Sentences with phrase «percent of global income»

The IPCC study, which has been leaked to a number of news agencies, reportedly added that the potential economic losses following average global temperature rise of 2.5 degrees Celsius could reach 2 percent of global income, but delaying action will increase both risks and costs.

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The survey found 69 percent of expats in Switzerland saw an improvement in their work - life balance, while the average expat income in Switzerland was $ 188,275, compared to a global average of $ 97,419.

It's also targeting 2 percent to 4 percent growth in net new money for global wealth management and a cost - to - income ratio of under 75 percent for the group.

Profits from Chinese operations, including joint ventures, accounted for about 20 percent of GM's global net income of $ 9.7 billion in 2015.

According to a declaration of 132 nations that met in Naples, Italy in November, 1994, the yearly global expenditure on drugs, prostitution and arms totals $ 732 billion, a sum equal to 40 percent of the per capita income of humanity.

World incomes have been rising at around 5 percent annually in recent years, and 4 percent in per capita terms, leading to an increased global demand for food and for meat as a share of the diet.

According to results from the Franklin Templeton Global Investor Sentiment Survey1 conducted earlier this year, about two - thirds (61 percent) of American respondents believe the best fixed income investment opportunities will not be limited only to the U.S. over the next decade.

If global warming continues, about 77 percent of the countries on the planet will see a per capita income fall.

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.

The European Biodiesel Board says that biodiesel reduces greenhouse gasses by 50 to 95 percent compared to conventional fuel, and has other advantages as well, like providing new income for farmers and energy security for Europe in the face of rising global oil prices and shrinking supply.

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The estimated range of global income loss from a temperature rise of about 2C is between 0.2 and 2 percent — but losses, the report warns, «are more likely than not to be greater, rather than smaller, than this range.»

That, and the fact that doubling the incomes of the world's poorest 650 million would take the same amount of money as adding one percent to the incomes of the richest 650 million, suggests where the solution to our global environmental challenges rests: changing behaviors among rich people.

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