Sentences with phrase «of scenario analysis»

We believe that the most important component of the TCFD's recommendations is the use of scenario analysis by companies as a tool to understand climate - related risks and seize opportunities.

Moreover, the recommended use of scenario analysis, including against a 2 °C target, is a step forward in helping companies assess their resilience over the longer term.

Financial regulators have also endorsed the importance of scenario analysis for assessing climate risk through the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate - related Financial Disclosures.

Technical Supplement: The Use of Scenario Analysis in Disclosure of Climate - Related Risks and Opportunities Provides a further level of detail that can be helpful for companies in considering scenario analysis.

Draft Technical Supplement: The Use of Scenario Analysis in Disclosure of Climate - related Risks and Opportunities (December 2016)

Since the future is uncertain, one fundamental function of scenario analysis is comparability.

The issues are rather of the nature of scenario analysis and futures research.

The Hub is an online platform with peer - to - peer resources to assist organizations in implementing TCFD's recommendations to public companies on the use of scenario analysis to disclose climate - related risks and opportunities.

A number of scenario analyses forecast tight generation capacity in the southern regions, where most of the phased - out nuclear power is concentrated, and suggest excess power from the north should be rerouted to the south — a recommendation strongly advocated by the Federal Network Agency and ministries involved with the transition.

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The opposite of failing fast is a «waterfall» approach to software development, where a significant amount of time is invested upfront — requirements analysis, design and scenario planning — before the software is ever tested with real customers.

Mina adds that MSCI is also in a bit of a tutorial phase with the product's evolution as it has been showing clients how to construct a Brexit analysis, should the UK leave the European Union, for example, or a scenario test for a China hard landing should a recession grip the country.

Moreover, our analysis shows that the cumulative income generated over the period in which the balance sheet has been unusually large is likely to exceed normal levels under a wide range of scenarios.

Based on statistical analysis of hockey scenarios and broad examples from investing, they conclude that: Keep Reading

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

In this scenario, technical analysis may help you identify «the best of the best.»

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Answering specific issues means managing a huge amount of information from different sources, merging market figures, company results and world scenarios with the use of technology, research, analysis, CRM and marketing.

Our range of customisable services include scenario planning, technology deep - dives, ideation workshops and strategic analysis reports.

Friends of the Earth is warning of risks to fish and the environment from a not - so - green Brexit, following an analysis of likely scenarios by Sheffield University.

Our analysis has modelled a limited number of alcohol taxation scenarios that may be considered politically feasible.

This speculation and scenario analysis about how we can win the league and which results would best for us, whilst being 12 points out of first is just silly.

Scenarios were recorded for later analysis of placement time and error rate.

The analysis is based on the default scenario of the UK ceasing to be a member of the EU single market and customs union and failing to reach any withdrawal agreement containing preferential trade terms with other EU member states.

«Our analysis — modelled on the default scenario that the UK withdraws completely from the EU and fails to reach trade and customs agreements with remaining EU member states — opens the door to the possibility that Scottish businesses and taxpayers will face a range of additional financial burdens in the form of increased trading and labour costs.

«A combination of practical scenario and case study questions, with more conceptual essay questions, will test a range of skills essential to the international tax profession, from determining a client's tax position based on an understanding of applicable legislation, to offering analysis, evaluation and advocacy on a topical issue in international tax discourse.»

It must be noted that this analysis presents only one possible scenario for the future of federal support of R&D.

The authors note that cost - benefit analyses of sustainable land management scenarios «can be done even with limited data availability, «and underscore that, despite an inevitable degree of uncertainty, «it is imperative to take action now, as every day sees the loss of more productive land that will have to be gained back.»

The report from a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University is the first part in a wide - ranging, $ 7.5 million analysis of environmental stress and human migration scenarios in the low - lying South Asian nation.

The Global Carbon Project's analysis, which compares the world's actual CO2 output with four generations of emissions scenarios used by the IPCC, concludes that «significant emission reductions are needed by 2020 to keep 2 degrees Celsius as a feasible goal,» echoing the recent U.N. assessment.

What is needed, Lyman says, is for nuclear energy firms to undertake a detailed threat analysis for each plant with «a set of severe accident scenarios» computer - simulated exhaustively for each.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

Even under the most optimistic scenarios for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, the analysis by an international team shows that one - fifth of the globe's lizard populations, corresponding to 6 percent of all lizard species, may go extinct by 2050.

Evoked by a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

Looking beyond the 2030 timescale of the SDGs, scenario analysis highlights that continuation of past and current trends in drivers of change will inhibit the contribution of the region to the widespread achievement of the SDGs, while scenarios which focus on achieving a balanced supply of nature's contributions to people and incorporate a diversity of values are more likely to contribute to achieving the majority of the SDGs.

A new analysis of various apocalyptic scenarios suggests that we may be able to detect distant worlds where life has been wiped out by nuclear war or nanotechnology run amok.

The analysis follows previous studies that show that a business - as - usual scenario, which assumes a continued growth of global emissions, would deliver a warming increase of 4.5 °C by 2100.

This analysis included original data of the famous New Year's Wave, which hit the Draupner platform on January 1, 1995 as well as results of the Jalali group at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and finally data in a multifilament scenario measured at the Max - Born - Institut in Berlin.

«It is the first time that the nodes have been used to try to understand the dynamics of the ETNOs,» the co-author points out, as he admits that discovering more ETNOs (at the moment, only 28 are known) would permit the proposed scenario to be confirmed and subsequently constrain the orbit of the unknown planet via the analysis of the distribution of the nodes.

A statistical analysis of the CMB shows that the cold spot is consistent with this scenario, the researchers say.

For her study on geologic storage, Lord and her colleagues analyzed and reworked the geologic storage module of Argonne National Laboratory's Hydrogen Delivery Scenario Analysis Model.

According to a new analysis of a fossil tooth of the long - extinct animal, called Diprotodon, the scenario would be the only known seasonal mass migration among marsupials and their close kin.

As more images become available for civilian analysis, he said, «you can envision scenarios in the very near future where ad hoc groups would have the ability to crowd - fund the cost of the imagery, and you already see in the humanitarian space where they are doing the analysis themselves.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

«We chose these four countries for analysis because they have very different population structures and projections, and so they allow us to test this methodology across a range of possible scenarios,» says Scherbov.

SRNL has unique experience and expertise in thermochemical hydrogen production flowsheet development, modeling, and simulation using commercial off - the - shelf (COTS) software to support conceptual designs, scenario studies, capital and operating cost estimates, comparison of alternative designs, and techno - economic analyses.

These actions produced models that account for the influence of smaller features than can be resolved in a global climate model and yielded composite climate scenarios suitable for analysis of specific local climate impacts.

This capability supports the application of DOE's H2A (Hydrogen Analysis) and H2FAST (Hydrogen Financial Analysis Scenario Tool) analysis tools funded by DOEAnalysis) and H2FAST (Hydrogen Financial Analysis Scenario Tool) analysis tools funded by DOEAnalysis Scenario Tool) analysis tools funded by DOEanalysis tools funded by DOE Fuel...

While the study conducts a sensitivity analysis that includes one scenario with higher levels of production subsidies, the fact that the model's outputs seem to barely register a tripling of production subsidies raises some questions, especially in light of the findings of the other recent U.S. study led by the Stockholm Environment Institute and EarthTrack described above.

A careful analysis made by the team shows that these two features of the object are consistent with the «rotational disruption» scenario.