Sentences with phrase «provide global ecosystem»

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As a festival bringing together the best of the UAE's entrepreneurial ecosystem, SharjahEF expects to provide a platform for local and global entrepreneurs, investors, and others to explore and collab...

A companion that provides additional data points on ecosystem success factors, giving you better insights into the global startup world.

Helvetia has shown commitment to advance the startup ecosystem by itself as well as by integrating their resources and knowledge into the platform START Global provides for founders, students, startups, investors and corporates.

Aiming to disrupt the $ 8.5 trillion global grocery market, INS Ecosystem provides consumers with meaningful personalized offers leading to lower prices.

Deforestation is one of the biggest causes of global warming and threatening the ecosystem that provides chocolate ingredients.

of an integrated, collaborative and export focussed ecosystem that provides high value, customised solutions within global value chains.

Over the next 20 years, Australia's manufacturing industry will evolve into a highly integrated, collaborative and export - focused ecosystem that provides high - value customised solutions within global value chains.

This fellowship is designed to provide an opportunity for an accomplished scientist to address global stewardship problems by applying his or her multidisciplinary background toward solutions to societal issues ranging from ecosystems and population to sustainable development and climate change.

The satellite - based record of land surface maximum temperatures, scientists have found, provides a sensitive global thermometer that links bulk shifts in maximum temperatures with ecosystem change and human well - being.

A photograph of an insect, plant or animal, tagged with the date and location where it was taken, can provide valuable scientific data, e.g., on how urban sprawl impacts local ecosystems or evidence of local, regional or global climactic shifts.

Storing the carbon associated with global warming proved the most remunerative of the ecosystem services, providing roughly $ 378 of value over every hectare — despite a relatively low assumed price of carbon of $ 2.50 per metric ton.

The researchers warn that failure to curb climate change, causing global temperatures to rise far above 2 °C, will radically alter tropical reef ecosystems and undermine the benefits they provide to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in poor, rapidly - developing countries.»

Honey bees carry out fundamentally vital roles in nature by providing essential ecosystem functions, including global pollination of crops and native plants.

It is considered one of the least altered marine ecosystems and provides a global reference point for assessing the consequences of climate change.

That can provide important clues to a better understanding of how the current global warming will affect ecosystems.»

«By providing new insights into the functioning and future of global environments, we hope such studies will help us keep ecosystems healthy in a fast - changing world.»

It is also becoming clear that microbes provide ecosystem services that are crucial to local and global sustainability.

Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.

The GOA - ON Requirements and Governance Plan provides both broad concepts and key critical details on how to meet our high level goals of: 1) to improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions; 2) to improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification; 3) and to acquire and exchange the data and knowledge necessary to optimize the modeling of ocean acidification and its impacts.

The key reason for the launch of the Kindle is not to do with e-reading, but with the ecosystem built on Kindle Fire, which provides access to global content (e-books, manga, apps, games, videos) as well as other goods.

Today, the National Aquarium builds on a 36 - year history of local, regional and global conservation initiatives that provide real solutions for protecting marine life, ecosystems and aquatic communities.

In addition to caring for the health needs of all animals they provide expertise to our global food system, conduct biomedical and agricultural research, offer ecosystem management, and serve as public health officers.

There can be no functioning global economy without adequate natural resources and global ecosystem services that only the Earth can provide, I suppose.

In fact The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity project is saying «natural systems represent one of the biggest untapped allies» in combatting climate change, because of their carbon storage potential — and that incorporating funding for forests in a global climate deal should be a key priority: TEEB highlights the fact that in addition to absorbing some 15 % of global carbon emissions, forests provide a whole range of ecosystem services that are worthy of protecting.

This study provides a first examination of global disruptions to fire activity using an empirically based statistical framework and a multi-model ensemble of GCM projections, an important step toward assessing fire - related vulnerabilities to humans and the ecosystems upon which they depend.

It provides opportunities for communities to participate in a global movement for the conservation, preservation and restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems.

