Sentences with phrase «measure the rising impact»

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Plans for retaliatory measures were expected to impact US soybean exports the most, since it was a US$ 12.4 billion market in 2017.6 Elsewhere, corn (+10.5 %, to US$ 3.88 per bushel) and wheat (+5.6 %, to US$ 4.51 a bushel) prices also rose during the period, with wheat finding primary support from dry weather - related stress in select US states.5 Global demand for grains is increasing.

With a fuel duty rise due this summer and the possibility of strikes by fuel tanker drivers, it will be interesting to measure the impact on the oil companies and whether BP and Shell can ensure that any blame attached is shared around equally, rather than disproportionately focused on them.

Importantly, when a preferred share is trading at a high current yield relative to the market yield, the investor receives a measure of protection from the impact of rising interest rates (or, if we're focused on real returns, the impact of rising inflation).

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

And the Arctic, where the average temperature is rising twice as fast as the rest of the world, has become the unfortunate laboratory where researchers can best measure their impact.

And CBP hasn't yet figured out how to measure its impact — how to calculate the board's role, separate from the teachers» or school leader's, when reading scores rise.

A working paper from Jonathan Roth, a doctoral student at Harvard University, examines the impact of the rise in teacher retirements immediately following the passage of Act 10.68 He finds that in the 2011 - 12 school year, teacher value - added measures in math improved among school - grade levels in elementary schools in which a larger fraction of teachers retired.

However, even as new promotional vehicles have risen in the digital age, it can often be difficult to measure exactly what kind of impact they have on pet store's bottom line.

The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact is a bipartisan initiative where local governments from four major counties — with a combined population of 5.6 million — are developing and implementing comprehensive measures to address climate impacts like sea - level rise.

While enough small measures could help reduce emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (the goal of the climate bill that died early in his first term), climate scientists caution that won't be enough to avert the worst impacts of global temperature rise.

DIVA is a global model to estimate impacts of sea level rise on all coastal nations as well as the costs and benefits of possible adaptation measures.

And, clearly, there are the iconic impacts like the sea - level rise, the Amazon rainforest and Arctic sea - ice as obvious examples where we've measured change and we can see it happening in front of us.

In a report looking at the potential impacts of of rising greenhouse gas emissions, they discussed a number of ways scientists could measure the world's efforts to limit climate change.

Increasing corporate environmental impacts mirror rising corporate revenues, suggesting that sustainability measures could cost companies unless they «decouple» economic growth and environmental harm.

These new findings are critical to measuring the global impact to sea - level rise resulting from ice flowing into the ocean.

Although sea - level rise typically is slow compared to many environmental changes, even this type of gradual sea - level rise may force other systems to cross thresholds and trigger abrupt impacts for natural or human systems unless adaptive measures are taken.

I suppose the battle - lines here are drawn between on the one - hand those who believe in either significant natural feedbacks impacting the carbon cycle as - we - speak or who believe today's mitigation measures are useless, and on the other - hand those who would welcome some signs of a weakening of the accelerating CO2 - rise as this would encourage more mitigation actions (and less hand - wringing) and who consider CO2 emissions reporting is more than «fluff».

-LSB-...] In our central scenario, taking into account the impact of measures already announced by governments to improve energy efficiency, support renewables, reduce fossil - fuel subsidies and, in some cases, to put a price on carbon, energy - related CO2 emissions still rise by 20 % to 2035.

Even so, the SIOR index, measuring the impact of 10 variables, rose 0.6 percentage point to 55.5 in the third quarter, following a decline of 2.6 percentage points in the second quarter.