Sentences with phrase «scale of global»

The WSJ's suggestion that Amazon's delivery service will compete with FedEx and UPS, indicates «a lack of basic understanding of the full scale of the global transportation industry,» said Patrick Fitzgerald, senior vice president for integrated marketing and communications at FedEx.

I do think your time in doing this would be really valuable to young people who see global warming as a war or global crisis on the scale of a global depression.

Yet, whatever the breakthroughs, the actual impact on fuel use for the next 20 years will be incremental due to the time it takes to get large - scale mass production up and running and the massive scale of the global auto industry.

So, just to update Michael E Mann's «heroes» and villains: He'll have no truck with #antiscience Judith Curry, Lennart Bengtsson, Mike Hulme, etc, etc, but he's got major - league bromance going with the inventor of the Percentigrade scale of global warming, a conspiracy theorist who thinks al - Qaeda is a western intelligence operation, and a celebrity activist who's happy to take $ 9 million for an anti-fracking documentary from - what does Mann call it?

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5 % of the worldâ $ ™ s land mass.

Given the urgency and scale of the global climate challenge we face, continued squeamishness about its inclusion in a corporate sustainability strategy is a luxury the planet can ill afford.

You need to consider the scale of the global imbalance needed to warm the ocean that much.

Subsequent clean - air laws have cleared up some of this pollution, revealing the true scale of global warming — a point that the film failed to mention.

There are three main issues to be addressed: technology, morality, and the scale of global energy use.

Whether or not it's scaleable at the scale of global emissions... that's another question that can not be answered here... It's also not a silver bullet that can solve the problem, to keep temperature rise below 2C.»

This, they say, points to the profound scale of global inequality, which means that the benefits of the so - called Great Acceleration in consumption of resources are unevenly distributed, and this in turn confounds efforts to deal with the impact of this assault on the planetary machinery.

Perhaps BECCS supporters are scared stiff about the pace and scale of global climate change, understand that desperate measures are needed, and consider BECCS, in spite of shortcomings, to be «more benign» than other approaches such as sulphate particle injection into the stratosphere?

«Committed terrestrial ecosystem changes due to climate change» When trying to position the Amazon tipping point on the scale of the global temperature rise, one of the most - often cited studies is one from the year 2009, performed by a team of researchers of the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, led by Chris Jones and published in Nature Geoscience.

The scale of global warming was exaggerated due to temperature distortions for Russia accounting for 12.5 % of the world's land mass.

To a large extent, clear answers will only come in hindsight, largely because much of what is being attempted has never been tried before, at least on the scale of the global energy system and climate.

2006 will be remembered by climatologists as the year in which the potential scale of global warming came into focus.

Worse, it's an empire in denial — a hyperpower that simply refuses to admit the scale of its global responsibilities.

Battlefield 1's stories avoid talking about either the full scale of the global conflict or about their own nations» involvement, meaning that the results feel surprisingly tone - deaf at certain moments.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

This map from the data visualisation studio Kiln, in collaboration with the UCL Energy Institute, gives an idea of the scale of the global merchant shipping fleet, using data from 2012:

Given the scale of global population growth, the challenge still seems daunting: the world will need to accommodate 2 billion more urban dwellers (pdf) by 2030, a rate of expansion equivalent to building about 13 great cities (each with over 5 million inhabitants) per year, almost all in developing countries.

The differences today, however, are in the rapid pace of technical innovation and the massive scale of the global supply chain.

«It seems... our young people continue to appreciate the value of higher education, and given the scale of global competition it is critical for the economy that more people get a graduate level education.

The character, quality and scale of our global brand portfolio is unmatched.

Food policy expert, Professor Corinna Hawkes, co - chair of the Global Nutrition Report explains the scale of global malnutrition and why countries, business and NGOs must act urgently to implement smart policies, objectives and targets to end malnutrition in all forms.

While he praised the work of campaigners like Norman Lamb MP on mental health in the UK, he said the scale of the global challenge is huge.

The sheer size and scale of global Forex trading, combined with an almost 24 hour market means opportunities for traders.

Under the scale of global procurement, MINISO sources the best materials from all over the world while ensuring the health and safety of products and materials.

We harness the power and scale of our global operations to deeply connect with the cities, communities, drivers, and riders that we serve, every day.

While there is a minimum standard of quality to be appreciated with name brands, fabric costs and scales of global production (being mostly made in southeast Asia) allow plenty of wiggle room on the ultimate price.

If we want rapid scaling of global knowledge sharing, we should look at P2P and collaboration as a strategy, not trickle down applications.

Within this behavior of how we live, learn, express and create together, we will find the answers to rapid scaling of global broadband and Internet application investments.

India's energy future could tip the scales of global climate change, but the extreme weather is already here.

Not exact matches

Elizabeth Gore is the entrepreneur in residence at Dell, where she drives initiatives that support Dell's goals around helping small and medium businesses scale and prosper, fueling the expansion of global entrepreneurship, thereby creating jobs that will drive the world economy.

«U.S. stocks are probably among the more overvalued companies on a global scale,» says Luc de la Durantaye, managing director of asset allocation and currency management at CIBC Asset Management.

Building a global - scale order book was the first phase of AGT's expansion; the second is now focused on vertical integration, buying key infrastructure up and down the supply chain.

The global network of business leaders was supposed to help emerging - market entrepreneurs scale up, but now the organization is needed closer to home.

While some non-Chinese have heard of Lenovo and Haier, no Chinese companies have the recognition and global presence on the scale of South Korea's Samsung.

Nine - tenths of a degree on a global scale is huge.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

Putting together a galactic - scale blockbuster is a global effort, involving not only this visual effects shop — Shore estimates his team is responsible for 250 of the shots cinema - goers will see once Star Wars Episode VII opens on Dec. 18 — but also ILM's head office in San Francisco, as well as branches in London and Singapore.

Global consulting giants like Accenture and PwC are staging a full - scale invasion of marketing.

She has built and scaled some of the most important global companies today,» said Katzenberg in a statement.

Fox Networks Group Chairman Peter Rice said at the Milken Institute Global Conference last week that Fox was looking to buy Tribune Media because «having more scale and more control of distribution is important.»

Effective altruism has been called «altruism for nerds,» and revolves around the idea that quantitative approaches can be used to determine the best possible use of resources — time and money in particular — to maximize the good those resources can do for humanity on a global scale.

To find out, researchers from the University of London zoomed in for a three - year look at the assumedly cutthroat global reinsurance industry — a $ 260 - billion dollar financial market that insures insurance companies against large - scale losses.

They also improved their scores on the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale, which doctors use to rate the social, occupational and psychological functioning of adults.

Thus mini-nuclear reactors, algae - based fuels, and various other exciting schemes are routinely trotted out as the «source of unlimited energy in the near future,» always with the implicit faith that the process can be scaled up from the laboratory to a global scale with only modest difficulties.

And WhatsApp is one of the biggest mobile messaging systems on the planet — with 19 billion messages sent over WhatsApp every day, it has nearly reached the scale of the entire global SMS, or text messaging, system.

Yes, but its status quo is too wedded to corruption, easy credit, coal and delusions of global grandeur to make the kind of commitment needed to develop clean energy on the scale China needs to continue industrializing.