Sentences with phrase «said global land»

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

«The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said global land surface temperatures in January and April were likely the warmest since records began in 1880, at more than 1 degree Celsius higher than average for those months.

Atinkut Mezgebu Wubneh representing the Ethiopian Region of Tigray accepts Gold Future Policy Award 2017 A third of the planet's land is severely degraded and fertile soil is being lost at the rate of 24bn tons a year, says the Global Land Outlook launched at the... more

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With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

Scott Vali, a portfolio manager with Signature Global Advisors, says the company owns a lot of land, and because it's so close to a consuming market — the northeastern U.S. — it doesn't have to pay heavy tolls to ship it to its final destination.

Keller's stock in trade, he says, was the expertise he'd picked up in the Navy about satellite - based global information systems, which allows him to survey land sites virtually anywhere in the U.S. «I wanted to expand and do more things,» he says.

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

The group led by Dr. Peter Mozie as Global chairman and Dr. Justina Ozioma Obi as Global Woman leader in a press briefing in Awka said they applaud the «orderly conduct of the people of Anambra State and the peace that pervaded the land before, during and after the election».

«Adequate management of agricultural and forestry land uses are amongst the lowest - cost actions that can reduce global warming, and most actions are either neutral cost or of positive net profit to society, requiring no substantial capital investment,» the report says.

The groups said the United States should make the conservation, restoration and sustainable management of forests in developing nations a central goal of federal climate legislation, as tropical deforestation and other land - use decisions account for about 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

«Any biofuel that causes land clearing is likely to increase global warming,» says ecologist Joseph Fargione of The Nature Conservancy, lead author of the second study.

«Climate and land use change have long been linked to changes in water yield,» said Peter Caldwell, research hydrologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and primary author of the article recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.

NOAA said the combined global land and ocean average surface temperature for the January - October period was 0.68 °C (1.22 °F) above the 20th century average of 14.1 °C (57.4 °F).

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

These results explain the difference between recent global estimates of forest «land use» area (3890 Mha) and the area with a «land cover,» the authors say.

The team says halving global consumption of animal products by eating more insects or imitation meat would free up 1680 million hectares of land — 70 times the size of the UK.

This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.

They say their results line up with previously published studies and suggest that the average global land temperature has risen by roughly 0.9 °C since the 1950s.

«The implications for the global carbon sink are profound,» said Dr Andrew Marshall from the University's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pglobal standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pGlobal Development and an expert in forest policy.

The WHO insists that stopping flights from west Africa would not work: people would travel over land to fly from other countries, says Isabelle Nuttall, head of Global Capacities Alert and Response at the WHO.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

«The global spread of plants and their adaptations to life on land, led to an increase in continental weathering rates that ultimately resulted in a dramatic decrease the levels of the «greenhouse gas» carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global cooling,» said co-author Dr. Jennifer Morris, from the University of Bristol.

The Nature article comes as climate scientists published what they said today was the «best ever» collection of evidence for global warming, including temperature over land, at sea and in the higher atmosphere, along with records of humidity, sea - level rise, and melting ice.

«The reason for the layering is that global warming in parts of Antarctica is causing land - based ice to melt, adding massive amounts of freshwater to the ocean surface,» said ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science researcher Prof Matthew England an author of the paper.

A new publication, The Global Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others faGlobal Land Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factLand Outlook (GLO), was recently launched at the 13th meeting of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China.Speaking at the launch, UNCCD Executive Secretary Monique Barbut said how land degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factland degradation and drought are global challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others faglobal challenges «intimately linked» to food security, migration and employment, among others factors.

There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % eLand Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % eland sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

With humanity's ecological footprint of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person means to say that to sustain the current population on Earth of 7 billion people would take 18.9 billion gha (2.7 gha x 7 billion people) which is higher than the 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water on Earth, a fact that indicates that already exceeded the regenerative capacity of the planet in the average level of current world consumption.

John Edwards, Land Rover's Global Brand Director said: «The Range Rover Evoque remains true to the brand's core values of premium luxury and formidable all - terrain performance and combines them with dynamic and sporty handling.

John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director said: «The Evoque Convertible Concept is a new twist to the Evoque story and explores the potential to further extend the nameplate's appeal by giving existing customers more choice, whilst at the same time reaching out to a completely new customer base.

«Our closest competitors are the Porsche Macan and the BMW X4,» said Finbar McFall, Jaguar Land Rover's global product marketing director.

At this stage the Evoque Convertible Concept is a design study only and John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director says, «We are excited to see the response to this concept as we assess the potential for building on the Evoque's exceptional success so far.»

John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director said: «The Defender has always been at the heart of the Land Rover Brand and single - handedly defines our go - anywhere, can - do spirit.

Tata Motors - owned Jaguar Land Rover on Friday said its new two - seater sports car F - Type will make its global debut in production form at the Paris Motor Show next month, marking its re-entry into the segment.

«Range Rover was the first luxury SUV in the world in 1970 and 45 years on it continues to lead the way,» says Nick Rogers, Jaguar Land Rover's chief of global engineering operations.

Speaking ahead of the official world premiere at the New York International Auto Show, Land Rover Global Brand Director John Edwards said: «The all - new Range Rover Sport is a vehicle that has been designed and engineered without compromise.

John Edwards, Land Rover Global Brand Director, said: «The new Range Rover preserves the essential, unique character of the vehicle — that special blend of luxury, performance and unmatched all - terrain capability.

Inside Line has been chatting with Land Rover's Global Brand Director, John Edwards, who says that a performance sub-brand for Land Rover — similar to the «R» branding Jaguar uses — is a distinct possibility.

The special Global - Frontier (G - Frontier) Land Cruiser models, meanwhile, also get plusher material and trim, bringing them to overseas specifications, the automaker says.

«The Range Rover Evoque is ideally suited to urban driving, with its agile handling, compact size and green performance, and it's fitting that our Pulse of the City campaign is focused on capturing the spirit of city life,» said John Edwards, Land Rover's global brand director.

«The new Range Rover preserves the essential, unique character of the vehicle — that special blend of luxury, performance and unmatched all - terrain capability,» said John Edwards, Land Rover's global brand director.

Faster, more frugal, more comfortable, almost supernaturally capable and, best of all, much more involving... Already the order bank is out to three months ex-factory and by the time it launches internationally in September, Land Rover and Jaguar global sales boss Phil Popham says the waitlist will double.

Lisa Bauer, executive vice president of global sales and marketing for Royal Caribbean, said: «Whether on land or at sea, Crown & Anchor Society and M life members will enjoy unprecedented recognition for their dedication to our brands.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

The Diffenbaugh report is saying if global warming produces 35 heat peak days during summer in CA premium viticultural lands, the wine will be inferior quality; that is right.

Some people say the Snowball did cause global sea icecover, and essentially global land ice cover.

-- As already said, land use changes probably had (and have) a limited effect on global temperatures, as good as volcanoes (less than 0.1 K).

As I said before with exception of GISS, the other four organizations who measure global temperatures [land + ocean] show the same cooling trend from 2002.