Sentences with phrase «symbolic milestone»

But the hot start for 2016 is a notable symbolic milestone.

The next two countries in the Index, Nicaragua (6) and Slovenia (7), also achieve symbolic milestones this year closing 80 % of their gaps for the first time.

The $ 50,000 benchmark has been a major symbolic milestone, with the Republican - led state legislature passing several raises in recent years after the recession had dropped North Carolina to 45th in the NEA rankings in 2011.

While crossing the 400 ppm mark isn't a «tipping point» that signals climate catastrophe, scientists told InsideClimate News, it is an important symbolic milestone that underscores government inaction on global warming.

The office would house employees from the social network's hardware teams and, if approved by the Chinese authorities, would mark a symbolic milestone for Facebook, which has been seeking a presence in China for more than 10 years.

This past January, for the first time in its history, Germany faced a symbolic milestone by covering around 100 % of electricity use with renewable energy, and for 2017 it produced with renewable sources 36.1 % of total power consumption.

The Barry Callebaut Group has announced that its Cocoa Horizons Truck has passed the symbolic milestone of 10,000 km and reached 33,000 participants, less than a year after the start of its journey into remote cocoa growing areas of Ivory Coast.

For the first time, the atmospheric CO2 concentration at Mauna Loa stayed above the symbolic milestone of 400ppm for the full year in 2016, including September's seasonal low.

We crossed the symbolic milestone of half a million rooms with a 20 % increase in the number of openings last year!

«To hit the symbolic milestone of one million passengers will be hugely significant for us, and will only strengthen our commitment and contribution to the region.

The exhibition's display coincides with the 40th anniversary of the «Encuentros de Pamplona» in 1972, a symbolic milestone of the second half of the last century.

But this is the first time that the global average crossed the symbolic milestone.

Jarraud added that Earth has probably warned by 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) over the pre-industrial period — a symbolic milestone given that world leaders have set the goal of keeping global warming within 2 degrees Celsius or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit of pre-industrial era.

Although crossing above 400 ppm is largely a symbolic milestone, scientific research indicates that the higher that carbon dioxide concentrations get, the more global temperatures will increase, resulting in a wide range of damaging effects.

It acts both as a symbolic milestone and carefully designed laying out of objectives.

The one million mark is more of a symbolic milestone than anything, as the membership slide has been gradual in recent years, not experiencing any massive exodus in a single month.