Sentences with phrase «many environmental trends»

Recent political events and long - term environmental trends offer little comfort; artificial intelligence and synthetic biology add a more urgent threat.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

Principals apply knowledge and understanding of current developments in education policy, schooling and social and environmental trends and developments to improve educational opportunities in the school.

Applicable risks and uncertainties include, among others, regulatory actions and timing of any new product launches; competitive pressures, environmental trends and conditions; and the risks identified under the heading «Risk Factors» in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for 2012, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2013, as well as the other information we file with the SEC.

Long ago, Jesse Ausubel, a veteran Rockefeller University analyst of global resource and environmental trends, asserted that, «in general, politicians are pulling on disconnected levers» at the intersection of energy and environmental policy.

Here's an effort to look ahead from a promising American environmental trend to a prospect for the same in China, starting with two observations.

The project shows how improving systems for observing and analyzing environmental trends are brightening prospects for better management of resources and risks in struggling regions — even when governments might not want the information revealed.

Among the other environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.

While the decline of early civilizations can be traced to one or possibly two environmental trends such as deforestation and soil erosion that undermined their food supply, we are now dealing with several.

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At EPI, Emily contributes to the research, writing, and editing of releases and follows global environmental trends.

Given the environmental trends over the last 150 years, plus the fact that we are already experiencing a massive extinction, I think it's a safe bet that there will be problems from some species expanding their range.

We identify three categories of challenges that have to be addressed to maintain and enhance human health in the face of increasingly harmful environmental trends.

The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is UN Environment's main assessment of the state of the global environment, providing environmental trends for air, climate, water, land and biota.

Correction: August 9, 2001, Thursday Because of an editing error, an article in Science Times yesterday about Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, who is optimistic about many environmental trends, attributed a role in an anecdote to him erroneously.

(a)(ii) Increase in the number of relevant global, regional and national forums and institutions using data on environmental trends identified through UN Environment Programme to influence their policy

While this does not provide day — to - day forecasts, it allows planners to assess major environmental trends for use in urban planning, water, and agricultural management.

(a) i) Increase in the number of United Nations agencies and multilateral environmental agreements using data on environmental trends, identified through UN Environment Programme, to influence their policy

But more fundamentally, they are investments that will help reverse the demographic and environmental trends that are undermining civilization.

Peter Marsters is a Research Analyst at Rhodium Group and draws on an interdisciplinary background in economics, engineering, and public policy to analyze the latest energy and environmental trends.

«Current demographic, economic and environmental trends will create global stresses that provide the impetus necessary for many countries or groups to turn weather modification ability into capability.

In looking back at earlier civilizations, it was often a single environmental trend that led to their demise.

The good news is that momentum is building in efforts to reverse damaging environmental trends.

Indeed, they have long been considered «canaries,» or species that indicate alarming environmental trends.

The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) recently launched a new online mapping tool called the North American Environmental Atlas where North American environmental trends can be

This most recent price surge was trend - driven, the result of our failure to reverse the environmental trends that are undermining world food production.»

It may be a badly polluting and dysfunctional part - but it is still affected by the same environmental trends and faces the same environmental risks as everyone else.

Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies.

I rely on peer review and broad scientific agreement on current and projected environmental trends, because I don't collect that raw data and I don't analyze it.

You do not need to be an ecologist to see that if recent environmental trends continue, the global economy eventually will come crashing down.

As Sarah Palin said, «while we recognize the occurrence of these natural, cyclical environmental trends, we can't say with assurance that man's activities cause weather change».

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.

Not exact matches

Many reported that they were taking note of trends such as locally sourced food and environmental sustainability, as well as some revamps of old favorites like pickling and dessert mashups.

Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

Polman foresaw a litany of other problems ahead, he told investors, listing these: «subdued economic growth, geopolitical tension, the resultant backlash against globalization and technology, a planet under increasing environmental stress, and the fragmentation of consumer trends, shopping channels, and media.»

David Denniston, director of environmental design at Fitch, a retail merchandising consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio, weighs in on four other store trends.

Jan 11, 2016: In our annual report, we highlight the key environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends that are top of mind for investors going into the New Year.

Environmental regulation is the long - term trend, but shipping must first contend with a wide - reaching transparency regulation coming soon

Another current trend among restaurants is environmental sustainability — a goal that fits perfectly with restaurant farming.

Granted, miners have been pressured by Beijing to curtail production as part of the government's enforcement of tougher environmental protection policies, but the decline in output is part of a downward trend we're seeing across the board, especially among major producers.

This reflects a social trend of environmental focus as well as anticipated increases in spending by governments and other enterprises on this kind of technology.

Worse, it validates a trend among the environmental movement in Canada, spearheaded by David Suzuki, to dismiss economists as the enemy of the environment.

Many professors are engaged in environmental or social research initiatives — despite a lack of significant faculty support — because they understand the underlying trends in the business and engineering communities.

With global leadership in both internal combustion engines and hybrid and electric powertrains, the firm is expected to profit from shifting secular trends and increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

Despite the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, global regulations are still trending towards stricter environmental and emissions regulations, requiring businesses to invest in cleaner technology in order to meet those standards.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

It is a better prospect than continuation of the trend of the 1980s, but many of us think it is still too large and will extend the damage to the already beleagured Australian environment, unless Australians discover ways of making a smaller environmental impact than they do at present.

Sustainability is a popular trend in the culinary industry, but Windows Catering Company has been making strides to lessen its environmental impact since the mid-2000s.