Sentences with phrase «scale impacts reducing»
It is thought that the poor representation of ocean upwelling in current models has larger scale impacts reducing the accuracy of model projections on a global scale.
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A package of proven prevention and treatment measures are now available that, if taken to scale, would have a profound impact on reducing child deaths and would lead to a significant reduction in the diarrhoea burden in the medium to long term.
A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.
Science can help measure the scope, scale and impact of illegal wildlife trade, map illicit networks and assess the effect of social marketing and other interventions designed to reduce demand.
«Our findings provide novel empirical evidence that biological consequences from Reduced Impact Logging depend strongly on the scale and intensity at which logging operations are developed» said lead researcher Filipe França from Lancaster University.
«Molecular - scale ALD discovery could have industrial - sized impact: New atomic layer deposition technique reduces waste.»
This knowledge will help managers increase the likelihood of coral surviving bleaching events in the future by reducing the impact of other stressors, such as pollution and over-use, at both local and regional scales.»
A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.
A new integrated computational climate model developed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions marks the first successful attempt to bridge Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.
China is home to about one third of the world's smokers and reducing smoking in China could have an enormous public health impact, even on a global scale.
«We would be happy if, on a large scale, we can reduce the impact of these native ants so that they're only a minor pest,» says Les Greenberg, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved in the study.
MONGOLIA «Water and Mining - Impact avoidance through mine design and planning, balancing operational needs with the environmental sensitivity» prepared for Conference on THE MITIGATION HIERARCHY: REDUCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF LARGESCALE AND SMALL - SCALE MINING MAY 27 - 28, 2015 ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA by Paul Robinson, Research Director Southwest Research and Information Center
«This is the first of eight large - scale integrated technology demonstrations ERA is finishing up this year that are designed to reduce the impact of aviation on the environment.»
Their impact should not be seen merely in an unprecedented scale of casualties, but in the entirely predictable results of geo - political destabilization and conflict, which would greatly reduce, if not preclude, the co-operation necessary for the commensurate mitigation of global heating.
«Recommendation 2: The Committee recommends research and development investment to improve methods of carbon dioxide removal and disposal at scales that would have a global impact on reducing greenhouse warming, in particular to minimize energy and materials consumption, identify and quantify risks, lower costs, and develop reliable sequestration and monitoring.»
Efforts like composting, and maybe even small - scale waste - to - energy projects, could pop up at churches, temples, and other centers of worship as these organizations work to wring every bit of use out of this «waste» while reducing their carbon footprints and other environmental impacts.
The Global Green Freight Project was initiated by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition as part of a large - scale effort to reduce the climate and health impacts and improve the energy and economic efficiency of transporting goods and materials.
This level of reduced emissions has no meaningful impact whatsoever at a global scale.
The scale of the city's ambition, when combined with a number of already demonstrated actions, culminated in a project that will impact the lives of all of Bogotá's citizens and significantly reduce the city's carbon emissions.
Reduced food waste restricts available organic waste feedstocks, impacting composting, waste - to - energy, large - scale methane digesters and landfill methane capture in the Energy Sector.
While the impact of adjustments that correct for these biases are relatively small globally (and actually reduce the century - scale warming trend once oceans are included) there are certain regions where the impact of adjustments on temperature trends are large.
The findings, to be presented next week to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Montreal, are documented in the first large - scale case studies on the economic impact of reducing greenhouse - gas pollution.
Such words gave some environmental commentators hope that Obama would move eventually on the issue, however many have been urging Obama for years to become a «climate hawk» — not just taking swift and large - scale action to reduce emission, but also fully communicating with the American people about the threats posed by a warming world, including impacts on national security and the economy.
When endothermic reacting (toxic) ice nucleating materials are utilized on a massive scale for climate intervention / modification programs, convection is greatly impacted, too many condensation nuclei are present, and precipitation is generally greatly reduced (from what it would have otherwise been) in the core of the engineered chemical cool - down zones.
Computation of the KLoSA weight involved a sequence of three steps: (1) calculation of the design weight based on a two - stage sampling probability; (2) calculation of the non-response — adjusted weight to reduce the impact of non-responses; and (3) calculation of the benchmark weight to reflect changes in the general distribution of the population using demographic changes in census data, residence registration records, or other large - scale surveys.