scale and if they could be part of a natural cycle.

Having reached for the first time a point in human existence where more humans are overweight than are hungry, where our children's life expectancy is less than ours, and where food resources and indigenous knowledge are vanishing faster than we can preserve them, increasing nutritional knowledge on both local and global scales is of vital importance.

That number increases to almost 30 on the global scale.

Rather than relying on a friend to introduce you to someone local, the potential to find the perfect match is immediately increased to a global scale.

One of the best solutions to fight the increasing number of cybercrimes would be to use eLearning in order to raise awareness on a global scale.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «Today's results put the success of our increased emphasis on phonics and continued focus on raising education standards on a global scale.

Reaching that level of success means increasing your reach, making the effort to reach out on a global scale.

The accompanying rise of eBooks on a global scale has further increased the volume and complexity of the indie book market, raising standards and increasing the need for quality control.

Astrid Söderbergh Widding, president of Stockholm University and chair of the consortium's steering committee, said that the increasing costs of scientific communication were «straining university budgets on a global scale while publishers operate on high profit margins».

The increase is also being reflected on a global scale.

At the same time, the subsequent increase of waste takes an ecological perspective on a global scale.

With the entire world watching the recent Fukushima events and the rising of radiation levels, reported mutations and increasing numbers of cancer patients (Kudo himself died of cancer) his oeuvre can be regarded as a valid political statement of contemporary culture on a global scale.

Increased global temp may result in: Increased frequency / violence of severe weather Drought / Desertification / loss of biomass Loss of fresh water Increased disease from vector - borne diseases Species extinction on a large scale.

... Polar amplification explains in part why Greenland Ice Sheet and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appear to be highly sensitive to relatively small increases in CO2 concentration and global mean temperature... Polar amplification occurs if the magnitude of zonally averaged surface temperature change at high latitudes exceeds the globally averaged temperature change, in response to climate forcings and on time scales greater than the annual cycle.

On a global scale, we have greatly increased energy demand from developing countries.

Natural, large - scale climate patterns like the PDO and El Niño - La Niña are superimposed on global warming caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and landscape changes like deforestation.

[On a global scale, this supposed positive influence on wood production and forest regeneration was thought to have the possibility of balancing the CO2 increase by carbon sequestering through photosynthesiOn a global scale, this supposed positive influence on wood production and forest regeneration was thought to have the possibility of balancing the CO2 increase by carbon sequestering through photosynthesion wood production and forest regeneration was thought to have the possibility of balancing the CO2 increase by carbon sequestering through photosynthesis.

Although data are not complete, and sometimes contradictory, the weight of evidence from past studies shows on a global scale that precipitation, runoff, atmospheric water vapor, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, growing season length, and wintertime mountain glacier mass are all increasing.

Improved soil management may increase soil potential as a carbon sink in theory but doing this in reality means considerable changes to farming techniques, on a GLOBAL scale, which looks very hard to make happen, certainly in the short time frames required.

-- It is virtually certain that increases in the frequency of warm daily temperature extremes and decreases in cold extremes will occur throughout the 21st century on a global scale.

The reason a majority of scientists believe anthopogenic global warming is happening now on an increasing scale is because the evidence has piled up.

You and you alone can «re-center» our national debate on issues like the unsustainability of increasing conspicuous per - human over-consumption of limited resources; the unsustainability of skyrocketing absolute global human population numbers; and the soon to become patently unsustainable, seemingly endless growth of large - scale industrial / corporate activities, now threatening to engulf the surface of the planetary home God has blessed us to inhabit and, I suppose, not to overwhelm.

If you are of the opinion that temperature variability on a short time scale is insignificant, how can we declare as fact that the rise in global temperature over the past 50 years is incontrovertibly tied to the increase in CO2 levels?

Given the large scale and increasing number of human - induced global challenges being presented to humanity in 2008 with a mere 6.6 billion people on Earth, what do you suppose our young people can expect to confront in 2050 when 2 1/2 billion more people are added to our current numbers?

Since humans began burning fossil fuels on a large scale, the global average temperature has risen 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit (0.8 degrees Celsius), with most of the increase occurring since 1970.

Three of the four climate models used produce increasing damage with time, with the global warming signal emerging on time scales of 40, 113, and 170 yr, respectively.

Fixed - bottom offshore wind has proven its ability to deliver against all of these and is expected to be rewarded in the form of increased deployment on a global scale over the coming decade.

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

His message to congress in 1965 («in the days when politicians actually listened to scientists» says Oreskes) that «This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through... a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels» demonstrates the gathering political momentum, she says.

The release of gas hydrates may still be stoppable through a suite of techniques including withdrawing atmospheric CO2 by rapidly building soil fertility on a global scale, reforestation to increase reflective cloud cover, and rapidly reducing CO2 emissions — in other words, a massive emergency campaign to cool the planet: Climate Code Red!

And we share best practices with decision - makers to increase our impact on a global scale.

Monitoring and verifying changes in deforestation rates in developing countries and their impacts on carbon emissions could increase substantially the transaction costs of implementing a REDD + scheme on a global scale.

Furthermore, it is also the first time that the Keeling Curve recorded a 30 percent increase in carbon dioxide concentration on a global scale.

He also said, «Additionally, the sale of the portable solar business enables Global Solar to increase focus on our core product lines, namely, copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells for OEMs such as Dow Solar and the company's commercial - scale flexible modules ideal for building integrated applications.»

The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.

Some approaches, like turning biomass into biochar, a charcoal whose carbon resists breakdown, and painting roofs white to increase their reflectivity and reduce air - conditioning demand, are relatively benign, but would have minimal effect on a global scale.

And his predictions are even worse:» The continuing planetary imbalance and the rapid increase of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel assure that global warming will continue on decadal time scales.»