Sentences with phrase «shape global patterns»

Individual decisions about how to direct capital to various energy projects — related to the collection, conversion, transport and consumption of energy resources — combine to shape global patterns of energy use and related emissions for decades to come.

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Changing consumption patterns in China are set to shape the global consumer market.

Global Megatrends — Seven Patterns of Change Shaping Our Future, CSIRO Publishing, Canberra.

But as global warming melts Arctic ice, new shipping routes may open up in the coming decades that could allow new patterns of invasion to take shape.

Understanding how communities and ecosystems recovered from the previous five global extinction events sheds light on how extinctions shape broad patterns of biodiversity.

of the North, the necessary changes of the consumption and production patterns in these countries, and the structural framework conditions shaped by these countries, particularly in the global financial, investment and trade systems.

A retrospective of her work spanning the last 30 years, this exhibition displays the artist's global awareness of patterns, shapes, colors, and subject matter through paintings, sculpture, installation, and mixed media works.

Baseera Khan is a New York based conceptual artist who uses multiple mediums to visualize patterns and repetitions of exile and kinship shaped by economic, social, and political changes in local and global environments, with special interests in decolonization processes.

7 Amount of precipitation that results Shape and land elevation contribute to global climate patterns

Dr. Mann's reconstruction of global temperatures shows a distinct pattern shaped like a hockey stick: Temperatures stayed level for centuries, with a sudden upturn during recent decades.

In addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forests.

Currents in turn redistribute the heat the ocean carries and play a major role in shaping global temperature and rainfall patterns.

Factors that come into play for regional weather (and indeed global weather) are Earth's seasons, ocean patterns, upper winds, Arctic sea ice, and the shifting shape of the jet stream (see below).

A look in which patterns play a key role, modern global is rich in bold designs and natural textures, yet individual shapes aren't complex.