Sentences with phrase «on environmental trends»

(a) i) Increase in the number of United Nations agencies and multilateral environmental agreements using data on environmental trends, identified through UN Environment Programme, to influence their policy

(a)(ii) Increase in the number of relevant global, regional and national forums and institutions using data on environmental trends identified through UN Environment Programme to influence their policy

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Environmental advocates have lately been arguing the numbers don't really add up for more pipelines, based on slower growth in Asia and worldwide trends bending the curve downward on oil demand.

«If Mr. Trump is unable to reverse the trend towards increasing social polarization, U.S. democracy will be at greater risk of further deterioration,» the EIU said in its report, referring to the extreme divides between Republicans and Democrats on issues such as immigration and environmental regulation.

David Denniston, director of environmental design at Fitch, a retail merchandising consulting firm in Columbus, Ohio, weighs in on four other store trends.

This reflects a social trend of environmental focus as well as anticipated increases in spending by governments and other enterprises on this kind of technology.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

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The top restaurant menus trends for 2014 included a focus on local sourcing, environmental sustainability and nutrition — children's nutrition in particular.

Environmental sustainability remains among the hottest trends, with restaurateurs focusing on food waste reduction as a way to both go green and manage rising food costs.

Just in time for our ongoing «It Takes a Village to Pack a Lunch — 2011 Edition» series, the New York Times had a story on Saturday about the growing trend of home - packed school lunches which minimize environmental waste.

Reacting against this and other «science over nature» trends, the pioneers of the environmental movement in the late 1960s were quick to pick up on the negative aspects of factory farming, with books such as «Silent Spring» and «Animal Machines» generating considerable interest.

In 2003 the White House instructed the Environmental Protection Agency to delete from its annual Report on the Environment any reference to a study showing that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, and also to delete temperature data showing a worsening warming trend.

Elsner and his team point out the statistical trend — that «the risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise» — but only a suggest a hypothesis for what environmental changes might be behind this trend.

Here we present an analysis of daily global fire weather trends from 1979 to 2013 based on three sub-daily global meteorological data sets (the National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis, NCEP - DOE Reanalysis II and the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Interim Reanalysis) 35,36,37 between ∼ 0.75 ° and 2.0 ° grid cell resolution.

Published in Nature, this review looks into the values of different pollinators on issues including food secutiry and biodiversity, their status and trends, risks from environmental pressures and the consequent management and policy response options to safeguard pollinators.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

On the other hand, renting allows you to experience new trends with a less environmental impact, and it is more economical because you get to try out more clothes with the same amount of money spent.

With technological advancements continuing to change our world and daily lives, the need for more focus on the socioeconomic, political, and environmental trends youth will face in the future is a critical part of the discourse on the learning that matters most.

An environmental scan that brings together up - to - date information on the changing library «digital landscape,» where libraries and providers stand, and emerging trends.

When the trend favored large caps, we bought large - cap Domini Social, which screens companies based on their social and environmental impact.

It has healthy household incomes and its 8.3 % unemployment rate (close to the national average) is on a downward trend, mainly because Guelph has rolled out an Economic Development and Tourism Strategy, encouraging growth in key sectors such as the life sciences, biotechnology, agri - food firms, environmental and high - tech.

Applicable risks and uncertainties include, among others, regulatory actions and timing of any new product launches; competitive pressures, environmental trends and conditions; and the risks identified under the heading «Risk Factors» in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for 2012, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2013, as well as the other information we file with the SEC.

Similar to canine diabetes, the incidence rate of type 1 diabetes in people is rising (73), a trend that has been explained on the basis of increased contacts with adverse environmental factors acting on a background of complex genetic factors (74).

Eco-tourism is one of the fastest - growing sectors in the global tourism arena and this trend will continue to grow, especially with consumer trends indicating the increase in demand for products and destinations to focus on environmental best practices and sustainable tourism development.

Murka, co-founded by Anton Krasnyy and Max Polyakov, who is also a managing partner at Noosphere Ventures is always trying to watch out for current gaming trends and Nat Geo collaboration on environmental project is no exception.

Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on a project of great social, environmental, and global concern.

Moving beyond any single medium or trend, Displacement offers nuanced, thought - provoking perspectives on an issue of great social, environmental, and global concern.

Long ago, Jesse Ausubel, a veteran Rockefeller University analyst of global resource and environmental trends, asserted that, «in general, politicians are pulling on disconnected levers» at the intersection of energy and environmental policy.

The Gallup polling organization has come out with its annual survey on environmental issues and marks some noteworthy trends, including rising concerns about how news accounts have portrayed the issue:

Here's a core graph from the BP analysis, which the company says is not the result of a scenario, but of its judgment based on history, trends in energy and environmental policies (or the lack thereof), markets and supplies:

Whether we cycle, recycle, buy local, or write academic papers on the meaning of the environmental crisis, we are already repositioned through these acts and newly acquired habits in a joint effort and in trends of communal change.

So while the overall trend is great, do you see the need for maintaining a focus on particular «hot spots,» to use a term familiar in environmental circles?

It is not realistic to think that the trend toward plastic will reverse itself, so the future environmental impact of financial transactions will be dependent on our ability to drastically improve data center efficiency.

One simply can not do arithmetic (least squares trends) on the temperature of environmental air and expect the result to reflect the changes in heat content.

In an email exchange on Thursday, Richard Louv, the author of «Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature - Deficit Disorder,» said that trends do not bode well for an environmental renewal.

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It added, «However, based on environmental factors and observed patterns of population trends for some populations, it is likely that most populations will exhibit declines in the future.»

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This analytical report examines emerging environmental issues and policy - relevant developments, while providing an overview of the latest trends based on key environmental indicators.

It is a trend that has caused concern among environmental groups, who are worried about the impact of pollution on the near - pristine Arctic environment.

POLITICO picks up on the grousing in Sieminski's response to an earlier letter from some groups, in which it's clear some in the environmental community are concerned that EIA's renewable projections are lower than recent growth trends.

Based on Lester Brown's latest book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, this presentation highlights just a few of the most urgent threats to our global food supply and the trends that created them.

A trend on the rise across the industry is the requirement for electronic recyclers to be certified by an accredited third party, which helps them conform the recycling process to a set standard of privacy and environmental compliance.

NIPCC scientists concluded the IPCC was biased with respect to making future projections of climate change, discerning a significant human - induced influence on current and past climatic trends, and evaluating the impacts of potential carbon dioxide - induced environmental changes on Earth's biosphere.

The Climate Data Store (CDS) at the heart of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) infrastructure, will be presented by Baudouin Raoult, principal software architect and strategist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at a workshop on 22nd Sept in Paris the focus of which will be to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

Building on current developments in international initiatives such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA), the Belmont Forum (BF) and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), the workshop entitled Research Data infrastructures for Environmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and publicEnvironmental related Societal Challenges will be an opportunity to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and publicenvironmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

Here's a graph of the air pollution trends in the United States over the last half century based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The muzzling trend would be worrisome enough on its own, but it has been accompanied in recent months by a furious round of federal budget cuts to basic research — particularly in the field of environmental science — and increasingly ferocious rhetorical attacks on environmental groups.

It is argued that if we are to minimize the negative impact of environmental change on older people, interdisciplinary study of the convergence of the two trends, «climate gerontology», is needed.