Sentences with phrase «much global production»

Extreme weather causes crop production losses, but until now, scientists «did not know exactly how much global production was lost to extreme weather events and how they varied by different regions of the world,» said Navin Ramankutty, a professor of global food security and sustainability at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia, and one of the study authors.

«But until now we did not know exactly how much global production was lost to such extreme weather events, and how they varied by different regions of the world.»

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The problems are similar to the coffee industry, where a fungus threatens to drag down the global production of coffee by as much as 40 percent.

If we persist on our current trajectory, the potential for temperatures to increase in the next few decades could reduce the global area suitable for production of coffee by as much as half by 2050.

Even though I know nothing about the iron ore market, and certainly not as much as the CEO of Fortescue, I know arithmetic, and even before I heard Minack's discussion of the global increase in production, I simply could not get the arithmetic that connected Chinese interest rates with Australian iron ore exports to work otherwise.

The oil production cuts and healthy oil demand growth have helped the global inventory surplus to nearly vanish and it certainly looks very much like OPEC and allies have a Continue Reading

The production of knowledge, decemination of information, and coqunication of the data are very much controlled by the TNCs, the industrialized states, and the global news agencies of the West through the highly sophiscated electronic means.

Much of the pollution of the global environment takes place due to the wasteful life style and methods of production of rich countries, especially of North America and Western Europe.

In the new global economy much of global production is taking place in similar circumstances.

Eating less meat is of course a vital way to help prevent the cruelty to and suffering of animals and benefits the environment: livestock production could be responsible for as much as 51 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.»

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is RSPO certified.

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is RSPO certified sustainable.

Infographic showing global palm oil production, where it's being produced and how much is certified sustainable.

For more than 50 years fossil fuels and fertilizers have been the key ingredients in much greater global food production and distribution.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

So does the food system, once you get away from growing food [in] oil which is our current preoccupation and one that isn't going to last much longer, the need for local production and control and whatever food has the same, and I was trying to argue at the end I think much the same thing is sort of happening with culture as well, that we have simultaneously this incredibly interesting global thing, the Internet and it's allowing you to live very locally and globally at the same time.

A dispute between two environmental scientists is creating a controversy over how much methane is leaking from natural gas production and is contributing to global warming.

It's true that English language productions have a substantial global advantage, that only three current Spanish actors rival Watts and McGregor in international fame (Antonio Banderas and real - life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem), and that film is as much of a business as it is an art.

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The second - generation Acura NSX (Honda NSX outside the U.S.) made its global debut at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show and entered production much later, in May 2016.

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Couple this with a lack of growth in global supply (despite all the headlines about huge new oil finds — much of which simply serves to replace declining production elsewhere), and you have a v supportive (& possibly explosive) price environment for oil & gas.

There's Superhero Cheesecake, an award - winning digital production studio; the much - respected MediaMonks and global heavyweight W+K Amsterdam.

Much like their works, the artists are in a constant state of migration: between places of residence, local and global production and pre-determined subject positions.

Certainly in the current climate, in which the production of art is increasingly seen as part of a multi-million-dollar global economy supported by a network of art fairs, biennales and galleries, much of the prize's original remit to highlight and to reward new work is being carried out elsewhere.

Again I don't know if uncontrolled global warming («business as usual») will truly cut production that much.

Peer - reviewed studies have raised concerns about how much methane is leaking throughout the production and transmission of natural gas, casting doubt on whether it really is better for global warming than coal, which burns 50 percent more carbon than natural gas.

While the damage wouldn't be felt equally - with some regions harder hit than others - the overall economic ramifications would be considerable, the researchers concluded: the global value of crop production could fall by as much as 12 % by 2100 if nothing is done.

Climate change, and humanity's response to it, are issues of global importance, affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand, insurance costs and much else.

Much of global coal production is used in the country in which it was produced; only around 15 % of hard coal production is destined for the international coal market.

There's also the realization by most Americans that our country's ongoing energy revolution has pretty much dashed the 1970s - era justifications for excluding American energy from the global marketplace, where it could be positively affecting global crude markets, stimulating production here at home and providing real energy aid to America's allies.

They add: «Direct air capture could become a major industry if the technology matures and prices drop dramatically... Direct air capture might require much less land [than other negative emissions techniques], but entail much higher costs and consumption of a large fraction of global energy production.

We don't know precisely how bad extreme weather will become at any given amount of warming, or how much critical factors like global food production will be impacted.

The essential thrust of much of this hearing was to gain greater market share for U.S. natural gas production interests in the growing global market.

Our projections are much closer to actual renewable energy development than those from IEA because we have monitored global and national renewable energy market development and production capacities carefully since the mid 90s, and discuss possible growth rates with the solar and wind industries.

With enhanced domestic and Canadian production, the country would achieve a certain energy independence: If the world oil market were to collapse because of a global war or another catastrophe, America would maintain access to its energy resources, though they could be much more expensive.

And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is also very much a global good if — as Ruddiman and other scientists assert — the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its historic, benignly warm, interglacial mode.»

Without strong action to reduce carbon emissions, climate change is projected «to cut the global area suitable for coffee production by as much as 50 per cent by 2050.»

You can only believe there is a looming catastrophe if a) you believe that man is responsible for 100 % of the CO2 increase (that is in serious doubt), b) an increase of up to 2.0 °C is not beneficial (there is much evidence that it is beneficial), c) over the next 100 years there will not be any major advances in energy production (now we can switch to nuclear within 10 - 20 years), and d) man can realistically do anything to effect global temperatures (the US EPA estimates proposed CO2 restrictions costing tens of trillions of US dollars would reduce global temperature by 0.006 °C).

Meanwhile, production of greenhouse gases — which linger in the atmosphere much longer than sulfate aerosols — has continued, causing average global temperatures to rise.

The energy system is both a source of emissions that lead to global warming and it can also be directly affected by climate change: through changes in our energy consumption patterns, potential shutdowns of offshore oil and gas production, changing ice and snow conditions in the oil production regions of Alaska, changing sea ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean and the implications for shipping routes, and impacts of sea - level rise on coasts, where so much of our energy facility infrastructure is located.

Global warming would seem to be a much greater threat than we thought, with very negative results from the feedback loop of warming influencing carbon dioxide production.

We will probably have to import cement from China, where its production produces nearly twice as much in CO2 emissions, as its production in Australia does — a net rise in global emissions — not a fall.

Of course there are many ways to look at this issue; there's much to be said about the negative externalities associated with industrial agriculture because, as he notes, food production «exacerbate [s] global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.»

Estimates of the global net primary production (of vegetation) appropriated by humans range as high as 55 %, and the percentage impacted, not just appropriated, is much larger [13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23].

We live in a global economy, much of it with lower production costs than our own in the developed world.

In the U.S. too much nitrogen fertilizer is used and this is bad from the standpoint of global warming, but this is a separate issue from the production of biofuels.

The CFOs surveyed were pretty much evenly split on the issue of peak oil: 48 % said that we are either past a global peak in oil production or will reach that point within several years; 52 % believed that production rates can continue to increase.