Sentences with phrase «major drivers of change»

«That starts with understanding what the major drivers of change in our industry are likely to be from 2015 to 2020.»

Susskind will identify the major drivers of change in the legal marketplace, discuss ongoing policy changes in relation to public information, and introduce a variety of disruptive technologies that will transform the way in which citizens and organisations obtain legal help.

But there are other major drivers of change that are starting to have some impact now and will become more significant in coming years.

Unfortunately consumers did not turn out to be the major drivers of change as originally expected.

Forestry is another major driver of change in the boreal.

«Now that we have detected the changes, can we try to identify what the potential major drivers of these changes were?»

The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.

From a consideration of physics alone, this must be A (probably THE) major driver of changes in the trades.

Like most industries, a major driver of change in mining will be from new technologies that disrupt traditional operations, making them more efficient and less wasteful and energy intensive.

Not exact matches

Both have been drivers of major change and will likely be vital to the continued evolution of the internet and technology in general, at least for the next few years.

With the Chinese market a major driver of coal demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market, wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.

One of the most high - profile resolutions — co-sponsored by nine chambers or boards of trade from across the country — called on the federal government to refrain from changing the current governance model of Canada's ports and major airports, given that they are economic drivers for our national economy and crucial pieces of transportation infrastructure.

While being an innovative leader in the industry remains the major driving characteristic of top employers, respondents nominated having top leadership that successfully makes changes needed to keep the organization moving in the right direction as one of the half - dozen most important drivers; that driver did not make last year's top six.

«Understanding the major step changes in land utilisation over the last 80 - 100 years provides a unique understanding of the drivers within changing land - use that might have the most significant impact on pollinator communities,» Dr Senapathi says.

The results indicate that although land - use change is currently considered as the major driver of pollinator declines in Europe, climate is the most important factor limiting the distribution of pollinators at large spatial scales.

Migration indicates a variety of political and economic trends and is a major driver of population change, Zagheni said.

Negative emission technologies aim to remove carbon dioxide (CO2), a major driver of climate change, from the atmosphere.

A major focus of this work is to explore the propagation of uncertainty from external drivers to actual impacts of climate change on time - scales of up to 30 years.

In females, progesterone is the major driver of endometrial changes that prepare the uterus for conceptus implantation (4, 5).

What many people don't know is that climate change is a major driver of the allergy epidemic.

Small variations in driver input can result in major changes of vehicle attitude.

Interest rates and especially changes in interest rates are a major driver of the economy and the stock market.

Another major change will come in the form up updated driver AI who will now be much more reactive to your on - track presence, so you shouldn't have to worry about them turning into a corner that's actually the side of your car.

«I am posting this information in advance of publication because of its potential importance to pending EPA regulations or congressional legislation which assume that carbon dioxide is a major driver of climate change.

The threats of climate change and ocean acidification loom increasingly ominously for the future, but local stressors including an explosion in tourism, overfishing, and the resulting increase in macroalgae have been the major drivers of the catastrophic decline of Caribbean corals up until today.

One of the major drivers of renewables» growth in recent decades has been policymakers» recognition that countries need to curb emissions to tackle climate change.

«Current global warming theory dictates that CO2 has been a major driver of climate change throughout the 20th century (Ref, ref, ref, ref, ref).

Indeed, out of the three prime drivers, the only one that has seen major changes in the past few decades is the chemistry of the atmosphere, as a consequence of the emissions from burning fossil fuels.

Given the multiple drivers of migration (Black et al., 2011a and b) and the complex interactions which mediate migratory decision - making by individual or households (Raleigh, 2008; McLeman and Smit, 2006; Kniveton et al., 2011; Black et al., 2011a and b), the projection of the effects of climate change on intra-rural and rural - to - urban migration remains a major challenge.

The document looks at major global drivers of change and focuses on water as a decisive natural capital that if managed and used effectively can contribute to economic growth, sustainable development and increased food and energy production in Africa.

«Agriculture is a major driver of climate change, accounting for more than 20 percent of overall global greenhouse gas emissions in 2010,» said co-author Prajal Pradhan.

Evidence that human activities are the major driver of recent climate change is even stronger than in prior assessments.

Overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich and poor choices of technologies are major drivers; dramatic cultural change provides the main hope of averting calamity.

Burning coal is the single biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally, and so is a major driver of climate change.

In particular, given that there has been no trend in the sunspot count or cosmic ray flux over the last 50 years [1], while the global temperature has increased by 0.5 - 0.6 °C [2], how can one seriously claim that your work shows solar activity to be the major driver of climate change today and over the last 50 years?

To identify major drivers of southwestern climate change we perform a multiple - linear regression of the past 100 years of the southwestern US temperature and precipitation.

Greenhouse gases, including CO2, looking less and less the major drivers of global temperatures and climate change.

This implies that GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions may not have been a major driver of the observed changes in summer rainfall.»

The clearing of rainforests and carbon - rich peatlands for new plantations is releasing globally significant carbon pollution, making Conflict Palm Oil a major driver of human induced climate change.

Must be big when Drudge gives 8 col - lines to climate: Reid: Kochs «main causes» of climate change (For Reid to say that the Koch brothers are «Not a cause, one of the main causes» shows major political desperation and and ignorance of climate and its major drivers.)

However, if the models of Don Easterbrook etc. show global temperature varying with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)(not just regional temperature), then the models themselves are missing major physics and the drivers of both PDO and temperature changes.

All the GCM's are extremely simple when compared to actual climate, and they all have the same fundamental assumption that the fluctuation of CO2 is a major driver of climate change, even though we have very little real world data to support that claim.

Two major possible drivers of the changes, competition and regional climate, were considered in our analyses.

This is the common sceptic claim that «the prediction is that CO2 is a major driver is refuted by the ice core data which shows it isn't, therefore, CO2 is not a major driver of climate change»

Reframing the proposition more correctly it would be something like «The prediction is that CO2 CAN BE a major driver of Climate Change in some contexts INCLUDING our current context.

Earth is home to many billions of species — a majority of which will be affected by the unfolding Anthropocene Mass Extinction, of which anthropogenic climate change is one of the major, synegistic drivers.

[6] It has been shown that past climatic change has been a major driver of the processes of speciation and extinction.

These cases are of particular relevance to energy and climate change policy because each of these sectors is expected to be a major driver of future energy demand and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.

The structure, productivity and carbon balance of these systems appear more sensitive than indicated in the TAR to variability of, and changes in, major climate change drivers.

Overall, climate change has been estimated to be a major driver of biodiversity loss in cool conifer forests, savannas, mediterranean - climate systems, tropical forests, in the Arctic tundra, and in coral reefs (Thomas et al., 2004a; Carpenter et al., 2005; Malcolm et al., 2006).