Sentences with phrase «more global losses»
Curated by Hitomi Iwasaki, the show touches on a child's birth and a father's death, as well as more global losses — of languages, cultures and even the geographical features that shape them.
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Walter Kemmsies, managing director, economist and chief strategist at JLL Ports Airports and Global Infrastructure, notes that that many of the job losses that are popularly blamed on NAFTA would likely have taken place even in the absence of NAFTA, in part because of growing competition from China - based manufacturers, many of which have taken advantage of currency manipulation by the Chinese government that has rendered China - made products more price - competitive in the U.S. Likewise, Mauro Guillen, head of Wharton's Lauder Institute, agrees that without NAFTA, many American jobs that were lost over this period would probably have gone to China or elsewhere.
Perhaps it makes sense to conclude with the more general observation that changes in the size of global capital flows and the accompanying imbalances increase the importance of sustaining the credibility of monetary policy, because they increase the costs of a loss of credibility or a negative shock to credibility.
An attack on Global Payment Systems that begin in about January 2011 resulted in the theft of more than 950,000 cards and losses of about $ 93 million, according to the indictment.
U.S. stocks tumbled Friday to their biggest loss in more than seven months, extending a global selloff that investors fear signals turmoil to come as financial markets adjust to a pullback in central - bank stimulus.
We also examine what it takes to turn a loss - making Chinese business into a global success; explore opportunities in the country's tech sector; plus much more.
China's Shanghai Composite Index tumbled more than 8.5 % on Monday, posting its biggest one - day loss in percentage terms since the 2007 global financial crisis and wiping out what was left of this year's gains.
Absent other effective measures to control dietary shifts and reduce food loss and waste, the world will need to produce about 70 percent more food annually by 2050 to meet global demands.
FAO's Strategic Objective 4 Enabling more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems at local, national and international levels includes the Output on Evidence - based food loss and waste reduction programs developed at national, regional and global level.
For more details see the Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction and Technical Platform on the Measurement and Reduction of Food Loss and Waste.
Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.
Read more here: Global Agri - business Alliance adopts Food Loss Resolution The Consumer Goods Forum and Champions 12.3 issued a Call - to - Action to retailers and food producers to simplify date labels and reduce food waste by 2020.
That ice loss is shifting global weather patterns, making the Arctic ocean more acidic and threatening Arctic wildlife and communities, he said.
As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.
Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.
«In the most recent global burden - of - disease study, diarrheal disease accounts for the loss of more disability - adjusted life years than any other infectious disease, and cryptosporidiosis is the second leading cause of diarrheal illness.»
«Ecuador: Deforestation destroys more dry forest than climate change: Study compares dry forest losses due to land use change or global warming.»
Although global warming is likely to change the distribution of species, deforestation will result in the loss of more dry forests than predicted by climate change damage.
Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life expectancy grows; ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss around the world.
Sea ice and snow cover loss create a feedback look that can accelerate global warming; with fewer reflective surfaces on the planet, more sunlight can thereby be absorbed, driving surface temperatures even higher, the scientists explained.
«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.
The rate at which interior forest area was lost was more than three times the rate of global forest area loss.
We came up with numbers that business as usual would give you: losses, averaged over space, over time and uncertain outcomes, of around 5 percent of global gross domestic product and upwards, probably substantially more than 5 percent of GDP.
It's a research approach new to glaciology that could lead to more accurate predictions for ice - mass loss and global sea - level rise.
Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.
As climate change has become a more prominent public concern, some scientists have worried that it might distract attention from related environmental problems, such as the global loss of biodiversity.
To make this discovery, Martí and colleagues first performed a global methylation assay in 24 adolescents who had the best and worst response to the EVASYON weight loss program, and then expanded the sample to include 83 more adolescents.
«As global population continues to grow, biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to produce more food from the same acre of land.»
«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.
For more information, see von Hippel and Schoeppner's previous papers, «Reducing the Danger from Fires in Spent Fuel Pools» and «Economic Losses From a Fire in a Dense - Packed U.S. Spent Fuel Pool,» which were published in Science & Global Security in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.
The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.
Researchers for the Nielsen Global Health & Wellness Survey found that when people in North America commit to changing their diet for weight loss, the most popular way to do it is now to add in more natural, fresh foods.
(11) Instead of Jarvik, a more convincing yet unlikely spokesman would be the popular Duane Graveline MD MPH, a former NASA astronaut, and author who was started on Lipitor during an annual astronaut physical at the Johnson Space Center, and 6 weeks later had an episode of transient global amnesia, a sudden form of total memory loss described in his book.
The amount of penalties imposed for data breaches (the loss, destruction, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data) is more stringent under the GDPR, and can be as high as # 17m, or four per cent of global turnover.
Underpinning the mid-size sedan is Toyota's new Global Architecture - K platform, resulting in a weight loss thanks to the use of more high - strength steel.
Bluntly: the United States will need to accept some further loss of sovereignty in exchange for more just and effective mechanisms for solving collective global problems.
You can choose to invest in a single asset class, such as global shares, or a specific sector, such as mining shares, but this will usually mean your returns are much more volatile so you may have big gains one year and big losses the next.
When you're on the road, the car rental loss / damage insurance and global assistance hotline can make you feel more comfortable.
One great aspect of having an American Express card is their slew of benefits they give such as Travel benefits (things like Car Rental Loss and Damage Insurance coverage at no extra cost and 24/7 access to the Global Assist ® Hotline for emergencies when you are traveling more than 100 miles from home), Purchase protection (such as fraud protection, extended manufacturer's warranties, and return protection) and Entertainment benefits.
A worldwide 2012 report by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners found that the typical organization loses 5 percent of its revenues to fraud each year, which adds up to a global annual fraud loss of more than $ 3.5 trillion.
Cash has become king for a growing number of Canadian investors worried about the uncertain global economy, but the country's wealthiest individuals fear that a greater allocation to cash will only lead to more losses, reports a new online survey by iShares, the exchange - traded fund provider operated by BlackRock Canada.
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The card also offers a host of benefits that can be useful to travelers, including baggage and travel accident insurance, a Global Assist Hotline that you have 24/7 access to when you travel more than 100 miles from home, premium roadside assistance, and car rental loss and damage insurance (secondary coverage).
In response to our own global nightmare, it might be time to reconsider what the core of the game is, and to begin thinking less about what it says about individual loss and more about the communal action it dreamed up in response to global tragedy.
While methane is short - lived, all it has to do is shift the global energy balance for a while, to trigger irreversible loss of tundra methane, loss of Arctic sea ice cover and more calthrate loss, then loss of ice sheets and everything else Hansen et al promise.
Since global El Nino / La Nina — associated climate impacts were first documented in the 1980s, the prevailing assumption has been that more severe and widespread climate anomalies, and, therefore, greater climate - related socioeconomic losses, should be expected during ENSO extremes.
Long waves (infrared) light from the sun, GHGs, clouds, are trapped at the surface of the oceans, directly leading to increased «skin» temperature, more water vapor (a very effective GHG), faster convection (with more loss of heat to space in the tropics),... How each of them converts to real regional / global temperature increases / decreases is another point of discussion...
Last summer's record loss of ice was due to a combination of natural cycle and global warming factors: «more greenhouse gases, an unusual wind pattern, and warming of the ocean water in regions with reduced sea ice.»
The higher sea surface temperatures in the tropics (~ 0.85 K / decade in recent decades) have lead to an increase in LW (infrared) radiation, and a loss to space of some 3 W / m2 all over the tropics (50 % of the surface), which more than halves the — theoretical — global influence (~ 2.4 W / m2) of all extra GHGs together since the start of the industrial revolution.