Sentences with phrase «reaching peak global»
The reality of reaching peak global production of cheap, conventional light, sweet crude oil supplies will continue to force strong upper pressure on the cost of crude oil, gasoline, diesel and airplane liquid fuels.
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The report by Caterpillar, which serves as a proxy for global economic activity, of its quarterly results on April 24 set off the broader concerns that industrial companies» financial results may have already reached peak levels.
Over the longer term, we believe the global economy has reached a secular trend of peak globalization.
Global meat production is reaching new peaks, according a report by the Worldwatch Institute, and having a debilitating effect on land and water resources.
There is a more basic objection, however: even if peak stuff is reached soon, it will only apply to the billion or so people living in rich countries out of the global population of 7 billion.
However, the planet will not reach global «peak waste» before 2100, according to World Bank calculations.
These models currently predict that as a result of today's global climate change, Antarctica will warm twice as much as the rest of the planet, though it won't reach its peak for a couple of hundred years.
The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.
The planet is not predicted to reach global «peak waste» before 2100, according to World Bank calculations.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide reached (another) all - time peak in 2010.
Many thought we had reached the limits of oil production and the global peak was nigh.
We find that the global false positive rate of Kepler is 9.4 %, peaking for giant planets (6 - 22 Earth radii) at 17.7 %, reaching a low of 6.7 % for small Neptunes (2 - 4 Earth radii), and increasing again for Earth - size planets (0.8 - 1.25 Earth radii) to 12.3 %.
With modernization and development in our lives pollution has reached its peak; giving rise to global warming and human illness.
And while the first four Emission Gap reports (2010 - 2013) made it very clear that the global emissions peak would have to be reached before 2020, the report downplays this aspect now.
Every decade there's been a claim that «it» is over, and every decade new global peaks are reached.
Is it any mystery that during World War II global mean temperatures reached a peak of fever heat, just when daylight Savings Time was once again widely implemented (running * continuously * from Feb. 2, 1942 to 30 September 1945 in the United States, for example)?
In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming «community» — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by «dramatic changes» in temperatures.
Peak temperature arguments imply that bad things happen when global temperatures reach a certain threshold but their severity is independent of the path taken too reach that threshold.
Parties aim to reach by [X date][a peaking of global greenhouse gas emissions][zero net greenhouse gas emissions][a [n] X per cent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions][global low - carbon transformation][global low - emission transformation][carbon neutrality][climate neutrality].
To keep carbon emissions under the one - trillion - ton threshold, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels must peak around 2016 and reach zero by about 2050.
Then consider that, if the 350 pathway is defined to have a global peak that's a mere four years later — if emissions continue to rise until 2015 — then the subsequent decline would have to reach a nearly unimaginable rate of 20 % per year.
«Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country parties.»
Emissions reductions larger than about 80 %, relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached, are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level (see Figure 3).»
Cities» early peaking could help China to reach its national emission peak ahead of 2030 and contribute to the global 2 degrees C target.
The consensus seems to be pretty strong that we have reached global peak oil now or will very soon.
The two questions can be brought together in two simple numbers: when will global greenhouse gas emissions reach their peak (2020, 2025, 2030?)
Indeed, notes Rutgers biologist David Ehrenfeld, studies by prominent oil geologists show that «global energy production per capita reached its peak in 1979 and has been falling at an average rate of 0.33 percent per year ever since.»
Even with optimistic assumption about the peak year for global emissions and rates of emissions reductions thereafter, the best estimate is for warming to reach 4 °C in the 2070s or 2080s, well within the life - spans of children born today.
On top of past emissions, the total amount depends on two critical factors — the year in which global emissions reach their peak, and how quickly they fall thereafter.
The text states that to achieve the temperature goal: «Parties aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, recognizing that peaking will take longer for developing country Parties, and to undertake rapid reductions thereafter in accordance with best available science, so as to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century».
While offshore wind dominated jobs growth in the UK, Germany and Denmark — with the three countries leading total global jobs in the sector — the PV sector dramatically dropped, reaching a third of its peak in 2011.
Emission reductions larger than about 80 % relative to whatever peak global emissions rate may be reached are required to approximately stabilize carbon dioxide concentrations for a century or so at any chosen target level.»
For that to happen, says the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson, «global emissions from energy need to reach a peak by around 2020, and then rapidly reduce to zero by 2050 at the latest.»
The CFOs surveyed were pretty much evenly split on the issue of peak oil: 48 % said that we are either past a global peak in oil production or will reach that point within several years; 52 % believed that production rates can continue to increase.
Not only is this the highest value to date, but it exceeds the previous peak reached prior to the global financial crisis in 2008.
«PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds» reached a peak player count of nearly 880,000 users, beating «DOTA 2» and «Counter-Strike: Global Offensive» on the Steam platform.
PUBG is simply blowing away all the other Steam games, with Valve titles DOTA 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive only reaching a peak player count of about 700,000 and 580,000, respectively, on the day that PUBG reached 3.1 million concurrent players.
Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC has published a new report in which it states that smaller altcoins have reached their peak for the year and that investors...
Eight years after the global recession, Portugal's economy remained 4 per cent smaller in 2016 than at the peak reached in 2008.
Global spending on pharmaceuticals should reach a peak of $ 1.4 trillion by 2019, with biotech drugs one of the strong new industry products, according to Deloitte's 2016 Global Life Sciences Outlook.