Sentences with phrase «rising global population»

«Risk is increasing globally even without climate change,» the report said, largely because of a rising global population with people living in vulnerable areas such as flood plains.

Among major magazines, Time and Newsweek ran articles expressing concern about the previous decades» cooling trend, juxtaposing the specter of decreased food production with rising global population.

With food demand set to soar as a result of rising global population, his talk provided a clear idication of how climate change will affect hundreds of milions of people's lives very directly.

To make this vision a reality, food production must increase to feed a rising global population — a population expected to grow from 6.7 billion to more than 9 billion in [continue reading...]

Rising global population, urbanization patterns and infrastructure development needs are driving the demand for cement and concrete.

Not exact matches

Add to this the fact that global pension levels are also sharply on the rise, with people living longer and population growth — and therefore workforce growth — slowing in many advanced economies.

There is no question that, along with population increases around the world, global demand for fresh water will rise exponentially.

So there are lots of those long - term factors, demographics, aging population, global competition that mean that long - term interest rates may not rise at the same level, but one can't help but feel that we have seen six, seven years and in some cases, 10 years now post global financial crisis of near - zero interest rates and it's just, I suspect, there are a lot of market practitioners have gotten used to that idea and haven't really gotten their heads around the fact that we are still seeing Fed governors suggesting we have got one more rate increase this year and potentially two or three coming out next year.

A capsule of his findings would include the following facts: Over the past century, Christian populations in the West have either been holding steady or declining, while in Africa, Asia and Latin America — the «global South» in current geopolitical coinage — the numbers have been rising significantly and in some cases dramatically.

The increase in the global consumption of goods and services is due about equally to the population explosion and to the rise of individual affluence.5

Fact: The two greatest drains on the global environment today are rampant population growth in some of the underdeveloped countries and rising rates of consumption in the industrial nations.

This trend will continue as global population growth increases and incomes rise.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

Numerous reports have emphasized the need for major changes in the global food system: agriculture must meet the twin challenge of feeding a growing population, with rising demand for meat and high - calorie diets, while simultaneously minimizing its global environmental impacts1, 2.

With the global population projected to rise to 9 billion in 2050 and resources becoming increasingly strained, there is a growing realization that raising production levels alone will not solve the problems facing the food industry.

According to the Population Institute, world food production will need to rise by 70 percent if the global population reaches 9.1 billion, as forecast, by 2050.

As the global population continues to rise, more and more people are looking for insect protein as a sustainable food source.

The reductions mapped out by the report would not reduce the size of the global meat industry, the researchers said, because rising population is pushing up demand, but it would significantly slow its growth.

«As the global availability of nutritional, high - quality food supplies becomes more critical — due to a growing worldwide population and rising food prices — consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with food freshness, shelf life and cost.

Leaders must also take a long - term approach to the management of oil wealth to ensure the region can meet the challenges of food and water shortages, rising population levels and global warming.

Urban air quality continues to be a primary health concern as most of the world's population currently lives in urban areas (54 % in 2014), and percentage is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050; this is coupled with the fact that one of the main global sources of air pollution in cities is traffic emissions.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

Rising fish populations could improve food security for seafood - eating societies and boost global fishing profits by $ 53 billion per year, creating a «triple win» scenario, the researchers predict.

«This work makes us think that increasing urbanization and rising temperatures associated with global climate change could lead to increases in scale insect populations, which could have correspondingly negative effects on trees like the red maple,» Dale says.

In view of future global warming, it's vital for today's global population to know whether temperatures will rise steadily, or whether there will be sudden, major fluctuations.

Climate is increasingly controlling synchronous ecosystem behavior in which species populations rise and fall together, according to the National Science Foundation - funded study published in the journal Global Change Biology.

An issue of global concern is the anticipated shortage of agricultural output to meet the steady rise in human population.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

As global population continues to rise, the U.S. has restored family planning aid to developing countries that was cut during the Bush administration

And the long - term rise in the costs of global disasters is probably due mainly to socio - economic changes, such as population growth and development in vulnerable regions.

And with projections that the world population will rise to over nine billion by the year 2050, the pressure is on to meet global demand for food.

As the global population increases and demand for fish protein rises — particularly in developing countries — more fisheries are chasing smaller fish populations in hopes of recouping higher prices for their efforts.

Even if the global community surmounted these barriers of gross inequity, and then shrugged off the albatross of rising populations, stabilising global emissions would not prevent disruption of the climate.

Since around 1500 the global population has been rising exponentially, with the total now surpassing 6.7 billion.

However, coastal cities worldwide have experienced enormous growth in population and infrastructure over the past couple of centuries — and a global mean sea level rise of 10 to 20 feet could be catastrophic to the hundreds of millions of people living in these coastal zones.

Their findings show that even under the lowest growth assumptions, the global population in low - elevation coastal zones could rise by more than 40 percent, from 625 million in 2000 to 879 million in 2030.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

«All these nutrition issues are interconnected, and are driven by rising population, global conflicts, and — for obesity — increasing prosperity, in developed and emerging economies.»

With the booming global population and the rising demand for food, this kind of research could find its way to your refrigerator very soon.

This book provides a thorough assessment of the factors that influence global food insecurity, including rising energy prices, water scarcity, increased biofuel use, and expanding populations.

So, if the market sentiment decides it doesn't like a few factors, such as a decision to follow a divergent monetary policy, continued slow global economic growth, a world - wide aging population, and the swearing in of Donald Trump as the next American President, we could be see a rise in bond rates, which will absolutely start to increase fixed - rate mortgage rates.

As long as global population and wealth rises over time, the need to conduct business across the 25 different industries that WPC is exposed to will also likely continue to persist and grow.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

The global prevalence (age - standardised) of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980, rising from 4.7 percent to 8.5 percent in the adult population.

But the rise of Latin American art is not just focussed on Los Angeles, although it does have strong links with Latin America and 48 % of the total population in the area is Latino which is one of the reasons The Getty Foundation focussed on this particular area, several other major exhibitions of Latin American influenced artists are planned or have recently been shown, including Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, while the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative will take its Under The Same Sun: Art From Latin America exhibition to Brazil and Mexico in 2015.

Future coastal population growth and exposure to sea - level rise and coastal flooding — A global assessment.

While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the

With rising population (At 6.7 Billion biology is certainly coping well enough to support discussion like this) & rising energy costs destined to lead to a dramatic collapse in global per capita energy input the likelihood of a destructive human consiousnee inversion is very high.

Over long term time scales I see a smaller global population of maybe 3 billions, living in cities but with low rise passive solar design homes and offices.

Global population has about tripled in my 60 years of life — and risen by a factor of 4 in my State.