Sentences with phrase «slower than the population growth»

In fact the historic increase in CO2 emissions has been much slower than the increase in GDP (and slower than the population growth rate, as well, as pointed out above).

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Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

Employment growth is slowing and percentage of the population aged 15 and over working is less today than before the recession.

The slower employment growth in NSW than elsewhere has been associated with a marked easing in the state's population growth.

It is rightly stressed that no sustainable society is possible apart from population stability.26 Such stability can not be attained at once, but there is great importance in developing policies which will rapidly slow population growth around the world and bring it to a halt at no more than six billion.

Slower population growth that leads to eight billion people in 2050 rather than to the currently projected 9.1 billion would save one billion to two billion tons of carbon annually by 2050, according to estimates by climate scientist Brian O'Neill of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and his colleagues.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

These measures would also slow, rather than accelerate, population growth in impoverished regions, thereby easing the economic and environmental strains that bulging populations are imposing on them.

«We're still talking about much slower population growth than we just came through,» he says.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

Regions with the heaviest carbon footprints are experiencing slower population growth than other regions.

4) The UK, France, and Switzerland all had poor stock performance over the past two decades, partially because their markets were overvalued in 2000 and partially because they have slower population growth than the United States.

It is therefore reasonable to assume, if the UN population growth estimates are correct, that CO2 will grow at a slower rate in the future than it has in the past.

• global emissions from fossil fuels are reduce by 50 % in 50 years • Due in part to lower cost energy, the world will be much richer than current projections suggest; as a result, population growth rate slows to the low end of projections.

Fortunately, population growth in the world appears to be slowing faster than anyone forecasted, largely through voluntarily measures (with the exception of a few states like China), while simultaneously improving human welfare around the world.

The only known solution to our ecological overshoot is to decelerate our population growth faster than it's decelerating now and eventually reverse it — at the same time we slow and eventually reverse consumption levels.

LONDON / NEW YORK, October 22 — Rapid advances in technology, increasingly cheap renewable energy, slower economic growth and lower than expected population rise could all dampen fossil fuel demand significantly by 2040, a new study published today by the London - based Carbon Tracker Initiative finds.

With its fast - expanding economy raising incomes, with population growth slowing, and with the grain harvest climbing, China eradicated most of its hunger in less than a decade — in fact, it eradicated more hunger in a shorter period of time than any country in history.

Back in 2016, data released by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed more than 73,000 people moved into the Central Florida region, and steady population growth in our area is a trend that doesn't appear to be slowing down anytime soon.