Sentences with phrase «like global agriculture»

Those negotiations will sometimes look like trade negotiations, sometimes like IMF negotiations, and sometimes like global agriculture or public health efforts.

Not exact matches

Already the economy is well diversified across mining, agriculture, services, and manufacturing, and like other MAVINS it can feed into global growth with its commodities advantage while developing its own domestic markets.

This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

The team used genetic information collected on field from tiger faecal samples, to understand how landscape features — like roads and agriculture — impact tiger movement in Central India, a global high priority tiger conservation landscape.

Organizations like the WHO, World Organization for Animal Health, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and Global Alliance for the Control of Rabies are working together to vaccinate dogs in hopes of eliminating human deaths from rabies.

Responding to comments 14, 25, and 56: I'm a policy analyst in Seattle, well - read on the impacts of climate change, but also other global resource constraints — like peak oil, peak phosphorus and the limits of industrial agriculture, waters supply (closely related to climate), and human systems / governance.

BPL: Our entire global agriculture and civilization grew up when Ts was 287 or 288 K for something like 10,000 years.

The increased recognition of urban agriculture and food policies is not only a matter of governments in the global North, but is as much present in the global South where amongst others cities like Rosario (Argentina), Lima (Peru),

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

In order to stay below the two - degree warming limit, global agriculture needs to slash non-CO2 emissions, like methane and nitrous oxide, by one gigaton per year by 2030.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

If we do some advance planning now (like not subsidizing building in low lying areas, or encouraging agriculture in places that are going to dry out), we can make the future significantly more comfortable, regardless of whether global warming is our fault or not.

The most widely quoted estimates, like those in the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy, known as DICE, used by Yale's William Nordhaus and colleagues, depend upon educated guesswork to place a value on the negative effects of global warming in a number of crucial areas, especially agriculture and coastal protection, then try to make some allowance for other possible repercussions.

Finally, encouraging dietary shifts away from resource - intensive foods like beef and pork could further reduce the global land footprint for agriculture.

Biochar, the charcoal - like material sometimes touted as a miracle cure for global warming, might first gain economic traction as a weapon against local air pollution, research by the U.S. Department of Agriculture indicates.

We are already seeing quick wins where we are tying clients from one sleeve, like agriculture into real estate or timber, or even from our North American real estate business into our global real estate business, which previously was not as connected.