Sentences with phrase «recent changes in the country»

The study estimates the carbon implications of recent changes in the country's economic development patterns and role in international trade since the global financial crisis.

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Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein has been taunting the U.K. government over Twitter in recent weeks about how he's getting ready to spend more time in Frankfurt after Brexit, as well as gently nudging the country to have a second referendum in case it wanted to change its mind.

Our rankings reflect what experts say has been a gradual change in recent years, with the core of economic expansion moving to the middle of the country.

At a recent meeting of Indian provincial environment and forestry ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi noted that nuclear energy will play a critical role in helping the country to meet both its energy security and climate change mitigation goals.

Although older groups can and do evolve over time, newer ones are freer to innovate, both by adaptation to recent changes in society and culture and by greater boldness in delving into the country's religious tradition in a search for more efficient communication.

From our School Beverage Guidelines commitment to our most recent commitment, the Balance Calories Initiative, we are doing the hard work to encourage real and sustainable change in communities across the country.

Teams of students from across the country have traveled to Washington in recent years to compete in Cooking up Change, a national contest that challenges high school students to create meals that meet nutrition standards and can be easily replicated in schools.

A new study I carried out for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism shows that in the television reporting of the three recent blockbuster reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the disaster narrative was still by far the most common in the six countries it examined.

This has been shown in many countries, Italy being the most recent and obvious example with their horribly fractured system induced by the only electoral system I think is worse than FPTP changing because Berlusconi created a new system, primarily to benefit himself.

Several parts of the country have been facing challenges with water supply and in recent times, which experts have attributed to pollution of water bodies and weather changes.

Although both events resulted in some administrative changes on both campuses and freer access to dissident opinion, the recent violent protest on the U.C. Berkeley campus have been completely antithetical to the ideology expressed a bit more than half a century ago on college campuses across the country.

I am curious if there are recent examples of countries framing their actions against climate change in reference to other countries?

«Like every advanced industrial country we are coming to terms with the issues surrounding climate change,» he said, in a monthly press conference dominated by the recent floods.

«As reflected in the immense improvements recorded in the conduct of the last general elections which were applauded within and outside the country as the most credible elections in Nigeria in recent years, the Jonathan Administration has made tremendous efforts to positively change the political architecture complained about by Prof. Achebe and other Nigerians.

Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

The authors argue that the recent trajectory implies that the destinations of China's foreign export emissions would further shift from developed countries to developing countries because of its changing role in global trade.

But explaining that to the public is proving difficult in the wake of recent revelations of errors in the last report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, furor over e-mails apparently stolen from a British climate research unit last fall, and an unusually cold and intense winter in many parts of the country.

But the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the evidence of 600 climate researchers in 32 countries reporting changes to Earth's atmosphere, ice and seas — in 2013 stated «human influence on the climate system is clear.»

In recent years, rapid societal transitions that are producing increases in wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabeteIn recent years, rapid societal transitions that are producing increases in wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabetein wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

The recent paper, published August 30 in Science Advances, found that without significant changes, Jordan could face lower rainfall, much higher temperatures and as much as a 75 percent decline in water flowing into the country from Syria.

Ad Astra, a nongovernmental organization of Romanian scientists with an interest in bringing the country up to international standards, has also protested the changes at CNATDCU in a recent public statement, where it pointed out that the Romanian government is sending contradictory messages by removing all expatriated scientists from CNATDCU while organizing a conference aimed at building bridges between at - home and expatriated scientists.

In a recent article published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Filho writes that while conditions tend to be dry in the southeast during the months of June and July, there will be much rainfall in the northeast of the countrIn a recent article published in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Filho writes that while conditions tend to be dry in the southeast during the months of June and July, there will be much rainfall in the northeast of the countrin the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Filho writes that while conditions tend to be dry in the southeast during the months of June and July, there will be much rainfall in the northeast of the countrin the southeast during the months of June and July, there will be much rainfall in the northeast of the countrin the northeast of the country.

The new study is one of the first to monitor recent large - scale glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communities in the country.

In recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquakIn recent years, S&T Fellows have helped to set up a digital library for Iraqi scientists, provided key data to support the Endangered Species Act, contributed to a federal task force on global climate change adaptation, and worked on recovery and reconstruction projects in Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquakin Haiti just weeks after the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake.

As the graph below from Spracklen's News and Views article shows, the balance between warming (red shading) and cooling (blue shading) have kept the country's contribution to human - caused climate change pegged at about 10 % in recent decades, despite soaring fossil fuel emissions.

Yet of all developed countries, Australia is set to feel impacts of climate change earlier than most, and arguably is seeing them already in the recent severe droughts.

