Sentences with phrase «of global population»

Last fall, the Pew Research Center released an interactive map on patterns of global population migration, making it easy to visualize the...

Sub-Saharan Africa has 13 % of the world's population, but a whopping 48 % of the global population is without access to electricity.

According to the WHO, it is the leading cause of ill health and disability worldwide.1 More than 300 million people are estimated to be suffering from depression, corresponding to 4.4 % of the global population.1 Depression is more common among older adults, with a prevalence of 7 % and believed to be underestimated.2 As the world population ages, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of older adults with depressive symptoms and associated global health burden.3

The power shift has gone from a focus on kinetic controls to an all - out battle for the psychological core of the global population.

It is not likely that Amazon will add 30 new languages in 2018 or seek to serve 95 % of the global population.

The report estimates that while indigenous people account for only 6 percent of the global population, their territories cover 20 percent of the land across the globe.

He told us all a startling fact: «Two and a half billion people — that's a third of our global population — are at risk of losing their land to more powerful interests.»

Rice is a food staple for half of the world's peoples and accounts for 20 percent of the global population's caloric intake.

US politicians apparently believe that the 5 % of the global population that they supposedly represent, have the divine right to impose their will on the remaining 95 %.

By then not only climate scientists, but I would think a large part of the global population will be fully aware of the dangerous consequences of global warming and the urgency of public policies to reduce carbon emissions — thanks in a large part to Dr. Mann, James Hansen and many other vocal figures in the climate science community.

If present - day global emissions were allocated equally to every person in the world, China — with about 22 % of the global population — would be entitled to about 1.5 billion tonnes.

Which leaves about 400 million in Europe, another 370 million in North America plus another few million in Australia, NZ and a couple of other minor population centres, say about 800 million maximum or about 11 % of the global population to worry about climate change and fossil fuel pollution.

Speak Out does not shy away from emphasizing the problems caused by the enormous size of the global population, nor its ongoing rapid growth — indeed, these tremendously important issues are the reason Speak Out exists in the first place.

As of October 8th, 2015, 121 INDC submissions have been filed with the UNFCCC, reflecting 148 countries (including the European Union member states), and covering around 86 % of global emissions in 2010 (excluding land use and forest emissions) and 87 % of global population.)

Europe's high levels of water use are characteristic of alarming levels of resource use by a minority of the global population.

As the meager contributions to the GCF demonstrate, it's difficult to address climate change when 80 percent of the global population lives on less than $ 10 per day.

Super volcano Laki in Iceland to again resume it's activity of 1783 / 1784 with consequent crop failures across the whole of the northern hemisphere and mass starvation of a fair proportion of the global population as a consequence.

According to the IPCC report, each degree of warming is projected to decrease renewable water resources by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

On the other hand, the proposed mitigation policies will increase the probability of worse well - being, than would otherwise be the case, for a large proportion of the global population.

To a first approximation Bartlett states that «the magnitude of the effect of humans in producing global climate change is proportional to the product of the size of the global population P and the average percapita annual consumption of resources, A the total annual consumption of resources (tons per year).

Fertility rates in countries containing more than half of the global population are now below replacement level.

Prior to the fossil - fueled Industrial Revolution, the share of the global population that lived in cities was small — less than 10 percent.

What if Big Oil / Gas / Coal / Cement etc. could show that increased CO2 has enabled the expansion of the global population by 1B people?

For example, with each degree of warming, renewable water resources are projected to decline by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

Three - quarters of the global population uses just 10 percent of the world's energy, 1 billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion cook their food over dung, wood, and charcoal, leading to millions of early deaths.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

It concludes that, if global temperatures rise by 4 °C, the flood risk in countries representing more than 70 % of the global population and global GDP will increase by more than 500 %.

Half of the global population currently lives in cities.

The study reveals that, with a 4 °C temperature increase globally, countries representing 73 % of the global population would face a 580 % increase in flood risk.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, an environmental advocacy group, that works out to about 65 % of the global population that has never experienced an average or below average year, and about half of the U.S. population.

Compounding the risk for coastal communities, Asia has more than 90 % of the global population exposed to tropical cyclones.

More than a third of the global population is affected by water scarcity, and 80 % of wastewater is discharged untreated, adding to already problematic levels of water pollution.

«By 2025, drylands may occupy 48 % of the global land surface and sustain 51 % of the global population growth from 2000 to 2025 − 50 % of which will occur in developing countries, compared with only 1 % in developed countries.»

China is now the world s largest emitter of CO2 and thereby making an important contribution to increasing agricultural yields at a time when much of the global population is still hungry.

India and China together represent more than a third of the global population.

The least extreme advocate voluntary poverty — the most extreme the reduction of global population to a few hundred million this century with the bulk of the Earth left to «rewild».

And that understanding needs to continue to be delivered to the global leaders and the rest of the global population.

More than half of the global population is now concentrated in urban areas, and by 2060 two thirds of the expected population of 10 billion will live in cities.

Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.

The G20 is a group of 20 major economies, including China, India, Germany, the UK and US, which accounts for 63 % of global population and 83 % of emissions.

It is quite clearly impossible, since by 2200 we would need to cover almost the entire land surface of the planet with solar panels just to provide Australia with its energy needs, which represents a meagre 0.33 % of the global population.

I made an accurate observation — that the developing world comprises 82 percent of the global population and all the world's poorest people — but, in so doing, I wasn't implying that that's somehow the West's fault.

Very simple: that the developing world (comprising 82 percent of the global population, all its 3 billion poorest people and responsible for over 65 percent of global GHG emissions) was to be exempt from any obligation — legal or moral, now or in future — to reduce those emissions.

With an estimated 92 % of the global population now breathing unhealthy air, The World Health Organisation (WHO) has identified air pollution as the single greatest global health risk today

Nordic region offers valuable lessons for rapid EV deployment worldwide Five Nordic countries make up about 8 % of the global electric car fleet despite representing less than 0.5 % of the global population 8 March 2018

Although relatively modest in comparison, projected SLR of up to 1.2 m this century has been estimated to threaten up to 4.6 % of the global population and 9.3 % of annual global gross domestic product with annual flooding by 2100 in the absence of adaptive measures (12).

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) is a nonprofit addressing the problem of deforestation, which affects the livelihood of a quarter of the global population and endangers biodiversity.

The rising food demand is not just a result of the global population growth [although the planet can expect (UN medium variant) an estimated 2.3 billion extra people in 2050 — as no one even mentions the possibility of policy on that front]-- but also of an increasingly decadent average food consumption pattern, in which (next to globalisation of food production) the rising consumption of animal protein plays a key role.

Across the 20 countries with the largest clean cooking access gaps representing 84 percent of the global population without access, annual finance committed averaged just $ 32 million, compared to the estimated annual investment need of at least $ 4.4 billion.

Looking at just the 2010 numbers, for example, they show that the United States, with its exceptionally large share of the global population of people with incomes above the $ 20 per day development threshold (capacity), as well as the world's largest share of cumulative emissions since 1990 (responsibility), is the nation with the largest share (33.1 percent) of the global RCI.