Sentences with phrase «on global population»

Map of potential tipping elements in the climate system, overlain on global population density.

Figure: Map of the most important tipping elements in the Earth System overlain on global population density.

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Within each family and group of scenarios, some share «harmonized» assumptions on global population, gross world product, and final energy.

I am very skeptical that on a global population level, humans will bother to do anything other than lip service when it comes to addressing climate change and the changes to our lifestyle required to significantly reduce our emissions, until it is far too late.

The sizable effect on global population growth provides an additional rationale for vigorously pursuing the implementation of the SDGs.»

But these were local events that did not have a major effect on global population.

So we decided — in connection with Science's special issue on global populations — to launch a new series of articles focused on science in faraway places.

Not exact matches

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Over the coming decade, the 600 largest and best - connected cities on the planet will contain a fifth of the world's population, capture almost two - thirds of its economic growth, and encompass more than half of global GDP, according to the McKinsey Global Instglobal GDP, according to the McKinsey Global InstGlobal Institute.

Reseachers at the global professional services firm said they based their conclusions on a number of «key» economic and demographic factors — from average income levels and population to the number of ski resorts per capita, level of snow coverage and recent «form» at the Winter Olympics.

The usual proxies for global growth — oil and other commodities, emerging market currencies, energy and mining stocks — are almost all sharply lower as investors bail out of any kind of trade predicated on growth in China and the rest of the emerging world, which accounts for 85 % of the world's population.

The economic growth and population expansion in China and Asia in the past decade has generated enormous demand, which far exceeds supply on a global basis.

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.

Companies can not afford to miss out on the skills and talent of the whole population if the UK is going to compete in a fast - moving global economy.»

Add to this the fact that global pension levels are also sharply on the rise, with people living longer and population growth — and therefore workforce growth — slowing in many advanced economies.

Meanwhile, Canada had a record 13 companies on the Global Cleantech 100 unveiled in January, an impressive showing considering our population.

An aging global population in the developed world, coupled with the emergence of a more robust healthcare services infrastructure in the developing world, will keep demand growth in the healthcare sector on a steady upward trend for decades.

He focuses on serving the global population of small businesses and self - employed businesses of one.

As the country with the world's largest population, at roughly 1.4 billion people, a burgeoning economy and a government determined to make the country a global super power, China's impact on the markets can not be ignored.

It has been projected that, on present rates of fertility, mortality and migration, the global population will have reached eight billion people by 2025.

The one perspective I missed in the symposium (except for the passing dismissal by Harold O. J. Brown of the «population control establishment») was the view of global environmental and ecological thinkers on the subject of contraception.

Social change is still accelerating and on a global scale; the population is expanding exponentially; technology is ever more powerful; the environment is under acute pressure.

But, the population on the islands of the global archipelago will not increase.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

«The American standard of living, the productivity of the American economy and America's ability to compete in the global economy no longer rest exclusively, or even primarily, on natural resources, capital plants, access to financial capital, or population.

Many from the global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over consumption of the North rather than increasing population in the South that is the chief cause of global environmental deterioration.

«Almost 80 percent of the global population live with restrictions on or hostilities to limit their freedom of religion,» Tillerson told reporters when releasing the report.

In a March 2012 appearance on AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer's radio show, Lively explained that he first went to Uganda in 2002 as a keynote speaker in order to stave off a threat from what he called «the globalists who use the se.xual revolution and the Planned Parenthood Federation and the global hom.ose.xual movement» to accu.mulate power and control population.

(i) the question of gay rights — funny I agree with gay rights, must be a political debate at its heart (ii) a wonan's right to choose — funny I agree with this, see above thought (iii) teaching evolution in school — again I agree (iv) my ability to buy a glass of wine on Sunday — definitely politics here (v) immunizing teens against HPV — got my kids immunized, not even politics here (vi) population control — this is religions fault??? no this is cultural (vii) assisted suicide at end of life — agree with that, still have my religion (viii) global warmning — agree it needs to get fixed, doesn't have anything to do with religion

Suffice it to say that on nearly all lists would appear an unholy trinity of (1) nuclear or RCB warfare, (2) population and hunger, and (3) increasingly the possibility of ecological unbalance of catastrophic global proportions.

The surge is stark, given that in 2011 only half of the global population (52 %) lived in such countries, while the worldwide level of government restrictions on religion remained largely the same between the two years.

Fact: The two greatest drains on the global environment today are rampant population growth in some of the underdeveloped countries and rising rates of consumption in the industrial nations.

By 2060, such growth will result in the global population of Christians and Muslims approaching parity — totaling 3.1 billion and 3 billion, respectively — with each tradition accounting for nearly 1 in 3 people on earth.

Women without a religious affiliation have just 1.6 kids on average, and the «nones» are expected to shrink from 16 percent of the global population in 2015 to 13 percent in 2060 as a result.

In my work for the Institute for Global Engagement, I come across many official documents — such as a State Department action plan on women and security or a United Nations treaty on ending racial discrimination — that barely mention religion, despite the fact that a vast majority of the world's population (84 percent, according to Pew Research) believes in a higher power.

With a global population of 7 billion, we are sitting on the cusp of drowning in our own effluence.

On Oct. 31, 2011, the United Nations announced that the global population had exceeded seven billion people, introducing a new age of business opportunities.

But over the last decade, both native and honey bee populations have been declining at alarming rates, raising concerns about the impact on our global food security.

Despite increasing interest in cognitive health from an aging population, the majority (over two - thirds) of global launches marketed on a brain health platform are baby foods, particularly infant formulas and milks, where DHA is often used for its brain development properties.

Moreover, the global population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050 which increases pressure on the food industry to produce supply to meet the growing demand.

Around half of the current global population — or about 3.5 billion people — relies on rice as a source of sustenance and livelihood.

Diets that incorporate increased consumption of resistant starch from high - amylose corn can have a substantial positive health impact on the American population,» adds Lorraine Niba, PhD, global director, nutrition at Ingredion.

«The enormous size of the Chinese population, 1.35 billion people, means growth in per - capita consumption has a big impact on total Chinese demand, and in turn, total global demand,» the Commonwealth Bank's dairy report said.

With 20 % of the population potentially misdiagnosing themselves as lactose intolerant when they may be suffering from sensitivity to the A1 protein, a2 Milk ® is positioned to change the way people consume dairy on global scale.

Food - security experts from all over the world will converge on Belfast from 28 - 31 May 2018 for a major Summit on how to feed a growing global population — amid massive challenges such as climate change, Brexit, labyrinthine food - supply chains and food fraud on a global scale.

Increasing appetite for meat and population growth in developing countries mean global meat consumption is on track to increase 75 % by 2050, which would make it virtually impossible to keep global warming below the internationally - agreed limit of 2C.

These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.

If life partnership and parenthood were allocated based on the basis of deservedness, there would be a far smaller global population, and a whole lot more single people..

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