EcoPlanet is the first company to successfully industrialize bamboo, providing a proven model of successful ecosystem restoration at scale, converting thousands of acres of degraded land back into fully functioning ecosystems, reversing the negative effects of global climate change and providing thousands of marginalized people with the potential to change their own lives in areas of the world where few opportunities exist, all while reducing deforestation and forest degradation through the provision of a sustainable alternative fiber for timber and fiber manufacturing industries.

Urban forest ecosystems can provide many benefits to cities and communities including energy conservation, contributing to global biodiversity, and maintaining hydrologic and nutrient cycles.

With global GHG emissions and concentrations continuing to increase; with climate change intensifying changes in ecosystems, ice sheet deterioration, and sea level rise; and with fossil fuels providing more than 80 % of the world's energy, the likelihood seems low that cooperative actions will prevent increasingly disruptive climate change over the next several decades.

Protecting and regenerating forests, ecosystems and soils is the most important step we must take if we are to stabilize the global climate, not to mention other ecosystem benefits this would provide, including protecting future freshwater supplies and biodiversity conservation.

Providing policy and financial incentives to use plant biomass for energy runs counter to the goal of protecting and regenerating ecosystems and thus threatens to greatly exacerbate global warming rather than mitigate it.

«We conclude that the 2 °C global warming «guardrail,» affirmed in the Copenhagen Accord, does not provide safety, as such warming would likely yield sea level rise of several metres along with numerous other severely disruptive consequences for human society and ecosystems,» Hansen and his colleagues wrote.

Regardless of approach, all projections indicate an eventual sea ice - free Arctic with continued emissions of greenhouses gases, threatening the invaluable ecosystem service the Arctic sea ice provides while simultaneously exacerbating global warming.

While all forests play a key role in providing ecosystem services, contributing to the global sustainable development objective and combating climate change, it is generally accepted that private forests provide proportionally more market commodities than their publicly - owned and managed counterparts.

With the need for better global water management and the push for expanded global hydropower capacity, careful siting of new reservoirs, and revising management of existing ones may help balance the positive ecosystem services that reservoirs provide against the GHG emission costs.

The long - term objective of climate change policy should be to reduce the risks of serious harm to humanity and ecosystems at minimum societal cost, while recognizing additional shared humanitarian necessities, including providing reliable and affordable energy to improve global living standards.

Join GLOBE EU, the Global Legislators Organization for Balanced Environment and Global Footprint Network in marking Earth Overshoot Day — the date when humanity's annual demand for the goods and services that our land and seas can provide exceeds what Earth's ecosystems can renew in a year.

Forests provide fundamental ecosystem services for sustaining the global environment, such as storing carbon and maintaining biodiversity.

-- Responsibility Report 2004 Business for Social Responsibility «The global consequences of climate change — some of which we are seeing already — threaten to both disrupt natural ecosystem functions and jeopardize the natural capital that provides the economy's resource base.»

ELM Solutions has a global network of 70 + partners that provide complementary software and services (e.g., eDiscovery, document management, regulatory content, etc.) that connect to the company's technology platform, enabling clients to custom - design an ELM ecosystem for their unique needs.

The goal of the B2G ecosystem is to provide a global standard cryptocurrency which is decentralized, based on blockchain technology, uses cryptographic proof of work protocols and doesn't have to depend on any third party for mining, wallet or exchange services.

The company's integration of the Coinbase banking system with the Digital Debit QR platform delivers the first global off - blockchain P2P mobile payments ecosystem for the Coinbase growing user base and provides the added benefit of tokenized QR transaction codes for real - time bitcoin account - to - account transactions.

Several Hyperledger initiatives have been launched in 2017 with the aim to provide an open, smart, interoperable technology infrastructure that connects the global ecosystem.

To address the growing demand for Ethereum and the high expectations from the global Ethereum community, Buterin explained that he will solely focus on the development of the Ethereum blockchain network and solving scalability issues to provide a better ecosystem for decentralized applications.