Interestingly, these results agree almost exactly with similar reviews of studies from 33 different countries: salt intake is high, and it hasn't changed in recent memory.

With the huge rise of Alzheimer's in this country, a recent study finds that at least half of the cases could have been preventable with lifestyle changes.

Gifted children, in our view, have generally been short - changed in recent years by American public education, even as the country has awakened to their potential contributions to our economic competitiveness and technological edge.

In this post published in September, NFER's Jane Nicholas took a closer look at the Government's recent statistical first release on the phonics screening check, in particular how the achievement rates have changed across the country since its introductioIn this post published in September, NFER's Jane Nicholas took a closer look at the Government's recent statistical first release on the phonics screening check, in particular how the achievement rates have changed across the country since its introductioin September, NFER's Jane Nicholas took a closer look at the Government's recent statistical first release on the phonics screening check, in particular how the achievement rates have changed across the country since its introductioin particular how the achievement rates have changed across the country since its introduction.

Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have grown faster in the recent past, consistent with models where skills are particularly important for adaptation to dynamic economic change.

The most recent, for country singer and songwriter Rory Feek's memoir, This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed it Forever, was streamed 40,000 times in under three weeks.

If that book opened my eyes to the inequality women faced, my most recent nonfiction book, A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country, published by Abrams Books for Young Readers in 2014, reminded me of the long and difficult struggle endured by the diverse and inspiring women who hammered down the doors of inequality in Congress.

Canadian home prices in September fell the most in nearly two years, suggesting that recent changes to the country's mortgage rules have reined in Canada's once - hot housing market.

Although incidents of the Plague have been limited predominantly to the southwestern region of the country in recent years, a warmer climate could cause that to change.

Burma is a country that is changing incredibly fast, particularly in recent months as it has opened up its doors to more and more tourists.

Baird's most recent series of works — not just paintings, but also a collection of historical documents — depict the daily struggle in Cuba, a country anchored in the past yet on the verge of dramatic change.

In recent years that has changed, with new nodes of art - making emerging around the country and the world, and now biennials proliferate around the globe.

Recent responses have come from Jerry Saltz, who has ranted in numerous articles about the inequity of women in the arts, artnet News, which has run several stories that have brought gender imbalance in culture into mainstream dialogue, and in March, shortly after launching the lauded Women, Arts and Social Change exhibition, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) launched # 5womenartists, a month - long invitation to post information about women artists, past and living, in a communal effort to trumpet them across social media; participants included the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York, and the Los Angeles Country Museum in LA.

Recent changes in United States policy toward Cuba are opening up new potential for educational exchange and travel between the two countries.

A recent report from the O.E.C.D. claiming $ 62 billion has have been mobilized as climate finance in 2014 - 15 against the developed countries» commitments of annual $ 100 billion by 2020 has caused a storm at the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn.

Desirous of building upon the commitment of leaders at the recent United Nations High - Level Summit on Climate Change in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common PosChange in New York in addressing the needs of those countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Poschange as well as other political commitments, including the AOSIS Declaration and the African Common Position,

One of the major drivers of renewables» growth in recent decades has been policymakers» recognition that countries need to curb emissions to tackle climate change.

Establishing direct links between climate change and migration, «like skyrocketing asylum applications and temperature,» can be difficult because of the vast number of variables involved, Newsweek concedes, while pointing to «the influence of drought in the years - long Syrian conflict, New Zealand's recent proposal to create a visa category for climate refugees and the United Nations» recent recognition that climate change can contribute to displacement within countries and internationally.»

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

In the most recent ranking of climate change performance, Canada was trailed only by Kazakhstan, Iran and Saudi Arabia, ranking 58th out of 61 countries.

It holds that countries that historically caused the recent atmospheric carbon dioxide build - up must lead in cutting their emissions, while helping developing countries eventually do likewise, by pouring trillions of dollars in cash and free technology into the Green Climate Fund for supposed climate change adaptation, mitigation and compensation.

«A number of pipeline projects have attracted attention in recent years, and societal frustration is building over the country's direction with regard to energy policy and climate change, Alan Krupnick, senior fellow, Resources for the Future, and Mark Brownstein, Environmental Defense Fund senior vice-president, climate and energy, told attendees.»

The success of the recent climate negotiations in Paris provides a strong basis for invoking a powerful tool available to help achieve the country's climate change goals: Section 115 of the Clean Air Act, titled «International Air Pollution.»

The model uses historical data through the most recent available figures, including country - level GDP and population and GHG emissions from fossil fuels, changes in land use, and other sources.