Sentences with phrase «significant driver of change»

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In addition, we believe the market has underrated the effect of one recent change that should be a significant driver of long - term shareholder value.

Growing coffee is both a point of pride and a significant economic driver for Colombia but a changing climate is now threatening the harvest.

Although there was no doubt an abundance of enthusiasm following Wallace finishing runner - up to Austin Dillon — made all the more so by Wallace and his mom having an emotional post-race embrace, him further breaking down during his press conference, Petty's spirited walk through the garage searching for his driver — it did not change the fact Wallace and Richard Petty Motorsports were facing significant hurdles this season.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

EXPERIMENTAL courses that are designed to educate drink drivers about the effects of alcohol are producing a significant change in motorists» attitudes, according to early results from the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire.

«Understanding the major step changes in land utilisation over the last 80 - 100 years provides a unique understanding of the drivers within changing land - use that might have the most significant impact on pollinator communities,» Dr Senapathi says.

I believe for most drivers, the car would get more than 50k miles in 3 years, so the milage probably is the main criteria for changing tires as aging of the tire probably is not significant comparing to the worn out due to milage.

DDC makes such significant alterations to so many systems that it creates tangible changes in the way the 7 - series responds to inputs - and does so without confronting the driver with three million possible combinations of settings.

The upgrade to a luxury brand the caliber of Mercedes - Benz is a significant step for many car buyers, and despite the CLA's affordable price tag, it doesn't short - change drivers in terms of interior commodities.

From the driver's seat the only significant changes are to the instrumentation, with different dials showing the levels of charge or power recouped during regenerative braking depending on the operation mode of the vehicle, and the single speed transmission.

According to Shelby American's chief test driver Vince LaViolette, all these changes bring significant handling improvements, allowing for more grip for later braking, earlier acceleration out of corners, and more feedback to the driver.

«It will also be great to be back in endurance mode with a three driver practice and setup development format, a long - race pit strategy with significant changes in track conditions to account for, and plenty of track time.»

In addition to a considerable increase in comfort, due to the smooth engine start - stop function, and a significant improvement in «change of mind» situations (in which the engine is already switched off, but the driver quickly decides to drive on), this innovation helps to achieve fuel savings of up to 6 % in city traffic.

Consider the ice ages, the alleged cause in this case is changes in the earths orbit BUT the ice ages are characterized by significant changes in CO2 levels that would appear to be the direct driver (i.e.» forcing») of the consequent climate change.

Humans are now the most significant driver of global change, propelling the planet into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

One driver of temperatures in this region is the abundance and variability of ozone, but water vapor, volcanic aerosols, and dynamical changes such as the Quasi - Biennial Oscillation (QBO) are also significant; anthropogenic increases in other greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide play a lesser but significant role in the lower stratosphere.

Carbon dioxide can cause temperatures to rise without being the primary driver, or even a significant driver, of climate change.

«It is unlikely that the man - made changes are drivers of significant climate variation,» he wrote in 2007.

Unfortunately the study needs to be taken with a hefty pinch of salt because it's based on «complex climate models» and emanates from Germany's fanatically warmist Potsdam Institute, which is ideologically committed to «proving» that CO2 is a significant driver of «climate change» even when most real - world evidence suggests it's not.

A theory of abrupt climate change means you discard all linearized models or admit that [CO2] is not a factor in any significant linear term involving an abrupt driver.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activity and livestock are a significant driver of climate change, trapping heat in the earth's atmosphere and triggering global warming.

The clearing of rainforests and carbon - rich peatlands for new plantations is releasing globally significant carbon pollution, making Conflict Palm Oil a major driver of human induced climate change.

This would be true if the only thing changing was the precipitation rate, but this is obviously not the case because the driver of all these precipitation changes is the expected significant increase in air temperature.

The latter is a politico -(pseudo) scientific construct, developed since the late - 1980s, in which the human emission of «greenhouse gases», such as carbon dioxide and methane, is unquestioningly taken as the prime - driver of a new and dramatic type of climate change that will inexorably result in a significant warming during the next 100 years and which will inevitably lead to catastrophe for both humanity and the Earth.

It would appear rather odd that Bhaskar et al. (2017) would wish to claim, for example, that methane gas has been a significant driver of warming, but at the same time reject water vapour and cloud cover changes as factors affecting global temperatures.

This can be seen in the Pacific Ocean — a very significant driver of interannual to decadal hydrologic and climate variability — in changes in hydrology and ocean states around 1910, the mid 1940's, the late 1970's and after 1998.

But there are other major drivers of change that are starting to have some impact now and will become more significant in coming years.

This is a very significant legislative change that applies to many individuals whose primary, if not the only, reason to challenge a charge of impaired driving is because their driver's license is not an optional feature; it is a necessity to their work, their social commitments and their family commitments.

Reduced number of lanes, changes in speed, alterations or detours to routes, presence of people and equipment on the road, and traffic jams are all contributing factors that generate a significant risk to the lives of both the construction workers and drivers.

1) For a profession whose raison d'être is to provide access to justice by meeting the public's legal needs, the fact that the status quo has left and continues to leave significant legal needs unmet in Ontario is another (perhaps the most important) driver of the need for change;

While the risk of significant fines remains, the «Armageddon factor» which was always going to be the key driver in changing boardroom attitudes towards health & safety, has plainly been diluted.

Significant changes include a reduction in the maximum number of hours a commercial truck driver may work in a seven - day period from 82 hours to 70 hours, and a requirement barring truck drivers from driving after working more than eight continuous hours unless they take at least a 30 minute break.