Sentences with phrase «rapid economic transition»

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

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There seems to be a communications failure here between Secular Animist and those who think a rapid transition to renewables will have negative economic impacts.

This is the stark conclusion drawn by Anderson and Bows: «The logic of such studies suggests (extremely) dangerous climate change can only be avoided if economic growth is exchanged, at least temporarily, for a period of planned austerity within Annex 1 nations and a rapid transition away from fossil - fuelled development within non-Annex 1 nations.»

While sectoral economic transitions are largely outside the domain and impact of energy policy, and deindustrialization is hardly a global strategy for rapid decarbonization, it appears that history presents at least one replicable strategy to accelerate the pace of decarbonization: the directed decarbonization of global energy supplies via the state - led development and deployment of scalable zero - carbon energy technologies.

Given that many nations are already seeing overall energy consumption and coal use decline (over and above any impact of an economic slowdown), this latest announcement is a very welcome confirmation that China is also benefitting from this rapid transition.